The Aeneid : Book II

1. JolisaCopeman, Kasey Wasylyk, KaitYoniski The Aeneid: Book II

2. Book I ends with Dido questioning Aeneas of the Trojan war and his traveling. This begins Book II with Aeneas telling the story of the Trojan war to everyone. Aeneas tells about the Trojan Horse then a Greek invader, Sinon. Sinon claims he was chosen to be sacrificed and escaped them. He convinces the Trojans to let the wooden horse in the city gates because if they do Minevera will be on the Trojans side and they will win the war. Just as Sinon gets done explaining this, a sea serpent wrapped itself around one of Lacoöns sons, then slithered up to Mineveras temple. They interpret this attack as Lacoöns punishment for putting a sphere in the horse. They now must let the wooden horse into Troy so Minevera will forgive them. As night fell, Sinon opened the horse and the soldiers came out. Meanwhile, Aeneas has a dream of Hector in tears, who informs him that Troy is falling as he speaks. Aeneas climbs onto his roof and sees what is happening to Troy. He took his men and went to the center of the city. Androgeous was the first Greek they killed, he had mistaken them for his own men. They then killed a handful of Greeks, took their armor and put it on. This way, the Greeks would keep mistaking them for their own. Summary of book two

3. The Greeks mistook the Trojans for Greeks again. Greeks attacked them once they realized that they were the Trojans so then the Trojans were extremely outnumbered. In the middle of battle the Trojans were trying to get away from the charging Greeks so they climbed up ladders which led to the rooftops of each house. They fired from the rooftops. Aeneas went through the back passage and up to the rooftops. Trojans took down the building and it collapsed on the Greeks. Pyrrhus and Periphas came out of the mess from the collapsed building. Pyrrhus hacked a huge hole in the Ancestral home of the House of the Kings and Troy with his two-edged axe. Women inside the Ancestral home let out cries because they were terror stricken. Door came down and the Greeks flooded in. Priam’s son Polites was killed by Pyrrhus. Pyrrhus then kills Priam and Aeneas saw this. Aeneas saw Helen hiding in the dark corner of the temple of Vesta. She tells Aeneas that she protected his son and wife. Iulus’s head burst into flames. Aeneas and his son and wife were going back to Troy and were attacked on the way. Creusa dies. Troy is ruined and treasures were spread everywhere. The Trojan fleet swelled in size by mothers, warrior husbands, and young men. Summary of Book two

4. Intervention • The gods are wrecking Troy. • Outcome • ”it is not the hateful beauty of Spartan Helen you must blame, nor even Paris-it is the dogs- the implaceable Enmity of the gods that is wrecking Troy and hurling her empire down to utter ruin.” Interventions/quarrels of the Deities

5. Intervention • Neptune takes the walls down. • Juno guards the Scaen gate. • Minerva sits on her throne. • Jove helps the Greeks in the fight. • Out come • Neptune's city toppled to its foundations Interventions/quarrels of the Deities

6. Aeneas dreams of Hector in tears. He learns that Troy is being destroyed by the Greeks as he sleeps. Most significant event Pages 39-40

7. Page 40 • “Son of a goddess, oh fly, fly, and escape from the conflagration: the enemy hold your walls!- Troy from her highest tower is tumbling down, the end has come for Priam and our country..”~Hector • Page 43 • “Hurry up, my men, why are you late, dawdling along like this? Pergamus is on fire and others are looting it- have you just disembarked from the tall ships?”~Androgeous Important quotations explained

8. Sinon • Greek invader • Lacoön • A priest of Neptune at Troy • Panthus • Priest of Apollo’s temple • Androgeous • Greek soldier • Cassandra • Praims daughter Characters we meet

9. Sinon • convinced the Trojans he escaped from the Greeks and to let the wooden horse in the city gates • let warriors out of wooden horse • Lacoön • Priest of Neptune at Troy • Sea serpents strangled him and his sons • Panthus • Foreshadows the fall of Troy • Androgeous • Mistaken the Trojan soldiers for the Greeks. • Cassandra • Kidnapped by Greeks Character analysis

10. Catalogue • page 45 listing the Trojan soldiers who had died. • Epithets • Implacable Minevera= Minevera • All-Father= Jupiter • Poor Soul= Andromache Epic conventions

11. Panthus → Aeneas • Panthus foreshadows the fall of Troy. • “ This is our last day, the final inescapable moment of reckoning for all us Trojans..” foreshadowing

12. Trojan Horse • Symbolic to the fall of troy • Star • Hope for future • Thunder • Danger symbolism

13. Can you identify the type? • “while his cries of agony were terrible to hear as they rage to heaven like the bellowings of a bull” • “under the dark wing of night” • “what I heard was like the sound of sparks that catching a cornfield are fanned by a fierce wind” • “Then I turned homeward hoping against hope, hoping against all hope” • “they were more violent than a river in spate that bursts its banks..” Figurative language

14. If Aeneas, would you believe Sinon and let the wooden horse in the city gates? Explain. Class discussion