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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Perhaps the most important of Virgil’s chapters: because greatest literary achievement and ultimately provides the meaning for the Aeneid. Based on Homer’s Odyssey, Book XI. [See also death of Palinarus in Book V.1093ff.] A unique mixture of stoic, platonic (myth of er), orphic and pythagorean doctrines. Rivers: Acheron, Styx, Phlegethon, Cocytus, Lethe. What and where are the rivers in the Aeneid’s description of the underworld? Virgil’s Aeneid * Virgil (70-19 BCE) Born near Mantua Studied philosophy, medicine, poetry Eclogues, Georgics won him fame and favor. Aeneid unfinished at death Written for Augustus, as national epic * Homer Aeneid Aeneid 2nd, Literary Epic Heroic Values: Stoic Ideal, fate and duty Narrative Meaning Symbolic Images: hunting, storms, snakes, struggles History…Propaganda Homeric Epics Oral, formulaic Heroic Values: Individual Honor Narrative Meaning Transparent Images: animals, weather, chaos/order History…Education * History of Rome Royal Period (800-509 BCE) Founding legends Overthrow of Etruscian kings Republican Period (509-27 BCE) Established res publica (SPQR) Expansion and civil unrest Julius Caesar rise and death Octavian defeats Anthony Principate of Augustus (27 BCE - 14 CE) Augustus as princeps and imperator “Reconstitution” of Republic: Pax Romana Imperial Age (14-476 CE) Death of Augustus Split in 284 (Diocletian) Reunification by Constantine in 330 Byzantine Period (565-1453 CE) Continuation of Eastern Empire Fall of Constantinople to Muslims * History of Rome Royal Period (800-509 BCE) Founding legends Overthrow of Etruscian kings Republican Period (509-27 BCE) Established res publica (SPQR) Expansion and civil unrest Julius Caesar rise and death Octavian defeats Anthony Principate of Augustus (27 BCE - 14 CE) Augustus as princeps and imperator “Reconstitution” of Republic: Pax Romana Imperial Age (14-476 CE) Death of Augustus Split in 284 (Diocletian) Reunification by C