Aeneid Names and Places Flashcards

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Where is Tyre?

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Modern day Lebanon, the ancient world: Phoenicia, on the east coat of the mediterranean.

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Alba Longa

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

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Argos

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

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Carthage

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

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Europe

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

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Hebrus

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A Greek river in Thrace (northern Greece)

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Illyria

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

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Italy

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

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Latium

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

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Lavinium

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

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