Virgil Georgics Notes 315-332

Question 1

What sort of tone is in line 315?

Answer 1

Homeric tone

Question 2

What was the Tempe?

Answer 2

A famous valley in Northern Greece

Question 3

What was the name of the river that flowed through the Tempe?

Answer 3

River Peneus

Question 4

How is there a homeric tone?

Answer 4

The call to the Muses and the series of questions

Question 5

Who is the river god to a) Cyrene and b) Aristaeus

Answer 5

a) father

b) grandfather

Question 6

What sort of being is Cyrene?

Answer 6

Water nymph

Question 7

When Aristaeus goes to the start of the river, what are his actions like?

Answer 7

An elegist lover

Question 8

What is an elegist lover?

Answer 8

Someone who mourns a dead love

Question 9

Whatbis Aristeus mourning the death of?

Answer 9

His bees

Question 10

What does spondiac mean?

Answer 10

Long syllables

Question 11

Is line 321 emphatic?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

Where is there a caesura on line 321?

Answer 12

After the first foot- note it is unusual

Question 13

Where is the anaphora on line 321?

Answer 13

Question words

Question 14

What is the effect of the spondiac, caesura and anaphora on line 321?

Answer 14

Creates a mannered effect

Question 15

Whatnis a mannered effect?

Answer 15

Formal, sensible - not dramatic

Question 16

The plea from Aristeus to his mother is based off what?

Answer 16

The plea of Achilles to his mother Thetis, a sea nymph

Question 17

The series of despairing questions is a feature of what?

Answer 17

A lament in an epyllion

Question 18

What and where was Thymbra?

Answer 18

A town in Troad

Question 19

Where was Troad?

Answer 19

North west Turkey

Question 20

What does hubristic mean?

Answer 20

Being disrespectful to the gods

Question 21

Which word is plural but meant as singular?

Answer 21

‘Nostri’

Question 22

What is Aristaeus dedicating to his mother?

Answer 22

His honour