The Aeneid

Virgil

opens asking a muse

Explain

Juno's anger

Because

Carthage is her favorite city

Destroyed by descended from Trojans

Paris elected Venus fairest instead of her

Decideds to send a storm

Aeolus

Out of his boundaries

Neptune

Aeneas

Accompanied by surviving Trojans

Arrive in the coast of Libya

Venus, Aeneas mom, helps him

Jove promises two descendents

Remo

Romulo

Jupiter makes people of Carthage hospitable

Venus appears, talks about Dido

Sychaeus

Killled by Pygmalion

For gold

Dido left Tyre and went to Carthage

Aeneas with Achates

see Dido

Venus cloud

In the palace

They are invited to dine

Venus worried

Sends Aeneas son

Ascanius

Cupid

Dido

begs for the trojan story

Characters

Gods

Juno

Neptune

Jove/Jupiter

Aeolus

Venus

People

Aeneas

Rome, Trojan ancestor

Dido

Married to

Sychaeus

Killed by Pygmalion

Ascanius

Aeneas son

Dido

Doubts to marry someone else

Sychaeus promise

Anna tells her

To marry

Juno

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

Agrees with Venus

Cave story

Married!

Jupiter

Sends Mercury to Carthage to remind Aeneas destiny

Arrive shores of Italy

Goes to Apollos temple

Trojans settle Latium

Hard

Wants to see his father in Dis

Golden Branch

Dis

Ferryman Charon

Needs golden branch

Minos judges

Blessed groves

His father, Anchises

Trojan war

Horse

Sinon

Offer to Minerva

Opens the horse belly

Pyrrhus

Kills

Polites

Priam

Altar

Laocoon

and his 2 sons

Killed by

Snakes

Minerva

Aeneas

Sees

Altar scene

Almost killed Helen

Venus tells him hie has to leave

Leave

Anchises

Refuses to leave

Sign

Tongue of flame on Ascanius forehead

Bright falling star in the sky

with Creusa, Anchises and Ascanius

Creusa dies

Appears as a spirit

Leave me, you'll find someone else