Lecture 23

Question 1

The myth of Echo and Narcissus is

BEST understood using what theory?

Answer 1

Etiology

Question 2

What is Ovid’s full (three part) name?

Answer 2

Publius Ovidius Naso

Question 3

Dido was the queen and founder of

what city?

Answer 3

Carthage

Question 4

According to Ovid, why was he exiled?

Answer 4

A poem and a mistake

Question 5

To where was Ovid exiled?

Answer 5

To the black sea

Question 6

A Roman woman who only had one husband was known as what?

Answer 6

Univera

Question 7

Who told Aeneas to leave Dido?

Answer 7

Hermes (under orders of Jupiter)

Question 8

According to Ovid, in what Age did people first live in houses?

Answer 8

Silver Age

Question 9

Cadmus was the brother of whom?

Answer 9

Europa

Question 10

Who was Aeneas’s primary ally in Italy?

Answer 10

Evander

Question 11

What was Aeneas’s father’s name?

Answer 11

Anchises

Question 12

Who was Deucalion’s father?

Answer 12

Prometheus

Question 13

An extended literary description of a work of art is called what?

Answer 13

Ekphrasis

Question 14

What is the famous example of

Ekphrasis from the Aeneid?

Answer 14

Aeneas’ shield

Question 15

Ovid blamed Actaeon’s fate on whom?

Answer 15

Fate?

Question 16

Virgil’s Roman audience might have associated Dido with whom?

Answer 16

Cleopatra

Question 17

Who was Aeneas’s chief enemy in Italy?

Answer 17

Turnus

Question 18

Where did Augustus live in Rome?

Answer 18

Palatine Hill

Question 19

Who took Aeneas to the underworld?

Answer 19

The Sybil

Question 20

What Trojan hero does Aeneas meet in the underworld?

Answer 20

Deiphobus

Question 21

Who was that hero’s wife?

Answer 21

Helen

Question 22

What city was the hometown of Bacchus?

Answer 22

Thebes

Question 23

Daphne became what to avoid Apollo?

Answer 23

A Laurel Tree

Question 24

What was the name of Ovid’s most famous lover?

Answer 24

Corinna

Question 25

During which Punic War did Hannibal famously cross the alps?

Answer 25

Second

Question 26

What was the name of Aeneas’s son?

Answer 26

Ascanius

Question 27

Who was the father of Cadmus?

Answer 27

Agenor, King of Tyre

Question 28

In the Aeneid, where was the entrance to the underworld?

Answer 28

Lake Avernus