1
2
3 4 5
6 7
8
9 10
11
12
|________________________________|
|______________________________________________|
|____________________|
|_________________________|
|________________________________|
1-------------------------------------------------------------------7
1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12
----------2------------------------------------------------------------------------8
1-6: Odyssey, virum, wandering (high school has often read 1, 2, 4, 6, now adds some 10, 12)
7-12: Iliad, war; arma, 2nd proem
near
start of 7: maius opus (F: "greater history")
also:
7-12
like Odyssey, coming "home" and finding trouble with "suitor"
2-3 = Aeneas' narrative, as in Od. 9-12
Trip to underworld near center of poem, as (almost) in Od. 11
also
1-4, Troy & Dido, 5-8 Sicily/Italy/Rome, 9-12
war in Italy vs. Turnus; cf. Turnus and Dido
1 land at Carthage, 2 City of Troy,
1 land at Carthage 7, land in Italy
7 land near future Rome, 8 Tour future site of Rome
2 dying city, 8 city of the future
2-6 end with deaths of those close to Aeneas (or
Augustus):
2 Creusa, 3 Anchises, 4 Dido, 5 Palinurus, 6 Marcellus,
10-12 end with deaths of opponents of Aeneas:
10 Mezentius, 11 Camilla, 12 Turnus
1 and 12: 1 Venus talks to Jupiter, who
prophesies,
12 Juno talks to Jupiter; they compromise
Parade of Heroes in Book 6:
1020ff (F): Kings of Alba Longa (first
= son in old age
(?) )
1040ff: Romulus: illustrious Rome: fortunate in
men
she breeds
1060ff: Augustus Caesar, who shall bring once
again
an Age of Gold
1084: do we lag at carrying our virtus
into
action?
1086ff:Kings of Rome
1100ff; Brutus (threw out last king)
(killed plotting
sons:
1103ff (F)
personal vs. public as
in
Aeneid 4)
1112ff: that pair: Julius Caesar and Pompey
1127ff: Republican heroes, conquer Greece etc.
(some from Ennius; Fabius
the
Delayer;
words borrowed)
1145-54: Roman arts:
to pacify, to impose the rule
of law,
to
spare the conquered, battle down the proud
1156ff: Marcellus (older)
1171ff: Marcellus (younger)
d. 23 BCE, age 19, after
brief
illness, nephew and heir of Augustus
1211ff: Gates of Sleep (cf. Od.19):
True and
False Dreams