Chapter 23: Aeneas Flashcards
What are Numina?
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)
What is the sacrificium?
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
How was the will of the numina revealed?
Through divination
What did Appius Claudius Pulcher do?
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
Who is Janus?
He represents the gate of going forth and returning. He is a man with two faces
What is the Roman version of Zeus?
Jupiter
What is the Roman version of Hera?
Juno
What is the Roman version of Demeter?
Ceres
What is the Roman version of Artemis?
Diana
What is the Roman version of Hermes?
Mercury
What is the Roman version of Hephaestus?
Vulcan
What is the Roman version of Poseidon?
Neptune
What is the Roman version of Athena?
Minerva
What is the Roman version of Ares?
Mars
What is the Roman version of Dionysus?
Liber
What is the Roman version of Pan?
Faunus
What is the Roman version of Aphrodite?
Venus
What is the Roman version of Hades?
Pluto
What is the Roman version of Persephone?
Prosperina
What were the Lares?
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
What were the Penates?
They protected household things, especially food. They were associated with the welfare of the Roman State and the Dioscuri
Who wrote the Aeneid?
Vergil
Who does Aeneas fall in love with?
Dido
How does Aeneas and Sibyl enter the Underwold?
With a golden bough from a magical tree
What did Aeneas learn in the underworld?
The future of Rome
What is the prophecy of the Harpies?
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
What does Helenus tell Aeneas?
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
Who did Aeneas kill to marry Lavinia?
Turnus
Who did Turnus kill?
Pallas
