The Ladies
Themes & Symbols
Lingua Latina
Why Things Are the Way They Are
The Underworld
100

Glorious queen. Husband killed by her brother. Dumped by Aeneas. Gives him the silent treatment in the underworld.

Dido

100

Devotion paid to the gods.

Piety

100
Juturna's name is a combination of these two, to whom she is equally devoted.

Juno & Turnus

100

This person is the name-sake of the first emperor, Julius Caesar.

Iulus

100

The person whom Aeneas sought in his visit to the underworld. 

Anchises (his father)

200
Does not speak in the entire epic, but is seen as a "new Helen." Will give her name to the shores of the land in the future. 

Lavinia

200

The main theme of the Aeneid; what drives Aeneas on!

Fate/Destiny

200

Latin word for 'son'

Filius

200

These violent events in Rome's history are explained by Dido's hatred of Aeneas.

Carthaginian (Punic) Wars

200

Aeneas' guide in the underworld

The Sibyl

300

Fury sent by Juno to rile up Turnus to fight against Aeneas.

Allecto

300

When immortals intervene in the affairs of mortals.

Divine intervention

300

The opposite of pious.

Impious

300

Here Aeneas sees all his descendants and Vergil gives an ancestry of the Roman people.

The Underworld

300

Tragic Dido appeared in the Fields of Mourning with her husband, __________.

Sychaeus

400

Turnus' sister, a nymph loved by Juno. 

Juturna

400

Devotion specifically paid to one's father.

Filial piety

400

Vir qui Aeneidem scripsit.

Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

400

Rome's future victories, including Augustus' triumph at the Battle of Actium, are depicted on this. 

Aeneas' Shield
400

Before being allowed to visit the underworld, Aeneas had to do these two things.

1. Retrieve the Golden Bough

2. Bury his unknown dead friend (Misenus)

500

Volscian warrior-princess beloved by Diana.

Camilla

500

Symbolic of destruction, passion, and divine will

Fire

500

Recite the first four lines of the proem of the Aeneid in Latin or the whole thing in English. 

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500

Because of a compromise between these two, Latium endures all the way to Roman times in their language, dress, and customs.

Juno & Jove/Jupiter

500

What are the three Roman 'arts' which Anchises instructs Aeneas will be his? 

1. Conquer everyone and impose rule of law ("Rule with all your power the people's of the earth... ways of peace")

2. Spare the defeated,

3. Break the proud in war.

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