Why Virgil Prefers The Epithet 'Father Aeneas'

After reading Book 1, you should know the following:
1. Identification of characters and places:
• Aeneas, Achates, Ascanius, Iulus (Ilus), Dido, Sychaeus, Pygmalion
• Juno, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter, Cupid
• Carthage, Tyrians, Teucrians
2. Cite lines where Virgil specifically describes Augustus (twice)
3. Cite lines where Dido’s future is foreshadowed (twice)
4. Explain how the future is really the past
5. Explain why Virgil chose bees for extended simile
6. Explain why Venus is worried and her plan to remedy her worries
7. Explain why Virgil prefers the epithet “father Aeneas” (1.817, 977) in Book 1
8. Discuss differences seen between the folk epics and literary/art epic (See GQ3 – 1)
9. Identify epic conventions found
Lines 81 – 148 Greek Sinon’s persuasive story that hose is a gift
Lines 149 – 152 Aeneas stops story to interject personal comment
Lines 153 – 203 Sinon’s story continues
Lines 204 – 213 Priam questions Sinon
Lines 214 – 227 Sinon prays to gods
Lines 228 – 275 Sinon continues with reason why Greeks built the horse
Lines 276 – 280 Trojans believe Sinon
Lines 281 – 324 Bloody snakes entwine Laocoon and his sons and lie at foot of Palladium
Lines 325 – 345 Trojans bring horse inside gates
Lines 346 – 370 Greeks sail back from Tenedos; horse opened
Lines 371 – 407 Hector comes to Aeneas in a dream
Lines 408 – 427 Aeneas describes sounds of destruction
Lines 428 – 456 Aeneas continues to describe fall of Troy
Lines 457 – 479 Aeneas meets companions and urges them to fight
Lines 480 – 527 Aeneas and companions join the battle; Androgeneos mistakes them for Greeks
Lines 528 – 539 They continue to their fight in Greek disguise
Lines 540 – 588 Saving Cassandra
Lines 589 – 626 Aeneas continues to describe the fall
Lines 627 – 648 Pyrrhus (Neoptolemus), Achilles’ son, breaks into inner room of Priam’s palace
Lines 649 – 679 Pyrrhus, Agamemnon, and Menelaus find daughters, Hecuba, and Priam in palace
Lines 680 – 750 Death of
Lines 751 – 761 Aeneas envisions same end for his father, wife, and son; companions killed
Lines 762 – 792 Aeneas sees Helen huddling in a corner and wants to kill her
Lines 793 – 842 Aeneas’ mother Venus appears and tells him gods not the Greeks are to blame
Lines 843 – 877 Venus leads Aeneas safely to his father Anchises; Anchises plans to stay and kill himself
Lines 878 – 908 Aeneas pleads with Anchises; asks if she protected him to see his family killed
Lines 909 – 937 Aeneas’ wife Creusa begs him to protect his family; Iulus’ hair catches fire; Anchises prays to Jupiter
Lines 938 – 953 Jupiter answers and Anchises agrees to go with Aeneas
Lines 954 – 1003 Aeneas takes family out, plans place to meet servants; couldn’t go by route planned and loses