Aeneid 6 Flashcards
What was the name of the sibyl at Cumae?
Deiphobe
Who climbs the hill to the temple of Apollo and consults the Sibyl?
Aeneas
What does the Sibyl of Cumae tell Aeneas?
the Trojans will remain in Italy and they will conquer the land after a
dreadful war
Who tells Aeneas that the Trojans will remain in Italy and they will conquer the land after a
dreadful war?
The cumaean sibyl
What does Aeneas ask the sibyl?
to lead him to the underworld
How does the sibyl respond to Aeneas asking to be led to the underworld?
he must first pluck a golden bough and then bury his trumpeter Misenus, who was drowned by Triton
What must Aeneas do to get to the underworld?
pluck a golden bough and then bury his trumpeter Misenus, who was drowned by Triton
Who was Aeneas’s trumpeter?
Misenus
Who of Aeneas’s men was drowned by Triton?
Misenus
What river do the Sibyl & Aeneas reach the and see Palinurus?
The Styx
Who do Aeneas and the sibyl see at the Styx?
palinurus
What does Aeneas promise Palinurus after seeing him at the Styx?
to bury him
Who drugs cerberus to help Aeneas get into the underworld?
The sibyl
Who are the first people that Aeneas and the sibyl see in the underworld?
people who died as infants
Who are the second people Aeneas and the Sibyl see in the underworld?
people who had false charges among them
Who are the third people that Aeneas and Sibyl see in the underworld?
people who killed themselves
Who are the last people Aeneas and the sibyl see in the underworld?
those who died because of the sorrows of love
In the underworld, who was among those who died because of the sorrows of love?
Dido and Sychaeus
Who weeps over Dido’s death in the underworld but she does not respond to him?
Aeneas
Who is the first person Aeneas talks to in the underworld?
Deiphobus
What does Deiphobus tell Aeneas in the underworld?
that he was killed by Helen and Menelaus
Who killed Deiphobus?
Helen and Menelaus
When Aeneas and the Sibyl get to the Elysian Fields, who leads them to Anchises?
Musaeus
Who was the father of Musaeus?
Orpheus
What did Anchises prophesize about?
the future of Rome
In the underworld, who does Anchises say Aeneas will have a son with and what will the son’s name be?
Lavinia; Silvius
Anchises notes the sad shade of what young boy?
Marcellus
Where do Aeneas and the subyl leave the underworld?
the ivory gates
How do true shades exit the underworld?
the horn gates
How do false shades exit the underworld?
the ivory gates
Coming to the grove of Diana in Cumae, Aeneas sees a temple…
daedalus
What place, where Daedalus allegedly dedicated his wings to Apollo…
Cumae
Aeneas was instructed to sacrifice 7 bullocks from a virgin herd and as many 2-year old sheep…
Deiphobe
What man, who promises to erect a temple to Apollo and Diana Trivia…
Aeneas
What man, referred to by Deiphobe as the Achilles of Latium…
Turnus
Whose golden bough…
Proserpina
In the Aeneid, what son of Aeolus…
Misenus
What old companion of Hector and son of Aeolus…
Misenus
Aeneas was led to the golden bough while a pyre was erected…
Misenus
What man, whose ashed were collected in a bronze urn by Corynaeus…
Misenus
Who challenged the gods on a conch…
Misenus
What lake, known only to the Greeks as Aornos…
Avernus
In book 6 of the Aeneid, what captain…
Orontes
What man, though Apollo promised he would reach Ausonian shores safely…
Palinurus
What man, prophesied to be safe on shore and reach Ausonia…
Palinurus
What priestess of Amphrysian Apollo…
Deiphobe
In book 6 of the Aeneid, who returns to her husband…
Dido
In book 6 of the Aeneid, what mutilated man…
Deiphobus
In book 6 of the Aeneid, what son of Priam…
Deiphobus
What man, killed by Menelaus and Odysseus and set up by his wife…
Deiphobus
Which of the furies, who guards the entrance to Tartarus…
Tisiphone
What man, who leads Aeneas to Anchises…
Musaeus
In book 6 of the Aeneid, who explains to Aeneas his descent…
Anchises
Who promises Aeneas a son, Silvanus…
Anchises
In the Aeneid, what fine man, walking alongside another with the same name…
Marcellus
