The goddess who protects the Greeks during the Trojan War and helps them conquer Troy. A son of Jupiter and god of the sun. Apollo was born at Delos and helps the Trojans in their voyage when they stop there. Because he is often portrayed as an archer, many characters invoke his name before they fire a shaft in battle.
The greatest of the Greek warriors. Achilles slew the Trojan hero Hector during the war and is the tragic hero of the Iliad. The greatest of the Trojan warriors, killed at Troy. Hector is in some ways a parallel figure to Turnus, who also defends his native city to the death.
A Trojan prince, son of Priam and Hecuba, and brother of Hector. The handsomest of men, Paris is asked to judge which goddess is most beautiful: Venus, Juno, or Minerva. Venus promises him Helen as his wife in exchange for his judgment, so Paris selects Venus. This selection inspires the permanent wrath of Juno against the Trojans. The most beautiful of mortal women and wife of Menelaus. A Greek king who wed Helen and made a pact with her other suitors to fight anyone who tried to steal her.
When Paris took Helen, the pact was invoked and the Trojan War began. The leader of the Greek army at Troy, and the king of Argos, a city in Greece. Upon his return from the war, Agamemnon is killed by his adulterous wife, Clytemnestra. The king of Troy. The son of Achilles. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook.
Character List Aeneas Dido Turnus. Themes Motifs Symbols. Characters Character List. Dionysius of Halicarnassus instead argues that Aeneas continued westward. Certainly, stories abound of heroes, including Odysseus and Heracles, who founded numerous cities during their wanderings. Aeneas then decided to settle where they were and named the city he founded after one of the Trojan women, who was called Rhome.
Show Dion. But countless stories developed among the Greeks, as no doubt also among the native populations in Italy, regarding the origins of the city of Rome and its inhabitants.
Regardless, most early sources suggest that only a few generations separated Aeneas from the founding of Rome: the large gap found in the Aeneid was probably introduced by Virgil. When Virgil composed his Aeneid he was working with material that had been circulating for centuries.
The labours that Heracles had to perform beyond the confines of the Aegean generally took him further west. Of the other Greek heroes who fought at Troy, Diomedes, the king of Argos, eventually went west and settled in Italy, specifically in Daunia Apulia.
These stories all developed in a time when Greeks actively ventured west to settle new lands. Between ca. Italy and Sicily were among their most popular destinations. The Trojans were broadly similar to the Greeks as far as culture and religion were concerned, but at the same time also different. At least, this seems to be the point of the poem, so we tender-hearted moderns just have to find a way to wrap our heads around it. Aeneas is a tool in a technical sense in that he is an instrument of fate.
He didn't up and decide to go off on a mission to found a new city: it was the gods who put him up to it. Deep down, Aeneas has feelings too — including feelings for Dido — but he knows that he has to smother those feelings in the service of a higher cause, just as he smothers his feelings of grief for his lost companions when he puts on a brave face for the survivors in Book 1.
This is what he's getting at when he tells Dido, "I sail for Italy not of my own free will. Another thing that makes Aeneas interesting is that his personality changes over the course of the book. Sometimes, people act as if character development was an invention of modern literature, but this clearly isn't true. In the first half of the poem, Aeneas is dedicated to his quest, sure, but he's still a little uncertain about it.
This uncertainty might factor in to his jumping into a relationship with Dido. Book 8. Meanwhile, the spirit of the Tiber river appears to Aeneas in a dream, and tells him not to fear the war—he's finally reached his homeland Aeneas thanks the Tiber god and sails with some of his men along the river.
Aeneas explains he wants to ally with Evander in the coming war. Pallas is immediately impressed Evander gives Aeneas a tour of his city, and tells its history. During the peaceful, plentiful Golden Age, Venus asks her husband Vulcan to build a set of armor for Aeneas, and kisses him as encouragement.
Vulcan says he would even have built armor for Aeneas In the morning, Evander and Aeneas meet to talk war. Evander says he would like to fight but is too old, Red light, accompanied by thunder, appears in the clear sky.
Aeneas explains that it's a sign from Venus that war nears. Evander passionately prays that Pallas Aeneas's group finds the Tuscans and camps with them. As they camp, Venus comes down from Book 9. Iris, sent by Juno, instructs Turnus to attack the Trojans' camp, since Aeneas has left it to find Evander. Turnus thanks the gods for the help and prepares Nisus wants to sneak out through the Rutulian camp surrounding the fortress to find Aeneas and get help for the upcoming battle.
Euryalus thinks it's a great idea and wants Aletes and Ascanius praise and encourage them, and Mnesthus, a Trojan, encourages his friends, telling them to remember Aeneas and Troy. The Trojans manage to stop Turnus's progress. Jove sends Iris down to tell Book She proposes that the Trojans return home to rebuild Troy. Juno angrily responds that Aeneas chose to make Turnus his enemy, and that he brought war to a peaceful land Back on earth, as the battle rages on, Aeneas continues to search for allies.
He finds Tuscans also called Etruscans , whose king, Tarchon, along Aeneas and the Tuscan troops arrive at the battle in the morning, and Aeneas's Vulcan-made shield When Aeneas hears of Pallas's death, he goes into a killing frenzy. He takes several Latins alive Juno sends a phantom Aeneas down from the heavens. Turnus throws his spear at the fake Aeneas, then chases the Aeneas searches unsuccessfully for Turnus.
Meanwhile, Turnus realizes he's floated away, and makes a desperate speech When Aeneas catches up with Mezentius, Mezentius throws his spear at Aeneas. Aeneas deflects it with his Lausus jumps in to protect Mezentius. Aeneas tells Lausus he's being foolish.
Lausus refuses to move, and Aeneas kills him, stabbing him Mezentius gets on his horse, ready to kill Aeneas or die trying. He finds Aeneas and denounces him for taking his son, and fails The next morning dawns. Aeneas sets up a display of Mezentius's armor as an offering to Mars. Despite his sadness Returning to the camp, Aeneas finds a delegation of Latins carrying olive branches, asking for a temporary truce during which Now that delegation of Latins returns with news that Diomedes doesn't want to ally, because Then he speaks directly to Turnus, telling him either to surrender or to go meet He declares that he'll fight Aeneas, even though Aeneas wears Vulcan-made armor just as Achilles did in the Trojan war.
A messenger arrives with news that Aeneas's army is on the move. The townspeople are in chaos, and Turnus uses the moment Just after Turnus leaves, Aeneas and his men march through the gorge. He sees Turnus from afar, but night is Latinus begs Turnus to reconsider, but Turnus is resolute. He says On the Trojan side, Aeneas accepts Turnus's challenge, and comforts his friends and Ascanius by talking about fate. Morning comes Latinus, Turnus, and Aeneas enter in separate chariots.
Aeneas prays and asks Juno to be more kind. Juturna sees her chance, and, disguising herself as the soldier Camers, she tells the Rutulians
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