1. Introduction to Virgil’s Aeneid

3. Virgil’s Aeneid Epic Hexameters 12 books Imitation of Homer 1-6 Odyssey 7-12 Iliad Written not orally composed

4. Book One Introduction Aeneas arrives after a storm on the shore of Carthage Dido, Queen of Carthage Her husband Sychaeus murdered by her brother Hostility of Juno Venus, Aeneas’s mother Dido invites Aeneas to dinner

6. Book Two Narration of the Fall of Troy by Aeneas Compare Odysseus’s narration of his adventures (Od. 9-12) Wooden Horse Laocoon Sinon Laocoon’s death

10. Book Two cont. Hector’s ghost Aeneas fights the Greeks Priam’s death Anchises sees portent Aeneas leaves Troy with Ascanius (Iulus) Creusa is lost

16. Book Three Aeneas’s journey from Troy to Carthage Polydorus Delos, prophecy for Crete? Hesperia Andromache, Helenus’ prophecy: Italy Achaemenides (Polyphemus) Death of Anchises

18. Book Four Dido is in love with Aeneas Confides in Anna her sister Venus and Juno Royal Hunt and Storm Marriage? Local king Iarbas Message from Jupiter (Mercury)

23. Berlioz Les Troyens The Royal Hunt and Storm John Eliot Gardiner Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique

24. Book Four cont. Dido realises Aeneas is going to leave They debate Dido plans her death Resorts to magic Aeneas leaves Dido builds a funeral pyre and kills herself on top of it

28. Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell Sarah Connolly BBC Symphony Orchestra David Robertson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACY03VwWmn A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACY03VwWmn A

29. Book Five Back in Sicily Funeral games for Anchises Boat race, foot-race, boxing, archery Equestrian events Burning of the ships by the women Some Trojans left behind in Sicily Sail to Italy - Palinurus