Chapter Twenty-Two Lecture Two

1. Chapter Twenty-TwoLecture Two The Legend of Aeneas

2. The Legend of Aeneas • Augustus sponsored the arts to solidify his new age and to make it appear to be a continuation of the old Republic • Sponsored poets and historians • Livy • Vergil

3. Vergil and the Aeneid

4. Vergil and the Aeneid • To rival the Homeric epics • Tells the story of the founding of the Roman people in Italy after the Trojan war • Aeneas • Son of Anchises and Aphrodite • His story begins in the Iliad • Saved by Poseidon

5. Vergil and the Aeneid • Aeneas’s adventures along the way • Son Iulus • Augustus’s clan, the Julians, claimed ancestry to Aeneas through Iulus • Aeneas founded Alba Long • Romulus and Remus would found Rome later • Aeneas, the paterfamilias of all of Rome

6. Vergil and the Aeneid An excellent, and appropriately brief online summary

7. An Epic of National Rebirth

8. Epic of National Rebirth • Structure of the Aeneid • First half like the wanderings of the Odyssey • Second half like the war epic of the Iliad • But the Aeneid painstakingly written; the Homeric epics more fluid and improvised • Aeneid is purposeful propaganda for a national cause • Characters have a deeper internal life

9. Epic of National Rebirth • The old numina couldn’t express the new conditions • The Aeneid based on the Stoic philosophy of universal destiny and a guiding intelligence in the cosmos • The Stoic logos • The new order of Rome is fated, and Roman imperial rule is divine will

10. Epic of National Rebirth • Aeneas’s adventures have a purpose, to prepare him to the be pater of the new nation • Some can be included in the new nation, others must be left behind or eliminated

11. End