Vergil's Aeneid

I. Lingua Latina

• veni, vidi, vici (Caesar)
• alea iacta est (Caesar)
• Catullus, Poem 85
  odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris
  nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
• Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.830
  nihil igitur mors est
• Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? (Cicero)
• Laudandus, ornandus, tollendus (Cicero on Octavian)
• Festina lente (a favorite saying of Octavian/Augustus)

• From Livy's Ab urbe condita

1. ego me etsi peccato absolvo, supplicio non libero (Lucretia)
   
2. et facere et pati fortia Romanum est (Mucius Scaevola)

• From Horace

1. carpe diem (from Odes 1.11)
   
2. nunc est bibendum (from Odes 1.37)
   
3. dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (from Odes 3.2)

• From the Aeneid

1. arma virumque cano
   Cf. George Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man
   
2. sunt lacrimae rerum
   
3. timeo Danaos et dona ferentis
   
4. tu... Romane... memento...
   parcere subjectis et debellare superbos
   Cf. Bob Dylan, "Lonesome Day Blues"  (allusion to these verses at 4:43)
   Text

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II. Vergil's Aeneid

• Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BCE - 19 BCE)
  
• The Aeneid by book

1. Arrival in Carthage
   
2. Fall of Troy
   
3. Aeneas' wanderings
   
4. Love and death of Dido
   
5. Funeral Games
   
6. Aeneas goes to Hades
   
7. Arrival in Italy, war starts with Latins
   
8. Trip to where Rome will later be; shield
   
9. Nisus and Euryalus
   
10. Death of Lausus and Pallas
    
11. Death of Camilla
    
12. Death of Turnus

• Images (enter your UTEID, choose (Public/Shared Sets on left-hand column, then choose "Aeneid 1-6" and "Aeneid 7-8"

• Some themes to consider

1. Creative imitation: How does Vergil make use of his Greek predecessors, especially Homer?
2. Aeneas: What kind of hero is he?
3. Rome: What does Vergil say about Rome' s destiny and her history?
4. Augustus: What does Vergil have to say about Augustus and his role in Roman history?
5. Suffering: How does the suffering that occurs in the poem affect our attitude towards Rome's destiny?
6. Gods: What roles do the gods play in the poem?