AENID(Group 1)Miguel BulgarKyle SolanoEloisa BacasonJilianne Bautista

Kathryn BughoPolyanna CabunocAliza CalingMikaela UntalanChelsea Vasquez

Background

Settings

Vergil begins his story in the years following the final sack of Troy.

Carthage (a city in northern Africa) ,Sicily, Italy, Underworld

CharactersMortals (Major)

• Aeneas –The protagonist of the Aeneid.– the son of the Trojan mortal

Anchises and Venus (the goddess of beauty and erotic love).–He is a fearsome warrior and a

leader. A man capable of great compassion and sorrow. 

CharactersMortals (Major)

• Dido–The queen of Carthage and lover of

Aeneas. –Was the wife of the murdered king,

Sychaeus who was killed by his own brother –Pygmalion.–The confident and competent ruler

of Carthage

CharactersMortals (Major)

• Turnus – Juno’s protégés –he ruler of the Rutulians in Italy.–Aeneas’s major antagonist among

mortals. –He is brash and fearless, a capable

soldier who values his honor over his life.

CharactersMortals (Minor)

• Anchises– Aeneas’s father–  a symbol of Aeneas’s Trojan heritage. 

CharactersMortals (Minor)

• Creusa–Aeneas’s wife at Troy.–Creusa is lost and killed as her

family attempts to flee the city.–She tells Aeneas he will find a new

wife at his new home.

CharactersMortals (Minor)

• Ascanius–Aeneas’s young son by his first

wife, Creusa.–He is brave and has a sense of

leadership.

CharactersMortals (Minor)

• Sinon–The Greek youth who pretends to

have been left behind at the end of the Trojan War. –He persuades the Trojans to take in

the wooden horse as an offering to Minerva, then lets out the warriors trapped inside the horse’s belly.

CharactersMortals (Minor)

• Latinus–  The king of Laurentum (a region of

Latium, in Italy)

• Lavinia - Latinus’s daughter.- The question of who will marry Lavinia—

Turnus or Aeneas—becomes key to future relations between the Latins and the Trojans and therefore the Aeneid’s entire historical scheme.

 

CharactersMortals (Minor)

• Amata –wife of Latinus. –Amata opposes the marriage of

Lavinia, her daughter, to Aeneas.–Amata kills herself once it is clear

that Aeneas is destined to win.

CharactersMortals (Minor)

• Evander –King of Pallanteum (a region of

Arcadia, in Italy)–a sworn enemy of the Latins ( ruled

by Latinus)–Aeneas befriends him and secures

his assistance in the battles against Turnus.

• Pallas - Son of Evander

CharactersMortals (Minor)

• Drancës –A Latin leader who desires an end

to the Trojan-Latin struggle. 

• Camilla–The leader of the Volscians, a race

of warrior maidens.

CharactersMortals (Minor)• Juturna –Turnus’s sister.– inducing a full-scale battle between

the Latins and the Trojans by disguising herself as an officer and goading the Latins after a treaty has already been reached.

• Achates –A Trojan and a personal friend of

Aeneas.

CharactersGods and Godesses (Roman)• Juno (Hera)– Queen of the Gods– the wife and sister of Jupiter– daughter of Saturn.– hates the Trojans because of Paris’s

judgment against her in a beauty contest.– patron of Carthage– She takes out her anger on Aeneas

throughout the epic, and in her wrath acts as his primary divine antagonist.

CharactersGods and Godesses (Roman)• Venus (Aphrodite)–Goddess of Love–mother of Aeneas–a benefactor of the Trojans.

CharactersGods and Godesses (Roman) • Jupiter (Zeus)–King of the Gods–  son of Saturn

• Neptune (Poseidon)–God of the Sea–an ally of Venus and Aeneas

CharactersGods and Godesses (Roman) • Mercury (Hermes)–  The messenger god.

Aeolus The god of the winds

CharactersGods and Godesses (Roman) • Cupid (Eros)– A son of Venus and the god of erotic

desire

• Saturn (Chronos)–The father of the Gods

CharactersGods and Godesses (Roman) • Vulcan (Hephaestus)–God of fire and the forge–husband of Venus

• Tiberinus–  river god associated with the Tiber River

CharactersGods and Godesses (Roman)• Minerva (Athena)– The goddess who protects the

Greeks   during the Trojan War– against the Trojans

• Allecto–One of the Furies, or deities who

avenge sins– sent by Juno in Book VII to incite the

Latin people to war against the Trojans

SummaryBook I Aeneas and surviving Trojans flees to Italy. Juno harbors anger toward Aeneas

• Prophecy: the race descended from the Trojans will someday destroy Carthage (Juno’s favorite city).

• Paris judged Juno’s rival Venus fairest in a divine beauty contest.

Juno calls on Aeolus, the god of the winds, directing him to bring a great storm down upon Aeneas as he sails south of Sicily.

Venus appears to Aeneas• Tells him about Sychaeus (Dido’s husband) death.• Advices him to go to Dido (Queen of Carthage) to ask help from

the effect of the great storm. Cupid, God of Love (sent by Venus)

• Disguised as Ascanius (Aeneas’ son).• Made Dido fall in love to Aeneas.

SummaryBook II[After cause of the Trojan War (Aeneas – Dido)] Sinon, the chosen sacrifice of the Greeks to Minerva

• During the preparation he escaped.• Brought a giant wooden horse

That Night…• Greek warriors inside the horse’s belly slaughtered Trojans• Hector – Aeneas [through a dream] = informed that Troy is

infiltrated.• Greeks break into the palace led by Pyrrhus.

Pyrrhus killed Polites (son of Priam and Hecuba) and King Priam.

Aeneas was determined to kill Helen, the cause of war• Venus appears and advices him to flee from Troy since his

fate is elsewhere

SummaryBook II Aeneas together with his family flees away

• Creusa (Aeneas’ wife) was lost from the group. • Aeneas searches for her after the commotion but

instead he meets her spirit. She tells him not to be sorrowful because a new home and wife await him in Hesperia.

• Aeneas leaves Troy.

SummaryBook III[Still aftermath of the Trojan War] Trojans leaves Troy At Delos, Apollo speaks to Aeneas, instructing

him to go to the land of his ancestors.• The gods of Troy appear to Aeneas in a dream and him

that Italy is the place Apollo referring to. Resting on a beach of Sicily, they encountered

Cyclops (one-eyed monsters) where Aeneas’ father died.

They landed lastly at Tyre. Aeneas concludes his story to Dido

SummaryBook IV Juno pretends to have peacemaking with Venus

• Dido’s love for Aeneas as a way to keep Aeneas from going to Italy. 

Dido and Aeneas gone hunting Juno brings storm upon them.• They went to the cave.

Jupiter sent Mercury • To remind Aeneas his fate in Italy

Aeneas flees secretly yet Dido sees it. Dido kills herself.

SummaryBook V Trojans stays to the Sicilian Port of Eryx.

• In honor of Aeneus’ one year death anniversary he suggests to Acestes (ruler) for eight days of sacrificial offerings and on the ninth day of competitive games (rowing, running, archery and boxing)

Juno- Iris (messenger)• Iris persuaded a Trojan woman sets fire to the ships.• Aeneus prayed to Jupiter and a rainstorm occurred.

His father appears and tells Aeneus he has a difficult foe at Latium. Auneus was left confused.

SummaryBook VI Trojan arrives on the shores of Italy.Sibyl, priestess of Italy• Golden branch in the forest

Aeneas goes Underworld (alond with Sibyl)• He sees Dido in the ‘Fields of Mourning’• Along the ‘Blessed Groves’ he sees Anchises

(his father).• Anchises tells Aeneas the explictation of his

lineage in Italy; Romulus will found Rome and Rome will reach a Golden Age.

Aeneas returns on land.

SummaryBook VII The Kingdom of Latium

• Latinus- King of Latins• Lavinia- daughter of Latnius; has many suitors• Prophet’s Prediction: a foreign army will conquer the

kingdom• Oracle of Faunus: Lavinia should marry a forigner

The Foundation of the New City• Aeneas: requests (to Latinus) a share of land• Latnius: suggests Aeneas to marry his daughter

Allecto, one of the Furies• Sent by Juno to make Queen Amata oppose the

marriage of Lavinia and Aeneas. • Inflames Turnus to drive out the Trojans in Italy.

SummaryBook VIII Tiberinus, the River God

• Adviced Aneas to make an alliance with Arcadians.

Evander, King of Arcades• Invited Aeneas for a feast and in which he

agreed for an alliance.• He gives his son, Pallas to Aeneas to be

taught the arts of war.Venus speaks to Vulcan (God of Fire

and Forge) for new weapons [for Aeneas]• At the camp, she gives the weapons to

Aeneas.

SummaryBook IX Turnus sets fire of the Trojan ships

But was saved by Cybele, mother of the Gods (the ships reappear as sea nuymphs)

Nisus and Euryalus (Arcanians)• slaughtered Latins as they were fast

asleep but both eventually died.The Latins counterattacked, in the

Trojan camp, but was left outnumbered so they escaped.

SummaryBook X Jupiter decided to not help either side,

Juno (Latins) and Venus (Trojans) during the meeting of the Gods.

Pallas was killed by Turnus which made Aeneas in rage.

Juno sees that the battle is lost so she saves Turnus by carrying him ashore far down the coast.

Menzentius, the great Latin warrior• Was slayed by Aeneas which means the

defeat of the Latin army.

SummaryBook XI Pallas was given a proper burial and died

honorably• King Evander forgives Aeneas.

The council called by King Latinus• Dual of Turnus and Aeneas - - to settle the

war (temporal decision)Trojan to the City of Latium (happened

during the council going on)• Camilla – leader of the Latins that was killed• Leaderless, Latins retreated.

Trojans and Latins returned to their respectice armies.

SummaryBook XII Queen Amata kills herself

• When she saw the Trojans attacking the city, Latium

Duel of Aeneas and Turnus• Juno accepted the fact that Turnus will

eventually lose She requested to Jupiter that the victorious

Trojans will take the name and language of Latins in which Jupiter agreed.

• Jupiter send furies, weakening Turnus.Aeneus strikes Turnus’ leg. Turnus begs for

mercy but Aeneas sees the belt of Pallas tied around Turnus’ shoulder which rages him.

Aeneas kills Turnus.

ThemesThe Primary of Fate• The course of the epic merely postpone this

unchangeable destiny.• The power of fate stands above the power of

the gods in the hierarchy of supernatural forces. (Associated woth the will of Jupiter)

• The development of individual characters in the epic is apparent in the readiness and resistance with which they meet the directives of fate.

ThemesThe Sufferings of Wanderers• Ancient culture stressed the idea that a

homeland is one’s source of identity.• Homelessness implies instability of both

situation and identity, it is a form of suffering in and of itself.

• The long wanderings at sea of the Trojans serve as a metaphor for the kind of wandering that is characteristic of life in general.

ThemesThe Glory of Rome• Virgil wrote the Aenid during the Golden Age

of the Roman Empire, under Rom’s first emperor, Caesar Augustus.

• Virgil’s purpose was to write a myth of Rome’s origins that would emphasize the grandeur and legitimize the success of an empire that had conquered most of the known world.

FIN.

Reference

• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/aeneid/summary.html

• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/aeneid/characters.html

• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/aeneid/canalysis.html

• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/aeneid/themes.html

• http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/aeneid.htm

• http://www.shmoop.com/aeneid/themes.html