Aeneid 3 Flashcards
Where was Aeneas’ first attempt to establish a city?
Thrace
Who appears to Aeneas in the form of a bleeding bush and advises him not to settle in Thrace?
Polydorus
In what form did Polydorus appear to Aeneas?
a bleeding bush
Why doesn’t Aeneas settle in Thrace?
Polydorus appears to Aeneas in the form of a bleeding bush and advises him not to settle there
Where did Aeneas and his men go after deciding not to settle in Thrace?
Delos
At Delos, who greets and welcomes Aeneas?
King Anius
Who does king Anius recognize?
Anchises
King Anius was a priest of what God?
Apollo
What does the oracle on Delos advise Aeneas?
to seek their ancient mother
What does aeneas interpret as their ancient mother?
crete
What was the name of the city that Aeneas began to build on Crete?
Pergamum
What happened to the trojans when they created Pergamum?
plague and famine fell upon them
Who tell Aeneas that the Trojans are not destined to settle in Crete but rather in
Italy?
The Penates
What do the Penates tell Aeneas?
that the Trojans are not destined to settle in Crete but rather in Italy
Where does a storm drive the Tojans after crete?
The Strophades Islands
As the Trojans began to eat of the Strophades Islands, who steals their food?
The Harpies
Who is the leader of the harpies?
Celaeno
What does Celaeno prophesize in the Aeneid?
they will not establish a city until they eat their tables
Who prophesies that the trojans will not establish a city until they eat their tables?
Celaeno (harpies)
Where do the Trojans briefly stop before going to Buthrotum?
Actium
Who rules Buthrotum?
Helenus and Andromache
After the Strophades Islands and Actium, where do the Trojans go?
Buthrotum
What does Heelenus advise Aeneas on at Buthrotum?
how to reach Italy and to visit the Sibyl
Who has “already fulfilled Aeneas’ destiny”?
Helenus
After Buthrotum, where do the Trojans go?
Sicily
At Sicily, who do the Trojans find?
Achemenides
Who is the father of Achemenides?
Adamastus
What man who the Trojans found on Sicily was left behind by Odysseus escaping the Cyclops’ cave?
Achemenides
Achemenides was found on Sicily by whom?
Aeneas and his crew
Where did Anchises die?
Drepanum
Who dies on Drepanum?
Anchises
After Sicily, where do the Trojans go?
Drepanum
Who, intending to found a city in Thrace…
Aeneas probably
Who built a fleet below Mt. Ida…
Aeneas
Who, while attempting to sacrifice to the gods in Thrace…
Aeneas
In book 3 of the Aeneid, while attempting to get leafy branches for an altar to the gods…
Polydorus
Who prayed to Gradivus…
Aeneas
Who, trying a third time to pluck leafy branches from a Thracian tree…
Aeneas
Who was sent with gold to Thrace…
Polydorus
In book 3 of the Aeneid, what son of Priam…
Polydorus
Who, when the war began to favor the greeks, took the gold…
Polymnestor
In the Aeneid, what king of Thrace…
Polymnestor
Who renewed the funeral rites of a son of Priam…
Aeneas
What island, which wandered until it was tied to Mykanos and Gyaros…
Delos
What island, tied to Mykanos by Apollo…
Delos
What king and high priest of Apollo welcomed Aeneas…
Anius
What king of Delos…
Anius
What old friend of Anchises and high priest of Apollo…
Anius
What first king of Troy…
Teucer
What island, from which Teucer traveled…
Crete
In book 3 of the Aeneid, who, interpreting the Oracle of Delos…
Anchises
The followers of Aeneas, having heard that what man had been chased from Crete…
Idomeneus
Having heard that Idomeneus had been chased from the land…
crete maybe
Aeneas was hit with a plague on what…
Crete
While preparing to revisit Delos, Aeneas…
Penates?
When Aeneas sets out for Hesperia, because of the low visibility…
Strophades
What islands, called the Clashing Islands…
Symplegades
Since they could not live on Salmydessus, the Harpies lived…
Strophades
In the Aeneid, what harpy…
Celaeno
What man, who served as the lookout for Aeneas’s men when the Harpies…
Misenus
On the Strophades, who prophesies…
Celaeno
What place, where the followers of Aeneas have wrestling games…
Actium
What place, where Aeneas dedicates the shield of Abas…
Actium
What man, whose shield is fixed to the entrance pillars of Actium…
Abas
Coming to Chaonia’s harbor, Aeneas lands at what….
Buthrotum
After the Trojan War, who married Andromache…
Helenus
Who, while she makes an offering to Hector, sees Aeneas…
Andromache
Who, killed near Achilles’s altar for Hermione…
Neoptolemus
What man, who told Aeneas to found a city where thirty white…
Helenus
What man, who instructs Aeneas to go to Sicily and honor Juno…
Helenus
What woman, who gifts Ascanius with new robes…
Andromache
Managing to dodge Scylla and Charybdis, Aeneas…
Achaemenides?
While passing Scylla and Charybdis, Aeneas notices the churning of Mt Eta…
Enceladus
