The Aeneid - Scholarship

Same as others - Scholarship on the main themes of Virgil's Aeneid.

Aeneas is a model of what a Roman should be

Cowan - Roman values

Aeneas is colourless because of his destiny

Hardy

The Aeneid contains ‘further voices’ that challenge the main epic narrative, questioning its optimism.

R.O.A.M. Lyne

Aeneid compares the conflict between Aeneas and Turnus to civil war, promoting unity through shared mourning

Randall J Pogorzelski

Women aren’t the stereotypical women, Aeneas talking to Venus is warming him up for his meeting to Dido, to ‘re-enter the sexual arena’

Stephen Harrison

Furor and the ways it is shown in the Aeneid. He gives Juno, Dido and Alecto as examples which is interesting because they are all women. Juno - the storm and how it symbolises chaos and disorder.

Bob Cowan - women and anger

Jupiter emphasises victory, Dido reminds us of the costs of that victory

O’Gorman