SLL 256/ 356S Provisional Notes to Bk. II [ yet to be updated & refined]

Book II


Introduction 1-13

I
13- 249

The Horse:

(i) The horse inspected 13- 39
(ii) Laocoon A 40-56
(iii) Sinon A, B, C 57-198
(iv) Laocoon B 199- 233
(v) The horse admitted 234- 249

II
250- 633

The Night Troy fell

(i) The attack begins 250-267
(ii) Hector visits Aeneas in a vision 268-297
(iii) Aeneas- Panthus; Aeneas gathers a force 298- 369

Fighting:

(iv) In the streets 370- 401
(v) At the temple of Pallas; Cassandra 402 434
(vi) At Priam’s palace 434- 505
(vii) The death of Priam 506- 558
(viii) Helen 559- 587
(ix) Venus and the vision of the gods destroying Troy 588- 633

III
634- 804

Preparations for exile:

(i) Anchises; miracles of the flame & the meteor 634- 704
(ii) Aeneas’ party sets out 705- 729
(iii) Creusa lost; Aeneas returns 730- 770
(iv) Vision of Creusa 771- 794
(v) On Mount Ida 795- 804

SOURCES:Quinn, K. Virgil's Aeneid: a critical description (London, 1968)Williams, R.D. The Aeneid of Virgil: Books I- VI (London, 1972)West, D. (trans. & ed.) Virgil: The Aeneid (London, 1990)