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The Aeneid Flashcards

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Dactylic Haxameter

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A poem style where each line has six syllable groups (or feet) mad up of dactyls which go long, short, short, and sponsees which go long, long.

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Who wrote the Aeneid and why?

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The Roman poet Virgil wrote the epic poem the Aeneid as a rival to the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” of Ancient Greece.

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Pietas

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Roman for “a duty”

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Aeneas

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  • the hero
  • honorable
  • pious
  • honorable
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Who is Aeneas’ mother?

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The goddess Venus

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Queen Dido

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Was Aeneas’ s/o but when fate took Aeneas away from her she killed herself. She symbolizes the consequences when the careless will of the gods conflicts with fate.

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Anchises

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  • Aeneas’ father
  • Wise and string in character
  • the source of Aeneas’ values
  • he exemplifies the Roman ideal of the respect for honor and family
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What does Aeneas have to find to go to the underworld?

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The golden bough which is only pluck able if fate allows it.

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What does the golden bough symbolize?

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Aeneas’s extraordinary and inevitable fate.

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Themes of The Aenead

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  • Inevitable Fate
  • The destiny of Rome (it glorifies Rome and it’s leader, Augustus, whilst demonstrating the traits of an ideal Roman)
  • Honor and Respect (Pious, honoring and being mindful of one’s duties to family and country)
  • Will of the Gods (do the gods merit the respect they demand of humans?)
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Setting of book 6

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After the Trojan war in Sicily, Italy

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The Sibyl

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A priestess of Apollo who agrees to guide Aeneas to the Underworld

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What kind of poem is the Aeneid?

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A Roman Epic

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Who does the Sibyl say needs to have a performed funeral rites by Aeneas and his men?

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Misenus

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What does Aeneas do with Misenus?

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Burns his body in a funeral pyre.

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Who is the ferryman of the underworld?

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Charon

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Why are there souls of the dead on the shore of the River Acheron?

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They cannot be ferried over because they haven’t been buried and therefore need to wander aimlessly for 100 years before they can cross.

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Who frowns on the journey over from Carthage to Italy? And when does Aeneas notice he is dead?

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Palinurus drowned but wasn’t discovered until Aeneas saw him on the shores of the River Acheron.

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Why does Charon bring Aeneas and the sibyl across the River?

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Because they carry the golden bough.

20
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Who confronts Aeneas at the cave that leads to the Nine Circles of the River Styx?

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Cerberus, the three headed watch dog

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Infants, those condemned on false charges, suicides, those who died for love, and warriors can be found in which section of the underworld?

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Limbo

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Deceitful, fraudulent, adulterers, and people disloyal to masters can be found where?

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Tartarus

23
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Heroes, poets, priests, and benefactors of humankind can be found where?

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Elysium

24
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Where does Aeneas see his father?

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The Elysian Fields

25
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What is so significant about the River Lethe?

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Souls which will be reincarnated drink from this river to forget about their former lives.

26
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Where does Aeneas exit the underworld from?

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The ivory gate of false dreams

27
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What does Anchises tell Aeneas?

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He tells him that he needs to establish a home in Italy and shows him a vision of a line of descendants reaching from Aeneas to Augustus.

28
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Where does Aeneas ask Apollo if the Trojans can live there?

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Latium

29
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How is the Aeneid similar to the Odyssey?

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They both are story telling of hero’s journeys, both protagonists visit the underworld, they are told in chronological order but both have flashbacks where they tell someone about their life, and the protagonists want to find home.

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How is the Aeneas different from Odysseus? Why did Vergil do that?

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Odysseus is more arrogant and self involved than Aeneas. Vergil most likely did that to show that Roman hero’s express the values of true heroes in an attempt to make Rome look good.

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What rhetorical devices are prominent in the Aeneid?

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Imagery, allegory(symbols, alliteration, anaphora(repetition of a word), apostrophe(address of an absent person)

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How are Aeneas and the sibyl able to pass Cerberus?

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They feed him a drugged honey cake.

33
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Where in the underworld does Aeneas encounter Dido?

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Field of Mourning

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Who is Dido with in the underworld?

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Sychaeus, her husband

35
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Among men in famous in war, Aeneas encounters this warrior, who has been hacked to pieces…

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Deiphobus

36
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Who is the famous “Spartan Whore” who betrayed Deiphobus?

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Helen

37
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Which river in the underworld is the river of forgetfulness?

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The river Lethe

38
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How long must souls wait before drinking the water from the River Lethe?

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1000 years

39
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What river runs just inside the gate of hell where you can fin Charon?

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The River Acheron

40
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Who is Minus?

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The judge in the underworld of those who had been given the death penalty on a false charge.

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