Aeneid Locations Flashcards
What is the significance of Alba Longa?
The city which will be founded by Aeneas’ son Ascanius.
What is the significance of Argos?
Greek city which houses temple to Juno - in the eastern Peloponnese.
What is the significance of Carthage?
Dido’s new city she is building in north Africa.
What is the significance of Europe?
It is the continent.
What is the significance of Hebrus?
A Greek river in Thrace.
What is the significance of Illyria?
Area in the Balkans conquered by the Romans - the wider region in which Troy is situated.
What is the significance of Italy?
The country Aeneas is journeying to, in which he will found a new city for the Trojans.
What is the significance of Latium?
The city in Italy which Aeneas will eventually conquer.
What is the significance of Lavinium?
The name which Aeneas’s city will have in Italy.
What is the significance of Liburnia?
Homeland of the Liburnian people in modern day Croatia - region which stretches down the coast.
What is the significance of Libya?
Country in north Africa in which Carthage is being built.
What is the significance of Mycenae?
Menelaus’ homeland - a city in the eastern peloponnese.
What is the significance of Padua?
Place where Antenor settled close ot modern Venice, Virgil’s birthplace.
What is the significance of Paphos?
Venus’ home in western Cyprus.
What is the significance of Pergamum?
Alternative name for Troy.
What is the significance of Phoenicia?
The region of the middle east which coveres modern Syria and Lebenon.
What is the significance of Phyrgia?
A region of Turkey east of Troy.
What is the significance of Phthia?
Achilles’ homeland - in a province of north eastern Greece called Thessaly.
What is the significance of Rome?
City founded by Romulus.
What is the significance of Samos?
City sacred to Juno - a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, separated from Turkey by the mile-wide Mycale Strait.
What is the significance of Siculus?
Sicilian (from Sicily).
What is the significance of Sparta?
A major Greek City - famous for warriors, in the southern peloponnese.
What is the significance of Thrace?
A region of Greece covering modern day northern greece, southern bulgaria and western turkey.
What is the significance of Tiber?
River in Rome.
What is the significance of Timavo?
A river in north eastern Italy.
What is the significance of Troy?
The city which was destroyed during the Trojan War. Aeneas is a Trojan.
What is the significance of Tyre?
Dido’s birthplace in modern Lebanon.
What is the significance of Xanthus?
River outside Troy.
