Virgil's Aeneid: Lines 297-304 Notes

Question 1

Who is Maia?

Answer 1

A muse and Mercury’s mother

Question 2

How do we know Juppiter means what he says here?

Answer 2

He takes immediate action following his words

Question 3

Who is Dido?

Answer 3

Queen of Juno’s favoured city- Carthage

Question 4

What does Mercury do over Carthage?

Answer 4

Casts a ‘spell’ to make the queen and Carthaginians sympathetic to the Trojans when they arrive after the storm

Question 5

Who does Dido marry?

Answer 5

Aeneas

Question 6

What happens when Aeneas is forced to leave Carthage?

Answer 6

Dido commits suicide

Question 7

Who forces Aeneas to leave Carthage?

Answer 7

Juppiter

Question 8

What does ‘remigio’ literally translate as?

Answer 8

Rowing

Question 9

How was flying often described in Latin?

Answer 9

Rowing with wings

Question 10

Who are the Poeni?

Answer 10

Carthaginians

Question 11

Where does Poeni come from? What are the latin versions?

Answer 11

Phoinos

Poenus and Punicus

Question 12

What was at Phoinos?

Answer 12

Red dye that came from this region

Question 13

What is the poetic language here?

Answer 13

‘Alto’ - from the heights

Question 14

Where is there tautology?

Answer 14

‘Calm feelings and kind thoughts’

Question 15

What does ‘corda’ technically mean?

Answer 15

‘Hearts’

Question 16

What is the ‘fate’ that Dido is unaware of?

Answer 16

She will marry Aeneas, be given a love spell by Venus before then to make her fall wildly in love with him. After a while, Juppiter reminds Aeneas of his destiny and he must leave Carthage so Dido commits suicide

Question 17

What does Phoinos actually mean?

Answer 17

Red