Search results
AENEID BOOK 2, TRANSLATED BY H. R. FAIRCLOUGH. [1] All were hushed, and kept their rapt gaze upon him; then from his raised couch father Aeneas thus began:
when the impious son of Tydeus, Diomede, and Ulysses. inventor of wickedness, approached the fateful Palladium to snatch. it from its sacred temple, killing the guards on the citadel’s heights, and dared to seize the holy statue, and touch the sacred ribbons. of the goddess with blood-soaked hands: from that moment.
Need help with Book 2 in Virgil's The Aeneid? Check out our revolutionary side-by-side summary and analysis.
A summary of Book 2 in Virgil's The Aeneid. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Aeneid and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Aeneas feels he cannot confront both men together. Homer’s Aeneas is a warrior praised by the poet for his ancestry, but marked more by discretion than heroic courage.
Hector, King Priam's son, who had been slain by Achilles earlier in the Trojan War, appeared to Aeneas in a dream and told him that all was lost, and that he should take Troy's gods of hearth and household — the Penatës — and seek a new city for them.
People also ask
What does Aeneas show in Book 1?
What happens at the end of Book 2 of Aeneas?
Is Aeneas a son of a goddess?
What happened in Book 2 of the Aeneid?
Aeneid: Book 2 (Full Text) Book 2. By Virgil. About this Edition. The Argument.— Æneas relates how the city of Troy was taken, after a ten years’ siege, by the treachery of Sinon, and the stratagem of a wooden horse.
Go Digital & Save Up To 80% on College eBooks - Access your eTextbooks on any device! VitalSource® is the largest online supplier of digital textbooks. Get instant access!
