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Hardie - Aeneas
“Aeneas’ character is rather colourless”
Hardie - Aeneas’ motivation
“Rather than being strongly driven by an internal desire or ambition, he is forced into a mission by circumstances beyond his control”
Lyne - Aeneas’ relationships
“It is Aeneas’ relationships that Virgil appears to neglect”
“Virgil seems curiously disinclined to show Aeneas responding or relating to others”
Jenkyns - Aeneas’ character
“Aeneas is a robust red-blooded Homeric figure”
Gransden - Aeneas’ agency
“[Aeneas is] no more than a puppet without a character of his own”
Camps - Aeneas’ motivation
“He has no personal motive”
Anderson - Aeneas’ piety
“Aeneas’ piety can lead to both creative and destructive acts”
Nortwick - Aeneas in Book 12
“[Aeneas] has at last succumbed to the violence against which he has struggled so long”
Williams - Aeneas’ character
“[Aeneas is] no superhuman figure; he is very much an ordinary mortal”
Jenkyns - audience reception of Aeneas
“The contradiction in Aeneas’ actions make him difficult to like, but certainly make him human”
Hall - Aeneas’ character
“Aeneas is a pious hero”
“Aeneas is semi-divine”
Marshall - Aeneas’ agency
“Aeneas plays a passive role in the poem”
Williams - Aeneas’ heroism
“Homeric heroes are great individualists but Aeneas has to be the social man”
Nellis - Dido’s role
“Dido is the active cause of tragic strife”
Harrison - Dido’s modern reception
“[Dido] is highly sympathetic to modern readers”
Jenkyns - Dido’s agency
“The gods caused Dido’s love, she then chose to act upon it”
Burke - Amata
“[Amata] fulfils none of her roles as mother, wife and queen”
Cowan - Euryalus’ death
“Perhaps the most beautiful moment of all is the death of Euryalus”
Sowerby - Aeneas vs Turnus
“Turnus is a kind of foil to Aeneas, representing an older individual heroism”
Burke - Turnus + Homeric comparison
“Turnus… is both the noble man of action (Hector) and the selfish lover (Paris)”
Rutherford - Turnus
“Turnus is hopeless due to the manipulation of the gods”
Williams - Turnus’ character
“He is impetuous, energetic, ruthless, violent; he represents personal prowess, irresponsible individuality”