Aeneas
Aeneas is descended from what goddess?
Venus
What war is the hero of the Aeneid escaping?
The Trojan War
Who wrote the Aeneid?
Virgil
Latium is what modern day city?
Rome
Aeneas was from this tribe?
The Dardanians
Neptune stirs up the Mediterranean and sends Aeneas to what city where he meets a queen?
Carthage
Who was the Greek hero who had weak ankles?
Achilles
What blind poet wrote the Odyssey and the Illiad?
Homer
What language earned it's name from this tribe of people?
Latin
She was Queen of Carthage who kills herself after Aeneas marries her and leaves.
Who is Queen Dido?
Who is the goddess who sends the golden apple and sparks the war?
Discordia/ Discord
Who was the King of Troy during the Trojan Wars?
King Priam
When someone says that is epic what does this mean in English?
It is long.
Aeneas made the Princess of the Latins his bride, but who was his first wife he left in Troy?
Creusa
He is the King of Latium and his daughter if fated to marry Aeneas.
Who is King Latinus?
Poseidon
Queen Hecuba
The Aeneid was commissioned by what emperor of Rome?
Augustus
Who was the father-in-law of Aeneas's brides?
Anchises
This is the King of Latium's daughter who Aeneas fights her betrothed Turnus to win her hand in marriage.
Who is Lavinia?
What is the name of the one-eyed giant in the odyssey?
Polyphemos
Helen was snatched from Sparta and taken to Troy by Paris. Unfortunately, for Paris she was already married. Who was her husband?
King Menelaus of Sparta
In what meter was the Aeneid written?
Dactylic Hexameter
Lavinia's step-son?
Who is Ascanius?