Virgil's Aeneid, Book 1

Here are a few salient points from the lecture/discussion of Aeneid Book I. . .

I. Virgil, poet of the Aeneid

II. 1.1-49 (Fitzgerald) Prologue

A. CREATIVE IMITATION OF HOMER (1.1)

B. MOVEMENT FROM TROY TO ITALY (1.2-12)

C. PIETAS - the reinvented hero, pius Aeneas

III. BOOK I

A. The STORM

B. Jupiter's "historical summary" 1.347-98: Latium, Alba Longa, Rome; final defeat of impious Furor.

C. Hunting (1.411)

D. Scenes of the walls of Juno's temple; last is Penthesilea

E. Dido and Aeneas

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