Aeneid

Question 1

Alba Longa

Answer 1

The city which will be founded by Aeneas’ son Ascanius, South East of modern Rome

Question 2

Argos

Answer 2

Greek city which houses temple to Juno - in the eastern Peloponnese

Question 3

Carthage

Answer 3

Dido’s new city she is building in north Africa (in modern day Tunisia)

Question 4

Europe

Answer 4

The continent (traditionally seen as East of the americas and west of Asia.)

Question 5

Hebrus

Answer 5

A Greek river in Thrace (northern Greece)

Question 6

Illyria

Answer 6

Area in the Balkans (north east of Greece, roughly where Croatia is today) conquered by the Romans

Question 7

Italy

Answer 7

The country Aeneas is journeying to, in which he will found a new city for the Trojans (East from Greece and Troy)

Question 8

Latium

Answer 8

The kingdom in Italy which Aeneas will eventually conquer (South-east of modern day Rome)

Question 9

Lavinium

Answer 9

The name which Aeneas’s city will have in Italy, named after his new wife Lavinia (south-east of modern Rome)

Question 10

Liburnia

Answer 10

Homeland of the Liburnian people (west of Italy) in modern day Croatia - region which stretches down the coast

Question 11

Libya

Answer 11

Country in north Africa in which Carthage is being built (Carthage is now in Tunisia - a country which didn’t exist at the time)

Question 12

Mycenae

Answer 12

Menelaus’ homeland - a city in the eastern peloponnese

Question 13

Padua

Answer 13

Place where Antenor settled close ot modern Venice in north east Italy, Virgil’s birthplace.

Question 14

Paphos

Answer 14

Venus’ home in western Cyprus (an island in the mediterranean east of Greece)

Question 15

Pergamum

Answer 15

Alternative name for Troy (in modern day Turkey)

Question 16

Phoenicia

Answer 16

The region of the middle east which coveres modern Syria and Lebenon

Question 17

Phrygia

Answer 17

A region of Turkey east of Troy

Question 18

Phthia

Answer 18

Achilles’ homeland - in a province of north eastern Greece called Thessaly

Question 19

Rome

Answer 19

City founded by Romulus (on the western coast of central Italy)

Question 20

Samos

Answer 20

City sacred to Juno - a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, separated from Turkey by the mile-wide Mycale Strait.

Question 21

Siculus

Answer 21

Sicilian (from Sicily - an island at the south-west tip of Italy, north of Carthage)

Question 22

Sparta

Answer 22

A major Greek City - famous for warriors, in the southern peloponnese

Question 23

Thrace

Answer 23

A region of Greece covering modern day northern greece, southern bulgaria and western turkey

Question 24

Tiber

Answer 24

River in Rome

Question 25

Timavo

Answer 25

A river in north eastern Italy

Question 26

Troy

Answer 26

The city which was destroyed during the Trojan War (in modern day western turkey). Aeneas is a Trojan

Question 27

Tyre

Answer 27

Dido’s birthplace in modern Lebanon (on the eastern coast of the mediterranean)

Question 28

Xanthus

Answer 28

River outside Troy (in modern day western turkey)