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    Odyssey, But They Have Different (Latin Rather Than Greek) Names. Here's A Cheat Sheet (And You

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    1) The proem focuses on Aeneas' journey after the fall of Troy and establishes the epic will center on the Trojans rather than the Greeks. It does not raise a question like the Odyssey's proem. 2) Juno is angry with the Trojans for defeating her favored Greeks in the past. Aeneas' speech reveals him to be a devoted leader focused on the survival of his people. 3) Zeus' will, according to the poem, is for the fugitive Trojans to find a new home and found a new kingdom in another land.

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    1) The proem focuses on Aeneas' journey after the fall of Troy and establishes the epic will center on the Trojans rather than the Greeks. It does not raise a question like the Odyssey's proem. 2) Juno is angry with the Trojans for defeating her favored Greeks in the past. Aeneas' speech reveals him to be a devoted leader focused on the survival of his people. 3) Zeus' will, according to the poem, is for the fugitive Trojans to find a new home and found a new kingdom in another land.

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    1) The proem focuses on Aeneas' journey after the fall of Troy and establishes the epic will center on the Trojans rather than the Greeks. It does not raise a question like the Odyssey's proem. 2) Juno is angry with the Trojans for defeating her favored Greeks in the past. Aeneas' speech reveals him to be a devoted leader focused on the survival of his people. 3) Zeus' will, according to the poem, is for the fugitive Trojans to find a new home and found a new kingdom in another land.

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    Reading Questions: Aeneid 1-2

    Note: This poem is set in the same “world” and at about the same point in time as The Odyssey is
    —the aftermath of the Trojan War—although it focuses on the Trojans rather than the Greeks.
    The Pantheon of gods is basically the same, and there are some crossover characters from the
    Odyssey, but they have different (Latin rather than Greek) names. Here’s a cheat sheet (and you
    can also make use of the index at the back of the book, beginning on p. 424):

    Zeus=Jupiter or Jove
    Hera=Juno
    Athena=Minerva
    Aphrodite=Venus
    Poseidon=Neptune
    Ares=Mars
    Hermes=Mercury
    And, importantly, Odysseus=Ulysses

    Throughout your reading, be on the lookout for allusions to the Odyssey—scenes, moments,
    situations, characters, and speeches that remind you of the other poem.

    Book 1

    1. Compare the proem of this poem (lines 1-13) to the proem in the Odyssey. What is the similar
    and what is different? What will this epic focus on? Is the proem raising a question or problem
    the way the Odyssey’s proem did?

    2. Why is Juno angry with the Trojans?

    3. What does Aeneas’ speech to his people reveal about him?

    4. What, apparently, is the will of Zeus for the fugitive Trojans (304-355)?

    5. What “calm[s] [Aeneas’] fears / for the first time” (543-4) and gives him hope in his destiny?
    Why?

    6. Why do you think that, after witnessing Aeneas’ warm welcome by the Tyrians, Venus feels
    the need to ensure Queen Dido’s continued goodwill toward Aeneas by further action? And what
    does she decide to do?

    Book 2

    1. We’ve heard before about the Trojan horse; but what new element of the Greeks’ deception
    does Aeneas reveal in his story? What conquers the Trojans, whom ten years of direct attack
    could not conquer?
    2. Notice how Aeneas describes the gods at 326 and 529-37. Do you think he’s justified in his
    bitterness? Is it more than bitterness—is it impiety?

    3. How does Aeneas’ account of the fall of Troy add to or change the impression you had of the
    characters in the Odyssey? How would you describe the relationship of Virgil’s poem to
    Homer’s?

    4. What does Venus open Aeneas’ eyes to see when she meets him in the city? What effect does
    this vision have on him?

    5. That image of Aeneas leaving the burning city, carrying his father, who is in turn carrying the
    household gods, on his shoulder, holding his son by the hand, with his wife trailing (further and
    further) behind, is famous. What does this image tell us about Aeneas, about the kind of hero he
    is?

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