Trojans

• first view of Trojans is as victims of Juno's storm
• then on the temple frieze, the victims of the Greeks
• the picture of their suffering continues in bk 2
• their city is characterised by wealth
• gilded beams and richly ornamented ceilings, bronze-plated doorposts and rich weaving
• hazy picture of the Trojans that accompany Aeneas
• some are named, but have no individualism
• suits Virgil to show Aeneas as a solitary figure carrying alone the burden of his mission
• book 4 - Aeneas tells the men to get the ships ready, they are delighted
• the only indication we have about their feelings
• their enemies point to their foreign ways
• Iarbas mocks Aeneas as 'a second Paris, with eunuchs in attendance and hair dripping with perfume and Maeonian bonnet tied under his chin'
• Remulus makes similar accusations: clothes dyed yellow and purple, a love of dancing, pipes and tambourines, sleeves on tunics and bonnets with ribbons (book 9)
• Turnus relishes the though of bringing down the 'effeminate Phrygian' ad fouling in the dust 'the hair he has curled with hot steel and steeped in myrrh'
• the insult is that the Trojans are effeminate, but nothing in their conduct would indicate that they are
• Juno is reassured by Jupiter that when the Trojans join with the native Italians