Vergil: The Aeneid

3 units

We will read books 2 and 3 of the Aeneid, in which Aeneas relates the fall of Troy and the strange series of events that leads him to Carthage and Dido. In addition to close analysis of Vergil's poetic practice in the context of the poem as a whole, we will consider ways in which he engages his epic forebear Homer.