Virgil's Life
Virgil's magnum opus is this epic poem about a wayward soldier trying to find a new home for his people.
What is the Aeneid?
The city of Rome is located in this modern-day country.
What is Italy?
What is the Trojan War?
In the Greek pantheon, this number of gods are held in the highest esteem, each having their very own throne on Olympus.
What is 12?
Any sentence, whether in English, Latin, or even Ancient Greek, is composed of a subject and this.
What is a predicate?
Whether you spell it Vergil or Virgil, this trinomen is the author's full name.
What is Publius Vergilius Maro?
Rome consists of this many hills.
What is seven?
This goddess was not a huge fan of Aeneas, since she knew he was destined to be the cause of Carthage's downfall.
Who is Juno?
When the Romans adopted the Greek pantheon, many of the gods were renamed to sound more Italian. Zeus, for instance, was renamed this.
Who is Jupiter?
Latin uses this method of patterns to change the case endings of nouns.
What is declension?
This emperor was the one who commissioned the Aeneid, but I bet he didn't expect Vergil to throw in a few criticisms aimed at the princeps.
Who is Augustus?
Rome has gone through three different forms of governance: republic, empire, and this one.
What is the regency?
In book 2, we see this character kill herself out of grief by plunging a sword into herself on top of her and Aeneas' own bed.
Who is Dido?
In the ancient tradition, Romulus and Remus argued over where to build their city. Romulus eventually won and decided on this hill.
What is the Palatine Hill?
This grammar construction uses a noun and a participle, both in the ablative case, to add non-essential information to a sentence.
What is an ablative absolute?
Vergil unexpectedly died at a young age. This is given cause of death.
What is fever/sickness?
By the time Vergil was writing the Aeneid, this dictator, Augustus' adoptive father, had waged a civil war, declared himself dictator for life, and was assassinated.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Aeneas has to travel to the underworld in book six to continue his journey. What relative does he meet down there?
Who is Anchises/his father?
The Capitoline Hill in Rome was topped with a large temple celebrating Rome's three most important gods: Jupiter, Juno, and this war deity.
Who is Minerva?
This verb mood is used for a variety of functions, both in independent and dependent clauses. One of them is known as hortatory.
What is the Subjunctive?
Vergil's life extends into the later centuries, with his works inspiring other authors. The Aeneid inspired this Italian author to write Inferno.
Who is Dante?
Augustus brought about a great time of stability in the Roman world, often referred to as this Latin phrase.
What is the pax Romanae?
In book two, this god is sent to remind Aeneas of his duty to find Rome.
Who is Mercury?
Though not one of the major gods, this nymph is the main character of one of the central myths of the Metamorphoses. Namely, when she was chased by Apollo.
This is a construction that denotes an action that must be done, as in carthago delenda est.
What is the passive paraphrastic?