The Aeneid

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12 жыл бұрын

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'The Aeneid', Virgil's great epic poem about Rome. Guests include Catherine Edwards, Edith Hall and Philip Hardie.

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@RobertEricJenkins 6 жыл бұрын

This is one of my all time favorite KZfaq videos about my all time favorite book. PLEASE make more episodes about the Aeneid!!! There is still so much more to talk about!!!

@Gaiaphage Жыл бұрын

this is from the podcast "in our time" which you can find on bbc websites

@Simz18tillIdie 11 жыл бұрын

I'm an Engineering Student in South Africa... and I'm glad I have these notes for my Human and Social Science Subject!!

@Ax18NY 8 жыл бұрын

The greatest poem, the greatest poet.

@TevinSnell 11 жыл бұрын

helped for my greek and roman mythology final at university of maryland, thanks

@tensorbundle 11 жыл бұрын

wow! you sure put everything for even your non-core credits.

@stevodacow 12 жыл бұрын

Great, Thanks for uploading

@morgieipadio 9 жыл бұрын

Very interesting but it's irationally bothering me that Turnus is described as the "Hector to Aeneas' Achilles" when the opposite is in fact far better evidenced. Despite the fact that Turnus is defeated, he represents Achilles entirely with his evident furor, a key character trait of Achilles, and complete lack of control throughout the battle scenes. I believe the idea of Aeneas representing Hector is actually quite beautiful, alluding to a greater theme of the triumph of Troy over Greece. By this I mean, throughout the epic Virgil replicates homeric scenes but takes each one step further, makes them far more grandiose and impressive. He takes the Greek original and makes them Roman. This means that with the second half of the epic mirroring the Iliad, and Aeneas being a Trojan, but also being claimed as the ancestor to Augustus, he would have retold the events in a Roman way; by making the Trojan representative of Hector the successor over the Italian representative of Achilles. He's almost telling us that the story should have ended with a Trojan victory in the first place and the Greeks did not deserve victory, similar to how when confronted with the choice between Skylla and Charybdis and another route, Aeneas chooses the other route and remarks that only an idiot would have chosen the other path xD

@pacrat90 10 жыл бұрын

I'm an engineering student of this year doing this again and using these notes :D

@animula8322 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. The Latin recitation is horrible though because he pronounces it like English. Other than that i thoroughly enjoyed this video.

@MIKOLBZ 10 жыл бұрын

Sorr, I dont mean "the English" in general (My grandfather is English) I mean the English Elite (& the Tudors;)

@tensorbundle 11 жыл бұрын

Hey engineering and math majors, did you notice the uploader's name and avatar? lol

@pacrat90 10 жыл бұрын

yes lol

@MIKOLBZ 11 жыл бұрын

"Gfaw Gfaw" Interesting how the English research Greek Mythology & dismiss Welsh Mythology... Gildas first wrote about it about 550 years before there was such a thing called England, before that that our history was passed down orally... but the English dismiss such a "Barbaric" technique ;) Hir Byw Y Chwyldro!

@Gaiaphage Жыл бұрын

its more that greek and roman mythology, for better or for worse, has more of a bearing on western culture. i find welsh mythology to be interesting, from what little i know, but the draw to ancient roman and greek mythology is that the ideas in their mythos still have a bearing on our ideas today, moreso than any other mythologies.