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How does Aeneas present himself as being in light of Dido's questions? correct answers reluctant to tell the story
What did the Greeks do at the beginning of the book? correct answers built a wooden horse, filled it with armed men, pretended to flee
Where did the Greeks hide? correct answers ...
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How does Aeneas present himself as being in light of Dido's questions? correct answers reluctant
to tell the story
What did the Greeks do at the beginning of the book? correct answers built a wooden horse,
filled it with armed men, pretended to flee
Where did the Greeks hide? correct answers off the island of Tenedos
What does Laocoon do when the Trojans open the gates? correct answers urges strongly not to
trust the greeks and not to take the horse into the city and hurls his spear into the wood.
Who do the Trojan shepherds bring in? correct answers Sinon, a Greek feigning despair
Who does Sinon say he came to war with? correct answers Palemides
Who does Sinon claim orchestrated Palemides' death? correct answers Ulysses
What does Sinon say made Ulysses angry with him? correct answers that Sinon spoke out
against him
What does Sinon claim Ulysses then did? correct answers Collude with the prophet Clachas to
choose Sinon as a sacrificial victim to appease the winds for the Greeks' returning journey.
Who pities Sinon and asks him the purpose of the wooden horse? correct answers Priam
What does Sinon suggest the horse is for? correct answers To appease Minerva whose statue
Ulysses and Diomedes defiled
How does Sinon conclude? correct answers That the Greeks have gone home to regain divine
favour, but will return.
What does Sinon advise the Trojans to do? correct answers not to harm the horse, but to take it
into their city.
What is Laocoon doing? correct answers sacrificing to Neptune
What happens to Laocoon? correct answers he, and his 2 sons are killed by two sea snakes that
appear from Tenedos.
What is Laocoon's death interpreted as? correct answers a sign that Laocoon was wrong to harm
the horse, and they set out guiding the horse into the city.
, What happens that night? correct answers - The greeks set sail form Tenedos
- sinon releases the men from inside the horse
Who then appears to Aeneas? correct answers bloodstained ghost of Hector
What does Hector tell Aeneas to do? correct answers flee the falling Troy and take with him the
sacred gods of the city (penates) to found a new city.
What does Aeneas do after being told by Hector? correct answers Aeneas climbs onto his father's
roof (shepherd) and sees Hector's words were true.
Who then arrives at Aeneas' house and explains Sinon's trick? correct answers Panthus
What is Aeneas spurred to do? correct answers go and fight, he musters a small group of men,
telling them they must fight to the death.
Who are the first band of Greeks they meet led by? correct answers Androgeus
Who does the band of Greeks mistake Aeneas' men for? correct answers fellow Greeks
What do Aeneas' men then do? correct answers swap armour with the dead Greeks to infiltrate
the Greek ranks more easily.
Who sees Cassandra being dragged off by Greek soldiers? correct answers Coroebus
What does Coroebus leas the Trojans to do? correct answers the thick of the fighting, where they
also encounter other Trojans - several of Aeneas' band are killed.
Where does Aeneas then go? correct answers Priam's palace - where the fighting is thickest
What does Aeneas help other Trojans do? correct answers hurl down a tower onto the Greek
ranks below
Who's son forces his way into the palace? correct answers Achilles' son
What is Achilles' son's name? correct answers Pyrrhus / Neoptolemus
What does Priam do? correct answers feebly arm himself
Who persuades Priam to take refuge with his daughters at the alter? correct answers his wife,
Hecuba
What makes Priam attack Pyrrhus? correct answers Pyrrhus kills Priam's son Polites
What happens to Priam? correct answers He is killed by Pyrrhus in a pool of his son's blood
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