Aeneid PPX

Question 1

What is the optimistic interpretation of the Aeneid?

Answer 1

European School

Question 2

What is the pessimistic interpretation of the Aeneid?

Answer 2

Harvard School

Question 3

What year was the founding of Rome by Romulus?

Answer 3

753 BC

Question 4

How did Romulus find Rome?

Answer 4

He killed his brother Remus

Question 5

When was the Second Punic War?

Answer 5

218-201 BC

Question 6

What was the Second Punic War?

Answer 6

Conflict between Rome and the Carthaginians (led by Hannibal)

Question 7

When was Virgil alive?

Answer 7

70-19 BC

Question 8

When was Caesar killed by Brutus and Cassius?

Answer 8

44 BC on Ides of March

Question 9

When did Octavian beat Antony and Cleopatra in naval battle at Actium?

Answer 9

31 BC

Question 10

Who did Octavian beat in a naval battle at Actium?

Answer 10

Antony and Cleopatra

Question 11

What / Where was the battle between Octavian and Antony?

Answer 11

a naval battle at Actium

Question 12

What are 3 major events of 27 BC?

Answer 12

• “Restoration of the Republic”
• Octavian receives title “Augustus”
• Roman Empire begins

Question 13

What is Pietas?

Answer 13

“An attitude of dutiful respect
towards those to whom one is bound
by ties of religion, consanguinity, etc.”