Women

• Women/ Gender KW Gransden

  "Aeneas' worst enemy is a female (immortal)- Juno."
• Women/ Gender E Oliensis

  "women are associated with origins, men are associated with ends."
• Oliensis:""Women are orientated towards origins..."


  "... men towards ends."
• Edith Hall:"All the powerful women in the "Aeneid" die,"


  "... except for Lavinia who doesn't speak!"
• Yasmin Syed (Women)


  Women symbolise their countries, with Lavinia as the modest, obedient 'ideal' Roman woman, and Dido as the more emotional, free spirited foreign woman.
• Ellen Oliensis (Aeneas as effeminate)

  Iarbas calls Aeneas effeminate to insult him.
• Ellen Oliensis (Feminine/Masculine)

  "Virgil associates the feminine with unruly passion, the masculine with reasoned self mastery" e.g. Juno raising the storm in Book 1 and Neptune calming it, or Venus & Juno battling for control of fate and Jupiter shutting them down.
• Ellen Oliensis (Virtuous Women)

  "The uncomplicatedly virtuous women of the epic, Creusa and Lavinia, prove their virtue precisely by submitting to the masculine plot of history"
• Collen Reilly (Women)

  Virgil portrays women who step out of traditional gender roles as doomed to fail.
• Robin Sowerby (Women)

  Cites feminist critics who have commented on the core relationships in the Aeneid being patriarchal father son ones, with women regularly sacrificed for the 'greater good' which is decided by men.
• Richard Jenkyns (Women)

  Virgil is seen by many to dislike or mistrust women as evidenced within the Aeneid, such as when the Trojan women in Sicily set fire to their own ships.