Virgil, The Aeneid Research Task – just copying and pasting.

Need research done under the following headings – easy work – just copying and pasting analysis (but not huge blocks of text, relevant info). Use Google books and Google scholar. No Sparknotes. I’d also like 2 critics’ opinions for each heading, with references of where it came from.

 

Aeneid

Similarities and differences with Homer/ how it fits with the epic  tradition

How heroism is defined/presented

Character analysis Aenias

Pietas

Furor

How does it glorify Rome? Is it for or against Caeser?

Prophesy and prediction

Fate/predestination/ free will – would Aenias have made it to Italy without divine intervention?

Gods

(relationship between fate and gods, gods interaction with mortals, how gods behaviour reflects on human behaviour)

Presentation of women

(Dido, Lavinia, Creusa, Amata, Camilla, Juno, Venus, Minerva, Andromache, Helen, the female body)

Sympathetic or not

Suffering of wandering

Vengeance

Underworld

Dreams

Differences in depiction of Trojans and Italians

Sex and sexuality 

Relationship between individual and society