Aeneid

was one of great submissive value. Her job was simple; run a household, raise a family, and respect her husband. However, while reading The Aeneid, one is prompt to question Virgil’s view of women. When female characters enter the storyline, themes of rage and fury encompass and hover over them. Instead of being stereotypical Roman women, women in The Aeneid are opinionated and emotional, as they react quick and feed off of rage. Nevertheless, these women play vital roles during the epic, as…

Aeneas receives lots of decisions from both of his parents. Then I ask, should the hero not make his own way? In classical literature, there are two kinds of heroes: the hero-hero, and the tragic hero. In the Aeneid, Turnus is the hero-hero, and Aeneas is the tragic hero. The tone of the Aeneid is heroic, not tragic. The opening lines-I sing of arms and the man-set the reader up for a tale of great deeds done well lets you assume that the Aeneas well do great deeds along his travels to…

Book II of Vergil’s Aeneid tells the story of Troy’s destruction at the hand of the Greeks and Aeneas’ flight from the ruined city. In Aeneas’ narration, there is a clear image pattern of fire that spans all parts of his story. The motif of fire and flames foreshadows the Troy’s imminent destruction, characterizes the attack of the Greeks, and emphasizes the emotional stress surrounding Troy’s destruction. Before the destruction of Troy becomes clear, Vergil inserts some symbolic moments that…

During this semester my way of viewing reading and understanding them has definitely been tested. I feel that the goal of this class was to show us how many beliefs are connected. Whether they are of Greek, Roman, or Gospel backgrounds. The way we transitions from each reading, and were required to bring it all together during our discussions really help me get a better understand of these readings. I would define the learning structure of this class as Platonic. It was evident that a dialectic…

Vergil distinctly evokes Homer’s social construct, xenia, in his epic The Aeneid, but he transforms it into hospitium. Xenia is the Greco-Roman concept of hospitality. Although Homer’s Iliad is replete with a variety of societal agents, by the end of his story xenia has overcome money, battle, and glory and cemented its place as the most vital of all authorities in Homer’s Greece. In Vergil’s The Aeneid, xenia is still present, although it now goes by the name hospitium. More than simply…

“There's a million reasons why I should give you up, But the heart wants what it wants.” These are the lyrics to the 2014 breakup song “The Heart Wants What it Wants” by Selena Gomez. The Aeneid is the Trojan’s response to the Greek’s The Odyssey. The author of The Aeneid , Virgil, wrote this story with the intention of it being remembered throughout history. The psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things is the definition…

barely anybody has the same outlook on humanity as each other. The famous writer of the Aeneid, Virgil, even has his own interpretation of human nature that other may or may not agree with. Virgil, being tasked with writing a national epic for Rome, works for many years up to his inevitable death on the piece he calls a “failure.” Now being taught in schools as one of the most well written epics in history, the Aeneid details the story of a man with a job to found Rome. Virgil expresses his…

Aeneid and Song of Roland both feature strong, heroic men. Aeneas faced the dilemma in which he needed to have order and needed to find a place to settle and call home, all while Juno brought chaos to his life. Roland on the other hand, had two types of dilemmas one regarded more towards his behavior; he had a temper and was arrogant. The second with his step-father, Ganelon, whom was a traitor to his people. In the end: “… the French advised that Ganelon should die a death of torture” for his…

the war, or simply beating their opponent; in literature, the relationship between gods and devotees are portrayed much differently. Even though the stories contain different religions, Euripides’s the Bacchae, Homer’s the Odyssey, and Virgil’s the Aeneid discusses religion in terms of personal needs, or popularity, amongst the gods, rather than devotion and good deeds. The Bacchae by Euripides is an ancient Greek tragedy based on the myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother, Agave,…

In The Aeneid, Dido, the queen of Carthage, appears to be suffering the pain of love, yet strong-willed at the beginning of Book IV. Despite the fact that she is grieving the death of her husband, Sychaeus, Dido remains focused on her responsibilities of leading her people. Dido is very steadfast when it comes to her debating whether or not to succumb to her growing feelings for Aeneas. She wishes to never marry again after the death of her husband and prays that, “he [Sychaeus] hold it [her…