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Chapter 23: Aeneas Flashcards

1
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What are Numina?

A

They are spirits that can inhabit almost any object or serve any function. One example is Robigus and Robigo (it had the power to cause or prevent fungus disease in the grain crop)

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What is the sacrificium?

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This was the ceremony that was conducted during the Robigalia where the priest of Quirinus would ask Robigus to be good and offered the entrails of a filthy red dog. It was a legal transfer and both were expected to upkeep their end of the bargain

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3
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How was the will of the numina revealed?

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Through divination

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4
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What did Appius Claudius Pulcher do?

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He sought his favourable omen by feeding sacred chickens but they were sea-sick so they didn’t eat. He was angry and threw them into the water. He sailed into catastrophic defeat

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Who is Janus?

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He represents the gate of going forth and returning. He is a man with two faces

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6
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What is the Roman version of Zeus?

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Jupiter

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What is the Roman version of Hera?

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Juno

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8
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What is the Roman version of Demeter?

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Ceres

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9
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What is the Roman version of Artemis?

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Diana

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10
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What is the Roman version of Hermes?

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Mercury

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What is the Roman version of Hephaestus?

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Vulcan

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12
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What is the Roman version of Poseidon?

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Neptune

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13
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What is the Roman version of Athena?

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Minerva

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14
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What is the Roman version of Ares?

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Mars

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What is the Roman version of Dionysus?

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Liber

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16
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What is the Roman version of Pan?

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Faunus

17
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What is the Roman version of Aphrodite?

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Venus

18
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What is the Roman version of Hades?

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Pluto

19
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What is the Roman version of Persephone?

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Prosperina

20
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What were the Lares?

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Protective spirits who were worshipped in small shrines at crossroads where the boundaries of four farms came together. There was a doll suspended for each family member and a ball of wool for each slave

21
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What were the Penates?

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They protected household things, especially food. They were associated with the welfare of the Roman State and the Dioscuri

22
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Who wrote the Aeneid?

A

Vergil

23
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Who does Aeneas fall in love with?

A

Dido

24
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How does Aeneas and Sibyl enter the Underwold?

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With a golden bough from a magical tree

25
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What did Aeneas learn in the underworld?

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The future of Rome

26
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What is the prophecy of the Harpies?

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That they will travel until hunger makes them eat their tables. This is later harmlessly fulfilled by using bread cakes as platters which they later eat

27
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What does Helenus tell Aeneas?

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That he must land on the western coast of Italy and would found a city in a secluded valley by a stream where there would be a white sow with thirty piglets

28
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Who did Aeneas kill to marry Lavinia?

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Turnus

29
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Who did Turnus kill?

A

Pallas

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