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Virgil's Georgics: Lines 380-410 Notes Flashcards

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1
Q

Where else is Proteus’ story told?

A

Homer’s Odyssey 4 (pre Virgil) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses ( post Virgil)

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2
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What is ecphrasis?

A

Setting a scene by painting a picture for the audience and then locating the action within

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3
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Where is ecphrasis seen here?

A

Lines 387-390 ‘est… hic’

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4
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Where is the Isle of Carpathos?

A

Between Crete and Rhodes in the Mediterranean sea south west of Turkey

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5
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Where is the Carpathian sea?

A

Around the Island of Carpathos

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6
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What is Proteus’ chariot pulled by?

A

Sea horses

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7
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How does Virgil describe the sea horses?

A

Using hendiadys

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8
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What are the sea horses described as?

A

A cross between fish and horses

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9
Q

Emathia roughly describes which area?

A

Thessaly and Macedonia

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10
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What was Pallene?

A

A town in south east Macedonia

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11
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According to myth, what does Proteus have to do with Pallene?

A

It was his homeland or he moved there from Egypt

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12
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Who is Nereus?

A

A major deity of the ocean. Father of the Nereids

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13
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What does ‘trahantur’ in this instance?

A

‘Are destined’

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14
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How is ‘trahantur’ a metaphor?

A

Drawing out the threads of fate

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15
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What role does Proteus act for Neptune?

A

The head herdsman for Neptune’s fish flock

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16
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What does Proteus actually give Aristaeus?

A

The cause of the issue, not the remedy

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17
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What is the remedy to Aristaeus’ problem?

A

The Begonia method

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18
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What does the heat of Proteus’ environment contrast with?

A

The cold environment of Orpheus landscape

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19
Q

Who influenced this passage?

A

Homer

20
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What does this passage start with?

A

Calm and serene description of nature

21
Q

How does the calm and serene description of nature change?

A

It becomes chaotic and unnatural when Proteus awakes

22
Q

What is the basic meaning of ‘horridus’? What is the meaning used?

A

Bristling and bristling

23
Q

What technique is used as Proteus shapeshifts?

A

Polysyndeton

24
Q

What does the polysyndeton do?

A

Builds up terrifying images as Proteus shapeshifts

25
Q

What makes is recognise the cunning ways of Proteus?

A

The use of diction as it is hard to imagine how one would tighten chains around flames or water?

26
Q

Which word in line 387 is onomatopoeic?

A

Gurgite

27
Q

What is the effect of the synchesis in lines 388-389?

A

Gives impression of rough waters

28
Q

What does venerate mean?

A

Worship

29
Q

Why does Aristaeus need to chain Proteus?

A

Stop him shape shifting

30
Q

What sort of colour is tawny?

A

Mustard

31
Q

What does tenuous mean?

A

Thin

32
Q

What is significant about the word ‘excidet’ on line 410?

A

It has quite literally slipped off the line

33
Q

In the Homeric version, what is Menelaus warned about Proteus?

A

Proteus will turn into all creatures of the Earth and fire and water

34
Q

What actually happened when Menelaus confronted Proteus?

A

He turns into a lion, leopard, serpent, boar, water and a tree

35
Q

What does Cyrene warn Aristaeus about Proteus?

A

He will turn into a boar, serpent, lioness, tigress, fire and water

36
Q

What does Proteus actually turn into in the Virgilian version?

A

Fire, beast and water

37
Q

What is diction?

A

The mark of quality of writing. The selection of certain words or phrases that become peculiar to a writer

38
Q

What is Maeonian wine?

A

An exotic wine from Lydia

39
Q

Where is Lydia?

A

Modern Turkey (western region)

40
Q

What are nymphs of the forest called?

A

Dryads

41
Q

What are nymphs inhabiting streams called?

A

Nereids

42
Q

When Virgil used Bacchus to represent wine, where else is this seen?

A

Using Vesta to represent the hearth on line 384

43
Q

What sort of subjunctive is ‘libemus’?

A

Iussive subjunctive

44
Q

Where is there anaphora in this section?

A

‘Quae… quae’ line 383

45
Q

Why are they worshipping Ocean?

A

They live in the sea

46
Q

What sort of technique is it to use a God to represent an object?

A

Almost personification

47
Q

What is the ‘good omen’ Aristaeus received?

A

When you sprinkle a little nectar on the hearth and the flame shoots up

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