The Aeneid

The Aeneid

Book 2

Trojan war

Horse

Leave

with Creusa, Anchises and Ascanius

Creusa dies

Appears as a spirit

Leave me, you'll find someone else

Anchises

Sign

Bright falling star in the sky

Tongue of flame on Ascanius forehead

Refuses to leave

Sees

Altar scene

Venus tells him hie has to leave

Almost killed Helen

Laocoon

and his 2 sons

Killed by

Snakes

Minerva

Sinon

Opens the horse belly

Pyrrhus

Kills

Priam

Altar

Polites

Offer to Minerva

Book 6

Arrive shores of Italy

Dis

Ferryman Charon

Minos judges

Blessed groves

His father, Anchises

Needs golden branch

Goes to Apollos temple

Trojans settle Latium

Wants to see his father in Dis

Golden Branch

Hard

Book 4

Jupiter

Sends Mercury to Carthage to remind Aeneas destiny

Agrees with Venus

Cave story

Married!

Sees Dido love as a way of keeping Aeneas far from Italy

Anna tells her

To marry

Doubts to marry someone else

Sychaeus promise

Book 1

Characters

People

Aeneas son

Married to

Killed by Pygmalion

Rome, Trojan ancestor

Gods

Venus

Jove/Jupiter

Juno

Virgil

opens asking a muse

Explain

Aeneas

Accompanied by surviving Trojans

Arrive in the coast of Libya

In the palace

Dido

begs for the trojan story

Venus worried

Ascanius

Cupid

Sends Aeneas son

They are invited to dine

Venus appears, talks about Dido

Aeneas with Achates

Venus cloud

see Dido

Dido left Tyre and went to Carthage

Sychaeus

For gold

Killled by Pygmalion

Jupiter makes people of Carthage hospitable

Jove promises two descendents

Romulo

Remo

Venus, Aeneas mom, helps him

Juno's anger

Decideds to send a storm

Aeolus

Out of his boundaries

Neptune

Because

Paris elected Venus fairest instead of her

Carthage is her favorite city

Destroyed by descended from Trojans