Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II The Aeneid Book II How They Took the City By Virgil B.C.

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II Virgil

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Virgil Reading Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia.

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II Painting by Federico Barocci

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II The Journey of Aeneas

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II National Epic Defines a nation and its people The Aeneid is the national epic of Rome

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II What is a Roman? Patriotic Compassionate Honorable Honest Inclusive

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric Purpose To counter the fact that Greeks defeated the Trojans

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric Use of Trickery by the Greeks –Trojan Horse “Knowing their strength broken in warfare, turned back by the fates…” (18-19) –Greeks cannot win a fair fight

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric Influence of the Gods –“If the god’s will had not been sinister, If our own minds had not been crazed, He would have made us foul that Argive den With bloody steel, and Troy would stand today-- O citadel of Priam, towering still!” (74-78) It is Troy’s fate to fall, not a failure of the Trojans

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric Sinon –Played on qualities/virtues of the Trojans

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric Sinon –“…Be instructed now In Greek deceptive arts: one barefaced deed Can tell you of them all.” (89-91)

Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric Use of stereotype Dualistic approach to a national epic –Positive stereotype (Trojans) –Negative stereotype (Greeks) –Defines what a Roman is and at the same time defines what a Greek is