Aeneid People Flashcards
Who are the Muses?
Divinities charged with inspiring mortals in music, art, literature etc.
Who is Juno?
Queen of the gods, dislikes anything Trojan.
Who is Parca and Saturnia?
The female personification of destiny
Who is Paris?
Trojan prince who stole Helen from Menelaus.
Who is Ganymede?
A Trojan boy, made Jupiter’s cupbearer.
Who is Danaus/Danaians?
Ancester of the Trojans.
Who is Achilles?
Greek hero who killed Hector.
Who is Teucer/Teucreans?
An ancestor of the Trojans.
Who is Pallas?
Alternative name for Minerva / Athena.
Who are the Argive?
The Greeks.
Who is Ajax?
Punished by Minerva for the rape of Cassandra in her temple.
Who is Oileus?
Ajax’s father.
Who is Jove?
Alternative name for Jupiter.
Who is Jupiter?
King of the Gods and God of the sky.
Who is Venus?
Goddess of Love, mother of Aeneas and daughter of Jupiter.
Who is Aeneas?
Trojan hero of the story, son of Venus.
Who are the Troes?
The Trojans.
Who is Antenor?
Trojan hero who settled in Padua.
Who is Cythera?
Another name for Venus - the first island she came to after being born in the sea.
Who are the Rutulians?
Local tribe resident in Latium who were defeated by Aeneas.
Who is Ascanius?
The son of Aeneas.
Who is Iulus?
Ascanius’ surname to cement link between Julius Caesar, Augustus and Aeneas.
Who is Ilus?
Ascanius’ previous name when Troy still existed.
Who is Hector?
A Trojan hero who was killed by Achilles.
Who is Mars?
God of war.
Who is Romulus?
One of the twins born of Ilia and Mars who was raised by Lupa and founded Rome.
Who is Mavortia?
Archaic from of name Mars.
Who is Assaracus?
The ruling family of Troy.
Who is Caesar?
Could either refer to Julius Caesar or his adopted son Augustus - both were emperors of Rome.
Who is Trust?
Trust is personified.
Who is Vesta?
Goddess of the Hearth.
Who is Remus?
Twin of Romulus.
Who is Quirinus?
Another name for Romulus.
Who is War?
War is personified.
Who is Maia?
The mother of Mercury the messenger of the Gods.
Who is Dido?
Queen of Carthage.
Who are the Punics/Carthaginians?
Carthaginians - name derived from Greek word for red dye found there.
Who is Achates?
Aeneas’ right hand man.
Who is Harpalyce?
A famous huntress from Greek mythology.
Who is Phoebus?
The god Apollo.
Who is Agenor?
A previous King of Tyre.
Who is Sychaeus?
Dido’s first husband - a Phoenician.
Who is Pygmalion?
The evil brother of Dido.
What is Byrsa?
Alternative name for Carthage.
Who is Vesper?
The goddess of evening.
What is Olympus?
Home of the gods in heaven.
Who are the Penates?
Household gods.
Who is Eurus?
Greek god of the East wind.
Who is Atreus?
Atreus was the father of Greek heros Agamemnon and Menelaus.
Who is Priam?
King of Troy.
Who is Rhesus?
Greek king who supported Trojans in the Trojan War.
Who is Diomedes/Tydides?
Trojan warrior.
Who is Troilus?
Trojan prince, killed by Achilles.
Who is Illiades?
Trojan women.
Who are the Achives?
Alternative word for Greeks.
Who are the Ethiopians?
Romans tended to describe all black Africans as Ethiopians.
Who is Memnon?
Ethiopian King who fought on the side of the Trojans.
Who are the Amazons?
Warrior women, from what we would now call Eastern Europe, fought with Trojans.
Who is Penthesilea?
Queen of the Amazons.
Who is Bellatrix?
Personification of a warrior woman.
