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Book I
2. How do the gods and goddesses influence the storm which almost destroys Aeneas' fleet? Include Juno, Aeolus, Deiopeia, and Neptune.
prophesy when you already know how the events turned out.)
4. Venus, disguised as a young girl, meets Aeneas, her son, and Achates, his best friend, on the road to
of Dido, Sychaeus, and Pygmalion. Who are these people, and what is their story?
5. When Aeneas and Achates arrive in
6. As they wander around Dido's city, what does Aeneas see on the walls of the great temple?
7. Aeneas is reunited with his lost comrades and three options for their immediate future are proposed. What are the Trojans' 3 options?
8. When Achates returns to the ship to fetch Ascanius, Aeneas' son, Venus launches her plan to control Dido by making her fall in love with
Aeneas. What was this plan?
1. For what reason did the Greeks say they built the horse? The real reason was to hide men inside who could open the gates later.
2. Sinon was a Greek captured by the Trojans after the main body of Greeks had departed. Sinon said that Ulysses was mad at him. Why?
3. For what reason does Sinon say he was left behind? What is the real reason?
4. Where did the Greeks hide after they left
5. What did Sinon claim that Calchas, high priest of Apollo, said about the horse?
6. Who had already injured the horse, and in what manner did he do it? How did he pay for his crime?
7. Even as the horse was being pulled into the city, one more person spoke out. Who?
8. Who was given credit for actually building the horse (Ulysses came up with the idea.)?
9. Who opened the horse to let the Greeks out?
10. Who appeared to Aeneas in a dream and told him to flee, that all was lost now?
11. Aeneas and a few comrades at first choose to fight and die rather than flee. How do they succeed in killing a great number of Greeks when they were so
severely outnumbered?
12. Who killed Polites, Priam's son, and King Priam even though they were protected by being inside the temple at the altar?
13. Who stops Aeneas from killing Helen and what does she tell Aeneas to do instead?
14. Father Anchises does not want to leave; What happens to make Anchises change his mind?
15. Where is the rendezvous point for all of the Trojan survivors and who does not make it?
16. Who finally tells Aeneas to gather his followers and leave for a new homeland, Hesperia?
Book III
1. The Trojans come to the
2. The Trojans started a settlement on what large island, only to be defeated by plague and drought?
3. Aeneas' household gods spoke to him and told him for the first time that his new home would be where?
4. On the
5. Who told them that when they ate their tables, they would be in their new home?
6. Next they landed near
7. In
8. Who built a replica city of
9. Who told the Trojans that when they saw a white sow with 30 white piglets, they would be home?
10. The Trojans land in
11. Between
12. Whom was Aeneas told to see to get an accurate prophesy of the future?
13. Who chases them away from the area around
14. Whom do the Trojans take with them?
15. Anchises dies on the island of __________.
Book IV
1. Who is this Anna?
2. Dido tells Anna that the memory of her dead husband Sychaeus is holding her back from pursuing Aeneas. Anna's answer is to pursue Aeneas. Reread lines
42-75, and list at least three reasons that Anna gives Dido for following her advice.
3. To what is Dido being compared as she roams around the city distraught?
4. What happened to the construction of
5. Briefly describe Juno's plan on how Dido and Aeneas may be brought together.
6. Venus knew Juno's plan was a trick. The intended purpose of the plan was to bring Dido and Aeneas, Tyrians and Trojans, together into one nation. What was the real purpose of Juno's plan?
7. Aeneas and Dido go hunting. In the section of the preparations for the hunt. Vergil compares Aeneas to the god _____________?
8. At the end of the hunting trip, Dido and Aeneas arrive in the same cave. What causes them to go there?
10. Rumor, a giant swift bird, immediately spreads the news about Dido and Aeneas. Describe what each feather of this bird looks like, and tell what each
characteristic is used for. Every feature has a purpose.
11. Who is extremely upset and jealous when he hears the news of Dido and Aeneas? Why does he care?
12. Aeneas plans to tell Dido he is leaving, but Dido finds out first. How?
13. In a tirade Dido blames faithless Aeneas for leaving her. What does she say could ease the pain of his leaving?
14. Whom does Aeneas blame for his sudden departure?
15. In another famous simile, Aeneas' men preparing the ships to leave are compared to ________?
16. Who begs Aeneas to stay in
17. Dido asks Anna to build a pyre. It is intended to be Dido's funeral pyre. What does Dido tell Anna she intends to burn on it?
18. When Dido is alone she mulls over her three options on what could be done in her current situation. What does she decide are her three options?
19. Whom does Dido blame for the present circumstances?
20. Before she is ready to die, Dido curses Aeneas. What is Dido's curse on Aeneas?
21. Dido also demands that future generations of Tyrians will always hate future generations of Trojans. What historical event is Vergil foreshadowing?
22. What does Dido use to kill herself?
23. Whom does Juno send to cut off a lock of Dido's hair? Why did this have to be done?
Book V
1. As the Trojans leave
2. Name the five types of games Aeneas plans for his men and some of the prizes they can win.
3. What was different about the awarding of prizes in Aeneas' games?
4. How many boats race? Who wins? Who comes in third? Who finishes last? Why?
5. Who wins the running race?
6. What happened to Nisus and Salius?
7. How does Aeneas handle the situation involving a foul?
8. Old Entellus, the Sicilian champion, boxes Dares, the young Trojan fighter. How does the fight end (a very modern type of ending)? Who wins?
9. Who wins the archery competition and how does he win? Who does Aeneas declare is the winner? Why?
10. Who leads a troop of boys in a military style riding exercise?
11. Who is the first to arrive at the burning ships and scold the women?
12. Who prays to Jupiter for help with putting out the fire?
13. Who tells Aeneas he should leave the weary and disenchanted behind and leave with only the best men and women?
14. Who is expecting a visit from Aeneas in the underworld?
15. Who asks
16. Who dies in order to make Aeneas' voyage to
Book VI
2. In the cave of the Sibyl, Aeneas finds a temple built by _________.
3. What scenes decorate the walls of the temple?
4. Achates brings out the Sibyl, whose real name is ____________.
5. What was the Sibyl's first command to Aeneas? What were the other two things Aeneas must do?
6. Venus sends 2 ______ to lead Aeneas to the _______ ________ in the forest.
7. In the underworld, where do Cares, Diseases, Age, Dread, Hunger, Want, Death, Toil, and Sleep (Death's brother) live?
8. Where do War and Discord live? Dreams?
9. Where do the centaur, Scylla, Briareus, the Lernean hydra, the Chimaera, the Gorgons, the Harpies, and Geryon live?
10. Name the three rivers of the underworld.
11. Name three of Aeneas' men that he meets in the underworld.
12. How do Aeneas and the Sibyl get by Charon, the ferryman? How do they get by Cerberus?
13. Describe what happens when Aeneas meets Dido.
14. When Aeneas met Deiophobus, what did they talk about?
15. The only living soul to ever enter Tartarus was _________. She was led there by the goddess _________.
16. Where does Aeneas meet his father Anchises? Briefly describe this place.
17. How many years did souls returning to earth have to wait before they could be reincarnated?
18. Name a few of Aeneas' important descendants that his father points out to him.