By: Kyle Patnode

OPRF ClassLatin Poetry: The Aeneid

Table of Contents

• Main Characters• Aeneas• Summary • Main Themes and Motifs• About the Author

Main Characters

• Aeneas: Protagonist

• Achates: Aeneas’ best friend

• Ascanius: Son of Aeneas

• Cupid: God of love/desire

• Dido: Queen of Carthage

• Juno: Queen of the Gods

• Venus: Mother of Aeneas

Aeneas

• Protagonist of Aeneid• Survivor of Troy• Defining characteristic is piety• Fearsome warrior and leader • Capable of great compassion and

sorrow• Destiny is to found the Roman race

Summary

• Troy falls• Aeneas takes Trojan’s away from Troy to find

Rome• Dido and Aeneas fall in love• Aeneas visits underworld• Founds Rome

Main Themes and Symbols

• Primacy of Fate• Suffering of Wanders• Glory of Rome

• Flames• Golden bough• Gates of war• Trojan hearth Gods• Weather

Themes Symbols

About the Author

• Preeminent poet of the Roman Empire

• Born in Mantua• Three Major Works: The Eclogues,

The Georgics, The Aeneid• Homer was influential • Died in Brundisium