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Virgil correct answers preeminent poet of the Roman Empire, was born Publius Vergilius Maro
on October 15, 70 B.C., near Mantua, a city in northern Italy. The son of a farmer.
What does the story start with? correct answers On the Mediterranean Sea, Aeneas and his fellow
Trojans flee from their home city of Troy, which has been destroyed by the Greeks.
They sail for Italy, where Aeneas is destined to found Rome. As they near their destination, a
fierce storm throws them off course and lands them where? correct answers Carthage
Dido correct answers Carthage's founder and queen. She was a Phoenician princess who fled her
home and founded Carthage after her brother murdered her husband
Why did they set sail for Italy? correct answers They were assured by the gods that a glorious
future awaited them there.
How many times did they try to build a new city and why did it not work out? correct answers
Twice, but only to be driven away by bad omens and plagues. Harpies, creatures that are part
woman and part bird, cursed them.
What happened before they headed to Carthage? correct answers The loss of Anchises and a bout
of terrible weather
What happens to Dido? correct answers She lives with Aeneas as lovers for a period, until the
gods remind Aeneas of his duty to found a new city. He determines to set sail once again. Dido is
devastated by his departure, and kills herself by ordering a huge pyre to be built with Aeneas's
castaway possessions, climbing upon it, and stabbing herself with the sword Aeneas leaves
behind.
What happens after Aeneas leaves Carthage on his way to Italy? correct answers Bad weather
blows them to Sicily, where they hold funeral games for the dead Anchises.
What do the women do there? correct answers he women, tired of the voyage, begin to burn the
ships, but a downpour puts the fires out. Some of the travel-weary stay behind,
What reinvigorates Aeneas? correct answers his father visits him in a dream
What does Aeneas do once he reaches Italy? correct answers Aeneas descends into the
underworld, guided by the Sibyl of Cumae, to visit his father.
What does his father reveal to him in the underworld? correct answers He is shown a pageant of
the future history and heroes of Rome, which helps him to understand the importance of his
mission
, After the underworld they head where? correct answers Aeneas returns from the underworld, and
the Trojans continue up the coast to the region of Latium
Why does King Latinus, the Italian ruler, extend such hospitality? correct answers He is hoping
that Aeneas will prove to be the foreigner whom, according to a prophecy, his daughter Lavinia
is supposed to marry
What does his wife Amata do? correct answers She means for Lavinia to marry Turnus, a local
suitor. Amata and Turnus cultivate enmity toward the newly arrived Trojans
Who hunts a stag that was a pet of the local herdsmen and what happens? correct answers
Ascanius and a fight breaks out, and several people are killed. Turnus, riding this current of
anger, begins a war.
The river god Tiberinus suggests what to Aeneas? correct answers To sail north up the Tiber to
seek military support among the neighboring tribes
Who descends to Aeneas during this trip? correct answers Venus, descends to give him a new set
of weapons, wrought by Vulcan
What happens while he is away? correct answers Turnus attacks the remaining Trojen
What important person is killed by Turnus? correct answers Pallas, the son of Aeneas's new ally
Evander
The two sides agree to a truce so that they can bury the dead, and the Latin leaders discuss
whether to continue the battle. They decide to spare any further unnecessary carnage by
proposing what? correct answers a hand-to-hand duel between Aeneas and Turnus.
What happens in the end? correct answers When the two leaders face off, however, the other
men begin to quarrel, and full-scale battle resumes. Aeneas is wounded in the thigh, but
eventually the Trojans threaten the enemy city. Turnus rushes out to meet Aeneas, who wounds
Turnus badly. Aeneas nearly spares Turnus but, remembering the slain Pallas, slays him instead.
Aeneas correct answers The protagonist of the Aeneid. Aeneas is a survivor of the siege of Troy,
a city on the coast of Asia Minor. His defining characteristic is piety, a respect for the will of the
gods. He is a fearsome warrior and a leader able to motivate his men in the face of adversity, but
also a man capable of great compassion and sorrow. His destiny is to found the Roman race in
Italy and he subordinates all other concerns to this mission. The Aeneid is about his journey from
Troy to Italy, which enables him to fulfill his fate.
Dido correct answers The queen of Carthage, a city in northern Africa, in what is now Tunisia,
and lover of Aeneas. Dido left the land of Tyre when her husband was murdered by Pygmalion,
her brother. She and her city are strong, but she becomes an unfortunate pawn of the gods in their
struggle for Aeneas's destiny. Her love for Aeneas proves to be her downfall. After he abandons
her, she constructs a funeral pyre and stabs herself upon it with Aeneas's sword.
