![]() The dynasty of Hector will hold sway till Ilia,Ī royal priestess great with the brood of Mars, There, in turn, for a full three hundred years To raise up Alba Longa’s mighty ramparts. Transferring his rule from its old Lavinian home Will fill out with his own reign thirty sovereign years,Ī giant cycle of months revolving round and round, Of Iulus-Ilus he was, while Ilium ruled on high. In barracks after the Latins have been broken.īut his son Ascanius, now that he gains the name Will see him govern Latium, three winters pass Save your strength for better times to come.”Ī long, costly war in Italy, crush defiant tribesĪnd build high city walls for his people thereĪnd found the rule of law. There Fate holds outĪ homeland, calm, at peace. Through so many hard straits, so many twists and turns Dismiss your grief and fear.Ī joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this. Departure through the ivory gate.Īeneas’ speech to his people upon landing near Carthage: Conversation with Anchises about metaphysics and reincarnation and his prophecy of Rome’s greatness and Ceasar Augustus and others. Dropping off the bough and going to the Elysian fields. The Sibyl’s description of Tartarus, its sinners and punishments. Aeneas asks the Sibyl to take him to his dead father first he needs to clear the death taint and tear off the golden bough.Anchises shade asks his son to visit in the underworld. The Trojan women burn the ships, and Aeneas leaves the elderly and exhausted behind. Anchises’ funeral games-ship and foot races, boxing and bows.Dido’s downward spiral ends in her suicidal burning as Aeneas flees in the night. Spurned Iarbas’ anger reaches Jove, who sends Mercury to prod Aeneas to leave. Juno and Venus conspire a mid-hunt cave consummation. ![]() Dido confides her love for Aeneas to Anna.Aeneas tells of their journey to Carthage: Polydorus’ second burial, Apollo’s prophecy at Delos, plague in Crete, Apollo’s dream, the three day storm, the Harpies, the encounter with Helen, Helenus’ prophecy, crossing to Italy, Achaemenides and the cyclops, and Anchises’ death.Aeneas tells of Troy’s fall: the great horse, Sinon’s lies, Laocoön’s death, his resistance, Priam’s death, his encounter with Helen, Venus’ intervention, the escape with Anchises, and the futile search for his lost wife Creusa.Cupid, disguised as Ascanius, inflames her for Aeneas. Venus guides him to nearby Carthage, where he meets Dido and others, thought lost, from his fleet. A storm, sent by Juno, wrecks Aeneas’ ships.The poem is 9,896 lines of dactylic hexameter verse in Latin, and is split into 12 books. It presents a founding myth for the Roman empire and explains the Punic Wars. The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BCE, that connects the Julio-Claudian dynasty to the heroes of Troy.
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