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The Journey of Aeneas
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Latins, Iliad, Roman, Greek, heroic, Aeneas, Troy, virtues, chaotic, Saturn, destiny, 19BC, disorder, mission, fate, Mars, clarity, warfare
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Aeneid
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written between 29BC and         
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tells the story of             , a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans
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first half: journey from Troy to Italy (like the Odyssey)
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second half: Trojans' victorious war upon the              (like the Iliad)
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the text
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"I sing of                and a man at war"
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Virgil makes clear at the beginning that he is going to tell both an            and Odyssey-like story
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instead of suggesting that muses use the bard as mouthpieces, Virgil says, "I am a human being and I am going to be doing the singing about this past"
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uses the concept of         : no matter what you do, Aeneas will reach his destiny
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           sense of fate was backward looking, links you to the past, e.g. Oedipus
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           sense of fate was forward looking, more like our concept of destiny
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the Aeneid is a story largely drawn out by large, tectonic forces pushing it forward
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moves from sea coast of          to Italy to Lavinian Western shore, and "the Romans know he is talking about them"
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Juno
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ancient Roman goddess
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protector of the state
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daughter of              and sister of chief god Jupiter
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mother of          and Vulcan
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her Greek equivalent is Hera
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patron goddess of Rome
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Juno keeps holding back Aeneid's drive to his               , constantly retarding the progress
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journey achieved with lots of pain and suffering
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many people get torn up in the machine of this journey
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friends push him forward and Juno pushes him back
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his future is to build something: a city
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build walls
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make order out of something               
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has laws that organize people
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the enemy is                  and confusion
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the friend is                and conciseness: will show the straight lines which show what it means to be Roman
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building walls his something he is anchored to in his              expression
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pietas
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Aeneas is marked by pietas
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duty, religiosity, religious behavior, loyalty
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one of the chief                among ancient Romans
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distinguishing virtue of the founding hero Aeneas
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utterly devoted to his               
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devoted to duty, more than Greek heroes
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the divinities become angered with Aeneas
Myth, History, and Virgil
The Aeneid as Roman National Identity Narrative
The Journey of Aeneas
On Reading Vergil
Aeneid: The Odyssey with a Virgilian Twist
Aeneas, Laocoon, and the Trojan Horse
Disguised Odysseus Meets Eumaeus
Telemachus and Theoclymenus
Odysseus and Circe