Aeneid 5 Flashcards
Who welcomes the trojans when they arrive to Sicily?
King Acestes
Where are Anchises funeral games?
Sicily
Who hosts funeral games for Anchises?
King Acestes
During Anchises funeral games, who wins the ship race?
Cloanthus
Who throws his helmsman, Menoetes, overboard for poor steering during the ship race at Anchises funeral games
Gyas
Who hears the prayers of Cloanthus and helps him to victory during the ship race at anchises funeral games?
Portunus
Who does Gyas throw overboard for poor steering during the ship race at Anchises funeral games?
Menoetes
Portunus hears the prayers of which man and helps him to victory during the ship race at anchises funeral games?
Cloanthus
At anchises funeral games, who wins the footrace?
Euryalus
What does Euryalus win at anchises’ funeral games?
the footrace
During anchises funeral games, who slips in the blood of a sacrificial animal and then trips Salius?
Nisus
Who does Nisus trip during the footrace at anchises funeral games?
Salius
Why doesn’t nisus win the footrace at anchises funeral games?
he slips on the blood of a sacrificial animal
Who defeats dares in the boxing match at anchsies funeral games?
Entellus
Who loses to Entellus at the boxing match at anchises funeral games?
Dares
Who is spared when his opponent slaughters a bull instead of killing him?
Dares
Who slaughters a bull instead of killing his opponent (dares)?
Entellus
Who won the archery contest at anchises funeral games?
Achestes
How does Achestes win the archery contest at anchises funeral games?
his arrow ominously bursts into flames
What man, son of Hyrtacus, shoots first and misses at anchises funeral games?
Hippocoon
Who was Hippocoon the son of?
Hyractus
What happens to Hippocoon’s arrow at the funeral games of anchises?
it gets stuck in the mast of the ship
At anchises funeral games, who prays to his brother Pandarus, then pierces the bird and kills it before Acestes gets to shoot?
Eurytion
Who is the brother of pandaurus?
Eurytion
Who is the brother of Eurytion?
pandaurus
Who does Eurytion pray to during the funeral games of anchises?
Pandaurus
At the funeral games of anchises, whose arrow pierces the bird and kills it before achestes gets to shoot?
Eurytion
Who tells Epytides, the guardian and companion of Ascanius, to fetch him for the equestrian games.
Aeneas
Who does Aeneas tell to fetch him for the equestrian games?
Epytides
Who is epytides?
the guardian and companion of Ascanius
While the men participate in the games, who, disguised as Beroe, is sent by Juno to incite the Trojan
women to burn their ships?
Iris
While the men participate in the games, Iris, disguised as whom, is sent by Juno to incite the Trojan
women to burn their ships?
Beroe
While the men participate in the games, Iris, disguised as Beroe, is sent by whom to incite the Trojan
women to burn their ships.
Juno
While the men participate in the games, Iris, disguised as Beroe, is sent by Juno to incite the Trojan
women to what?
burn the ships
Who, the nurse of Priam’s children, tries to convince the women that the goddess (Iris) is not really Beroe?
Pyrgo
Who is pyrgo?
The nurse of priam’s children who tried to convince the women that Iris was not Beroe
Who informs the men that the women are burning the ships?
Eumelus
What does Eumelus inform the men of?
That the women are burning the ships
Who prays to Jupiter, who sends rain to put out the fire?
Aeneas
Who does Aeneas pray to to send rain which will put out the fire?
Jupiter
How many ships does the rain rescue from the fire?
all but four
Who advises Aeneas to leave the old and weary behind on Sicily?
Nautes
Who does Nautes advise to leave the old and weary behind on Sicily?
Aeneas
What does Nautes advise Aeneas?
to leave the old and weary behind on Sicily
Who appears to Aeneas in a dream and tells him he must visit him in the Elysian Fields?
Anchises
Who does Anchises appear to in a dream telling him that he must visit him in the Elysian Fields?
Aeneas
Anchises appears to Aeneas in a dream and tells him he must visit him where?
in the Elysian Fields
What does Anchises tell Aeneas when he appears to him in a dream?
that Aeneas must come visit him in the Elysian Fields
While sailing away who, disguised as Phorbas, appears to Palinurus, Aeneas’ helmsman, and lulls him to sleep?
Somnus
While sailing away Somnus, disguised as whom, appears to Palinurus, Aeneas’ helmsman, and lulls him to sleep?
Phorbas
While sailing away Somnus, disguised as Phorbas, appears to whom, Aeneas’ helmsman, and lulls him to sleep?
Palinurus
Who is Aeneas’ helmsman?
Palinurus
While sailing away Somnus, disguised as Phorbas, appears to Palinurus, Aeneas’ helmsman, and does what?
lulls him to sleep
Which of Aeneas’ helmsman was lulled to sleep by Somnus?
Palinurus
After being lulled to sleep, who falls overboard?
Palinurus
Neptune had demanded one Trojan life for a safe voyage to the underworld. Who was this life?
Palinurus
Who had demanded one Trojan life for a safe voyage to the underworld?
Neptune
A snake appears and circles 7 times around the offerings…
Anchises
In the funeral games of Anchises, what captain of the Sea-Serpant…
Mnestheus
What ship, described in Book 5 of the Aeneid as a “floating city”…
Chimaera
In the funeral games of Anchises, what sea-green ship…
Scylla
What man, because his helmsman Menoetes…
Gyas
In the funeral games of Anchises, who lost his lead when his helmsman refused to take the risky…
Gyas
What name is shared by the helmsman of Gyas…
Menoetes
Who, after being hurled off the Chimaera by Gyas…
Menoetes
In the funeral games of Anchises, whose ship is destroyed…
Sergestus
What man, who almost caught up with Cloanthus…
Mnestheus
Who, promising to sacrifice a white bull to the gods of the sea…
Cloanthus
Who, guaranteed a win by Portunus…
Cloanthus
In the funeral games of Anchises, who won a golden cloak…
Cloanthus
In the funeral games of Anchises, who won a chain-mail coat…
Mnestheus
In the funeral games of Anchises, who won two bronze cauldrons…
Gyas
A Cretan-born slave girl named Pholoe skilled in the arts of minerva…
Sergestus
In the funeral games of Anchises, what companion of Euryalus…
Nisus
Diores, Patron, Helymus, Panopes…
foot race
In the funeral games of Aeneas, who slipped…
Nisus
In the funeral games of Aeneas, who was tripped…
Salius
The pelt of a Gaetulian lion…
Salius
Though he placed third, who takes the last…
Diores
A shield that used to sit on the threshold of a temple of Neptune…
Nisus
A horse with trappings is awarded…
Euryalus
An Amazonian quiver filled with Thracian arrows…
Helymus
An Argive helmet was awarded to…
Diores
Who offers a bull he just punched…
Entellus
After winning, Entellus sacrifices a bull in place of Dares to what…
Eryx
What man, who used to compete with Paris and killed Butes…
Dares
A ribboned bullock was the prize…
Entellus
What man, who once boxed with the gloves of Eryx…
Entellus
Who chooses to fight with no gloves, foregoing the gloves of Eryx…
Entellus
Had Aeneas not stopped him, Entellus…
Dares
What man, to whose mast a dove was tied in the Aeneid…
Sergestus
In the funeral games of Anchises, for what game, decided by lots…
archery
Hippocoon, Mnestheus, Eurytion, Acestes…
Archery
What man, who managed to hit the cord of the dove attached to Sergestus’s ship…
Mnestheus
Who, calling on his brother Pandarus…
Eurytion
In book 5 of the Aeneid, what son of Lycaon…
Eurytion
Who, since the dove he wished to shoot was gone…
Acestes
A bowl of Anchises that was given to him by Cisseus of Thrace…
Acestes
In book 5 of the Aeneid, what companion and guard of Ascanius…
Epytides
What man, whose companion Atys…
Ascanius
In book 5 of the Aeneid, who, with the crack of a whip…
Epytides
What man, whose performance in Book 5 of the Aeneid…
Ascanius
In book 5 of the Aeneid, who does Juno send…
Iris
In book 5 of the Aeneid, in whose guise…
Beroe
In the guise of Beroe, Iris cites a dream from what…
Cassandra
Who, grabbing a torch from an altar of Neptune…
Iris
Who, a nurse of many of Priam’s sons…
Pyrgo
What Trojan elder and student of Minerva…
Nautes
Who, claiming she was told Sicily was Troy in a dream by Cassandra…
Iris
The old and sick of Aeneas’s men found a city in the name…
Acestes
In book 5 of the Aeneid, who appears to Neptune…
Venus
Glaucus, Palaemon, Tritons, Thetis, Melite, Panopea, Nesaea, Spio, Thalia, and Cymodoce accompany Neptune…
Palinurus
Who, in the guise of Phorbas…
Somnus
Who, in the guise of Eurypylus…
triton
Noticing the ship was drifting near the island of the Sirens, Aeneas…
Palinurus
