ID's

Question 1

Juno

Answer 1

wife of Jupiter and antagonist of Aeneas due to her animosity of the Trojans in general

Question 2

Jupiter

Answer 2

the major god of the mythical pantheon; oversees Aeneas’s destiny

Question 3

Venus

Answer 3

goddess of love and Aeneas’s mother

Question 4

Minerva

Answer 4

The goddess who protects the Greeks during the Trojan War and helps them conquer Troy

Question 5

Aeneas

Answer 5

the Trojan son of Venus, fated by the gods to lead the surviving Trojans to Italy where his descendants will give rise to the Romans

Question 6

Ascanius

Answer 6

the son of Aeneas and future destiny of Rome’s founding

Question 7

Anchises

Answer 7

father of Aeneas

Question 8

Creusa

Answer 8

wife of Aeneas who dies during the sack of Troy

Question 9

Priam

Answer 9

the king of Troy who is killed by Achilles’ son during the Trojan war

Question 10

Hector

Answer 10

The greatest of the Trojan warriors killed at Troy

Question 11

Hecuba

Answer 11

Queen of Troy and wife to Priam

Question 12

Laocoon

Answer 12

A Trojan priest who advises the Trojans recognize the Greek’s wooden horse as a trick which should be destroyed, but is ignored

Question 13

Dido

Answer 13

The Queen of Carthage who is in love with Aeneas and kills herself upon his leaving

Question 14

Anna

Answer 14

Dido’s sister who encourages her affair with Aeneas

Question 15

Cupid

Answer 15

son of Venus, sent by her to poison Dido with the madness of love

Question 16

Maenad (Bacchant)

Answer 16

female followers of Dionysus; “raving ones” whose image parallels Dido’s raving madness at the end of Book 4 of the Aeneid

Question 17

Romulus and Remus

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the twin offspring of Rhea Sylvia who founded Rome in 753 BCE where they were raised

Question 18

Julius Caesar

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general who formed the First Triumvirate and attempted to establish himself as a dictator over Rome; was killed in 44 BCE

Question 19

Marc Antony

Answer 19

part of the Second Triumvirate supporting Julius Caesar’s son Octavius in becoming the first Emperor of Rome in 30 BCE; had an affair with Cleopatra

Question 20

Catalina

Answer 20

lost in the election to Cicero and attempted to assassinate him; conspired to gain complete dictatorial power in the Senate

Question 21

Cicero

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Roman politician who spoke out against the Catalina conspiracy in favor of the Republic; was killed in 43 BCE by the order of the Second Triumvirate for speaking against Marc Antony

Question 22

Emperor Augustus

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in 30 BCE became the first emperor of Rome

Question 23

Emperor Diocletian

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became emperor in 284 CE and led an intense persecution of Christians in the empire

Question 24

Emperor Constantine

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Ended the persecution of the Christians in 313 CE with the Edict of Milan establishing religious tolerance

Question 25

Monica

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Augustine’s pious Christian mother

Question 26

Alypius

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Augustine’s friend who was once addicted to the gladiator games; lives with Augustine in philosophical contemplation; brings Augustine to be baptized

Question 27

Ambrose

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bishop of Milan whose allegorical interpretation of the Bible and skillful rhetoric aided in Augustine’s conversion to Catholicism

Question 28

Jerome

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translated the crude Greek Bible into Latin (the translation that became known as the Vulgate)

Question 29

Manicheans

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followers of Mani who held Christian beliefs based on materialism and the struggle between good (light) and evil (dark, physical)

Question 30

Arius and the Arian controversy

Answer 30

Arius denied the divinity of Christ, claiming He was of similar substance to God and was a creature. This caused backlash from orthodox Christians (like bishop Alexander) who defended the belief that Christ and God were of the same substance

Question 31

Desert Christianity

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beginning in the 3rd century, Christians who gave up material possessions and worldly ambition, moving to the deserts of Egypt to carry out a life of extreme pious asceticism and monasticism

Question 32

St. Paul

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apostle of Christ whose writings inspired Augustine, especially in his development of the idea of grace and original sin

Question 33

St. Antony

Answer 33

essential to the development of early desert monasticism; a desert monk whose abandonment of material possessions and pleasures for a life of asceticism inspired Augustine

Question 34

Athanasius

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served as bishop of Alexandria; accompanies bishop Alexander to Nicean Council; defended the orthodox position over Christology against the Arian belief

Question 35

Nicene Creed

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a formal declaration of the orthodox doctrine stating God and Christ are of the same substance (homoousios) and rejecting the Arian claim against the divinity of Christ; formulated during the Council of Nicea in 325 CE

Question 36

Pythagoras

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(570–495 BCE) a philosopher who held that divine assistance was necessary to achieve self-knowledge

Question 37

Plato

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(424-347 BCE) a philosopher who encouraged turning inward to find intelligent reality - which was not found through the senses

Question 38

Stoics

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(Zeno of Citium 3 BCE) encouraged asceticism; whatever is real is bodily

Question 39

Epicureans

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(Epicurus 341-270 BCE) denied divine intervention/providence but influenced Augustine in the idea of achieving tranquility by limiting desires

Question 40

Skeptical Academy

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(Arcesilaus 315-240 BCE and Carneades 214-129 BCE) maintained that any knowledge is impossible; influenced Augustine’s understanding of the limitations of human Intellect

Question 41

Plotinus

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(204-270 CE) a philosopher who espoused the idea of using one’s Intellect to ascend through the soul and attain unity with the One (God)