Virgil’s Aeneid

Wanderings of Aeneas

I. Arrival at Carthage by storm

Storm: Neptune to the rescue

Remembering Troy over dinner in Carthage

Ascanius/Iulus

Wanderings of Aeneas

V. Sicily: funeral games for Anchises

Meeting the Sibyl in Cumae

Turner, Lake Avernus, Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

Cerberus

Glimpsing Tartarus

Elysium

Gate of horn, gate of ivory

VII. Arriving in Latium

Arrival in Latium C. Lorrain 1650

Eating our tables …

Italians & allies Latinus + Amata Lavinia Turnus Mezentius Camilla Trojans & allies Aeneas Ascanius / Iulus Evander of Pallanteum (= site of Rome) Pallas

… Aeneas marked his line of walls with a low trench, then toiled away to deepen it, to throw an earthwork up with palisades, camp style, around that post, Their first, on the riverside ff.,

‘By Tiber’s longed-for bed they now lay out their town unworried by deep water or by me’ Juno, still angry: ff.

VIII. The once and future Rome – Hercules vs. Cacus – Aeneas vs. Turnus and Mezentius – Aeneas’ shield: Octavian vs. Antony and Cleopatra

Master of the Limoge Aeneid, c Evander shows Aeneas the Palatine hill at Rome

VIII. Up the Tiber to Pallanteum

C. Lorrain 1675 Arriving at Pallanteum (8.150 ff)

Bonasone, 16 th century Hercules captures the cattle of Geryon (in Spain)

Beham, 1545 Hercules defeats Cacus (at Rome-to-be)

Lemoine 1718 Hercules defeating Cacus

Domenichino, Hercules dragging Cacus from his cave

Poussin, 17 th century Hercules victorious over Cacus

Actium 31 BCE Octavian vs. Antony and Cleopatra

Book IX Aeneas off stage; Turnus’ success (doomed) night mission of Nisus and Euryalus vs. Turnus’ forces Aen ff.

Book X Council of the Gods Forces of Aeneas vs. Forces of Turnus Death of Pallas

Book XI. Funeral of Pallas

XI. Diomedes rejects Latins’ appeal

‘Diomedes, why could I not go down When you had wounded me? ‘

Dispatched to Diomedes’ distant city, Venulus went to ask for aid …

‘We have seen Diomedes … we saw him Laying the foundations of his city

(he said) “All of us have paid throughout the world Beyond belief in suffering for our crimes … Troy fallen, I have no quarrel with Trojans”

Diomedes’ theft of the Palladium

Book XII. Aeneas vs. Turnus

…a deepening blush Brought out a fiery glow on her hot face. As when one puts a stain of crimson dye on ivory of India … Aeneid ff. …. Lavinia’s blush Painted ivory

…a deepening blush Brought out a fiery glow on her hot face. As when one puts a stain of crimson dye on ivory of India … ff. …. Menelaus’ wound, Iliad ff. p. 150 Picture a woman dyeing ivory blood-red … A Carian or Maeonian staining a horse’s cheek piece …

Just as this scepter here in my right hand will never put out foliage or shade, Once cut from the live tree-bole in the forest, torn from the mother, and laid bare by steel of branching arms and leaves. This one time bough The artificer’s hand has fitted well In a bronze sheath and given to our Latin Lords to carry.’ Aen ff. Scepter

I tell you this and I swear a mighty oath upon it … by this, this scepter, look, that will never again put forth crown and branches, now it’s left its stump on the mountain ridge forever, nor will it sprout new green again, now the brazen ax has stripped its bark and leaves …. Iliad ff (p. 85)

He [Turnus] saw a stone, Enormous, ancient, set up there to prevent Landowners’ quarrels. Even a dozen picked men such as the earth produces in our day Could barely lift and shoulder it ff. ……. Stone

He [Turnus] saw a stone, Enormous, ancient, set up there to prevent Landowners’ quarrels. Even a dozen picked men such as the earth produces in our day Could barely lift and shoulder it ff. ……. Stone

Diomedes vs. AeneasIliad ff p. 174 …. Just as Diomedes hefted a boulder in his hands, a tremendous feat – no two men could hoist it, weak as men are now ….

Aeneas vs. AchillesIliad ff. p. 512 But drawing his sharp sword, Achilles charged, wild, hurtling toward him, loosing a savage cry as Aeneas hefted a boulder in his hands,, a tremendous feat – no two men could hoist it, weak as men are now ….

He [Turnus] saw a stone, Enormous, ancient, set up there to prevent Landowners’ quarrels. Even a dozen picked men such as the earth produces in our day Could barely lift and shoulder it ff. ……. Stone Then all the body slackened in death’s chill solvuntur frigore membra (12.951, = 1.92)