Test 3 Flashcards
Turnus’s sister, who is a nymph
Juturna
Internprets eagle sign from Jupiter and starts fighting between the Latins and Trojans on battlefield
Tolumnius
ecphrasis
description of artwork in mythology
ex: Aeneas’s armor
Young, Trojan warrior who steals a helmet on battlefield only to have it give up his hiding place. He’s killed and his mother thinks his actions were selfish.
Euryalus
Young, Trojan warrior gives up and is killed after he sees his lover killed by the Italians
Nisus
Foundation myth
the story of a community’s origin or creation
Primary epic
developed organically from oral culture
Secondary epic
derived from already literate culture
Period during Homeric epics where myths were told orally
Archaic Period
Period where upper-class Greek culture became primarily literate
Hellenistic Period
Tiberinus
god of River Tiber appears in Aeneas’s dream to tell him the gods aren’t mad at him anymore
Ruler of the Arcadians, who are constantly at war with the Latins. Teams up with Trojans.
Evander
Cacus
cave inhabited half-man, half-beast who Hercules killed so now Arcadians worship him as their god
Italian warriors listed by the Muses
most notable: Mezentius
Mezentius’s son, Lausus
Turnus
fearless female warrior, Camilla
Latinus
ruler of Latinum, reveals prophecy that his daughter must marry a foreigner. Wants her to marry Aeneas.
Amata
Latinos’s wife. Wants daughter to marry Turnus, Latin warrior. Is later infected with hatred and takes daughter into woods.
