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Teaching Vergil's Aeneid: Furor & Pietas

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  1. Teaching Vergil's Aeneid: Furor & Pietas

    Lecture 1: Book 1: A Consideration of The First Fury (Preview Content)
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  2. Lecture 2: Book 2: A Consideration of the Fury of War and Destruction
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  3. Lecture 3: Book 4: A Consideration of Fury and Foreign Entanglements
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  4. Lecture 4: Book 7: A Consideration of Fury Embodied
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  5. Lecture 5: Book 12: A Consideration of Fury in the Final Showdown
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  6. Lecture 6: Book 13: A Consideration of Furor and Pietas
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  7. End of Course Test
    End of Course Test: Teaching Vergil's Aeneid: Furor & Pietas
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  • How does Aeneas respond to the fury of war?
  • “The serpent is an apt comparison for the essential nature of the Greek attackers, ferocity, their typical method, concealment, and their principal weapon, fire.”  This quotation from Bernard Knox’s article, The Serpent and the Flame, is demonstrated in the passages described by Karen Moore in this lecture.  Discuss the ferocity, concealment, and fire that is brought to Troy.
  • Discuss a few of the literary elements used to convey the snake-likeness of the attack on Troy.
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