Virgils Aeneid scholar flashcards

John Rich

The division of the provinces was thus presented as a temporary expedient to meet emergency need

John Rich

His external policies were shaped by the need to fulfill his commitment to pacifying his provinces

D. Kennedy

Aeneid as a classic vindication of the European world order, happily consonant with Roman imperialism and the achievements and political settlement of Augustus

RJ Tarrant

Virgils view of Roman history has been interpreted […] in which the cost is so high and the means so dreadful that success loses its meaning

RJ Tarrant

What is attributed to him is a sense of quiet despair, a private lack of faith in the positive vision of Rome and its future that the epic’ public voice seems to project

RJ Tarrant

Either the praise is genuine, and damaging the credit of the poet, or it is feigned to conceal Virgil’s true attitude of disgust or opposition

D.Williams

Most 20th century critics have praised him for his sensitivity to sorrow

W.Camps

It recalls them on every page, and is constructed largely by the remoulding of Homeric materials

Sowerby

Virgil's debt to Homer in the conception and making of the Aeneid is so central that his handling of the structure and plot can only be appreciated in relation to the epics of his Greek predecessor

Rebecca Armstrong

Unlike other young men in the Aeneid, Iulus cannot be allowed to gamble with his life

Rebecca Armstrong

The very fact that he cannot take risks or experience real suffering seems to have a hole in his character (Ascanius)

Gransden

‘Book 4 is like a Greek tragedy’

Sowerby

‘The sacrifice of the individual to the fates that led inexorably to the foundation of Rome is most intensely dramatised in the encounter of Aeneas with Dido.’

Gransden

‘Dido's “guilt” is an allusion both to her vow to be faithful to her dead husband, and also to her self-deceiving and excessive passion for Aeneas.

Sowerby

‘It is a most powerful feminine protest against piety and the grand patriarchal design’

D.West

‘Turnus’ furor could be read as an account of how a man’s rational assessment was overturned in the small hours by patriotic passion and rankling sexual jealousy.’

D.West

‘A tactless, passionate and impressionable young man.’ [Turnus]

Gransden

In the character of Turnus Virgil has created an old-style Homeric hero dedicated to personal glory

Deryck Williams

Virgil had to create in his hero a prototype of the Roman character... it is a great mistake to think that Aeneas was modelled on Augustus; it is rather the case that Virgil is trying to depict a character upon whom Romans of his day could model themselves.

AJ Boyle

‘Aeneas for example both is and is not Augustus

Philip Hardie

‘the colourless quality of Aeneas’ character is largely the result of the roles forced on him by the plot of the Aeneid’

R.Lyne

‘It is Aeneas’ relationships that Virgil appears to neglect. Virgil seems curiously disinclined to show Aeneas responding or relating to others’

Gransden

The stirring up of war in Latium, contrary not only to the will of Jupiter but to that of king Latinus, is Juno’s masterpiece

Gransden

‘Juno’s obsessional hatred of Troy, provides the motivation for the whole poem.