Aeneas, Virgil Flashcards

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What did the Latins live in

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In huts in villages in the hills

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People of Latinum lived

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Where Rome was built

They are the indigenous population

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Lifestyle of the Latins

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Farmers

Tribal groups

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Latins lived in

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Northern/ central Italy
In villages in hills
Defend by wooden palisades

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Latin gods

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Jupiter, Diana, Venus etc.

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Latin influences

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Influenced BY those that arrived
(Greeks+Etruscans)
But kept their own language

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Etruscans lived in

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Northern/ Central Italy

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Etruscan dates

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800-300bc

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Etruscan influences

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Influenced rome’s buildings
Built the main city sewer (cloaca Maxima) to drain the forum
Excavated allot of metals to trade with the Greeks
Mede the bronze she wolf
Built many arches

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Greek city states area

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Southern Italy/Sicily

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Greek city states dates

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700BCE

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Greek city states influences

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Made many ports,
Trade with Etruscans
Rome had access to the romans

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Aeneas

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Demi god
Hero of troy
Son of Venus
Founder of Rome

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Aeneas’s family

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Father was Anchises
Wife was Creusa
Son was Ascanius

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Aeneas’s 1st dream

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Hector who had recently died in the Trojan battle came to him in a dream
He told him to escape with the holy headbands and fire of vesta
To start a new city
AENEAS REFUSED

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Aeneas’s 2nd dream

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His mother Venus told him to escape
She told him that the gods were against Troy
AENEAS CONVINCED

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How did Aeneas convince his father to depart with him

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A fire appeared on Aeneas’s son’s head
A roll of thunder
A shootings star

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Aeneas’s departure

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The holy symbols of Troy
Anchises on his back
Holding Ascanius’s hand
Had forgotten Creusa

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Aeneas’s wife’s apparition

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Told him to continue
To not not look for her
To get a new wife

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Creusa

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Wife of Aeneas
Princess of Troy
Prisms youngest daughter

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Hector

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Main hero of Troy
Son of Priam
Killed by Achilles

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Priam

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King of Troy

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Juno hates the Trojans (apple)

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Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Goddess of Arguments wasn’t invited (Eris)
She threw an apple (labeled for the fairest) between the goddesses
Jupiter (father to Minerva, husband to Juno) gave the apple to Paris
Venus said that if she was chosen Paris would get the. Most beautiful wife- Venus was chosen and not Juno

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Juno hates the Trojans (Ganymede)

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Ganymede was Jupiter’s personal wine waiter
All the gods loved Ganymede except Juno
Juno was jealous of him
She hated him and his whole race

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Juno hates the Trojans (Dido)

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Juno loved the city Carthage and its queen Dido

The prophecy said Trojan descendants would destroy it

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Passage from Virgil that shows Aeneas’s warlike origins

And how the Romans can claim to have descended from the Trojans

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He also suffered much from war, before he founded his city and brought his gods to Latium, from whence came the Latin people, the Alban fathers, and the lofty walls of Rome.

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Virgil’s account of why Aeneas was able to leave Troy

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It was fate that made Aeneas into exile “made an exile by fate”

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Aeneas’s journey

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Macedonia
Sicily
Luarenteum