1. Prof. Ruth M. McAdams ruthmmcadams@gmail.com 14 November 2016
Aeneid, Book 2 By Virgil
Prof. Ruth M. McAdams
14 November 2016

2. Overview of Lecture 1. From Greece to Rome 2. Perspective
3. Trauma and the Refugee as Hero
4. The Gods
5. The Trojan Horse

3. Part 1. From Greece to Rome

4. There is No Virgilian Question

5. Patronage

6. translatio imperii

7. Part 2. Perspective

8. Our Greek Friends Our Trojan Friends ACHILLES Hector ODYSSEUS/Ulysses
Agamemnon
Patroclus
Nestor
Calchas (the seer)
Hector
Priam & Hecuba
Andromache
Paris

9. Our Greek Friends Our Trojan Friends ACHILLES Hector ODYSSEUS/Ulysses
Agamemnon
Patroclus
Nestor
Calchas (the seer)
Pyrrhus
Hector
Priam & Hecuba
Andromache
Paris
AENEAS
LAOCOON
Coroebus &Cassandra

10. First-person narration
Part 2. Perspective
First-person narration
vs.
omniscient narration

11. Broken by war and rebuffed by the Fates
For so many years, the Greek warlords
Built a horse, aided by the divine art
Of Pallas [Athena], a horse the size of a mountain,
Weaving its ribs out of beams of fir.
They pretended it was a votive offering
For their safe return home. So the story went.
But deep within the Horse’s cavernous dark
They concealed an elite band, all their best
Stuffing its huge womb with men at arms. (Aeneid )

12. Part 3. Trauma and the Refugee as Hero

13. My Queen, you are asking me to relive
Unspeakable sorrow, to recall how the Greeks
Pulled down Troy, that tragic realm
With all its riches. I saw those horrors myself
And played no small part in them. What Myrmidon
Or Dolopian, what brutal soldier of Ulysses
Could tell such a tale and refrain from tears?
And now dewy night is rushing from the sky,
And the setting stars make sleep seem sweet.
But if you are so passionate to learn
Of our misfortunes, to hear a brief account
Of Troy’s last struggle—although my mind
Shudders to remember and recoils in pain,
I will begin. (2.3-16).

14. ‘For this heinous crime,’ [Priam] cried, ‘this outrage,
May the gods in heaven—if there is in heaven
Any spirit that cares for what is just and good—
May the gods treat you as you deserve
For making me watch my own son’s murder
And defiling with death a father’s face.
Not so was Achilles, whom you falsely claim
To be your father, in the face of Priam his foe,
But honored a suppliant’s rights and trust,
And allowed the bloodless corpse of Hector
Burial, and sent me back to my own realm.’” ( )

15. Part 4. Who are the gods? Greek = Roman
Zeus = Jupiter
Hera = Juno
Pallas Athena = Minerva
Poseidon = Neptune
Aphrodite = Venus

16. Part 5. The Trojan Horse

17. Part 5. The Trojan Horse