1. Virgil’s Aeneid

3. 49 BCE: Civil War CaesarPompey

4. Eclogues (c. 43-37 BCE)

5. Actium 31 BCE Octavian vs.Antony and Cleopatra

6. Georgics (37-29 BCE)

9. From Octavian to Augustus – 27 BCE

10. Aeneid 29-19 BCE (left unfinished at Virgil’s death) (mosaic from the Bardo Museum, Tunisia)

11. Virgil vs. Homer

12. Aeneas’ resistance to the Homeric past Prologue: who’s angry now? Storm: remembering Diomedes Encounter with Venus: …have we met? Dido’s temple: picturing the Iliad Aeneas’ dream of Hector Revelation of the divine machinery of the war

13. Wanderings of Aeneas

14. Prologue: who’s angry now?

15. I. Arrival at Carthage by storm

16. Storm: remembering Diomedes

18. Diomedes at Troy

19. Storm: Neptune to the rescue

20. Octavian as Neptune

22. Encountering Venus: Have we met? (Pietro da Cortona 1596-1669)

23. Anchises meets Aphrodite (Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, 650 BCE) I greet you lady, whatever god you may be … Artemis? Leto perhaps? Or the golden Aphrodite? Thetis, lofty of birth? Or even the grey-eyed Athena? Could you be one of the Graces … or maybe a nymph ….? Aeneas meets Venus (Aen. 1. 443 ff) How shall I address you, girl? Your look’s not mortal, neither has your accent a mortal ring. goddess beyond doubt! Apollo’s sister? One of the family of nymphs?

24. But Venus chose to hear no more complaints…

28. Picturing the Iliad

29. Remembering Troy over dinner in Carthage

30. Aeneas’ dream of Hector

32. Revelation of divine machinery

34. Flight from Troy

36. Ascanius/Iulus

38. Flight from Troy

39. Wanderings of Aeneas

40. III. The search for the new Troy …

41. At Delos

42. Arrival at Carthage by storm

43. IV. Aeneas and Dido go hunting

49. time to go…

53. Dido’s curse

54. Death of Dido

56. Hannibal

58. V. Sicily: funeral games for Anchises

59. VI. Underworld

62. Aeneas on the Ara Pacis

63. Golden bough

64. Cerberus

67. Glimpsing Tartarus

68. Elysium

69. Gate of horn, gate of ivory

70. VII. Arriving in Latium

74. Eating our tables …

75. Virgil’s Aeneid

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

77. VIII. Up the Tiber to Pallanteum

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

79. Book IX Aeneas off stage Turnus’ success

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

81. Book XI. Funeral of Pallas

83. XI. Diomedes rejects Latins’ appeal

84. Diomedes’ theft of the Palladium

85. Book XII. Aeneas vs. Turnus

88. Works of Virgil Eclogues

89. Works of Virgil

90. Wanderings of Aeneas