Who was aeneas - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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 land...

What are the two dominant images of the book? correct answers Wound and the flame What effect gas Aeneas had on Dido? correct answers She loves him after his sad tale is told to her; Dido is obsessed with Aeneas Why was Dido determined to remain unmarried? correct answers She loved her first husband Sychaeus What advice does Anna give Dido? correct answers Trojan walls would increase their might, Trojans can protect them What meaning does the simile from 91-97 have for the story? Wha...

Medusa Mythology Exam Practice with correct Answers Who was Andromeda involved with? - ANS ️️ Perseus Who was Arachne involved with? - ANS ️️ Athena Who was Artemis involved with? - ANS ️️ Apollo Who was Callisto involved with? - ANS ️️ Zeus Who was Camilla involved with? - ANS ️️ Aeneid Who was Cassiopeia involved with? - ANS ️️ Neptune Who was Circe involved with? - ANS ️️ Odysseus What was Clytemnestra involved with? - ANS ️️ Trojan War Who was Danae i...

Compare and Contrast Achilles and Odysseus. correct answers (1) Great Warrior VS Clever Trickster (2) Achilles strives for glory in the moment VS Odysseus endures hardship for the homecoming (3) Achilles wins glory in the public sphere VS Odysseus' truest glory in the private sphere Compare and Contrast Penelope and Clytemnestra. correct answers They are the wives of Odysseus and Agamemnon respectively. Clytemnestra has yielded to desire and so subverts the home; Agamemnon is destroyed. Pe...

Speakers in Dante's Canto One Dante the Poet (narrates) Dante the Pilgrim (first calls out to Virgil) Virgil (Pilgrim's guide) Speakers in Dante's Cantos Two Dante the Poet Dante the Pilgrim Virgil Beatrice Mary Lucia Speakers in Dante's Cantos Three Gates of Hell Dante the Poet Dante the Pilgrim Virgil Charon Speakers in Dante's Cantos Four Dante the Poet Virgil Dante the Pilgrim Speakers in Dante's Cantos Five Dante the Poet Minos Virgil D...

Dante Guido Cavalcanti Florentine poet, Dante's best friend Cangrande della Scala Ruler of Verona who hosted Dante "Midway along the road of our life" Dante; uses "our" to include the reader; uses "midway" because he wrote this halfway through his life in 1300s 1.22-27- water simile simile of being exhausted from sea to his relief of being back the bottom of the hill Leapord speckled skin; represented envy/desire/concupiscence Lion represent...

Who are the two people Dante mentions going through Hell before him? Aeneas and Paul What is the name of the woman who sent Virgil on his mission to be Dante's guide? Beatrice Who were the three blessed women who rescue Dante in canto II? Mary, Lucia, Beatrice The phrase over the gate of Hell warned people to "Abandon all ________" Hope In the vestibule of Hell the sinners run naked being chased by what? Wasps and hornets Who are the sinners in the vest...

'Part of its relevance is that it is the story of a human being who knew [......] and [............], [....] and the loss of [....], whose life was ruled by his sense of [....] to the gods, his people and his family' correct answers defeat, dispossession, love, love, duty, David West '[The Aeneid is] full of human beings [........] as human beings do' correct answers behaving, David West 'The 'Aeneid' presents a heroic view of the life of man in all its [.........] and [.......], bu...

Who wrote the Aeneid? correct answers Virgil What did the author want done to the work when he died? correct answers He wanted it to be burned Why? correct answers He didn't have time to polish his work before he died... well excuse me... Who prevented this from happening? correct answers Augustus Caesar... a plague upon your household, sir (Mercutio anyone? Couldn't resist the reference!), now I'm stuck reading it! Why did the author write this? correct answers (To have every hig...

CLAS 104 Questions and Answers Graded A+ 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 into the Un...