Aeneid Plot & Characters
This is the specific item that Aeneas must pluck and present to Proserpina to gain entry to the Underworld.
What is the Golden Bough?
While in the Underworld, Aeneas attempts and fails three times to embrace his father's mournful shade, mirroring this Greek Epic Hero.
Who is Odysseus?
The small figure of Cupid riding a dolphin at Augustus's ankle serves this specific dual purpose, one mythological and one structural. (Prima Porta)
What is referencing Venus AND hiding the structural support?
The dome of the Pantheon uses this specific architectural feature to distribute weight and reduce the amount of concrete needed towards the crown. (Pantheon)
What are coffers?
Augustus introduced the Julian Laws (Leges Iuliae) to encourage this specific behavior among the Roman elite.
What is Marriage and Childbearing?
This king, whom Aeneas encounters in his new Italian home, is the father of Lavinia and a descendant of the god Saturn.
Who is Latinus?
Aeneas’s shield, forged by Vulcan, depicts this major future Roman victory.
What is the Battle of Actium?
The bust's style is characterized by the polished marble of the face contrasting with the rough texture of the hair and beard, achieved by a technique called this. (Bust of Commodus)
What is the Drill Technique?
The relief on the west façade depicts Aeneas making a sacrifice, a visual connection to this central Roman virtue exemplified by Augustus. (Ara Pacis Augustae)
What is Pietas?
In 23BCE, Augustus gained the power of imperium proconsulare maius and this specific lifetime tribunician power.
What is Tribunicia Potestas?
This is the name of Dido's deceased first husband, whose murder by her brother caused her to flee Tyre.
Who is Sychaeus?
The second six books of the poem (Books 7-12) famously mirror this specific epic of Homer, focusing on war and battle.
What is the Iliad?
The Bust of Philip the Arab contrasts with earlier idealised portraits by emphasising this physical quality, a deliberate return to the Republican Roman style. (Bust of Philip)
What is Age or Maturity?
The structure was built to carry water to this major Roman colony city, located miles away. (Pont du Guard)
What is Nîmes?
Augustus suffered one of his worst military defeats in 9CE in this forested region of Germania, losing three legions.
What is the Teutoburg Forest?
This priest of Apollo prophesies that the Trojans will be so hungry they will "eat their tables." (Book 3)
Who is Celaeno (the Harpy Queen)?
This latin phrase meaning "in the middle of things", can be used to describe how the Aeneid begins.
What is in media res?
This is the specific year the statue was discovered at the villa of Augustus's wife, Livia, just outside Rome. (Prima Porta)
What is 1863CE?
The structure was primarily built using this relatively inexpensive local stone, distinguished by its porous, yellowish-white colour. (Colosseum)
What is Travertine?
This Latin inscription details Augustus's accomplishments, providing a first-person account of his reign.
What is the Res Gestae Divi Augusti?
This friend of Aeneas, the pilot of the fleet, dies by falling overboard after being drugged by the god Sleep (Somnus).
Who is Palinurus?
The term used to describe the Aeneid as a consciously authored and written epic, as opposed to one rooted in oral tradition.
What is a Secondary Epic?
The beard and hair are treated with an abundance of drilled curls and deeply carved shadows, a feature that visually links the bust to this earlier, heavily detailed Greek sculptural style. (Bust of Commodus)
What is Antonine Baroque?
The column's base serves as the designated burial chamber for the ashes of this Imperial family. (Trajan's column)
Who are Trajan and Plotina (or the Emperor and his wife)?
Augustus temporarily exiled this member of his own family, his daughter, for violating the moral laws he championed.
Who is Julia the Elder?