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The Aeneid Book II How They Took the City

The Aeneid Book II How They Took the City. By Virgil 70-19 B.C. Virgil. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Virgil Reading Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia. Painting by Federico Barocci. The Journey of Aeneas. National Epic. Defines a nation and its people

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The Aeneid Book II How They Took the City

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  1. The AeneidBook IIHow They Took the City By Virgil 70-19 B.C. Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  2. Virgil Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  3. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.Virgil Reading Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia. Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  4. Painting by Federico Barocci Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  5. The Journey of Aeneas Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  6. National Epic • Defines a nation and its people • The Aeneid is the national epic of Rome Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  7. What is a Roman? • Patriotic • Compassionate • Honorable • Honest • Inclusive Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  8. Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric • Purpose • To counter the fact that Greeks defeated the Trojans Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  9. Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric • Use of Trickery by the Greeks • Trojan Horse • “Knowing their strength broken in warfare, turned back by the fates…” (18-19) • Greeks cannot win a fair fight Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  10. Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric • Influence of the Gods • “If the god’s will had not been sinister, If our own minds had not been crazed, He would have made us foul that Argive den With bloody steel, and Troy would stand today-- O citadel of Priam, towering still!” (74-78) • It is Troy’s fate to fall, not a failure of the Trojans Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  11. Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric • Sinon • Played on qualities/virtues of the Trojans Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  12. Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric • Sinon • “…Be instructed now In Greek deceptive arts: one barefaced deed Can tell you of them all.” (89-91) Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

  13. Virgil’s Use of Rhetoric • Use of stereotype • Dualistic approach to a national epic • Positive stereotype (Trojans) • Negative stereotype (Greeks) • Defines what a Roman is and at the same time defines what a Greek is Geschke/English IV The Aeneid Book II

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