CLAS432 FINAL

When Vergil announces his topic as arms and a man, he refers to

the Iliad (arms) and the Odyssey (man).

Juno approaches ____ to send a storm, which is later calmed by ____.

Aeolus, king of the winds; Neptune

____ approaches ____ to save her son for the future of Rome.

Venus; Jupiter

Aeneas reveals his epithet as ____ when he introduces himself to ____.

“Pius Aeneas” ; Venus disguised as Diana/Artemis

In Books 2 and 3, Aeneas’ account of the fall of Troy specifically parallels

Odysseus’ narrative to the Phaeniceans 

In Book 2, the aged Priam is killed by ____, who was _____.

Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus; Achilles’ son.

In Book 2, Aeneas experiences three visions as he decides what he must do as the Greeks are overwhelming Troy. They involve

 Hector, Venus, and Creusa (his dead wife). Parallels the women that try to keep Hector from returning to the war and Odysseus from returning home.

In Book 2 Aeneas leaves Rome famously carrying on his shoulders

Anchises, who carries the household gods, and leads Iulus by the hand.

In Book 4, as part of her plan, Juno tells Venus that she will

have Dido and Aeneas rule together (keeping Aeneas from going to Rome). Creates a storm that forces them to shelter together in a cave.

In Book 4, Jupiter sends ____ to tell Aeneas he must ____.

Mercury; continue on as his fate is not in Carthage, he must think of Ascanius.

In Book 4, Dido ultimately decides to

kill herself, and to build a pyre in her own room by tricking Anna.

As stated in Book 4, the relationship of Dido and Aeneas will lead to

The cursing of the line of Aeneas that will be realized in the Punic Wars.

In Book 6, Aeneas must approach ____ in order to go to the Underworld.

Sibyl, at the temple of Apollo

In Book 6, to get to the Underworld, Aeneas must _____ and _____.

Find the golden bough; bury a fallen comrade.

In Book 6, the description of the Underworld

Remarks that it is segmented into regions: Elysian Fields for the Blessed, Tartarus for the guilty, and the Fields of Asphodel for the ordinary

In Book 6, in the Underworld Aeneas encounters

A path leading to Tartarus, which includes those who betrayed their country, engaged in civil war, etc.

• The exits (horn = true shades) & (ivory = false dreams)

• Orpheus and his father

In Book 7, many names of people and places provide examples of

eponyms or etiology (someone dies or something happens and the area is named after that)

In Book 7, the Underworld figure who starts the war between the Trojans and locals is

the Fury Allecto

In Book 7, the specific event that leads to war involves

Allecto striking Amata with a serpent, causing her to go ballistic, taking Lavinia. Allecto then attacks Turnus in his sleep by sending him a vision and by flinging a torch at his chest, to which he calls for war.

• Iulus unknowingly killing a sacred deer

In Book 7, the wife of Latinus, ____, prefers Turnus as the husband for their daughter ____.

Amata; Lavinia

In Book 8, Aeneas travels

Up the Tiber to the site of the future Rome. (Pallanteum)

In Book 8, while there, the people were celebrating a sacrifice in honor of

Hercules

In Book 8, the sacrifice celebrates the defeat of ____ whose action represents the attempt to ____.

Caucus; steal the kingdom and defy the gods. (Theft of kingdom)

In Book 8, the shield of Aeneas includes images of

The history of Rome and Augustus’ victories.

In Book 10, during a council of the gods, with regard to war, Jupter decides that

he will have no opinion and will have fate decide

In Book 10, in the duel between Pallas and Turnus

Pallas prays to Hercules for strength, which is met by pity. Pallas scrapes Turnus but Turnus kills Pallas and Turnus will send the body back out of anger. He steals P’s sword belt which he will come to regret.

In Book 10, after this duel, Aeneas kills

Lausus and Mezentius

In Book 12, Latinus’ and Amata’s pleas to Turnus regarding the duel recall in the Iliad the pleas of

Priam and Hecuba’s pleas to Hector

In Book 12, the duel between Turnus and Aeneas agreed to by way of a sacred oath, recalled the duel of ______; and the breaking of the oath resulting in further warfare recalls the arrow shot by _____ prodded by ______ in the Iliad.

Paris and Menelaus; Pandarus; Athena

In Book 12, Aeneas’ decision to kill Turnus was provoked by

seeing the stolen belt of Pallas