Aeneid Geographical Locations

Question 1

Alba Longa

Answer 1

A city south east of modern Rome founded by Aeneas’ son Ascanius

Question 2

Argos

Answer 2

Greek city housing a temple to Juno in the Eastern Peloponnese

Question 3

Illyria

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Italy

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Latium

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Lavinium

Answer 6

The name of Aeneas’ city in Italy. Named after his new wife, Lavinia. South east of modern Rome

Question 7

Liburnia

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Libya

Answer 8

Country in North Africa where Carthage is being built ( Carthage is now in Tunisia which didn’t exist at the time)

Question 9

Mycenae

Answer 9

A city in the Eastern Peloponnese and Menelaus’ homeland

Question 10

Padua

Answer 10

Where Antenor settled close to modern Venice in North East Italy. Virgil’s birthplace

Question 11

Paphos

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Phthia

Answer 12

Achilles’ homeland in a province of north east Greece called Thessaly

Question 13

Rome

Answer 13

City founded by Romulus on the western coast of central Italy

Question 14

Timavo

Answer 14

A river in north east Italy

Question 15

Troy

Answer 15

The city destroyed in the Trojan war. Modern day western Turkey. Aeneas is a Trojan

Question 16

Carthage

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Phoenicia

Answer 17

The region of the middle east which covers modern Syria and Lebanon