Lecture+on+Virgil+Notes

Notes on Virgil - Virgil was most famous for his Aeneid - October 15, 70 B.C to September 20 19 B.C - Eclogues first work - Georgics second work - The Aneaids was unfinished when he died - He wanted the script to be burn at his death because he was unsatisfied - Half-lines: incomplete lines - Many things shows that if was unfinished, but it was really close to be finish - Acosta would have stepped in to stop the script to be burned. - Aneaid unique Rome epic - Proem: first eleven line à shows how he is setting himself away from Homer - First word is ‘’Man’’ - He writes an epic from what has already happened - Aneaid founds the Roman people, not Rome - Virgil works with same material as Homer, the Trojans - Virgil writes with insight - Pietas à the ability to well describe his characters. - Moles à weighty responsibility - Reverse order - 12 books long - Virgil start with Odyssey - Book 2 à told by the point of view of Trojans - When city is invaded, Aneaids needs to stay and die fighting, but his mother Venus told him it was his destiny to leave. She shows him that the Gods are fighting to. - Direct reflection of civil war - Book 1-6 à journey to get there - Book 7-12 à War - The end should be seen as a positive ending, but there is another side, people see it as Aenied failure. - Aenied does the opposite of his dad last command - He kills the guy for personal emotion, which is why people see the ending in two different ways - The Aenied influence on the literature was big, especially in the Western literature. - Virgil was not Christian because he died before the birth of Christ, but he was seen as a soul of Christianity.