the aenied

as an epic hero he must fight on, exhibit....

military prowess as well as pietas-Gransden

Aeneas' general concern is to...

facilitate fate which is the cornerstone of his pietas-C.J. Mackie

Aeneas falls in love with Dido...

but his love leads to disaster for himself -Anderson

We are meant to wonder about Aeneas...

and if this leads to doubts and hesitations about the augustan achievement too, well and good -anderson

at the beginning, Aeneas is simply a...

'fearless patriotic soldier subject to the uncontrolled rage of despair' -Howe

Aeneas is renowned over and above his military prowess...

for his pietas -Abad

it is when the storm is over that we see for ourselves Aeneas' most remarkable quality...

pietas, devotion to duty, a quality not unrelated to sheer determination -Rutledge

(the hero) exhibits military prowess as well...

as pietas -Gransden

Aeneas fights with furore...

but it is central to Virgil's theme -Gransden

Aeneas goes...

beserk -morgan

Aeneas looses...

control of his passions -Anderson

Aeneas slaughters...

indiscriminately-Anderson

Aeneas is free anytime to reject his divine mission and...

revert to his personal wishes, despite god intervention -W.A. Camps

the Aenied is dominated by...

fathers and father figures -Gransden

his most formidable impediment, however,...

is not male but female, not a mortal but a goddess -Gransden

Most of the plot is...

generated by Juno -Gransden

Juno is far more interesting than...

jupiter or impersonal fate -Anderson

'the ruinous, futile, grudge-cherishing...

anger of Juno -Anderson

the labours, the buffetsing and sufferings...

of aeneas will be the glory of vindictive juno -M. Owen Lee

Venus' appeal to jupiter shows little if any concern for...

Aeneas' suffering and despair -David O. Ross

Dido and Turnus are thrust by a god...

into conflict with fate and broken in as a result -Camps

The motives of his final act:...

revenge, dynastic necessity and fate itself -Gransden

killing turnus is...

a victory for the cause -Anderson

She [Dido] has a...

cruel fate -Anderson

Aeneas does cruel....

things to Dido -Anderson

\[Dido has] ultimate....

innocence -Camps

the innocent victim....

of Juno -Anderson

Virgil portrays women who step out of traditional gender roles as....

doomed to fail -Collin Reilly

The malignant power...

of fate -Sowerby

Tragic figures, doomed by their own fault...

both reach the end of their tether -Gransden

Compassion is a principle element in....

Virgil's image of the hero -Camps

Mezentius has been....

demonised by Virgil -Morgan

Virgil constantly invokes Homer conventions and the structure of the poem is heroic....

but Virgil's poem remains fundamentally and unmistakably Roman -Kenneth Quinn

Prophecy makes Aeneas unique among the Trojan Heroes:....

not only will be survive the fall of Troy but he will have a special and important future -Ken Gransden

The tragedy of those who die young in battle is a dominant theme...

in contrast with kleos in the iliad -Ken Gransden

Virgil constantly...

recalls Homer's story -Kenneth Quinn

in ancient rome...

politics and religion were closely connected together -Gunther Gottleib

Virgil seeks to rival...

both Homeric epics -Rutherford

Compassion is a principle element in...

Virgil's image of a hero -W.A. Camps

In the character of Turnus however...

Virgil has created an old style Homeric hero dedicated to personal glory -Gransden

Virgil, in truth...

hated war -W.H. Semple

War is madness...

and spares none who engage in it -Gransden

the conclusion peace for the italians is...

Aeneas' contribution to founding Rome -Eve Adler

The Julian family...

claimed descent from Aeneas -Niall Rudd

He is a trojan, a patriot....

an italian, an augustan -Griffin

Gary B. Miles links Aeneas to Augustus through linking....

'pater Aeneas' with the title 'pater patriae' which was starting to be applied to Augtus in poetry by at least 23BC