Trojan War
This young man's infatuation with beautiful women was a catalyst for the Trojan war.
Who is Paris?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.
What is anaphora?
Vergil wrote the Aeneid as propaganda for this political figure.
Who is Augustus?
The protagonist of an epic that embodies the ideals of a particular culture.
What is a hero?
This man is the aged king of Troy.
Who is Priam?
This work is Virgil's epic based on two works of Homer.
What is the Aeneid?
These nine goddesses, spirits of artistic endeavors, are also commonly mispronounced street names in New Orleans.
What are the Muses?
Unlike English poetry, Latin uses this to determine the pattern of poetry.
What is long/short vowels?
What is vowel length?
This man is king of Sparta and Helen's husband.
Who is Menelaus?
Delay of the final word or phrase of a sentence or clause to the beginning of the following verse, to emphasize an idea or create suspense.
What is enjambment?
This northern Italian town is still celebrated as the birthplace of the poet Virgil.
What is Mantua?
Going down? Epic literature almost always includes a detailed description of this place.
What is the underworld?
DAILY DOUBLE
This process occurs in the phrase "naut(am) esse".
Priam begged for the return of the body of this son.
Who is Hector?
This rhetorical device literally means "marked with an x."
What is chiasmus?
This man, a close friend of the emperor and unofficial cultural secretary, was Virgil's patron.
Who is Maecenas?
Virgil's Aeneid foreshadows these historical conflicts during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
What are the Punic wars?
In scansion, these two letters count as double consonants because they are really "gs/cs" and "ds".
What are "x" and "z"?
The three goddesses involved in the Judgment of Paris, including what they offered to Paris as a prize.
Who are Juno/Hera (offered power), Minerva/Athena (offered wisdom), and Venus/Aphrodite (offered love)?
These two Greek epics heavily influenced Vergil's Aeneid.
What are the Iliad and Odyssey?
What is a stop?
What is /pbtdkg/?