Aeneas

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

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