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The Aeneid

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The Aeneid	comment	The Aeneid is an epic poem written by the poet Publius Vergilius Maro—more commonly known as Virgil. It's considered one of the great masterpieces of literature, and many later works are deliberately based off the style Virgil used. Of course, Virgil himself was deliberately writing in the style of Homer, his literary hero, also basing his portrayal of certain characters off of stars of The Iliad or The Odyssey.The Aeneid is a continuation set after the end of The Trojan War, following the story of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Prophesied to found a city whose empire will cover the whole world and rule forever, he travels all over the known world (i.e. the Mediterranean) trying to reach the fated place. After suffering many tragedies and getting kicked out of most places, he realises that the gods want him to go to Italy. When he gets there, however, he still doesn't have it easy: he has to pretty much conquer the whole area before he can settle down.The city he eventually founds is the one from which Roman founders Romulus and Remus supposedly come. The Aeneid was intended as a propaganda piece for the emperor-in-all-but-name Augustus, who had recently become the supreme power in Rome, then ravaged by civil war, by defeating Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. Aeneas, who is pious,note Aeneas is often called pius Aeneas. Pius is often translated as pious, but it refers to devotion to not only the gods, but also one's family and country. In the case of Aeneas, his country is the Rome which will eventually exist. dutiful and brave was held as the Roman ideal and is obliquely compared with Augustus at several points in the poem.Standard material for Latin students; the U.S. AP Latin exam assumes its takers know the story in its entirety.The poem may well have made some tropes, and used others cheerfully. This guarantees that all those tropes are at least Older Than Feudalism, if built at all. The story also got a continuation of sorts in the form of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae which has Aeneas' descendant Brutus of Troy sail to England to found a new empire and largely focuses on a certain legendary medieval king from British folklore.Part of the story was used as the basis for Christopher Marlowe's play Dido, Queen of Carthage, as well as Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas based on a libretto by Nahum Tate.
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The Aeneid / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Aeneid / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Venus begs Vulcan to make her son Aeneas some armor, reminding him that she never asked anything of him during the Trojan War. Vulcanâ€™s response? â€œWhy seek so far your argument? Why should your faith in me, O queen divine, grow less? Had such been your desire, even Troy I might have helped with arms; not mighty Jove nor fate forbidding her proud walls to stand; and ten more years to Priamâ€™s life have given. And now, if you prepare a warâ€”your will so fixedâ€”whatever lies within my art, of labor or of skill, in molten gold and silver, or in steel, through fire, and breath of winds, I promise you.â€�
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The Aeneid / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
The Aeneid / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Entellus was the bravest of Trojan heroes in the past, but age has forced him to step down. His match against Dares shows that he's Still Got It, and he demonstrates what he's capable of in his prime by bashing an ox's skull in with a punch.
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The Aeneid / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Aeneid / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward Arruns prays to Apollo that he will kill Camilla by shooting her In the Back. Apollo grants his prayer, but is so disgusted by his cowardice he decrees that Arruns himself will die immediately afterwards. Arruns is indeed killed when he himself is shot In the Back by Opis, a handmaiden of Diana sent to slay whoever kills Camilla, and his comrades don't even notice that he's gone.
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The Aeneid / int_125e12c4	type	Second-Hand Storytelling
The Aeneid / int_125e12c4	comment	Second-Hand Storytelling: Aeneas does this in Books 2 and 3, relaying to the Carthaginians how the Greeks sacked Troy and what the Trojan remnants had to go through while leaving its burning ruins.
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The Aeneid / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
The Aeneid / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Pyrrhus. Priam denounces him for being cruel, unlike his father Achilles. In response, Pyrrhus does not deny this charge against him but rather gives Priam a very cruel death.
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The Aeneid / int_147996f2	type	Love Ruins the Realm
The Aeneid / int_147996f2	comment	Love Ruins the Realm: Dido's liaison with Aeneas causes them both to neglect their kingdoms and the rumours to spread. Not that Dido is concerned. It certainly ended with Dido killing herself in a fit of lovesick rage, and it would have also ended disastrously for Aeneas himself were it not for Mercury snapping him out of it.
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The Aeneid / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
The Aeneid / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: One of the Furies sends an invisible, insensible snake to circle around the queen of the Latins and inject her with a venom of rage and madness. From then on, the queen loses her rational faculties and fears as she kidnaps the princess bound to marry Aeneas and takes her into the forest to prevent the marriage in time for war to commence.
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The Aeneid / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
The Aeneid / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: A band of Trojans disguise themselves in Greek armour; however, the other Trojans are also fooled, and the Greeks eventually see through the disguise.
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The Aeneid / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
The Aeneid / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David Versus Goliath: Inverted Trope in Book 5; the boxing match between Entellus and Dares pits a giant, veteran warrior against a cocky, younger fighter who has to rely on his speed and his wits to defeat the terrifying champion. Problem is, Dares is portrayed as an arrogant antagonist in this account and loses to the Goliath-like Entellus, who only takes the challenge to knock him down a peg.
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The Aeneid / int_1b7d59b6	type	Death by Materialism
The Aeneid / int_1b7d59b6	comment	Death by Materialism: The deaths of Euryalus, Camilla, and Turnus are all indirectly caused by their desire to loot their foes. See Fatal Flaw below.
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The Aeneid / int_1bb67d34	type	Transflormation
The Aeneid / int_1bb67d34	comment	Transflormation: Aeneas finds the kingdom of Polydorus abandoned and overrun by a forest. The Trojans have no idea where all the people could have gone until one of them breaks off a tree branch and the voice of Polydorus screeches out a warning about this cursed land. Aeneas leaves the tree-man and doesn't come back.
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The Aeneid / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
The Aeneid / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Turnus, Aeneas's rival for the land of Latium. He's even called a "second Achilles".
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The Aeneid / int_1da46897	type	Lady Macbeth
The Aeneid / int_1da46897	comment	Lady Macbeth: Queen Amata actively encourages the war between the Latins and Trojans. She encourages Turnus to fight for Laviniaâ€™s hand, and she does all she can to discourage her husband, King Latinus, from simply giving Lavinia to Aeneas.
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The Aeneid / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Aeneid / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Camilla is fatally shot through the back by Arruns, who is himself shot in the back by Opis moments later.
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The Aeneid / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
The Aeneid / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: Nisus tries to save Euryalus by pleading with the Latins to kill him instead, but the Latins kill them both.
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The Aeneid / int_1f6854a4	type	Tragic Intangibility
The Aeneid / int_1f6854a4	comment	Tragic Intangibility: Virgil uses this device twice, closely copying the example from The Odyssey: Book 2: Aeneas ignores his wife's commands to stop grieving her and tries to hug her three times, passing through all three times as she fades into shadow. Book 6: As they reunite in Elysium, Aeneas tries to hug the soul of his father, only to touch his hands to his own chest three times. It turns out that while Elysium's souls look solid, living people cannot touch them.
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The Aeneid / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Aeneid / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In The Odyssey, Aeolus is in charge of a thriving kingdom and tries to help Odysseus. Here, he is bribed by Juno into loosing the winds on Aeneas's ships. Helen is also treated less sympathetically than she is in The Iliad, betraying Deiphobus to the Greeks. Most of the Greeks in general are portrayed unsympathetically. Odysseus, for example, is a slimy Manipulative Bastard compared with the Guile Hero Only Sane Man in Homer's epics. This also applies to the Gods that were on the Greeks' side. Hera's grudge against Aeneas is incredibly petty and excessively destructive. Athena doesn't make an appearance but sends snakes to kill off LaocoÃ¶n simply for figuring out the trap and warning the Trojans.
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The Aeneid / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
The Aeneid / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: In Book 9, the Rutulians present the heads of the Trojans they have slain. Two of these heads are those of Nisus and Euryalus, demoralizing the Trojans. In fact, Euryalus' mother soon learns of her son's death and tries to coax the Rutulians into killing her, but two Trojans, Idaeus and Actor, pull her away before anything else can happen.
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The Aeneid / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Aeneid / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Evander tells the story of Cacus, a fire-breathing giant who would drag men back to his cave to devour them before Hercules stopped him. Polyphemus, the man-eating Cyclops of the Odyssey, also makes a brief appearance.
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The Aeneid / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Aeneid / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Aeneas refers to himself as "pious (roughly "righteous") Aeneas" during his remorse following the death of Lausus.
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The Aeneid / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
The Aeneid / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: One of the whole points of the work! "Remember, Roman, these will be the arts for you, to rule peoples by command, to impose the custom of peace, to spare the conquered, and to wear down the proud with war." (6.851-3)
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The Aeneid / int_24008c2c	type	Sword over Head
The Aeneid / int_24008c2c	comment	Sword over Head: Subverted. Aeneas almost decides to spare Turnus when he has him cornered at swordpoint until he remembers how Turnus killed his friend.
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The Aeneid / int_2554f670	type	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter
The Aeneid / int_2554f670	comment	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: When Aeneas sees that the Trojan women set the fleet on fire in Book 5, Aeneas urges Jupiter to either put the fire out or strike him down with a lightning bolt. Jupiter opts for the former.
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The Aeneid / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Aeneid / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: In The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer described battles fought with bronze-tipped spears. In The Aeneid, Virgil describes those same battles as having been fought with steel-tipped spears. Steel-making was unknown in Homer's time. Escaping from the destruction of Troy, Aeneas lands at Carthage, even though Carthage was founded some four centuries after The Trojan War. There are multiple references to Aeneas taking the "penates"—statues of the gods to be kept in households—with him when he leaves Troy. Romans had these, but Greeks actually did not. The text references a type of ship called a bireme multiple times, which did not exist at the time of the story.
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The Aeneid / int_27fdd6a1	type	Divine Parentage
The Aeneid / int_27fdd6a1	comment	Divine Parentage: Aeneas is the son of Venus. King Latinusâ€™s father is Faunus. Both of these divine lineages go back to Saturn. Aeneas is descended from Saturn through Jupiter and Venus; Latinus is descended from Saturn through Picus and Faunus. Messapus, a warrior on the Rutulian side, is mentioned to be Neptuneâ€™s son almost every time heâ€™s mentioned.
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The Aeneid / int_28ea0e57	type	Cock Fight
The Aeneid / int_28ea0e57	comment	Cock Fight: Aeneas and Turnus are fighting for Laviniaâ€™s hand, but their fight is more about the position as son-in-law to Latinus than Lavinia herself. In fact, no consideration is shown for Laviniaâ€™s feelings at all.
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The Aeneid / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
The Aeneid / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Juno doesn't hate Ganymede just because he's Trojan (and therefore ultimately responsible for the destruction of her beloved city Carthage), but because he was her rival for Jupiter's affections.
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The Aeneid / int_2f57a4cb	type	Divine Intervention
The Aeneid / int_2f57a4cb	comment	Divine Intervention: Juno and Venus intervene throughout. Juturna intervenes in an attempt to save Turnus by steering him away from Aeneas. Turnusâ€™s prayer to Faunus is implied to have affected Aeneasâ€™s sword being stuck in the consecrated wild olive tree that the Trojans cut down.
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The Aeneid / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
The Aeneid / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: While her husband is a good, if not a very proactive king, Queen Amata of Latium sides with Turnus against Aeneas. Then there's Juno, who also causes some trouble for Aeneas. Dido goes a bit love-crazy after Aeneas arrives, and it worsens after he (reluctantly) dumps her. By that point, virtually all her subjects are against her.
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The Aeneid / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Aeneid / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: While Juno is perfectly willing to unleash Allecto on Latium to stir up a bloody war to eliminate Aeneas, she immediately dismisses her back to the Underworld once she starts gloating that she can expand the war to affect neighboring states that have nothing to do with Juno's grudge against Aeneas.
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The Aeneid / int_33179374	type	Deity of Human Origin
The Aeneid / int_33179374	comment	Deity of Human Origin: Juturna, Turnusâ€™s sister, happens to be a goddess of springs and streams; "this honor Jove had given to her, for violated maidenhood." Surprisingly, Juno is fond of her.
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The Aeneid / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Aeneid / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Just before killing Pallas, Turnus gloats that he wishes Evander were here to see him murder his son.
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The Aeneid / int_384986f4	type	We Will Meet Again
The Aeneid / int_384986f4	comment	We Will Meet Again: Dido's last words are that her people and Aeneas' will meet again in war; she essentially prophesies the Punic Wars.
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The Aeneid / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Aeneid / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Priam also calls out Pyrrhus for not being like his father Achilles, sadly to no effect:
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The Aeneid / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Aeneid / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Book 2 has Pyrrhus vs. Priam. Priam's a broken old man who has suffered the death of his numerous children and the downfall of his family and kingdom. His son being killed galvanizes him to fight, but his spear bounces off Pyrrhus's shield, and he's dragged to an altar and slaughtered.
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The Aeneid / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
The Aeneid / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: Largely deconstructed. Aeneas's destiny goes against his desires for love, stability, and comfort, but his devotion to the gods prevents him from doing anything but suffering as the gods command. His lover kills herself, half his men abandon him, a friend's son dies, and he's nearly poisoned to death, all so the decrees of the Fates can be fulfilled. It doesn't matter whether Lavinia really wants to marry Turnus (implied at one point) or how long they've been promised; it's decided the minute he arrives that she's gonna marry Aeneas, who never shows any interest in her. Which means Turnus is doomed to die, just for being her former fiancÃ©. And that's that. Juno knows that there is nothing she can do to change the fact that Aeneas and the Trojan remnants were fated to found the Roman nation; all she can do is make the journey as miserable for them as possible. At the end of the epic, Juno resigns and leaves the Trojan remnants be, but on the condition that they assimilate with the Latins and lose the name of "Trojan".
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The Aeneid / int_3fafbfd4	type	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
The Aeneid / int_3fafbfd4	comment	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Ascanius goes from a small child in the first book to being able to go hunting at Carthage and then fighting and killing in the Latin wars.
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The Aeneid / int_3ff156fa	type	Nay-Theist
The Aeneid / int_3ff156fa	comment	Nay-Theist: Mezentius is one of the first known examples his epithet being "God-despising Mezentius". He even declares his hand and javelin to be gods and vows his spoils of war to his son, rather than to Jupiter, in Book 10.
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The Aeneid / int_3ff34221	type	To Hell and Back
The Aeneid / int_3ff34221	comment	To Hell and Back: Book 6. In a homage to The Odyssey, Aeneas enters the underworld to talk to the ghost of his father.
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The Aeneid / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
The Aeneid / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Dido really goes off the deep end, even though Aeneas obviously didn't want to leave, and wouldn't have if the gods (mostly Juno) told him to move on. (For bonus points, much of the imagery Vergil uses is the same imagery commonly used for Medea.) Additionally, Juno's whole reason for being miffed at the Trojans (and therefore Aeneas) is that Paris didn't pick her.
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The Aeneid / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Aeneid / int_40c57041	comment	Most of the Greeks in general are portrayed unsympathetically. Odysseus, for example, is a slimy Manipulative Bastard compared with the Guile Hero Only Sane Man in Homer's epics.
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The Aeneid / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
The Aeneid / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Aeneas's odyssey is set off by the Greeks' destruction of Troy.
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The Aeneid / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
The Aeneid / int_424d15ad	comment	Love Hurts: For both Dido and Aeneas. After Aeneas tells his story to the Carthaginians, Dido, despite her vow to remain faithful to Sychaeus, gets stirred by Cupid to fall in love with him and catches him in a liaison, and Aeneas, though not intending to stay in Carthage, eventually gets comfortable. Later, Mercury appears to Aeneas in a dream and snaps him out of it by ordering him to leave Carthage. Although Aeneas did not intend to be in the liaison, he also reluctantly does so out of duty, but Dido finds out and is outraged and heartbroken about it. She eventually kills herself as a result.
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The Aeneid / int_45a01289	type	Angel Unaware
The Aeneid / int_45a01289	comment	Angel Unaware: Venus disguises herself as a Spartan huntress when Aeneas lands near Carthage. Aeneas recognizes that she's a divine being; he can't tell which one until the huntress walks away and lets her dress stream down to her ankles. Evidently, he is not happy when he discovers this. The queen of the gods sends the goddess Iris to disguise herself as an old maid and inspire the Trojan women to set Aeneas' fleet on fire. Unfortunately, some women see through her disguise, and only some of Aeneas's fleet is torched. Alecto, a minister of the Fates and one of three Furies, disguises her infernal visage with the appearance of an old priestess so she can convince Turnus to declare war with some lies about divine visions. When Turnus tells her to Stay in the Kitchen, she throws away the disguise and uses the threat of torture to get Turnus to do as she desires.
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The Aeneid / int_4bd882f1	type	Golden Age
The Aeneid / int_4bd882f1	comment	Golden Age: The story of Saturn, a deity in exile who fled to Latium and brought about a golden age in brought up several times. This serves to further the implications that Aeneas, another exile that fled to Italy, will bring about a new golden age from Rome.
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The Aeneid / int_4c27e0e8	type	Temporary Love Interest
The Aeneid / int_4c27e0e8	comment	Temporary Love Interest: Dido. Her love keeps Aeneas in Carthage and away from his destiny, so Jupiter sends Mercury to remind him to continue his journey.
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The Aeneid / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
The Aeneid / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Aeneas and Dido both suffer consequences from their affair. Dido stabs herself in a botched suicide and burns to death on her funeral pyre, having lost all the respect of her people, other leaders, and herself, but before dying, she prophesies the Punic Wars.
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The Aeneid / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
The Aeneid / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Pyrrhus to King Priam. Aeneas to Turnus: "This wound will come from Pallas: Pallas makes this offering, and from your criminal blood exacts his due!". All the more famous because it sparks a What the Hell, Hero? moment, and dishes out an abrupt, rather Downer Ending.
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The Aeneid / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Aeneid / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Juno is still pissed about not being chosen as the fairest by the long-dead Paris. Her hatred for the Trojans is the direct cause of the war that fills the second half of the epic. Seems even more fitting seeing as 1) some of her reasons are even more stupid, like the fact that Ganymede was chosen as "cup-bearer" to the gods instead of her daughter and he happened to be a Trojan and 2) in the end, she ends up going along with the creation of Italy and Rome anyway, making all of her resistance pointless. Juno doesn't hate Ganymede just because he's Trojan (and therefore ultimately responsible for the destruction of her beloved city Carthage), but because he was her rival for Jupiter's affections.
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The Aeneid / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Aeneid / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Books 2 and 3 are Aeneas telling the story of the fall of Troy to Dido.
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The Aeneid / int_560fd3cb	type	Fan Sequel
The Aeneid / int_560fd3cb	comment	Fan Sequel: To The Iliad. Actual Greek traditions held that: Aeneas left Troy after an omen of impending doom—the death of LaocoÃ¶n and his sons—and returned to Mt. Ida. Or he did survive the sack of Troy, making a Last Stand until the Greeks let him leave intact. Aeneas ruled over a rebuilt Troy after The Trojan War, as the Iliad hints that the kingship would pass from Priam's line to him.
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The Aeneid / int_5769a98e	type	Heaven's Devils
The Aeneid / int_5769a98e	comment	Heaven's Devils: The infernal Furies are sent away from their work in the Underworld by Juno, goddess of the heavens. She uses them to start a war between Aeneas and Turnus to delay Aeneas's fated victory, an unnatural plan that earns Juno Jupiter's reprimand. And even Jupiter himself turns to one of the Furies to get Juturna out of the battlefield so Aeneas can kill Turnus.
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The Aeneid / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
The Aeneid / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Aeneas' people may be just as annoyed about him knocking boots with Dido as hers are, but she's the one who pays for it. She does prophesy the Punic Wars and the Trojans see the inferno and get that it is a bad omen, but that comes much later.
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The Aeneid / int_58d24389	type	Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs
The Aeneid / int_58d24389	comment	Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: After falling on his face, Entellus ends his fight with Dares by attacking him so fast he can't even breathe. The blows are compared to a storm, a tempest, and hail before Aeneas stops the fight and declares Entellus victorious while blood floods out of Dares's mouth.
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The Aeneid / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
The Aeneid / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: The Etruscans' reason for joining the war: their former tyrant Mezentius had escaped to Rutulia after being overthrown and is now fighting alongside Turnus, so they hope that winning the war will allow them to avenge themselves on him.
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The Aeneid / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
The Aeneid / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Young men such as Ascanius, Pallas, Euryalus, and Lausus often have their almost feminine beauty described at length (since it was highly valued in Rome). Turnus' good looks are apparently enough to inspire other men to fight and die for him.
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The Aeneid / int_6480c255	type	Robbing the Dead
The Aeneid / int_6480c255	comment	Robbing the Dead: Some characters loot their dead foes and often pay for it (Nisus and Euryalus are caught because the moonlight glints off their spoils, Camilla gives Arruns an opening to shoot her by running across the battlefield to loot Chloreus' armour, Turnus stealing Pallas's belt drives Aeneas to kill him when he was previously going to spare him).
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The Aeneid / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Aeneid / int_65acf9db	comment	This also applies to the Gods that were on the Greeks' side. Hera's grudge against Aeneas is incredibly petty and excessively destructive. Athena doesn't make an appearance but sends snakes to kill off LaocoÃ¶n simply for figuring out the trap and warning the Trojans.
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The Aeneid / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
The Aeneid / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: Virgil uses the Homeric technique of applying epithets to his characters, but unlike Homer, he sometimes uses them ironically, e.g., in Book 4, immediately after Dido has just given Aeneas her epic denunciation of his faithlessness, Virgil describes "pius Aeneas" as going back to his ships. Sarah Ruden in her translation renders "pius" as "right-thinking", to underline how poorly Aeneas has defended himself. note Pius is the adjective related to the noun pietas, one of the most complex notions in Latin. In Book 9, when Euryalus' mother learns of her son's death in battle, she runs to the front line and laments his death, and demands that the enemy, if they have any feelings, kill her on the spot. The word she uses for "feelings" is pietas.
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The Aeneid / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Aeneid / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Juno calls Venus out for her hypocrisy when Venus, who had already intervened in the Trojan War and in favor of Aeneas during his exploits, for complaining that gods were intervening in battle and supporting mortals.
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The Aeneid / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Aeneid / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Queen Dido stabs herself and jumps on her funeral pyre in grief and rage at being abandoned by Aeneas, after prophesying future strife between her people and Aeneas'. Queen Amata hangs herself at the conclusion of the war, blaming herself for the impending defeat by the Trojans.
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The Aeneid / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Aeneid / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Juno knows that there is nothing that she can do to avert Aeneas's fate (she hooks him up with Dido to distract him, supports the Rutuli, tries to kill him multiple times). All that she can do is make the journey miserable for him. She eventually relents and spares Aeneas and his crew, but on the condition that they assimilate with the Latins and give up the name of "Trojans".
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The Aeneid / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
The Aeneid / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: The importance of Aeneas marrying Lavinia is mostly about the Trojans becoming united with the Latins to form the Roman nation.
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The Aeneid / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
The Aeneid / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Euryalus' mother tries to get the Rutulians to kill her shortly after learning of her son's death. Idaeus and Actor defy this by pulling her away and taking her elsewhere, where no one will find her.
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The Aeneid / int_73f7975f	type	Jerkass Gods
The Aeneid / int_73f7975f	comment	Dido really goes off the deep end, even though Aeneas obviously didn't want to leave, and wouldn't have if the gods (mostly Juno) told him to move on. (For bonus points, much of the imagery Vergil uses is the same imagery commonly used for Medea.)
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The Aeneid / int_7d1ee5b2	type	Trojan Horse
The Aeneid / int_7d1ee5b2	comment	Trojan Horse: Book 2 contains the beginning of the fall of Troy and shows the horse from the view of the Trojans.
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The Aeneid / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Aeneid / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Dido gives Aeneas one in Book 4 after discovering that he's planning to leave Carthage and hasn't told her. When Aeneas replies, Dido's rage erupts, and she gives him another.
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The Aeneid / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Aeneid / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Books 2 and 3 are an extended flashback to the events of The Trojan War and the long period of wandering that followed it, leading up to the Trojans' arrival in Carthage at the beginning of Book 1.
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The Aeneid / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
The Aeneid / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Anchises's funeral games in Book 5, after fleeing from Troy, a series of wanderings, and a liaison that has ended terribly for them both. At least, until the Trojan women burn some of the ships.
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The Aeneid / int_84fa1d7d	type	Disposable Woman
The Aeneid / int_84fa1d7d	comment	Disposable Woman: Creusa, Aeneas's first wife, who dies during the razing of Troy.
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The Aeneid / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
The Aeneid / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: Cassandra appears in Aeneas's flashback in Book 2. He acknowledges that even though Cassandra's prophecies have come true, the gods have cursed her by having nobody believe her.
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The Aeneid / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Aeneid / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Allecto has a great one in Book 7, when she appears to Turnus as an old woman and tries to persuade him to fight the Trojans. He sneers at her and basically tells her to leave fighting to the men. So she unveils her true form, scaring the crap out of him, and says respice ad haec: adsum dirarum ab sede sororum, / bella manu letumque gero, or in English, "See what I've brought. I have come from the realm of the Sisters of Terror, / I decide wars, and death, with my own hand" (4.454-5).
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The Aeneid / int_87c62ade	type	Deadly Dodging
The Aeneid / int_87c62ade	comment	Deadly Dodging: Dares replies on his youthful limbs to slip past the giant but aged fists of Entellus. Eventually, his evasion pays off when it causes Entellus to miss a heavy stroke and fall to the ground. Unfortunately, it doesn't help Dares get past Entellus's Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs.
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The Aeneid / int_8841192a	type	Like Father, Unlike Son
The Aeneid / int_8841192a	comment	Like Father, Unlike Son: Priam explicitly condemns Pyrrhus for not being like Achilles. Specifically, Achilles held some measure of honor and compassion by returning Hector's body. Pyrrhus, on the other hand, just killed Polites in front of Priam. Not that Pyrrhus cares.
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The Aeneid / int_8a336276	type	Propaganda Piece
The Aeneid / int_8a336276	comment	Propaganda Piece: The poem was more or less state propaganda promoted by Augustus to link the emerging and brand-new The Roman Empire with antique origins. It aimed to provide an alternative founding narrative to the Roman tradition that their city was founded by Romulus. (The Romans did not create the myth of Aeneas founding Laviniumâ€”speculated to have come from the Etruscans or the Greek colonists on Italyâ€”but the story of Romulus was a Roman creation.) The Julio-Claudian family of which Augustus was a descendant claimed descent from the Trojans and the Goddess Venus, both origins linked Augustus and Caesar to Aeneas, thereby creating a continuity of the ruling family with their ancestors, and insisting that the foundations of Rome were imperial rather than republican. Aeneas likewise embodies virtues more amenable to Augustan Roman: piety, family honor, stoicism, differing from the more capricious and earthy nature of the Homeric attitude.
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The Aeneid / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
The Aeneid / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: While the Iliad and the Odyssey told the story from the Greeks' point of view, this work tells it from that of the surviving Trojans.
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The Aeneid / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
The Aeneid / int_8aa0f76	comment	Largely deconstructed. Aeneas's destiny goes against his desires for love, stability, and comfort, but his devotion to the gods prevents him from doing anything but suffering as the gods command. His lover kills herself, half his men abandon him, a friend's son dies, and he's nearly poisoned to death, all so the decrees of the Fates can be fulfilled.
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The Aeneid / int_8e4d438b	type	Afterlife Tour
The Aeneid / int_8e4d438b	comment	Afterlife Tour: The Trope Codifier. While still alive, Aeneas makes a journey through the underworld under the guidance of a likewise still-living Sybil. His purpose is to speak with his deceased father, which he does, but the Sybil also shows him around the underworld in general.
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The Aeneid / int_8ec5beed	type	Forging Scene
The Aeneid / int_8ec5beed	comment	Forging Scene: Venus gets Vulcan to forge armor for Aeneas. This article gives details on the comparisons between the shields.
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The Aeneid / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Aeneid / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The Greek warrior Androgeos is slain when he urges who he thinks are his comrades to Rape, Pillage, and Burn, not realising they're actually Trojan warriors. Mezentius rejects the gods just before his duel with Aeneas and is killed almost immediately. Dirty Coward Arruns prays to Apollo that he will kill Camilla by shooting her In the Back. Apollo grants his prayer, but is so disgusted by his cowardice he decrees that Arruns himself will die immediately afterwards. Arruns is indeed killed when he himself is shot In the Back by Opis, a handmaiden of Diana sent to slay whoever kills Camilla, and his comrades don't even notice that he's gone. Turnus kills Pallas and plunders his belt from his dying corpse. In the poem's final lines, Aeneas contemplates sparing Turnus when he has him at his mercy, then catches sight of Pallas's belt and strikes Turnus dead in a rage.
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The Aeneid / int_920b2aae	type	Racial Remnant
The Aeneid / int_920b2aae	comment	Racial Remnant: The Trojan War ends with nearly all the Trojans killed while the remnants of Troy escape. The Aeneid definitely contributed to the idea of the surviving Trojans being the founders of other countries—for example, several medieval works had them as the founders of Britain. Especially pronounced since Juno concedes defeat, but on the condition that the Trojans will not pass on their culture but fully assimilate with the Latins instead.
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The Aeneid / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Aeneid / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Juno. While she never directly confronts Aeneas, she does spark the most conflict for him in her efforts to prolong his suffering, even manipulating Turnus to start a war.
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The Aeneid / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
The Aeneid / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Turnus dismisses the advice of his elderly maid because women are better suited to stay in the temple and let men handle the affairs of war. Unfortunately for him, his maid reveals herself to be a Fury of the Underworld and threatens him into taking her womanly counsel.
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The Aeneid / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Aeneid / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Book 4, we are repeatedly told that Dido is "burning" with love for Aeneas. At the end of the book, this becomes rather unpleasantly literal. Their whole badly-ended affair is this for the Punic Wars. Dido prophesies the wars before killing herself on the pyre, and the Trojans, upon witnessing the pyre, recognize that whatever it means, it is a bad omen.
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The Aeneid / int_9e64cd1f	type	Caught in the Rain
The Aeneid / int_9e64cd1f	comment	Caught in the Rain: Aeneas and Dido are out hunting and take shelter from the rain in the same cave. The rain was part of Juno's successful plan to hook them up.
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The Aeneid / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Aeneid / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Aeneas would have been perfectly content to show his rival, Turnus, mercy and let him live... if he hadn't killed his friend a few books ago. Mezentius and Aeneas's conflict also turns personal after the death of the former's son.
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The Aeneid / int_a2bc0f45	type	Give My Regards in the Next World
The Aeneid / int_a2bc0f45	comment	Give My Regards in the Next World: A rather villainous version. After Priam denounces Pyrrhus for being unlike his father Achilles and tries to attack, Pyrrus tells him to tell Achilles that Pyrrus is indeed a degenerate bastard before killing him.
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The Aeneid / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
The Aeneid / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Aeneas is the son of Venus.
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The Aeneid / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
The Aeneid / int_a414c3f0	comment	One-Hit Kill: Entellus demonstrates what would have happened had Dares continued their boxing match by crushing a bull's skull with a single punch.
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The Aeneid / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
The Aeneid / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: Aeneas tries to invoke this on himself in Book 5, after the Trojan women set fire to the fleet. He says "let your own hand / Blast me to death with a lightning bolt that expresses your anger." Instead, Jupiter sends a torrential rainstorm that puts the fire out.
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The Aeneid / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Aeneid / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Aeneas was a minor character in The Iliad and in most accounts of the Trojan War prior to Virgil's interpretation (however, it was implied that he was important for, at the time, unknown reasons).
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The Aeneid / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Aeneid / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus brutally kills the defenseless Priam and gets away with it; while Greek tradition held that he was eventually killed by Orestes, his fate isn't relevant to Aeneas's story, so Virgil doesn't mention it beyond a vague mention by Diomedes of something bad having happened to him after the war. Helen of Troy, here reimagined as a cackling villain who murdered Deiphobus in his sleep, is spared by Aeneas in her only scene in the epic and gets to return home to Sparta. Messapus participates in violating the truce and dishonourably kills Aulestes while he's supplicating at the altar, but as far as we know he survives the war. That said, it's not entirely clear if the death of Turnus, the epic's end point, ends the war or not, so he may die some time afterwards.
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The Aeneid / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Aeneid / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Dido for Aeneas. Justified in that Cupid, Aeneas's half-brother, personally caused it.
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The Aeneid / int_aa8940ee	type	Destructive Saviour
The Aeneid / int_aa8940ee	comment	Destructive Saviour: Venus's idea of 'saving' her son often causes everyone a great deal of grief, including Aeneas himself.
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The Aeneid / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Aeneid / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Love of spoils. Androgeos urging his men to loot to their hearts' content gets him killed when it turns out he is not talking to his men, but to a contingent of Trojan warriors. Euryalus was unable to escape the Rutulian patrol because he was weighed down by the spoils he stole from their camp. The Rutulian patrol only spotted Euryalus and Nisus because of the richly adorned helmet of Messapus, which Euryalus took and put on, which gleamed in the moonlight and revealed their presence. Camilla chases after Chloreus, who is on the other side of the battlefield, so she can loot his golden armour. This gives the Dirty Coward Arruns his opening to shoot her In the Back without having to get too close. Turnus stole Pallasâ€™s sword belt. When Aeneas has Turnus at his mercy, he is nearly convinced by Turnus to spare him. Then the sight of this sword belt reminds Aeneas of the killing of his friend Pallas, bringing up feelings of rage that drive Aeneas to kill Turnus.
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The Aeneid / int_b87d659f	type	Consolation Backfire
The Aeneid / int_b87d659f	comment	Consolation Backfire: Twice with Aeneas when he tries to assure Dido that he's leaving Carthage for Italy against his will: the first time is in Book 4 as he leaves Carthage, and the second time in Book 6 when he sees her again in the underworld.
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The Aeneid / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
The Aeneid / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: It's easy to tell Dares would be dead if he didn't concede the boxing match because of the flood of purple blood coming from his mouth and nose.
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The Aeneid / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Aeneid / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Amongst the exotic-sounding Greek and Latin names, it may surprise some to find names still used today, like Anna and Camilla. However, in Anna's case it's a subversion, as the commonplace name Anna we use today is of Jewish origins and not etymologically connected to the one in the Aeneid.
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The Aeneid / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
The Aeneid / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: The fate of Troy at the hands of the Greeks.
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The Aeneid / int_ba907fe2	type	Entitled to Have You
The Aeneid / int_ba907fe2	comment	Entitled to Have You: Iarbas, an African king Dido spurned, hears of Dido's affair with Aeneas. He then complains to Jupiter that Dido has rejected him in favor of Aeneas, whom he likens to Paris, and he concludes that all his devotional practices to Jupiter, all his prayers to him and all the temples and altars he built in his honor, might be all for nothing.
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The Aeneid / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
The Aeneid / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: The Harpy Celaeno's prophecy that they will get so hungry that they'll eat their tables... which they do when they eat a meal served on big pieces of flatbread. Young Ascanius making direct reference to the pun only makes it better.
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The Aeneid / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
The Aeneid / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Iarbas, while ordering Jupiter to intercede on his behalf, adds a blasphemous taunt: "We, meanwhile, consecrate offerings / Made in your temples, and place our faith in what's just idle Rumour." In other words, Iarbas is saying that all his prayers, all the temples and altars he erected in Jupiter's honour, might be all for nothing. That is enough to prod Jupiter into ordering Mercury to remind Aeneas of his duty. Mezentius, who is known to despise the gods, proclaims his right hand and his javelin to be his gods and promises his spoils of war to Lausus, not to Jupiter, in the hopes of dressing him like a trophy. The typical Roman trophy is a tree with its limbs trimmed off and dressed in the armor of the conquered.
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The Aeneid / int_bf016fce	type	Judgement of the Dead
The Aeneid / int_bf016fce	comment	Judgement of the Dead: King Minos is seen judging the newly dead in between the ghosts of infants and the suicides as Aeneas enters the realm of Pluto. Apollo's priestess explains that those damned to the Fields of Punishments are first interviewed by Rhadamanthus, who they are compelled to tell their every crime.
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The Aeneid / int_c07adb60	type	Unwanted Rescue
The Aeneid / int_c07adb60	comment	Unwanted Rescue: Juno separates Turnus from the battle and his troops by luring him to a ship with a phantom of Aeneas. Turnus is extremely upset about this because he will be seen as a coward who fled the battle and abandoned his men. He tries to jump off the ship to get back to the battle three times, but Juno restrains him. Turnus even considers falling on his sword.
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The Aeneid / int_c3bc970f	type	Seers
The Aeneid / int_c3bc970f	comment	Seers: King Tolumnius, one of Turnus' allies, is renowned for his ability to divine the future from the movement of birds. Turnus mentions this ability to bolster his army's confidence, but Tolumnius's divination allows the goddess Juno to trick the Turnus' army into thinking fate is on their side, prolonging the war.
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The Aeneid / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Aeneid / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The first words, "Arms and the man I sing of Troy" are meant by Virgil as a callback to The Iliad and The Odyssey respectively, to connect his epic with the works of Homer. Specifically, The Iliad begins by proclaiming itself to be about the rage (mania) of Achilles, a great warrior, in the war between the Greeks and the Trojans, while The Odyssey begins by proclaiming itself to be about a man, Odysseus. Virgil starts by saying that his poem is going to be about both, with the first half of the Aeneid mirroring The Odyssey in that it focuses on the Trojans' travels to Italy, and the second half mirroring The Iliad in that it focuses on the Trojans' war with the Latins.
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The Aeneid / int_c8e375d3	type	Lover and Beloved
The Aeneid / int_c8e375d3	comment	Lover and Beloved: Nisus and Euryalus at first embody this dynamic that was characteristic of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, with Nisus as the older loving mentor and Euryalus as the younger beloved follower. However, their relationship shifts to one of more equal footing as they embrace more Roman values.
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The Aeneid / int_cc107e3b	type	Introdump
The Aeneid / int_cc107e3b	comment	Intro Dump: Book 7 ends with a series of paragraphs listing the background and army of more than a dozen heroes who have answered Turnus' call to wage war on Aeneas.
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The Aeneid / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Aeneid / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Pallas is killed, Aeneas goes on a brutal killing spree against the Rutulians in emulation of Achilles. Eventually, he almost spares Pallas's killer when he has him at his mercy, then catches sight of him wearing the belt he plundered from Pallas's body, which provokes him into stabbing him.
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The Aeneid / int_d140cb45	type	Wring Every Last Drop out of Him
The Aeneid / int_d140cb45	comment	Wring Every Last Drop out of Him: In Virgil's version, Queen Dido decides to commit suicide for having betrayed her late husband's memory by falling in love with Aeneas. She recruits her sister Anna's help in building a pyre under the pretense of getting rid of everything that reminds her of her lover. Dido lies down in the pyre but gets impaled by one of Aeneas' swords before she can even immolate herself. Anna rushes to her side and embraces her while everybody else mourns their dying queen. Then, Goddess Juno is sent to release Dido's spirit from her suffering in a dramatic scene. On top of that, Aeneas glimpses the glow of Dido's funeral pyre from afar as he's shipping off Cartague. Thus making this one Older Than Feudalism.
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The Aeneid / int_d3354565	type	Medal of Dishonor
The Aeneid / int_d3354565	comment	Medal of Dishonor: Salius gets tripped during a foot-race and gets a pity reward from the king, prompting another loser to demand a pity reward for being the first runner to fall over. The king obliges and gives the loser a nice shield.
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The Aeneid / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Aeneid / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Aeneas does a few things to provoke this reaction, like leaving Dido without warning. Needless to say, Dido is not happy at all when she finds out. Priam also calls out Pyrrhus for not being like his father Achilles, sadly to no effect:
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The Aeneid / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
The Aeneid / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Troy has been razed by Greek soldiers; the premise of the poem is Aeneas providing the groundwork for Rome as he tries to re-establish Troy.
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The Aeneid / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Aeneid / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Camilla of the Volsci. Huntress and worshipper of Diana, she's one of the few female war leaders and warriors in The Aeneid. Even Dido got her kingdom through guile and smarts rather than martial prowess.note It's part of her backstory rather than stated in the poem, but when Dido and her followers arrived in North Africa, she asked a local Berber king for only as much land as could be encompassed by an oxhide. He agreed, so she cut an oxhide into thin strips and encircled an entire hill with it.
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The Aeneid / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
The Aeneid / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Granting that Nisus and Euryalus are indeed lovers, they would make a homosexual example.
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The Aeneid / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Aeneid / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Aeneas is known as "pius Aeneas", often translated as "pious", but it's one of the most complex words in Latin: other meanings include "steadfast", "dutiful", "kind", "righteous", and "good". Aeneas is one of many characters referred to with epithets. Juno is "Saturnia", Dido is "infelix Dido" or "miserrima Dido" (referring to her destiny and doomed love), etc. Virgil is homaging Homer, who also refers to various heroes and gods with epithets.
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The Aeneid / int_dd963bd3	type	Our Giants Are Bigger
The Aeneid / int_dd963bd3	comment	Our Giants Are Bigger: The nine-acre-tall Tityus, a child of Jove and the Earth, appears in the Fields of Punishments. His many entrails serve as an eternal feast for an infernal vulture.
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The Aeneid / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Aeneid / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Venus goes to great lengths to make sure Aeneas's destiny happens on schedule. Not only does Aeneas resent it, she really does more damage than good.
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The Aeneid / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
The Aeneid / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: In Book 2, Hector warns Aeneas to get out of Troy, and after Aeneas escapes, Creusa's ghost tells him not to wait for her.
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The Aeneid / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Aeneid / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: The nature of Nisus and Euryalus's friendship. It is clear that they are both close, and that "Nisus is known for his love of the boy, so respectful and righteous", but their friendship is very heavily implied to be more than just platonic.
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The Aeneid / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The Aeneid / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Mezentius is an exiled Etruscan tyrant whose people is out for his blood noted for despising the gods and refusing to worship them. That said, he is humanized by his love for his son and Rhaebus, his stallion.
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The Aeneid / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Aeneid / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Dido and Aeneas, though because of circumstances out of their control. When Aeneas sails to Carthage and tells Dido his story, Dido (who initially swore to remain faithful to her husband Sychaeus), under the influence of Cupid, becomes lovesick for him and catches him into trysting with her, especially when they flee into the cavern for shelter during a rainstorm; Aeneas, though he has no intentions of staying in Carthage permanently, evidently has become comfortable with her, and it is not until Mercury snaps him out of it, reminding him of his duty to sail to Italy. Though Aeneas experiences a lot of anguish, he ultimately decides to remain resolute in carrying out the command, while Dido, in a fit of lovesick rage, kills herself and prophesies her people meeting Aeneas' as combatants.
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The Aeneid / int_e9454d0f	type	Blood-Splattered Warrior
The Aeneid / int_e9454d0f	comment	Blood-Splattered Warrior: Implied Trope; Alecto appears in Book 7 covered in Gorgon poison at Juno's summon. As established in the Argonautica, the Gorgon's poison is its blood, meaning Alecto is drenched in acidic blood just before she goes to bring war to Italy. John Dryden's translation of the text makes this explicit.
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The Aeneid / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
The Aeneid / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: The poem ends the second Aeneas kills Turnus, with no resolution to whether Aeneas marries Lavinia or how the Latins and Trojans settle into peace. It is debated to this day whether Virgil had other intentions and died before he could complete/change the ending, or whether he intended the Downer Ending. The latter is more plausible if you subscribe to the pessimistic reading.
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The Aeneid / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Aeneid / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Juturna wishes she were mortal when she realizes that she canâ€™t accompany her brother Turnusâ€™s shade to the afterlife.
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The Aeneid / int_eda30d58	type	0% Approval Rating
The Aeneid / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: The Etruscans ally with the Trojans due to their hatred of the tyrant Mezentius, who has been protected by Turnus since fleeing from the wrath of his people.
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The Aeneid / int_ee637bc2	type	You Have Waited Long Enough
The Aeneid / int_ee637bc2	comment	You Have Waited Long Enough: Dido's sister Anna says this when Dido believes that having an affair with Aeneas would betray her deceased husband.
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The Aeneid / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Aeneid / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Pallas is the name of Evanderâ€™s son and also another name for Minerva (Athena).
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The Aeneid / int_f00d01f8	type	Hat of Power
The Aeneid / int_f00d01f8	comment	Hat of Power: Turnus has a helmet crested with a metal chimera that breathes real fire.
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The Aeneid / int_f786350a	type	Dying Curse
The Aeneid / int_f786350a	comment	Dying Curse: Immediately before Queen Dido of Carthage commits suicide because Aeneas left her, she prays to the gods that Aeneas's mission may fail and that the Carthaginians may forever be enemies to the descendants of Aeneas's Trojans and may one day avenge her. While part of the curse comes true, it ultimately fails: Aeneas succeeds despite many obstacles, and although Carthage came close to defeating Rome in the Second Punic War, in the end, Rome turned out victorious.
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