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What was the name of the sibyl at Cumae?

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Deiphobe

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Who climbs the hill to the temple of Apollo and consults the Sibyl?

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Aeneas

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What does the Sibyl of Cumae tell Aeneas?

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the Trojans will remain in Italy and they will conquer the land after a
dreadful war

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Who tells Aeneas that the Trojans will remain in Italy and they will conquer the land after a
dreadful war?

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The cumaean sibyl

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What does Aeneas ask the sibyl?

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to lead him to the underworld

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How does the sibyl respond to Aeneas asking to be led to the underworld?

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he must first pluck a golden bough and then bury his trumpeter Misenus, who was drowned by Triton

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What must Aeneas do to get to the underworld?

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pluck a golden bough and then bury his trumpeter Misenus, who was drowned by Triton

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Who was Aeneas’s trumpeter?

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Misenus

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Who of Aeneas’s men was drowned by Triton?

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Misenus

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What river do the Sibyl & Aeneas reach the and see Palinurus?

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The Styx

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Who do Aeneas and the sibyl see at the Styx?

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palinurus

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What does Aeneas promise Palinurus after seeing him at the Styx?

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to bury him

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Who drugs cerberus to help Aeneas get into the underworld?

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The sibyl

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Who are the first people that Aeneas and the sibyl see in the underworld?

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people who died as infants

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Who are the second people Aeneas and the Sibyl see in the underworld?

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people who had false charges among them

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Who are the third people that Aeneas and Sibyl see in the underworld?

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people who killed themselves

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Who are the last people Aeneas and the sibyl see in the underworld?

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those who died because of the sorrows of love

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In the underworld, who was among those who died because of the sorrows of love?

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Dido and Sychaeus

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Who weeps over Dido’s death in the underworld but she does not respond to him?

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Aeneas

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Who is the first person Aeneas talks to in the underworld?

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Deiphobus

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What does Deiphobus tell Aeneas in the underworld?

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that he was killed by Helen and Menelaus

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Who killed Deiphobus?

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Helen and Menelaus

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When Aeneas and the Sibyl get to the Elysian Fields, who leads them to Anchises?

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Who was the father of Musaeus?

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What did Anchises prophesize about?
the future of Rome
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In the underworld, who does Anchises say Aeneas will have a son with and what will the son's name be?
Lavinia; Silvius
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Anchises notes the sad shade of what young boy?
Marcellus
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Where do Aeneas and the subyl leave the underworld?
the ivory gates
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How do true shades exit the underworld?
the horn gates
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How do false shades exit the underworld?
the ivory gates
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Coming to the grove of Diana in Cumae, Aeneas sees a temple…
daedalus
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What place, where Daedalus allegedly dedicated his wings to Apollo…
Cumae
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Aeneas was instructed to sacrifice 7 bullocks from a virgin herd and as many 2-year old sheep…
Deiphobe
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What man, who promises to erect a temple to Apollo and Diana Trivia…
Aeneas
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What man, referred to by Deiphobe as the Achilles of Latium…
Turnus
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Whose golden bough…
Proserpina
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In the Aeneid, what son of Aeolus…
Misenus
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What old companion of Hector and son of Aeolus…
Misenus
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Aeneas was led to the golden bough while a pyre was erected…
Misenus
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What man, whose ashed were collected in a bronze urn by Corynaeus...
Misenus
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Who challenged the gods on a conch…
Misenus
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What lake, known only to the Greeks as Aornos…
Avernus
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In book 6 of the Aeneid, what captain…
Orontes
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What man, though Apollo promised he would reach Ausonian shores safely…
Palinurus
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What man, prophesied to be safe on shore and reach Ausonia…
Palinurus
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What priestess of Amphrysian Apollo…
Deiphobe
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In book 6 of the Aeneid, who returns to her husband…
Dido
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In book 6 of the Aeneid, what mutilated man…
Deiphobus
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In book 6 of the Aeneid, what son of Priam…
Deiphobus
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What man, killed by Menelaus and Odysseus and set up by his wife…
Deiphobus
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Which of the furies, who guards the entrance to Tartarus…
Tisiphone
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What man, who leads Aeneas to Anchises…
Musaeus
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In book 6 of the Aeneid, who explains to Aeneas his descent…
Anchises
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Who promises Aeneas a son, Silvanus…
Anchises
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In the Aeneid, what fine man, walking alongside another with the same name…
Marcellus

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