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By: Kyle Patnode
OPRF ClassLatin Poetry: The Aeneid
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Table of Contents
• Main Characters• Aeneas• Summary • Main Themes and Motifs• About the Author
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Main Characters
• Aeneas: Protagonist
• Achates: Aeneas’ best friend
• Ascanius: Son of Aeneas
• Cupid: God of love/desire
• Dido: Queen of Carthage
• Juno: Queen of the Gods
• Venus: Mother of Aeneas
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Aeneas
• Protagonist of Aeneid• Survivor of Troy• Defining characteristic is piety• Fearsome warrior and leader • Capable of great compassion and
sorrow• Destiny is to found the Roman race
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Summary
• Troy falls• Aeneas takes Trojan’s away from Troy to find
Rome• Dido and Aeneas fall in love• Aeneas visits underworld• Founds Rome
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Main Themes and Symbols
• Primacy of Fate• Suffering of Wanders• Glory of Rome
• Flames• Golden bough• Gates of war• Trojan hearth Gods• Weather
Themes Symbols
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About the Author
• Preeminent poet of the Roman Empire
• Born in Mantua• Three Major Works: The Eclogues,
The Georgics, The Aeneid• Homer was influential • Died in Brundisium