Aeneas, Virgil Flashcards
What did the Latins live in
In huts in villages in the hills
People of Latinum lived
Where Rome was built
They are the indigenous population
Lifestyle of the Latins
Farmers
Tribal groups
Latins lived in
Northern/ central Italy
In villages in hills
Defend by wooden palisades
Latin gods
Jupiter, Diana, Venus etc.
Latin influences
Influenced BY those that arrived
(Greeks+Etruscans)
But kept their own language
Etruscans lived in
Northern/ Central Italy
Etruscan dates
800-300bc
Etruscan influences
Influenced rome’s buildings
Built the main city sewer (cloaca Maxima) to drain the forum
Excavated allot of metals to trade with the Greeks
Mede the bronze she wolf
Built many arches
Greek city states area
Southern Italy/Sicily
Greek city states dates
700BCE
Greek city states influences
Made many ports,
Trade with Etruscans
Rome had access to the romans
Aeneas
Demi god
Hero of troy
Son of Venus
Founder of Rome
Aeneas’s family
Father was Anchises
Wife was Creusa
Son was Ascanius
Aeneas’s 1st dream
Hector who had recently died in the Trojan battle came to him in a dream
He told him to escape with the holy headbands and fire of vesta
To start a new city
AENEAS REFUSED
Aeneas’s 2nd dream
His mother Venus told him to escape
She told him that the gods were against Troy
AENEAS CONVINCED
How did Aeneas convince his father to depart with him
A fire appeared on Aeneas’s son’s head
A roll of thunder
A shootings star
Aeneas’s departure
The holy symbols of Troy
Anchises on his back
Holding Ascanius’s hand
Had forgotten Creusa
Aeneas’s wife’s apparition
Told him to continue
To not not look for her
To get a new wife
Creusa
Wife of Aeneas
Princess of Troy
Prisms youngest daughter
Hector
Main hero of Troy
Son of Priam
Killed by Achilles
Priam
King of Troy
Juno hates the Trojans (apple)
Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Goddess of Arguments wasn’t invited (Eris)
She threw an apple (labeled for the fairest) between the goddesses
Jupiter (father to Minerva, husband to Juno) gave the apple to Paris
Venus said that if she was chosen Paris would get the. Most beautiful wife- Venus was chosen and not Juno
Juno hates the Trojans (Ganymede)
Ganymede was Jupiter’s personal wine waiter
All the gods loved Ganymede except Juno
Juno was jealous of him
She hated him and his whole race
Juno hates the Trojans (Dido)
Juno loved the city Carthage and its queen Dido
The prophecy said Trojan descendants would destroy it
Passage from Virgil that shows Aeneas’s warlike origins
And how the Romans can claim to have descended from the Trojans
He also suffered much from war, before he founded his city and brought his gods to Latium, from whence came the Latin people, the Alban fathers, and the lofty walls of Rome.
Virgil’s account of why Aeneas was able to leave Troy
It was fate that made Aeneas into exile “made an exile by fate”
Aeneas’s journey
Macedonia
Sicily
Luarenteum
