Week 13/14

Question 1

Early Rome started with

Answer 1

a small village on the Tiber River

Question 2

Cincinnatus

Answer 2

Powerful Roman. During an existential crisis he is appointed dictator. He is successful and then steps down.

Question 3

Who was named Hotis by his enemies in the Senate?

Answer 3

Julius Ceasar

Question 4

Numina

Answer 4

Spirits that can inhabit any object and can be petitioned. Will of the Numina discerned through divination.

Question 5

Janus

Answer 5

Numa of bridges

Question 6

Pontifex

Answer 6

Bridge Maker

Question 7

Legend of Aeneas by

Answer 7

Vergil, the poem was left unfinished when Vergil died.

Question 8

What was the prophecy that Aeneas received from a Harpe at Strophacles?

Answer 8

“Hunger will make them eat their tables”

Question 9

Why did Queen Dido kill herself?

Answer 9

She fell in love with Aeneas and he left her.

Question 10

How does Aeneas get past Cerberus?

Answer 10

Sybil drugs Cerberus with a honey cake.

Question 11

Who is Lavinia?

Answer 11

King Latinus’s daughter, she was engaged to another king but Latinus received oracular advice to marry her to a foreigner: Aeneas. This is what started a war.

Question 12

Why did Aeneas kill Turnus?

Answer 12

He would have show Turnus mercy but he noticed Pallas’s sword belt on Turnus. Aeneas had sworn to King Evander that he would take care of his son Pallas.

Question 13

Who fought over the throne for the Silvian Dynasty?

Answer 13

Numitor and Amulius?

Question 14

Who impregnated Rhea with Romulus and Remus?

Answer 14

Mars

Question 15

Why did King Titus declare war on the Romans?

Answer 15

They kidnapped the women of Sabine to take them as their wives.

Question 16

Who killed the Curiatii one by one?

Answer 16

Horatius

Question 17

Why did Horatius kill his sister?

Answer 17

Her fiancee was one of the Curiatii he had killed and she was crying over him. State is more important than anything.

Question 18

Who conspire with Tarquin to kill their wives and husbands to take the thron?

Answer 18

Tullia

Question 19

Why did Lucretia kill herself?

Answer 19

Sextus blackmailed her into having sex with him.

Question 20

Who swore on Lucretia’s dagger to drive the monarchy out?

Answer 20

Brutus

Question 21

Who were the three important figures to go to the underworld?

Answer 21

Aeneas
Orpheus
Odysseus

Question 22

What is breathe associate with?

Answer 22

The soul.

Question 23

Ghosts are often jealous of

Answer 23

the physical pleasures afforded to the living.

Question 24

Who does Odysseus encounter in the underworld?

Answer 24

His crewmen
His mother
Tiresias
Achilles
Heracles's shadow
Notorious sinners

Question 25

Where does Menelaus end up and why?

Answer 25

Menelaus is Zeus’s son in law, so he ends up in Elysium or the Elysian Fields

Question 26

Who has met infamous sinners in the underworld?

Answer 26

Odysseus and Aeneas

Question 27

How does Eurydice die?

Answer 27

She is bit by a snake while running from Aristaeus

Question 28

Why doesn’t Orpheus get his Eurydice back?

Answer 28

He went to the underworld to get her on the condition that he didn’t look back. He did and she disappeared back into the shadows.

Question 29

Why does Aeneas go to the underworld?

Answer 29

To speak to his father before he can found the Roman race in Italy.

Question 30

What does Aeneas need to give to the ferry Charon to get into the underworld?

Answer 30

A golden bough

Question 31

Who can be found in Vergil’s Elysian Fields?

Answer 31

Heroes who died in battle, sages, and poets.

Question 32

2 ways out of the underworld, 2 gates:

Answer 32

One of horn: True dreams

One of Ivory: False dreams

Question 33

Which gate does Aeneas leave through as directed by his father, Anchises?

Answer 33

The Gate of Ivory.