[5] Aeneid

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  How many years has it been since Troy's fall?
• Their progress is noted by their greatest enemy, the goddess Juno
• She is horrified that the re-establishment of hated Troy in Italy is so close and fearful of the consequences for her beloved Carthage. She raises a storm which, even though the sea is almost instantly calmed by Neptune, separates Aeneas' fleet, wrecking some of the ships, separating the rest, and driving Aeneas to the African coast with only seven of his original twenty.
• Jupiter responds with a prophecy: Aeneas will reach Italy, he will be the forefather of Rome, and Rome will create a mighty empire under Aeneas' descendant Augustus, which will bring peace to the world.
• Dido has fled from her native Phoenicia after her husband Sychaeus was murdered for his gold by his brother Pygmalion.
• After ten years of unsuccessful campaigning, the Greeks were helped by the goddess Pallas to build the soldier-filled Horse, which they left on the shore as they pretended to sail home to Greece.
• As we hurried through the darkness, I carrying Anchises and Ascanius following behind, my wife Creusa was separated from us. When I tried to find her, she appeared as a vision and told me to set off for the West; another wife and another kingdom awaited me there.
• It is the anniversary of his father's death. He celebrates it with funeral games: a rowing race described in great detail, a running race, a boxing match, an archery contest.
• Aeneas is advised first by one of his companies and then by his father in a dream to make the best of this by taking only a select company of his people and leaving the remainder to establish the city which will become Segesta, a traditional ally of Rome.
• This 'one' proves to be Aeneas' steersman Palinurus, who is beguiled into falling asleep at the helm: he falls off and is lost at sea.
• After a nightmarish walk, they reach the Styx; Aeneas is shocked by the distress of the unburied souls who cannot get across
• Charon the ferryman greets them with suspicion but is pacified by the branch and ferries them across.
• Finally they reach the Woods of the Blessed, where they find musicians and warriors of old; they are directed into a valley where they meet Anchises considering the long line of his descendants who will become the Roman nobility.
• Anchises explains how it is that some are reborn and some are privileged to remain forever pure spirit.
• Latinus' daughter Lavinia has been sought by many men, but the leading claimant is Turnus, prince of the Rutuli, supported by Latinus' wife Amata. Portents, however, say that she must marry an outsider.
• Enraged, she sends the Fury Allecto to break up the friendship of Latins and Trojans.
• Evander bids his son farewell and Aeneas leaves with the Arcadians for Etruria. Now Aeneas receives his armor, of which the most conspicuous item is a great shield, on which are pictured many of the greatest events of Roman history, whose climax, illustrated in gold and silver, is the Battle of Actium with Augustus at its center. Also pictured is the triple triumph celebrated by Augustus in 29 BCE.
• VIRGIL


  Who wrote Aeneid?
• PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO


  Virgil's real name
• BUCOLICS


  nature and life of shepherds injected with realism
• GEORGICS


  farming, gardening
• ARS POETICA by HORACE


  literature should be delightful and instructive
• 12


  How many books does Aeneid have?
• PIZZA


  Invented due to this epic