Vergil - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Aeneas Test (2023) GRADED A+ (ACTUAL TEST ) Questions and Answers (Solved) 1. What does Vergil attempt to do with his Aeneid in relation to the Iliad and Odyssey? Answer: Attempt by Vergil to write a Roman version of both the Iliad and the Odyssey, but combine them into one story 2. Why did Augustan Rome lead to the writing of the Aeneid? Answer: Allowed for the Golden Age of Latin (Roman) Literature 3. Who wrote the Aeneid? Answer: Vergil 4. What do the first words of the Aeneid te...

Based on the first few lines of the text, what will be some of the main themes of the poem? correct answers War, the gods, loss, redemption In your own words, what does Vergil ask of the muse? correct answers What did a man (later revealed to be Aeneas) do to make Juno so angry? What are the reasons for Juno's hatred of the Trojans? correct answers There were rumors that the Trojan's descendants would one day overthrow Carthage, Juno's favorite city. She had fought against the Trojans b...

CLC 106 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers Ritual - Answer-A traditional pattern of action Folktale - Answer-Ordinary folk, talking animals, strange creatures, giants, witches. Unspecified, generic Legend - Answer-Mortal heroes. Distant past, known places Myth - Answer-Immortal gods. In illo tempore, sacred space "at that (other) time." Etiology myth(origin myth) - Answer-Intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomenon, proper names. Aeschylus - Answer...

Vergil's Aeneid correct answers -Arma virumque cano (I sing of arms and man) -Tells story of Trojan prince who fled from Troy when Greeks had won Trojan War -Aeneas wanders -He ends up in Latium where he founds the Roman people -Genre: Epic (epic poetry) -12 books, 10,000 lines of hexameter verse -Epic poem in tradition of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey -Great poem about Rome's earliest ancestor and how he came to be there -Setting: ca. 1200 BC ( Bronze Age) -Written in 30-19 BC (more tha...

Traditional Founding of Rome correct answers 753 BCE Monarchy period correct answers 753-509 BCE Republic Period correct answers 509-27 BCE Empire Foundation correct answers 27 BCE End of empire in the west correct answers 476 CE End of empire in the east correct answers 1453 CE Benefits of Roma location correct answers -Location along the river Tiber -Good soil -Access to sea -Natural barrier (7 hills) -Lots of water springs Marshes in Rome correct answers -Concentratio...

HIEU 2041 Final Questions and Answers 2024 imperator emperor, after Augustus established empire this was the title generally given to the emperor. imperium maius the power to overrule or veto the actions of an imperator, sometimes attributed to magistrates or pro magistrates in 23 B.C. Augustus was granted maius imperium in all provinces, constituting the basic powers of the princeps from that time forth legati augusti pro praetore Official title of governor of an imperial prov...

CLAS 101 Exam 1| WITH complete solution 2023/24 | Mycenaean Period - BCE Greek Dark Ages - 1100-808 BCE Achaic Period - 800-481 BCE Classical Period - 480-323 BCE Hellenistic Period - 323-31 BCE Foundation of Rome - 753 BCE Birth of the Republic - 509 BCE End of Third Punic War: Rome destroys Carthage - 146 BCE Assassination of Julius Caesar - 44 BCE Octavian hailed as Augustus, birth of Empire - 27 BCE Constantine relocates capital to Byzantium - 330 BCE Deposition of...

Classical Mythology Unit 1 questions and answers well illustrated. myth - correct answers.a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society; derived from Greek mythos; critic Aristotle made the designation for plot of a play mythos - correct , speech, tale, or story saga - correct answers.a narrative of heroic exploits; a long, detailed account with historical elements legend - correct a...

homer correct answers wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey herodotus correct answers wrote "histories" about the greco-persian war thucydides correct answers wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War xenophon correct answers wrote Cyropaideia (The Education of Cyrus) polybius correct answers wrote the histories (the rise of rome) Demosthenes correct answers wrote Philippics Cicero correct answers wrote orations, letters, and essays (philosophical, rhetorical, and political) S...

Name of the river of forgetfulness in the Underworld - ️️Lethe What does Odysseus do to summon the dead? - ️️He digs a pit and fills it with the blood of sacrificial victims What is the punishment of Ixion? - ️️Imprisonment on a fiery wheel In the myth of Er, who returns to life as a lion because he remembered the judgment of Achilles' armour? - ️️Ajax How did Elpenor die? - ️️He went to sleep on a roof and fell off What poet describes the descent of Aeneas in...