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The Purpose of the Aeneid by RD Williams

Public and Private.

§ Shield

§ Pearade of heros

§ Jupiter – without end

Heroic world w/ real world

Mythological vs real world

Hypberaton

Word Picture

iron - metonomy for sword

• the ghost itself of the unburned husband came into the dreams. And raising its pale face in a marvelous manner he exposed the bloody altars and the chest pierced with sword, and he uncovered the whole blind cameo of the home. He then urges her to fasten flight and escape from the country as an assistance for the journey he revealed the ancient treasures in the earth of unknown weight of silver and gold.
• VENUS TALKING TO AENEUS

387 – Whoever you are, I believe you are not hated by the gods, you pluck the life giving aura [dative of agent]. You who have reached the Tyrian city, only perceive and bear and take yourself from here to the threshold of the queen for I announce that your allies restored you and your fleet drive by the changed north wind has been carried in to safety, unless my false parents have taught the prophecy in vain. [simile à look at twice six swans rejoining in a line, which the wings of bird of Jove having fallen from the upper region was aqitating in the upper sky.