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Virgil's Aeneid: Lines 335-359 Notes Flashcards

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1
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Does Venus agree to help Aeneas having been satisfied by his words?

A

Yes

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2
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Does Venus reveal her identity?

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No

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3
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What sort of dye was purple dye?

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A famous but expensive one

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4
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What was purple a symbol of? Why?

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Power and status in Rome because it is a famous and expensive dye

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5
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How did they make purple dye?

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Crushed and treated shellfish

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Why would purple be likely to feature in a Carthaginian habitat?

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Shellfish was often found off the coast of Tyre (Dido’s homeland)

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7
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Who is Agenor?

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An ancestor of Dido from Tyre

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How does Venus comfort Aeneas that Carthage is not warlike?

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Compares to their neighbours

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9
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How is her introduction to Dido’s story well calculated?

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She mentions many aspects of Dido’s life that are similar to Aeneas’

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10
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What is the effect of the well calculated introduction to Dido’s story?

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Catch Aeneas’ attention

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11
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Which aspects of Dido’s life are common with Aeneas’?

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Dido is an exile, was wronged after many adventures, has founded a new city

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12
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In line 345, there is ellipsis of what? How many times is it repeated?

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‘Her’ is repeated twice

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13
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Who is Sychaeus?

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Dido’s first husband

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14
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What accentuates the number of crimes Pygmalion has done?

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Polysyndeton

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15
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How is Dido’s suffering magnified?

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With then audience’s knowledge she will fall in love and be abandoned a second time by Aeneas

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16
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Which word is emphatically placed on line 349?

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‘Impius’

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17
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Where is there a contrast on line 349?

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‘Impius’ followed by ‘ante aras’ - Pygmalion is not dutiful while Sychaeus is being dutiful to the Gods

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18
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Which word is emphatically positioned on line 352?

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Amantem

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19
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What is the last mention of Pygmalion’s evilness?

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He hides Sychaeus’ body and does not bury him

20
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What did Romans believe about the unburied?

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They could not enter the underworld so wandered as ghosts haunting and disturbing the living

21
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Where is the irony in this passage?

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Altars are meant to protect a man but could not when faced with Pygmalion’s pure evilness

22
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What is theoxeny?

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When a goddess disguises as a stranger and is described as a stranger

23
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What is xenia behaviour?

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Guest friendship - she is being a stranger

24
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Who had purple on their togas?

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Politicians have a band of purple around their togas

25
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What two animals make up purple dye?

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Shellfish and beetles

26
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Where is Carthage?

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Tunisia

27
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Where is Troy?

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Just below Bulgaria

28
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Where is Tyre?

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Lebanon

29
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What does ‘windings’ mean?

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To and fro

30
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What typically happens in epic poetry?

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Strangers meet, one has suffered and one tells a story

31
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‘Summa’ could also mean…

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Highlights

32
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What helped to mark out someone’s status?

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How much land you had

33
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What is the effect of the ellipsis?

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For scansion, ‘her’ shows she is unimportant in the transaction, starts a more dramatic section

34
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What is significant about ‘medius’?

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Actually divides the line in the middle

35
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Who is Pygmalion the opposite of?

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Aeneas who is pious

36
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What sort of lexis is present with Pygmalion? Why?

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Negative to show how evil he is

37
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There is polyptoton of which word?

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Amore

38
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Why us Sychaeus at the altar?

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It is their wedding day

39
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What does ‘lusit’ actually mean? Does this add to the evilness?

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‘To play with’ so yes it does

40
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How is Pygmalion the opposite of what Romans esteem to be?

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Romans esteem to be careful with their money

41
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Why did Dido and Pygmalion divide?

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Because of rage

42
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Which words should go together but do not? Why?

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‘Aegram’ and ‘amantem’ relates to love and sickness at the end of each line

43
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Is the section about Pygmalion ambiguous?

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Yes

44
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Do ghosts look like their normal human selves?

A

No- they look possessed

45
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What did people think when a ghost appeared to them?

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They are seeing the actual person although they are just dreaming

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