The Aeneid

Background Themes Motifs etc

P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)1048708 15 Oct 70 BC ndash 20 Sep 19 BC

1048708 born 70 BC in Mantua northern Italy1048708 Traditionally spelled ldquoVirgilrdquo in English

1048708 perhaps from virga (magicianrsquos wand) or virgo (maiden)

1048708 Education1048708 studied Hellenistic poetry Epicurean philosophy1048708 suffering an illnessmdashperhaps tuberculosismdashVergil gave up the law after one case to devote himself to literature and philosophy

Early Works the Ecloguesbull 10 rural or ldquopastoralrdquo poemsbull 1048708 Eclogue means ldquoselectionrdquobull 1048708 dactylic hexameter in form but

lyric in naturebull 1048708 Pastoral poetrymdashbegan with

Theocritus of Alexandriandash 1048708 Arcadian setting a spiritual landscapendash 1048708 Vergil injects the Italian countryside including

effects of triumviral dispossession into his ldquoArcadiardquo

ndash 1048708 His own family estates had been confiscated

bull 1048708 Millennialism of the Fourth Eclogue a child and the coming golden age

Maecenasrsquo Patronage

bull After 37 BC Vergil was patronized by Augustusrsquo friend Maecenas

bull 1048708 After Actium in 31 BC Vergil began a didactic poem called the Georgicsndash 1048708 4 books of ldquofarmer poemsrdquondash 1048708 a technical and philosophical treatise on

farming interspersed with poetic whimsndash 1048708 highlights Roman values particularly the

work ethic

bull 1048708 Vergil was later closely associated with Augustus directly

Writing an Epicbull Vergil the Roman Homer

ndash 1048708 divided in twomdashan Odyssey section (books 1-6) and an Iliad section (books 7-12)

bull 1048708 A literary epicndash 1048708 A working definition of a classical epic as

established by Homer and as emulated by later Greeks and Romans is as follows

bull 1048708 An epic is a long work of heroic poetry that succeeded in becoming traditional that helped to establish a sense of national identity and reinforced accepted values

ndash 1048708 retains epic conventions but painstakingly composed and written sometimes only a line or two a day

bull 1048708 dactylic hexameter epithet formulas redundancies Invocation in medias res aristea catalogues epic simile exaggerations

Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work

bull Fatendash Does it existndash Can you fight itndash Juno Aeneas Dido Turnus

etc

bull The Sufferings of Wanderersbull Hidden destructionbull Father and son relationship

More Themes

bull Chaos vs Orderbull Emotion vs Logicbull Piety(Pietas) vs Impietybull War vs Peace

Motifsrecurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes

bull Prophecies and predictions

bull Founding a new citybull Vengeance

Symbolsobjects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts

bull FlamesFirebull Golden Boughbull The Gates of Warbull Lares amp Penates bull Weatherbull Caves

The Iliad

Sing O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus king of men and great Achilles first fell out with one another

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)1048708 15 Oct 70 BC ndash 20 Sep 19 BC

1048708 born 70 BC in Mantua northern Italy1048708 Traditionally spelled ldquoVirgilrdquo in English

1048708 perhaps from virga (magicianrsquos wand) or virgo (maiden)

1048708 Education1048708 studied Hellenistic poetry Epicurean philosophy1048708 suffering an illnessmdashperhaps tuberculosismdashVergil gave up the law after one case to devote himself to literature and philosophy

Early Works the Ecloguesbull 10 rural or ldquopastoralrdquo poemsbull 1048708 Eclogue means ldquoselectionrdquobull 1048708 dactylic hexameter in form but

lyric in naturebull 1048708 Pastoral poetrymdashbegan with

Theocritus of Alexandriandash 1048708 Arcadian setting a spiritual landscapendash 1048708 Vergil injects the Italian countryside including

effects of triumviral dispossession into his ldquoArcadiardquo

ndash 1048708 His own family estates had been confiscated

bull 1048708 Millennialism of the Fourth Eclogue a child and the coming golden age

Maecenasrsquo Patronage

bull After 37 BC Vergil was patronized by Augustusrsquo friend Maecenas

bull 1048708 After Actium in 31 BC Vergil began a didactic poem called the Georgicsndash 1048708 4 books of ldquofarmer poemsrdquondash 1048708 a technical and philosophical treatise on

farming interspersed with poetic whimsndash 1048708 highlights Roman values particularly the

work ethic

bull 1048708 Vergil was later closely associated with Augustus directly

Writing an Epicbull Vergil the Roman Homer

ndash 1048708 divided in twomdashan Odyssey section (books 1-6) and an Iliad section (books 7-12)

bull 1048708 A literary epicndash 1048708 A working definition of a classical epic as

established by Homer and as emulated by later Greeks and Romans is as follows

bull 1048708 An epic is a long work of heroic poetry that succeeded in becoming traditional that helped to establish a sense of national identity and reinforced accepted values

ndash 1048708 retains epic conventions but painstakingly composed and written sometimes only a line or two a day

bull 1048708 dactylic hexameter epithet formulas redundancies Invocation in medias res aristea catalogues epic simile exaggerations

Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work

bull Fatendash Does it existndash Can you fight itndash Juno Aeneas Dido Turnus

etc

bull The Sufferings of Wanderersbull Hidden destructionbull Father and son relationship

More Themes

bull Chaos vs Orderbull Emotion vs Logicbull Piety(Pietas) vs Impietybull War vs Peace

Motifsrecurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes

bull Prophecies and predictions

bull Founding a new citybull Vengeance

Symbolsobjects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts

bull FlamesFirebull Golden Boughbull The Gates of Warbull Lares amp Penates bull Weatherbull Caves

The Iliad

Sing O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus king of men and great Achilles first fell out with one another

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

Early Works the Ecloguesbull 10 rural or ldquopastoralrdquo poemsbull 1048708 Eclogue means ldquoselectionrdquobull 1048708 dactylic hexameter in form but

lyric in naturebull 1048708 Pastoral poetrymdashbegan with

Theocritus of Alexandriandash 1048708 Arcadian setting a spiritual landscapendash 1048708 Vergil injects the Italian countryside including

effects of triumviral dispossession into his ldquoArcadiardquo

ndash 1048708 His own family estates had been confiscated

bull 1048708 Millennialism of the Fourth Eclogue a child and the coming golden age

Maecenasrsquo Patronage

bull After 37 BC Vergil was patronized by Augustusrsquo friend Maecenas

bull 1048708 After Actium in 31 BC Vergil began a didactic poem called the Georgicsndash 1048708 4 books of ldquofarmer poemsrdquondash 1048708 a technical and philosophical treatise on

farming interspersed with poetic whimsndash 1048708 highlights Roman values particularly the

work ethic

bull 1048708 Vergil was later closely associated with Augustus directly

Writing an Epicbull Vergil the Roman Homer

ndash 1048708 divided in twomdashan Odyssey section (books 1-6) and an Iliad section (books 7-12)

bull 1048708 A literary epicndash 1048708 A working definition of a classical epic as

established by Homer and as emulated by later Greeks and Romans is as follows

bull 1048708 An epic is a long work of heroic poetry that succeeded in becoming traditional that helped to establish a sense of national identity and reinforced accepted values

ndash 1048708 retains epic conventions but painstakingly composed and written sometimes only a line or two a day

bull 1048708 dactylic hexameter epithet formulas redundancies Invocation in medias res aristea catalogues epic simile exaggerations

Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work

bull Fatendash Does it existndash Can you fight itndash Juno Aeneas Dido Turnus

etc

bull The Sufferings of Wanderersbull Hidden destructionbull Father and son relationship

More Themes

bull Chaos vs Orderbull Emotion vs Logicbull Piety(Pietas) vs Impietybull War vs Peace

Motifsrecurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes

bull Prophecies and predictions

bull Founding a new citybull Vengeance

Symbolsobjects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts

bull FlamesFirebull Golden Boughbull The Gates of Warbull Lares amp Penates bull Weatherbull Caves

The Iliad

Sing O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus king of men and great Achilles first fell out with one another

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

Maecenasrsquo Patronage

bull After 37 BC Vergil was patronized by Augustusrsquo friend Maecenas

bull 1048708 After Actium in 31 BC Vergil began a didactic poem called the Georgicsndash 1048708 4 books of ldquofarmer poemsrdquondash 1048708 a technical and philosophical treatise on

farming interspersed with poetic whimsndash 1048708 highlights Roman values particularly the

work ethic

bull 1048708 Vergil was later closely associated with Augustus directly

Writing an Epicbull Vergil the Roman Homer

ndash 1048708 divided in twomdashan Odyssey section (books 1-6) and an Iliad section (books 7-12)

bull 1048708 A literary epicndash 1048708 A working definition of a classical epic as

established by Homer and as emulated by later Greeks and Romans is as follows

bull 1048708 An epic is a long work of heroic poetry that succeeded in becoming traditional that helped to establish a sense of national identity and reinforced accepted values

ndash 1048708 retains epic conventions but painstakingly composed and written sometimes only a line or two a day

bull 1048708 dactylic hexameter epithet formulas redundancies Invocation in medias res aristea catalogues epic simile exaggerations

Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work

bull Fatendash Does it existndash Can you fight itndash Juno Aeneas Dido Turnus

etc

bull The Sufferings of Wanderersbull Hidden destructionbull Father and son relationship

More Themes

bull Chaos vs Orderbull Emotion vs Logicbull Piety(Pietas) vs Impietybull War vs Peace

Motifsrecurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes

bull Prophecies and predictions

bull Founding a new citybull Vengeance

Symbolsobjects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts

bull FlamesFirebull Golden Boughbull The Gates of Warbull Lares amp Penates bull Weatherbull Caves

The Iliad

Sing O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus king of men and great Achilles first fell out with one another

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

Writing an Epicbull Vergil the Roman Homer

ndash 1048708 divided in twomdashan Odyssey section (books 1-6) and an Iliad section (books 7-12)

bull 1048708 A literary epicndash 1048708 A working definition of a classical epic as

established by Homer and as emulated by later Greeks and Romans is as follows

bull 1048708 An epic is a long work of heroic poetry that succeeded in becoming traditional that helped to establish a sense of national identity and reinforced accepted values

ndash 1048708 retains epic conventions but painstakingly composed and written sometimes only a line or two a day

bull 1048708 dactylic hexameter epithet formulas redundancies Invocation in medias res aristea catalogues epic simile exaggerations

Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work

bull Fatendash Does it existndash Can you fight itndash Juno Aeneas Dido Turnus

etc

bull The Sufferings of Wanderersbull Hidden destructionbull Father and son relationship

More Themes

bull Chaos vs Orderbull Emotion vs Logicbull Piety(Pietas) vs Impietybull War vs Peace

Motifsrecurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes

bull Prophecies and predictions

bull Founding a new citybull Vengeance

Symbolsobjects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts

bull FlamesFirebull Golden Boughbull The Gates of Warbull Lares amp Penates bull Weatherbull Caves

The Iliad

Sing O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus king of men and great Achilles first fell out with one another

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work

bull Fatendash Does it existndash Can you fight itndash Juno Aeneas Dido Turnus

etc

bull The Sufferings of Wanderersbull Hidden destructionbull Father and son relationship

More Themes

bull Chaos vs Orderbull Emotion vs Logicbull Piety(Pietas) vs Impietybull War vs Peace

Motifsrecurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes

bull Prophecies and predictions

bull Founding a new citybull Vengeance

Symbolsobjects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts

bull FlamesFirebull Golden Boughbull The Gates of Warbull Lares amp Penates bull Weatherbull Caves

The Iliad

Sing O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus king of men and great Achilles first fell out with one another

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

More Themes

bull Chaos vs Orderbull Emotion vs Logicbull Piety(Pietas) vs Impietybull War vs Peace

Motifsrecurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes

bull Prophecies and predictions

bull Founding a new citybull Vengeance

Symbolsobjects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts

bull FlamesFirebull Golden Boughbull The Gates of Warbull Lares amp Penates bull Weatherbull Caves

The Iliad

Sing O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus king of men and great Achilles first fell out with one another

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

Motifsrecurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes

bull Prophecies and predictions

bull Founding a new citybull Vengeance

Symbolsobjects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts

bull FlamesFirebull Golden Boughbull The Gates of Warbull Lares amp Penates bull Weatherbull Caves

The Iliad

Sing O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus king of men and great Achilles first fell out with one another

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

Symbolsobjects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts

bull FlamesFirebull Golden Boughbull The Gates of Warbull Lares amp Penates bull Weatherbull Caves

The Iliad

Sing O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus king of men and great Achilles first fell out with one another

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

The Iliad

Sing O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus king of men and great Achilles first fell out with one another

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

The Odyssey

bull Tell me O muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy Many cities did he visit and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home but do what he might he could not save his men for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion so the god prevented them from ever reaching home Tell me too about all these things O daughter of Jove from whatsoever source you may know them

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12

The Aeneidbull Arms and the man I sing who forcd by fate

And haughty Junos unrelenting hate Expelld and exild left the Trojan shore Long labors both by sea and land he bore And in the doubtful war before he won The Latian realm and built the destind town His banishd gods restord to rites divine And settled sure succession in his line From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome O Muse the causes and the crimes relate What goddess was provokd and whence her hate For what offense the Queen of Heavn began To persecute so brave so just a man Involvd his anxious life in endless cares Exposd to wants and hurried into wars Can heavnly minds such high resentment show Or exercise their spite in human woe

• The Aeneid
• P Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
• Early Works the Eclogues
• Maecenasrsquo Patronage
• Writing an Epic
• Themes fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
• More Themes
• Motifs recurring structures contrasts and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the textrsquos major themes
• Symbols objects characters figures and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Slide 12