Week 9 (Vergil's Aeneid Books 1-6)

Question 1

• Source Material: Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Timaeus (early 3rd cent. BC Greek historian), Naevius (late 3rd cent. BC Roman poet), Cato the Elder
• modeled on the _______ (Aeneid Books 1-6) and the _____ (Aeneid Books 7-12)
• Major Themes: ________ (command/authority/discipline), war & loss, _____ (passion, madness, rage), pietas, fate/destiny

Answer 1

Odyssey, Iliad
imperium, furor

Question 2

• Beginning of Book 1, ____ is presented as Aeneas’ nemesis
• Aeneas is off the coast of ______ when we first encounter him.
• T/F: In book 1, Jupiter says to Venus that through the Romans, Troy will one day gets its revenge on the Greeks for the Fall of Troy.
• Aeneas loses his ____ Creusa during his escape from Troy in Book 2
• In Book 4, Jupiter assigns _______ to tell Aeneas he must sail to Italy to fulfill his destiny

Answer 2

Juno
Sicily
T
wife
Mercury