Vergil singles out Juno, queen of the gods, as the impetus for the events leading to both Aeneas' fantastic voyage and subsequent warfare it is her wounded numen, her injured sense of self as a goddess and supernatural being, that spurs her vendetta against the mortal Aeneas, and which turns the wheels of the divine machinery omnipresent in the epic. Line 8: The invocation of the Muse is a traditional but powerful trope, as Vergil enlists the muse of Epic, Calliope, as a companion in the enterprise of recalling Aeneas' story. The battle scenes are particularly resonant of the mighty clashes in the Iliad of Homer. The last six books, concern the bloodshed and battle-"weapons"-which greet Aeneas in his quest to found a new city on the coast of Italy. The first 6 books, roughly, of the Aeneid relate Aeneas's-"the man's"-wanderings after the fall of Troy, just as Homer's Odyssey narrates Odysseus's various peregrinations on his return voyage home. The first two words, arma (meaning "weapons") and virum (meaning "man"), indicate the overall structure of the epic, though (in terms of broad sweep) one encounters the two themes in reverse. Summary: The famous and oft-quoted prologue to Vergil's Roman epic. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae? Notes by Thomas Jenkins Insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores 10
Quidve dolens, regina deum tot volvere casus Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso, Inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum,Īlbanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae. Multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, 5
Vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
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