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1st Q ENG10 Notes - Aeneid

The Aeneid follows Aeneas, a Trojan hero destined to found Rome, as he escapes the burning of Troy with his family and faces various challenges, including a love affair with Queen Dido of Carthage. After being commanded by Zeus to continue to Latium, Aeneas ultimately defeats his rival Turnus and marries Lavinia, fulfilling his destiny. The epic, written by Virgil, draws inspiration from Homer's works and highlights Rome's divine role in civilization.

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1st Q ENG10 Notes - Aeneid

The Aeneid follows Aeneas, a Trojan hero destined to found Rome, as he escapes the burning of Troy with his family and faces various challenges, including a love affair with Queen Dido of Carthage. After being commanded by Zeus to continue to Latium, Aeneas ultimately defeats his rival Turnus and marries Lavinia, fulfilling his destiny. The epic, written by Virgil, draws inspiration from Homer's works and highlights Rome's divine role in civilization.

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ENGLISH 10 – Notes

1ST QUARTER
Lesson – Aeneid

Summary:

Aeneas, son of Venus/Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, is a Trojan hero and a cousin of
Hector's, and like Hector, he is a brave warrior. The story begins with the burning of Troy and the
massacre of the men while the women and the children are carried off into slavery. Aeneas is
saved by his mother, and together with his father Anchises and his son Ascanius and a few
other Trojans, he sails away from burning Troy. Their destination is Latium, where they intend to
find a Trojan colony. But their ships are driven from their course by Juno/Athena, who is angry
with Aeneas. They land in Carthage, in North Africa, where they are welcomed by Queen Dido.
The queen falls in love with Aeneas and makes him co-ruler of Carthage. But Aeneas has a great
destiny to be the founder of Rome and much as he would like to stay with Dido, he is
commanded by Zeus to leave for Latium. Dido, brokenhearted, commits suicide as Aeneas sails
away.
He passes through many dangers paralleling some of the adventures of Odysseus. After
Aeneas finally reaches Italy, he goes down to the Underworld and learns about his future
descendants, the Romans. He celebrated the anniversary of his father's death with funeral
games in the Underworld.
He reaches Latium and gains the friendship of King Latinus, the ruler of Latium. Oracles have
foretold that the only daughter of the king, Lavinia, would marry a foreigner and become the
mother of an imperial line. Aeneas has a rival for the hand of Lavinia in the brave and powerful
Turnus.
A battle begins between the Trojans and the Latiums, and after many pitched encounters, Aeneas
defeats Turnus in single combat and gains the hand of Lavinia. He becomes king, and in
ceremonial rites required by the gods, a new nation is formed and the Trojans are named Latins.

Venus addresses her plea to Jupiter who is her father.


Venus is referring to Jupiter’s promise that the Roman’s will rise and be powerful.
Timeline of Jupiter’s prophesies:
 Aeneas will wage a war in Italy and reign in Latium.
 Aeneas will build the walls of Alba Longa.
 Romulus will build the walls of Mars and will call the people Romans after his own
name They will become powerful.
 Juno will side with the Romans.
 Trojan Caesar will be born.
 War will end.
 The gates of war will be closed.

Authors background
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro – 70-19 B.C.), hailed by the Romans as their greatest
poet, is greatly admired because of his national epic, Aeneid, which highlights the divine role of
Rome in civilizing the world. He was born in 70 B.C. in Mantua, one of the loveliest countryside in
Italy.
He began as a lyric poet of great passion and melody, but his masterpiece is the Aeneid,
the great epic of Rome, the subject matter of which is set way back in the legendary age of
Greece. He selected for his epic character the warrior Aeneas, a Trojan prince and one of the
bravest men who fought for Troy. In the epic, Virgil makes Aeneas the founder of Rome and the
progenitor of the Romans.
The idea and plan of the Aeneid are derived from Homer. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are
stories of war and of adventure, respectively. Virgil's Aeneid inverts this order; it begins with the
adventures of Aeneas and ends with the battle for the possession of Latium. Both parts, closely
follow the structure of Homer's epics. Episodes in Homer are duplicated and many characters
found in the lad are also found in the Aeneid.
Aside from his influence on the Romans, Virgil also served as inspiration and model to
other known writers like Odin, Edmund Spencer, and John Milton.

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