MDS1TRW The Roman World: Myth and Empire

Lecture 14 Aeneid 12: War in Italy hp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Aeneid-Rare-Card-Liebig-Set-Part-II-Greece-Greek-Camille-Nisus-Gladiator/130940254241?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao %3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D1158694072794277908%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D380663535810%26 AENEID BOOKS 7-12 WAR IN LATIUM

7: Allecto ‘infects’ Turnus and Amata 8: Aeneas visits Evander at Pallanteum (’Rome’) 9: Night raid: Nisus and Euryalus (c.f. Iliad 10 Doloneia) 10: Turnus vs. Pallas, Aeneas vs. Mezenus 11: Mourning for Pallas; truce; Camilla 12: Final duel AENEID BOOKS 7-12: THE ‘GREATER WORK’

New proem: 7.40 (p.141) – ‘Come now, Erato’

Use of first person singular ‘I shall tell’ REPLAYING THE TROJAN WAR Love triangles: • Helen, Menelaus, Paris • Lavinia, Turnus, Aeneas • c.f. 7.96 (p.143) oracle: no marriage to a Lan

Sibyl’s prophey (6.82f. = p.117) • ‘A second Achilles’ [Iliad and anger of Achilles] • son of a goddess – Venilia // Thes • N.B. father Daunus, Rutulian king (//Priam?) • sister Juturna (// Apollo – protector of Hector) • A. & T. as Achilles and Hector: but which is which? Book of fathers and sons 1. Turnus vs. Pallas 10.440-509 • aer Pallas’ aristeia • T: ‘Pallas is mine, and mine alone. I wish his father were here to see it.’ • Pallas also bloodthirsty (10.459f.) • c.f. Evander’s parng speech (8.560f. pp.166): ‘my only source of joy’ • P. killed in spear combat • T. strips body – belt // Hector & Patroclus (Iliad 18)

FUROR AND PIETAS IN BOOK 10 Aeneas: revenge and furor • vicms (incl. human sacrifice) 10.510ff. • ignores pleas for mercy (531) • denies burial (558) • furit (545), arden (552) • c.f. fire-breathing monster Aegaeon (564)

FUROR AND PIETAS IN BOOK 10 Book of fathers and sons 2. Aeneas vs. Mezenus • Etruscan king, exiled for cruelty • novel form of torture (8.480f) • asper…contemptor divum Mezenus (7.647-8) • Lausus ‘deserved a father…other than Mezenus’ (7.655-6); addressed directly 10.793 FUROR AND PIETAS IN BOOK 10 2. Aeneas vs. Mezenus • Etruscan king, exiled for cruelty • novel form of torture (8.480f) • asper…contemptor divum Mezenus (7.647-8) • Lausus ‘deserved a father…other than Mezenus’ (7.655-6); addressed directly 10.793 • M. confronts A. (10.763) • Anchisiades (824) thinks of own father aer kills Lausus • M. recuperated in death? – no request for mercy FUROR AND PIETAS IN BOOK 10 End of Book 11: • death of Camilla • Turnus abandons ambush - ille furens (11.901) • pater Aeneas (904) Beginning of Book 12: • implacabilis ardet (12.3) • speared lion simile • Lanus & rhetorical, tacul, soothing speech: ‘remember your TURNUSfather’ IN BOOK 12 Fire and blazing imagery • arming scene = Homeric 88ff. (pp.266-7) • cf Aeneas 107 • A also blazing 166 • T’s youth (220); Juturna tries to protect • broken truce (258) • N.B. Juno drove Juturna to engineer this (134f.) • A. wounded trying to save truce • T. aristeia 324 f. (pp.273-4) • C.f. Mars 334f.

TURNUS IN BOOK 12: THE BUILD UP AENEAS AND TURNUS IN BOOK 12: THE BUILD UP

• Aeneas saevit (387) • single-minded – only Turnus (467) • 500: major authorial intervenon • direct quesons to reader • c.f. Book 1 proem Amata • book 7.341f. - Allecto • book 12.58f. (p.265) begs Turnus to end war • 594f. suicide, furor drives her demens

Lavinia • Lavinia’s blush 12.67: c.f. stained ivory or lilies • -> T. ‘distraught with love’, ‘burning all the more for war’ WHERE ARE THE LATIN WOMEN? Homeric parallels: revenge narrave of Iliad Aeneas = Achilles, Pallas = Patroclus, Turnus = Hector

Running dream simile – Turnus 908f. => wounded in thigh c.f Iliad 22: Achilles does not hesitate But: Iliad 24 = reconciliaon • Priam retrieves body of Hector Unfinished book 12? Book 13?

THE END OF THE AENEID Turnus begs – reminds A. of Daunus and Anchises: c.f. Anchises’ words: ‘Your task, Roman, and do not forget it, will be to govern the peoples of the world in your empire. These will be your arts – and to impose a settled pattern upon peace, to pardon the defeated and war down the proud.’ (6.847-853)

Aeneid 12.939-52 • feruidus ‘blazing with rage’ (951) • indignata = ‘angry’ - Turnus in death (952)

THE END OF THE AENEID