Plot & Events
What city does Aeneas flee from at the beginning of the Aeneid?
Troy
Who is Aeneas’s mother?
(Hint: She's also referred to as his 'divine' mother)
Venus
Which goddess is constantly working against Aeneas?
Juno
What is Aeneas destined to do?
Found Rome
Who wrote the Aeneid?
Virgil
Which book describes the fall of Troy?
Book 2
Who is Aeneas’s father?
Anchises
Who did Venus send in order to implant the flame of Passion into Queen Dido?
Cupid
Who tells Aeneas of Rome’s future heroes in the underworld?
Anchises (Aeneas' father)
The Aeneid was written to honor the origins of what ancient civilization?
Rome
What city does Aeneas and his men reach after escaping Troy, where he meets Queen Dido?
Carthage
Who is the queen who falls in love with Aeneas?
Queen Dido
Which god sends Mercury to remind Aeneas of his destiny?
Jupiter
What item on Aeneas’s shield foreshadows Rome’s greatness?
Future Roman wins (EX: Augustus Ceaser)
What Roman emperor commissioned Virgil to write The Aeneid?
Emperor Augustus Ceaser
What is the name of the underworld guide who leads Aeneas through the realm of the dead?
The Sybil (The priestess of the Apollonian oracle)
Who was the person that Aeneas avenges in book 12 by killing Turnus?
Pallas
What is Vulcan, the god of?
Vulcan is the Roman god of Fire, the forge, and metalworking. He's also married to Venus.
What does Queen Dido do in her final moments? What does this symbolize?
She curses the Trojans, cursing them with eternal enmity (aka hostility) between Carthage and Rome
What earlier Greek epics inspired The Aeneid?
(Hint: There are two)
The Iliad and The Odyssey
In the final book, who does Aeneas defeat in single combat?
Turnus
What is the name of the faithful companion of Aeneas who dies in Book 9 during a night raid?
(Hint: there are two acceptable answers)
Nisus or Euryalus
Who sends a storm to destroy Aeneas’s fleet in Book 1?
Aeolus, after Juno requested him to send a storm to destroy the ships
What symbol represents Aeneas’s destiny in Book 2 when it catches fire but does not burn?
Ascanius’s hair
How does the Aeneid connect to Greek mythology?
The Trojan War