Practice Question

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Practice Question

• What do Theseus, Pentheus and Orestes have in
  common?
• They all die an early and unnatural death.
• They have tragic relations with their mothers.
• They all have tragic marriages.
• They are all Thebans.
• They all confront a throng of angry females.

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Books 7-12 War in Italy

• Latium
• Latinus Amata
• Lavinia (betrothed to Turnus)
• Fates intend Lavinia for Aeneas

3
Juno Intervenes

• Fury of Amata, Turnus
• War between Turnus and Aeneas, each with allies
• Object Lavinias hand
• Lavinia herself does not act or speak

4
War in Italy

• Evander, king of Arcadia allied with Aeneas
• His son Pallas fights on Aeneas side
• Aeneas divine armour forged by Vulcan
• Scenes of Romes future history, Augustus
• Etruscans fight with Turnus.
• Turnus threatens to set fire to the Trojan ships.
• Camilla, a virgin warrior queen, like an Amazon
  is killed in battle.

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Turnus, Pallas and Aeneas

• Turnus kills Pallas, strips his corpse.
• Aeneas, now enraged, seeks revenge.
• Juno yields to Jupiter, Fate (949)
• Final scene (950-52) Aeneas, reminded of Pallas,
  refuses to spare Turnus life.
• Compare the story of Akhilleus, Patroklos, and
  Hektor.
• Compare Turnus with Dido