The Aeneid

Question 1

Anchises’ advice to Aeneas

Answer 1

‘pardon the defeated and war down the proud’

Question 2

Why is Juno angry at the Trojans?

Answer 2

Rome will crush her favourite city Carthage, Greeks died at Troy, judgement of Paris, Ganymede was a Trojan

Question 3

Opening of the proem

Answer 3

‘I sing of arms and of the man’

Question 4

The parade of heroes in Elysium

Answer 4

Alban kings, Romulus, Julius Caesar, Augustus, kings of Rome, Roman Republic history

Question 5

Evander’s Rome

Answer 5

shows the Lupercal, the Asylum, the house of Tarpeia and the Capitol, cattle in the place of the Roman Forum- shows Augustus’ achievements now

Question 6

What is on the shield of Aeneas?

Answer 6

Battle of Actium in the middle, around the edge: Romulus, the Sabines, Mettus and Tullus, Tarquin, Tartarus, the Capitol

Question 7

Aeneas human sacrifice

Answer 7

Plans to sacrifice 8 captives- ‘to sacrifice them as offerings to the shade of Pallas and pour their captive blood on the flames of his pyre.’

Question 8

Aeneas’ impiety

Answer 8

Kills a priest of Apollo and a priestess of Diana Trivia on his Pallas rampage

Question 9

Lausus’s death

Answer 9

sacrifices himself for his father Mezentius. Sympathy for Mezentius

Question 10

Sacrifices and Augustus

Answer 10

Augustus sacrificed humans at Perusia

Question 11

What duty does Evander lay upon Aeneas?

Answer 11

kill Turnus- ‘owes the life of Turnus to the son and to the father.’

Question 12

Word for catalogue of one person killing lots

Answer 12

aristeia

Question 13

Aeneas’ promise if he is victorious over the Latins

Answer 13

will marry Lavinia but leave them alone, won’t order Italians to obey Trojans, won’t be a king. Latinus will keep political and military authority but Aeneas will be in charge of religion

Question 14

Father/son relationships

Answer 14

Priam/Polites 
Mezentius/Lausus
Evander/Pallas
Daunus/Turnus
Anchises/Aeneas
Aeneas/Pallas
Aeneas/Ascanius

Question 15

Competing with Homer

Answer 15

Where Achilles chases Hector three times around the walls of Troy, Aeneas chases Turnus five times around the Latin plain

Question 16

Which books are flashbacks?

Answer 16

2 and 3

Question 17

Word for ‘speaking out’ and examples

Answer 17

ekhphrasis. The sculpture on the Carthaginian’s temple to Juno, the sculpture on the temple to Apollo at Cumae, Aeneas’ shield, the baldric of Pallas, Turnus’ shield

Question 18

Similarities between Homer and Virgil

Answer 18

both use: similes, epithets, repeated phrases, parallel scenes and characters

Question 19

Mezentius as a horrible leader

Answer 19

Living men roped to dead bodies to die a lingering death- forced out by his people, the Etruscans

Question 20

What causes Camilla’s death?

Answer 20

‘burning with all the woman’s passion for spoil and plunder’- embroidered cloak and tunic

Question 21

Book 4 links to tragedy

Answer 21

Opening scene between Dido and Anna is like the one in ‘Antigone’ and the ending is like the end scene of ‘Hippolytus’. Dido is said to be mad like Pentheus and Orestes. Agon between Dido and Aeneas is like that of Jason and Medea. Adds a level of dramatic irony.

Question 22

Things/ people seen in the underworld

Answer 22

Grief, Revenge, War etc. personified.
Monsters: Scylla, centaurs, Lernean Hydra.
Palinurus, Dido
Aural imagery of Tartarus: chains, people being whipped, groans.
Mythological figures: Tiryos, Capiths,Theseus.

Question 23

Description of the reunion with Anchises

Answer 23

Tried to embrace him three times (like Odysseus and Anticleia

Question 24

Mini-episode book 6

Answer 24

Ekphrasis of grove of Diana Trivia: Icarus and Daedalus

Question 25

Goddess Dido compared to

Answer 25

Diana

Question 26

Where does Dido live?

Answer 26

Libya

Question 27

Which dead comrade to they find in book 6?

Answer 27

Misenus

Question 28

Trojans that open the gate

Answer 28

Pandarus and Bitias, Pandarus then closes them with Turnus inside