FUTURE ROME: AENEID 6 & 8. The Roman World

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1 FUTURE ROME: AENEID 6 & 8 The Roman World

2 Aeneid and Greek Epic Homeric epic Homer Iliad warfare Homer Odyssey journey (home) Alexandrian epic Apollonius of Rhodes Argonau4ca journey (mission) Aeneid all of this, plus ROME

3 Early Roman Literature BCE Epic & drama Epic poets Livius Andronicus (Greek, became a Roman) Naevius (Roman) Ennius (S. Italian) Literary colonizayon: Livius translayon of Odyssey (c. 250) 220s Naevius epic Punica = NaYonal epic Ennius Annales - NaYonal epic - history of Rome to mid 3 rd century BCE

4 Passages which reference the FUTURE Jupiter s speech: Aen Parade of heroes in the Underworld: Aen [Appendix I] Shield of Aeneas: Aen [Appendix II]

5 Aeneid 1-6: the body count Dido Palinurus Anchises Creusa Priam everyone else who died at Troy

6 PLAYING WITH TIME: the PAST Homeric parallels: Aeneid 2 & 3//Odyssey 9-12 loss of helmsman //Elpenor in Odyssey 11 Hector Creusa Polydorus

7 PLAYING WITH TIME: the FUTURE profugus fato 2.780ff. Creusa s ghost Hesperia (Italy) and River Thybris (Tiber) 3.95ff Delos, Apollo s instrucyons 3.133ff. Crete: Pergamea Buthrotum: Helenus, Andromache & Liile Troy

8 Overview of NarraYve Themes throughout the Aeneid: Themes FoundaYon throughout of Rome the Aeneid: Rome within the Mediterranean - FoundaYon of Rome Augustus - Rome within the Mediterranean - Aeneas // Augustus? Book 6 Descent to the Underworld Meets his father Anchises Points out those souls about to be reborn Book 7 Aeneas arrives in LaYum Book 8 Tiber appears to Aeneas in a dream Alliance with Evander, King of Acadians Future site of Rome Receives Shield

9 Figures from Aeneas past in the Underworld Leucaspis and Orontes Palinurus Dido Brave warriors from the Trojan War including Deiphobus, Priam s son. Aeneas at the entrance to the underworld hip://

10 THE UNDERWORLD: MEET THE PARENTS Anchises: parallels AnYcleia in Odyssey 11 Ithaka nostos BUT here: Pythagoreans and Stoics theory: metempsychosis (723 ff.)

11 Future men of Rome: Aeneas descendants Kings of Rome Heroes of the Republic Figures from Augustan Rome

12 Aeneas Descendants and the expansion of Empire Silvius Procas Capys Numitor Silvius Aeneas Romulus Augustus Caesar These are the men who will build Nomentus for you, and Gabii, and the city of Fidenae. They will set CollaHa s citadel on mountains, and PomeHa too, and Castrum Inui, and Bola and Cora. These, my son, will be the names of places which are at this moment places without names. ( ) Augustus Caesar, son of a god, the man who will bring back the golden years to the fields of LaHum once ruled over by Saturn, and extend Rome s empire beyond the Indians and the Garamantes to a land beyond the stars, beyond the yearly path of the sun, where Atlas holds on his shoulder that sky all studded with burning stars and turns on its axis. ( )

13 Heroes of the Republic & Augustan Rome Brutus Marcellus (younger) 6.860ff. Camillus Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great - two spirits (6.826) Gracchi Scipio Africanus hip:// joseph- taillasson- virgil- reading- the- aeneid- to- augustus- and- octavia Jean- Joseph Taillasson: Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia See Appendix 1 in West s translayon for full glossary of the Parade of Heroes

14 Forum of Augustus hip:// resources/cicero/urbs/urbs_fora.html hip://

15 Roman desyny Jupiter : On them I impose no limits of Yme or place. I have given them an empire that will know no end. Anchises : Others I do not doubt it will beat bronze into figures that breathe more soqly. Others will draw living likenesses out of marble. Others will plead cases beier or describe with their rod the courses of the stars across the sky and predict their risings. Your task, Roman, and do not forget it, will be to govern the peoples of the world in your empire. These will be your arts and to impose a se\led pa\ern upon peace, to pardon the defeated and war down the proud.