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Virgil and Aeneas The Greatest Roman Author and Hero

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Virgil and Aeneas. The Greatest Roman Author and Hero. Virgil. Publius Vergilius Maro Born:Oct. 15, 70 B.C. Died: Sept. 21, 19 B.C. Born in Mantua, northern Italy Studied philosophy in Rome. Early Works. Bucolics - “on care of cattle” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Virgil and Aeneas

The Greatest Roman Author and Hero

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Virgil

• • Publius Vergilius Maro

• Born:Oct. 15, 70 B.C. • Died: Sept. 21, 19

B.C. • Born in Mantua,

northern Italy• Studied philosophy in

Rome.

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Early Works

• Bucolics

- “on care of cattle”

- tells of revolutionary change in Rome during Republic

• Georgics

- about farming and rural life

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Augustus

• First Roman emperor• Wanted to unite Rome

with an epic that displayed national pride.

• Believed he was descendant of Aeneas, who is also the son of the goddess, Venus.

• Commissioned Virgil to write the great Roman epic.

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Writing of the Aeneid

• Took 10 years to write

• 12 books

• First 6 books: modeled after Odyssey (journey)

• Last 6 books: modeled after Iliad (war epic)

• Tells the story of Aeneas from the end of the Trojan War to his founding of the Roman race in Italy.

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Trojan War (Judgment of Paris)

• Judgment of Paris• At wedding of Peleus and Thetis• Dischord throws apple “For the Fairest”• 3 goddesses: Venus, Minerva, and Juno fight for

it.• Paris (Trojan) picks Venus and receives Helen,

most beautiful woman (Greek)• She was married to king Menelaus (Greek)• Greeks want her back, Troy refuses; war ensues.

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Judgment of Paris

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City of Troy

• “impenetrable walls”

• King Priam

• Sons are Hector, strongest Trojan warrior and Paris

• Aeneas is leader of Dardanians, sect of Trojans.

• Greeks try to breach walls for 10 years with no success.

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Trojan Horse

• Devised by Odysseus, Greek warrior (Odyssey)

• Trojans thought it was gift for their deity

• Laocoön (Trojan) believes horse is a trick. He is killed by serpents.

• Trojans take the horse inside the city.

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Synopsis of Trojan War Using Legos

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Escape from Troy

• Aeneas escapes with his men, his father, and son.

• Wife, Creusa, does not make it.

• Escape while Troy is burning.

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Barocci’s Aeneas

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Wanderings of Aeneas

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Aeneas in Italy

• After many years of wandering to different places, Aeneas finds Latium in Italy and battles with people there.

• He is victorious and becomes father of Roman race.

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Back to Virgil

• Virgil spent 10 years writing Aeneid and died with it being incompleted.

• Asks slaves to burn only manuscript.

• They do not and it survives to this day.

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A Look at the Aeneid

• Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab orisItaliam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venitlitora, multum ille et terris iactatus et altovi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram;multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem,               5inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum,Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.

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Conclusions

• Aeneid was written as the national epic for Rome by Virgil for Augustus.

• The story involves Aeneas after the Trojan War between the Trojans and the Greeks.

• Aeneas and his men left the city of Troy and ended in Latium in Italy.

• The Aeneid is the most famous and probably most important work of Latin poetry.