What is pietas - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

This is a 23 page document, featuring in depth notes of each of the 12 Books of Virgil's Aeneid, under the World of Hero course, of OCR's Classical Civilisation (A Level). The mini quotes featured, uses D. West's English translation goes in depth with Roman cultural contexts too- in terms of Augustan Propaganda. The document also features an array of relevant scholarship quotes needed for themes featured in the Aeneid(e.g supernatural, pietas, heroism, role of women etc). I have also made...

what is pietas correct answers - dutifulness - sacrificing one's own wishes in the service of those relying on you or that deserve it - social in focus, rather than individualistic what four things should people show pietas to correct answers 1. the gods 2. the family (parents and children) 3. dependants 4. patria or homeland what is furor correct answers - a state of mind and behaviour characterised by impulsive and irrational rage, usually triggered by a cutting emotional experienc...

Hardie-Fate and Aeneas' character correct answers What is often perceived as the colourless quality of Aeneas' character is largely the result of the roles forced upon him by the plot of the Aeneid: rather than being strongly driven by an internal desire or ambition, he is forced into a mission by circumstances beyond his control. Lyne-relationships of Aeneas correct answers It is Aeneas who comes or should come most interestingly and often into contact with other people. But it his interac...

'Part of its relevance is that it is the story of a human being who knew [......] and [............], [....] and the loss of [....], whose life was ruled by his sense of [....] to the gods, his people and his family' correct answers defeat, dispossession, love, love, duty, David West '[The Aeneid is] full of human beings [........] as human beings do' correct answers behaving, David West 'The 'Aeneid' presents a heroic view of the life of man in all its [.........] and [.......], bu...

know the artistic style and characteristics of Etruscan/Republican Rome/and Imperial Rome (ROME) - Etruscan- More casual, very animated, women were thought of as higher in their culture, style is more eastern Republican Rome- Much more realistic, not the ideal, verism, hyper realistic, portrait busts Imperial Rome- emphasized peace, prosperity and family, mosaics The Arch- know the variations and their implications - be able to recognize these visually (ROME) - Arcade, Barrel vault,...