The Aeneid, Book 2: samenvatting

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1. Sinon deceives the Trojans about the wooden horse, and serpents kill Laocoön and his sons, convincing the crowd to admit it.
2. Greek soldiers emerge at night, open the gates, and attack; Hector’s ghost tells Aeneas to escape with Troy’s gods.
3. Aeneas fights with a small band, but their borrowed Greek armor brings confusion and death; Pyrrhus kills Priam.
4. Venus stops Aeneas from attacking Helen, reveals the gods destroying Troy, and sends him to protect his family.
5. Heavenly signs persuade Anchises to leave; Aeneas carries him, guides Ascanius, and loses Creusa during their escape.
6. Creusa’s ghost names Latium as his destined home; at dawn, Aeneas withdraws with his father and a crowd of exiles.

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Hector shifts Aeneas’s responsibility from defending the doomed city to preserving its gods and people. Survival becomes a duty rather than a failure of courage.

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