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Aeneas
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Details of Aeneas' character, intentions, free-will and why Virgil created him so.
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aeneas
aeneid
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Aeneas
Criticism
Charles James Fox "always either insipid or odious"
Wight Duff "The Aeneid succeeds in spite of its hero"
Lifeless
Puppet of the gods
Lacking real human personality
Pale shadow of Homer's Achilles
Virgil's intention
Not to create new Achilles
Create a hero appropriate to non-heroic age
Individualism of Odysseus did not provide leadership suitable for civilisation with emphasis on social qualities, responsibilities and obligations
Cf to Greek city states, no national identity
Characterised by
Willingness to subordinate own individual personality to needs and requirements of his duty
PIETAS
Devotion to duty
Pietas- a man should do what is right by his gods, city and family, friends and enemies
FUROR
Act on impulse rather than reason
Like an animal
Aeneas attempts to overcome his and others furor via pietas
Fails to do so
After Pallas' death B10
After his own wound B12
End of poem where we kills suppliant, Turnus
Always uncertain about right course of action: pondering, worrying, lies awake at night
Primarily concerned with
Aeneas' efforts to fulfil divine mission to found new city
Disaster and difficulties causes doubt and despair
Human frailty
Suffering is essential. But he must go on. He has been privileged to see into Jupiter's book of fate.
Wishes he had died at Troy
Lack of confidence in the gods?
Not until Anchises- underworld-future Roman when he feels strong and resolute
Christian Hero?
Aeneas acceptance of divine mission weaker than that of Christian heroes
Does not draw infinite strength and determination from mission
Sees it only dimly.
Minimal violence
Solution to overcoming violent opposition is violence, the Roman historical solution
Helps Augstus carry on fighting. H is trying to civilise world thus justifying war
Virgil did not like war
Question of human free-will
Is Aeneas a marionette of fate
No the Roman mission came true, therefore it had to all the time
Aeneas achievements were in fact the achievements of fate and the gods
is it surprising that a pious devoted hero receives help in desperate need? No. Not a puppet.
Aeneas free to give up mission at any stage
Should he 'forget his destiny'. It was essential for future of Rone that he shoud not
Roman readers had similar task. Like Aebeas they should not forget their destiny: to create an Empire without limits
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