Book 6

Question 1

What myth I’d in the Ekphrasis at the start of book 6?

Answer 1

Daedalus

Question 2

What comparison is made between Aeneas and Theseus?

Answer 2

Theseus triumphed over death to become a Hero, implying that Aeneas will do the same

Question 3

Who takes Aeneas through the Underworld?

Answer 3

The Sibyl

Question 4

‘Then I shall found a temple of solid marble to Phoebus’

Answer 4

Augustan Allusion - Temple of Apollo Palatinus

Question 5

What does the Sibyl prophesise for Aeneas? (4)

Answer 5

The sons of Dardanus will reach Lavinium
There will be wars
There is a second Achilles
A foreign bride

Question 6

‘Pity the father, O gracious one, and pity the son, ai beg of you’

Answer 6

Pietas
Pater duty

Question 7

What must Aeneas do to gain access to the Underworld?

Answer 7

Find and pluck a golden bough from a tree and Bury his dead man

Question 8

Who is the dead comrade that Aeneas must Bury?

Answer 8

Misenus

Question 9

What guides Aeneas to the golden bough?

Answer 9

Two doves - his mother, Venus’, birds

Question 10

What is personified at the entrance hall of Orcus? (12)

Answer 10

Grief
Revenge
Old age
Diseases
Fear
Hunger
Poverty
Death
Drudgery
Sleep
Pleasures
War

Question 11

What is the name of the ferryman of the dead?

Answer 11

Charon

Question 12

What does Charon highlight?

Answer 12

The importance of proper burial

Question 13

‘No man may be ferried from fearful bank to fearful bank of this roaring current until his bones are laid to rest’

Answer 13

Pietas
Importance of proper burial

Question 14

Who approaches Aeneas from the bank of the river Styx?

Answer 14

Palinurus

Question 15

‘By your father, by your hopes of Iulus as he grows to manhood […] rescue me from this anguish.’

Answer 15

Supplication to Aeneas using Pater duty

Question 16

What is the name for the place Dido’s shade lives?

Answer 16

Mourning Plains

Question 17

Who resides in the Mourning plains?

Answer 17

Victims of unhappy love

Question 18

“Dido with her wound still fresh.”

Answer 18

Physical or emotional- Physical stability wound vs emotional heartbreak

Question 19

Who other than Dido does Aeneas see in the Mourning Fields?

Answer 19

Deiohobus

Question 20

“Men caught and killed in adultery, men who took up arms against their own people and did not shrink from abusing their masters’ trust”

Answer 20

Augustal Allusion - Leges Julia and death of Caesar

Question 21

“Those who have raised human life to new heights by the skills they have discovered and those whom men remember for what they have done for men.”

Answer 21

Augustan Allusion - Sumi Viri

Question 22

Who does Aeneas meet and then shows him the future generations?

Answer 22

Anchises

Question 23

“Augustus Caesar, son of a god, the man who will bring back the golden years”

Answer 23

Augustan Allusion

Question 24

What are the two gates of sleep?

Answer 24

The gate of Horn and the Gate of Ivory

Question 25

What is the Gate of Horn?

Answer 25

An easy exit for true shades

Question 26

What is the Gate of Ivory?

Answer 26

For sending false dreams up towards heaven

Question 27

What gate does Anchises send Aeneas and the Sibyl through?

Answer 27

The Gate of Ivory

Question 28

What member of Augustus’ family is mentioned by name?

Answer 28

Marcellus, his nephew