Grintser, "Aeneid)
very good on-line Lecture caught lectures.edu.grintser about Aeneid, prophecies and ancient
"The Myth of Aeneas was ancient. In the Iliad »(XX, 300-307) stated that Aeneas, the son of Aphrodite and Anchises, was not destined to fall at Troy, and is destined - and he and his family - to rule over the descendants of the Trojans. At the time of Greek colonization of this myth is spread the Mediterranean and settled down in Italy: in the Etruscan tombs were found statues of Aeneas, Anchises outflow from Troy. With the rise of Rome in the III century myth becomes final form: Aeneas leaving Troy, after long wanderings sailed it to the edge of Latins, and his descendants founded Rome here. Son of Aeneas Askania was identified with Yul, an ancestor of kind Julio; Julius Caesar so proud origins, and Augustus portrayed on their coins Aeneas with Anchises on his shoulders. Most of the names mentioned in the "Aeneid" - Including Dido and Thurn - were in the legends and chronicles, and to Virgil, but they were only names, only filling empty pedigrees. Mythological epics on local materials in Latin poetry before Virgil was not.
Scene Selection was extremely successful. August as the savior of Rome is officially the second of its founder, and therefore a reminder of the first foundation of Rome was a timely and significant. August was considered a descendant of Julian, so the choice Aeneas, the hero turned out to be very appropriate. August came to power, defeating Antony and Antony, among others, was accused of love for the queen of the eastern and the intention Power to transfer the capital from Rome to the east, so the story of how an ancestor of the Roman people, by the will of the gods was sailing from Troy to the west, and even the love of Dido could not restrain him, acquires additional edification "...
"name of Troy is no more: Trojan grain dead and overgrown with new ears. The power of Rome over world - not a right, and the burden, it requires the carrying of the victims, and above all - the removal of the strife-prone passions (VI, 832: "Children, children, do not accustom the heart to these wars! "- a father Anchises drawn from the shadows - no less - Caesar and Pompey).
