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Description
Mind Map by Marta Cortada, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Marta Cortada
about 8 years ago
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Theme of Power + Rome
- Power
- historical context
- period of time where Rome had
undergone significant expansion
- Augustus consolidates all political authority in
himself, ending the civil war
- period of time where Rome had
undergone significant expansion
- in the Aeneid
- spirit of this in Jupiter +
Anchises's predictions that
Roman power will expand to
the limits of the earth
- contradicts Jupiter's notion that the Romans will
have empire without end in space
- contradicts Jupiter's notion that the Romans will
have empire without end in space
- seen in Anchises's instructions to
Aeneas that he must not only "battle
down the proud" but also "spare the
conquered" ?????
- spirit of this in Jupiter +
Anchises's predictions that
Roman power will expand to
the limits of the earth
- Pax Romana
- among the positive aspects of Roman power
- brings lasting peace for 200 years to various
contries under its domain
- among the positive aspects of Roman power
- historical context
- Glory of Rome
- context
- wrote the Aenid during the Golden Age of the
Empire under the auspices of Augustus
- wrote the Aenid during the Golden Age of the
Empire under the auspices of Augustus
- context
- future destiny of Rome
- a major theme majorly discussed in:
- Book VI: all + lines 777-886
- Book I: lines 277-296
- Book VIII: lines 626-731
- Gives impression of what Virgil considers Rome's
greatest accomplishments + what its future task
should look like
- contains much praise of Julius Caesar + Augustus
- greatest of Aeneas's descendants
- greatest of Aeneas's descendants
- Book VI: all + lines 777-886
- a major theme majorly discussed in:
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