1. The Aeneid
Rome’s National Poem

2. The Aeneid in History Julius Caesar Augustus Civil Wars Propaganda
Vergil

3. The Story’s Beginning Judgment of Paris Trojan War Fall of Troy
Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera
Minerva, Venus, and Juno
Trojan War
Fall of Troy

4. Aeneas Prince of Troy Son of Venus & Anchises Wife was Creusa
Son was Ascanius/Iulus
Julian clan

5. Aeneas’s Escape Sees King Priam’s death; goes into a rage
Warned by Venus
Carries Anchises, leads Iulus
Creusa vanishes in the confusion
Ghost when he returns
Flees from Troy with 20 ships

7. The Wanderings

8. Juno’s Wrath Juno hates Trojans Massive storm at sea Neptune’s anger
Judgment of Paris
Jealous of Ganymede
Carthage’s fate; loves Queen Dido of Carthage
Massive storm at sea
Neptune’s anger
Shipwreck in Africa

9. Carthage Venus appears to Aeneas Dido’s Background
From Tyre in modern Lebanon, a Phoenician city
Rich Sychaeus & evil Pygmalion
Dido’s Vow; flight to Africa
Asks Iarbas for land; rejects his advances
Aeneas enters Carthage & meets Dido
Feast held for the Trojans; flashback

10. Juno’s Plan Prevent the Trojans from settling down
Distract Aeneas with Dido
Venus agrees – marriage between Aeneas & Dido will end the goddesses’ feud
Cupid replaces Iulus at banquet & wins Dido over
Anna, Dido’s sister, suggests marriage to her

11. The Cave Hunting trip; the storm; Dido & Aeneas alone in a cave
Relationship becomes physical
Married or not?
Fama spreads like wildfire
Followers question their leaders’ priorities
King Iarbas’s prayer

12. Aeneas’s Departure Mercury & Aeneas’s dream
Trojans start packing up; Dido’s rage
Aeneas Unwilling
Pietas
Anna Unknowing
Dido’s Suicide
Curses Trojans
Iris

13. Landing in Italy Sibyl at Cumae Golden bough; to the Underworld
The Unburied
Cerberus
Fields of Mourning
Dido’s Silence

14. The Parade of Future Romans
Aeneas meets Anchises
Parade of Future Romans
Names and celebrates Romulus, Caesar, Augustus, and more
Why?
Future wars in Latium
Anchises leads Aeneas out of the Underworld

15. Up North Near Rome King Latinus of Latium Queen Amata Lavinia
Turnus the Rutulian
An Oracle about Lavinia
Aeneas arrives, is welcomed

16. Juno’s Wrath (again) I’ve tried and tried
“If I cannot bend High Ones, then I shall move hell.”
Let them marry and suffer
Dowry (price) will be Latin and Trojan blood
Bellona, a goddess of war, as bridal matron
Alecto the Fury and Queen Amata

17. Alecto Causes Chaos Fixes Turnus with a torch, making him savage
Latins & Turnus demand that King Latinus wage war against the Trojans
Trojans flee
King Evander
Greek for “Good Man”
Future site of Rome
Pallas
Vulcan’s Shield

18. Fighting Begins Aeneas & Evander away getting allies
Turnus attacks Trojan camp, sets ships on fire
Sacred wood; nymphs
Nisus and Euryalus
Turnus in Trojan camp

19. Council of the Gods Venus blames Juno Juno says it wasn’t her fault
Jupiter facepalms; stops helping anyone
Punic Wars will settle the goddesses’ feud

20. Aeneas Enters the Fight
Ship-nymph tells Aeneas
Returns and joins the battle
Pallas vs. Turnus
Turnus: If only Daddy were here!
Pallas: No prob, man. I’ll either win or die in style. COME AT ME BRO.
Pallas prays to Hercules: Let Turnus see me looting him as he’s slowly dying
Jupiter & Hercules look away – Pallas’s time
Pallas’s spear grazes Turnus’s shoulder

21. “Now see if mine pierces more.”
Pallas takes it through shield to chest
Pulls it out, blood and life follow
Collapses, bloody
Turnus takes Pallas’s belt
Aeneas finds out…slaughters without humanity
Juno saves Turnus

22. The Truce 12-day truce Camilla’s Ambush
Warrior Woman
Ally of Turnus
Kills 12 in battle but is shot
Turnus abandons plan
Single combat, Aeneas vs. Turnus
New truce while this goes down

23. Like That’ll Work Turnus’s sister breaks the truce
Aeneas is shot, retreats, is healed
Venus convinces Aeneas to attack the Latin capital
Queen Amata kills herself
Turnus shows up to help; Aeneas vs. Turnus for realzies
Spears are ineffective…
Turnus’s sword shatters…

24. The End Turnus gets new sword, Aeneas retrieves spear
Juno finally gives up her anger
Turnus: T: “I fear not you but the gods.”
Aeneas hits Turnus in thigh with spear
Going to spare him, sees Pallas’s belt
MEGASHANK.

25. Aftermath Aeneas founds a city & calls it Lavinium
Iulus goes on to found Alba Longa
Romulus & Remus are from Alba Longa, then found Rome