Aeneid (29 to19 BCE)

Aeneid

Perhaps the most famous and influential piece of Latin literature is _______, written by Virgil.

Virgil

the most famous and influential piece of Latin literature is Aeneid, written by ______.

dactylic hexameter

The Aeneid, which was written in the epic form of ________, follows the voyage of Aeneas, Venus's son, after Troy is destroyed.

Italy

Aeneas is said to have escaped the burning city and arrived in ____, where he established a family line that would later give rise to the Roman people.

Homer, Lucretius, Ennius, Apollonius of Rhodes

Virgil (70–19 BCE) draws inspiration from a wide range of writers, most notably _______, and others.

Homeric

Virgil frequently uses ____ diction and style.

Virgilian Odyssey

The first six books of the Aeneid are so similar to the Homeric epics that they are sometimes referred to as the "_______."

Aeneas

Virgil frequently places _____ in circumstances that are the same as those encountered by Odysseus or Achilles, allowing _______'s response to those circumstances to set him apart from his Homeric contemporaries.

piety

He describes Aeneas in terms of the moral quality of ______, a concept that was particularly significant to Rome at the time the Aeneid was written.

Carthaginians

A number of etiological tales of interest to the Roman populace are also found in the Aeneid, most notably Dido's story and the beginning of the conflict between the Romans and the ____.

Dido

One of the most well-known scenes from the Aeneid is the _______ episode.

Carthage

In Book 1, Dido, the queen of ___, who is also known by the Phoenician name Elyssa, helped Aeneas and his Trojans who have been shipwrecked.

Venus

Dido, who is helped by _____, falls hopelessly in love with Aeneas and wishes for him to stay in Carthage with his men.

Hannibal

Dido, who was devastated by Aeneas' departure, built a pyre out of his gifts and killed herself on it, foretelling the arrival of _______ before she passed away.

Underworld

In Book 4, when Aeneas enters the _____, Dido's shade declines to converse with him.

Alcinous

She first appears as an amalgam of ______ and Arete as she welcomes her Trojan guests, but she quickly transforms into a Medea figure, well-versed in magic and esoteric knowledge.

Cleopatra

Throughout the epic, Dido is a sympathetic character, though much of how Virgil describes her would have reminded the Roman reader of the Egyptian queen _____.

Augustus

The Aeneid was saved from the flames by ______, who also ordered its publication.

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The Aeneid was an essential component of a good education and became a ______ in ancient schools.

burned

He famously demanded that the Aeneid be _____ rather than published at the time of his passing.