Lecture 11 - Aeneas and Roman Mythology

Question 1

Religio

Answer 1

Anything that has to do with human relationships with divine power

Question 2

Janus

Answer 2

God of beginnings and doorways

Question 3

Robigo

Answer 3

God of rust and mold

Question 4

Genius

Answer 4

A spirit of ones family that is associated with men

Question 5

Lares

Answer 5

Spirits of ancestors

Question 6

Vesta

Answer 6

Hestia, goddess of the hearth

Question 7

Sacrificium

Answer 7

Give up something that is human property (a cow for example) to a god

Question 8

Haruspicia

Answer 8

Opening up a sacrificial animal and look around at how things are shaped and coloured

Question 9

Divinatio

Answer 9

Trying to figure out the will of a divinity

Question 10

Syncretism

Answer 10

When gods or spirits are fused together or associated

Question 11

Evocatio

Answer 11

To evoque something

Question 12

Eponymous

Answer 12

when you tribute a certain object, place, idea, person to another object, place, or idea or person

Question 13

The __________ are ancestral spirits in Roman religion.

Answer 13

Lares

Question 14

Who is said to have founded Rome?

Answer 14

King Romulus

Question 15

Livy’s full name

Answer 15

T. Livius Patavinus

Question 16

Anchises tells his son, Aeneas, that Rome is destined to

Answer 16

Rule the nations with sovereign authority

Question 17

Which is the evil brother? Numitor or Amulius?

Answer 17

Amulius

Question 18

Aeneas’ most important trait is his __________.

Answer 18

Dutifulness

Question 19

Who raped Lucretia ?

Answer 19

Tarquinius

Question 20

What did Lucretia do to make justice?

Answer 20

Killed herself after making men promise to avenge her death

Question 21

Which Roman stuck their arm in the fire to prove a point to a foreign king?

Answer 21

Gaius Mucius

Question 22

Who does Aeneas visit in the underworld?

Answer 22

Anchises, his father

Question 23

Flora

Answer 23

goddess of flowers or plants

Question 24

Disciplina

Answer 24

goddess of discipline