The Aeneid Book 6 || with 100% Verified Solutions.
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The Aeneid Book 6
Where on the Italian coast does Aeneas arrive? correct answers Cumae
Who built Diana's temple there? correct answers Daedalus, when he was fleeing Minos
where does Aeneas go while the young Trojans hunt and look for water? correct answers For the cavern of the Sybil, in Diana's woods.
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The Aeneid Book 6 || with 100% Verified Solutions.
Where on the Italian coast does Aeneas arrive? correct answers Cumae
Who built Diana's temple there? correct answers Daedalus, when he was fleeing Minos
where does Aeneas go while the young Trojans hunt and look for water? correct answers For the
cavern of the Sybil, in Diana's woods.
What is depicted on the temple's doors? correct answers the details of the story of the Minataur
Who arrives and tells them to make sacrifices? correct answers Deiphobe
What does the Sybil tell Aeneas to do? correct answers pray - he asks Apollo to end the Trojan's
misfortune, and for a home in Latium
What does Aeneas say he will do for Apollo in return? correct answers shrines & festival days
What else does Aeneas ask Apollo for? correct answers for prophesies to be in words and not
written on leaves
What does the prophetess say in her frenzy? correct answers that war will come in Latium, and
help will come from a Greek city.
What does Aeneas ask the Sybil? correct answers If she will accompany him to the underworld
to see Anchises.
Who does Aeneas cite as other mortals who have made the journey before him? correct answers
Orpheus, Pollux, Theseus
What does the Sybil reply? correct answers - That the journey down is easy, the way back far
harder.
- That Aeneas needs to find a golden bough.
for who is the golden bough offering intended? correct answers Proserpina
What is the Sybil's final instruction? correct answers to bury the body of an as yet unknown
comrade
Who is the comrade that Aeneas and Achates find on their way back to the ships? correct
answers Misenus
How did Misenus die? correct answers He was drowned by Triton after he challenging him in
playing the horn.
, How does Aeneas find the golden bough? correct answers Venus's doves appear and guide him
through the forest
After doing what does Aeneas then follow the Sybil down to the underworld? correct answers
after all the funeral rites, and a further night of rights and sacrifices.
Examples of the dreadful inhabitants at the entrance of the underworld correct answers Fear,
Hunger, Gorgons & Harpies
How does Aeneas act vainly here? correct answers he draws his sword against them
What does the Sybil reveal about the dead being ferried by Charon? correct answers That those
who are buried are crossed across the river Styx, while the unburied have to wait a 100 years.
Who does Aeneas meet among the waiting dead? correct answers Pallinurus
How did Pallinurus die? correct answers He was sacrificed by the gods to ensure safe passage to
Italy, was drugged by the god of sleep, swam for 4 days to be killed by natives when he reached
Cumae. = the prophecy from Apollo said he would reach Italy unscathed.
The Sybil refuses to help Pallinurus (helmsman) but offers what to comfort him? correct answers
promises a tomb and a place bearing his name
How do they evade Cerberus after showing Charon the golden bough and being ferried across?
correct answers They throw him a drugged morsel of food
What group of people do they see next ? correct answers the souls of infants and those who had
died under false accusation from King Minos
What group of souls were next? correct answers the ones that had killed themselves
What does Aeneas say to Dido? correct answers again, he blames his destiny for the way he
behaved.
How does Dido react? correct answers She turns away from him without speaking and goes to
find Sychaeus
What do Aeneas and the Sybil come to next? correct answers the fields of the glorious in war,
Trojan souls flock to see Aeneas and Greek ones scatter in panic.
Who does Aeneas see first? correct answers The mutilated soul of Deiphobus
What does Deiphobus explain? correct answers how Helen let Menalaus into their home
In which two ways does the path then split? correct answers - elysium
- tartarus
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