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Aeneid Locations Flashcards

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What is the significance of Alba Longa?

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The city which will be founded by Aeneas’ son Ascanius.

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What is the significance of Argos?

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

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What is the significance of Carthage?

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Dido’s new city she is building in north Africa.

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What is the significance of Europe?

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It is the continent.

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What is the significance of Hebrus?

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A Greek river in Thrace.

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What is the significance of Illyria?

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Area in the Balkans conquered by the Romans - the wider region in which Troy is situated.

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What is the significance of Italy?

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The country Aeneas is journeying to, in which he will found a new city for the Trojans.

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What is the significance of Latium?

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The city in Italy which Aeneas will eventually conquer.

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What is the significance of Lavinium?

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The name which Aeneas’s city will have in Italy.

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What is the significance of Liburnia?

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Homeland of the Liburnian people in modern day Croatia - region which stretches down the coast.

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What is the significance of Libya?

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Country in north Africa in which Carthage is being built.

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What is the significance of Mycenae?

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Menelaus’ homeland - a city in the eastern peloponnese.

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What is the significance of Padua?

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Place where Antenor settled close ot modern Venice, Virgil’s birthplace.

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What is the significance of Paphos?

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Venus’ home in western Cyprus.

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What is the significance of Pergamum?

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Alternative name for Troy.

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What is the significance of Phoenicia?

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

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What is the significance of Phyrgia?

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A region of Turkey east of Troy.

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What is the significance of Phthia?

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

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What is the significance of Rome?

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City founded by Romulus.

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What is the significance of Samos?

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

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What is the significance of Siculus?

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Sicilian (from Sicily).

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What is the significance of Sparta?

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

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What is the significance of Thrace?

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

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What is the significance of Tiber?

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River in Rome.

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What is the significance of Timavo?

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A river in north eastern Italy.

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What is the significance of Troy?

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The city which was destroyed during the Trojan War. Aeneas is a Trojan.

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What is the significance of Tyre?

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Dido’s birthplace in modern Lebanon.

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What is the significance of Xanthus?

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River outside Troy.

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