Kontextual Kairos
All Greek to Me
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Such a Character
Memento Mori
The Hero's Journey
100
Aeneas is the legendary founder of this city
What is Rome?
100
The leader of the Greek forces against the Trojans
Who is Ulysses/Odysseus?
100
In Book II of the Aeneid, Venus tells Aeneas that these figures are responsible for the fall of Troy (I'm just looking for the generic term here)
Who are the gods?
100
The queen of Carthage
Who is Dido?
100
Aeneas's wife, who dies in Book II
Who is Creusa?
100
The main characters in epics always have this, another word for a heroic task or challenge they have to complete
What is a quest?
200
The genre in which the Aeneid is written
What is epic or epic poem?
200
The name of the Greek whose performance convinces the Trojans he has been abandoned
Who is Sinon?
200
The goddess Juno is the patroness of this city, the future archnemesis of Rome
What is Carthage?
200
The virtue most associated with Aeneas
What is piety?
200
The king of Troy slaughtered in Book II
Who is Priam?
200
The archetype of an ally, encountered after the crossing of the threshold, who may or may not be trustworthy
What is the shapeshifter?
300
The Aeneid was written shortly before the birth of this notable religious figure
Who is Jesus?
300
The woman responsible for the start of the Trojan War, whom Aeneas contemplates killing in Book II
Who is Helen?
300
What Neptune was doing while Aeneas's ships were being ravaged by Juno's storm
What is sleeping?
300
In Book I of the Aeneid, we meet these two sons of Venus
Who are Aeneas and Amor (Cupid)?
300
The Trojan prince, killed by Achilles, who appears to Aeneas in a dream in Book II to tell him to flee the city
Who is Hector?
300
The part of the hero's journey where the main character must face his greatest fear and risk death or failure
What is the supreme ordeal/inmost cave?
400
The Roman Emperor during whose reign the Aeneid was written
Who is Caesar Augustus/Octavian?
400
The murderer of the king of Troy
Who is Pyrrhus?
400
The reason Aeneas's father is convinced to leave Troy
What is a portent from Jupiter?
400
The name of Aeneas's father
Who is Anchises?
400
The priest whose death in Book II is depicted in this famous statue:
Who is Laocoön?
400
Taking place at the climax of an epic, this part of the Hero's Journey pits the hero against a force that looks like it might truly defeat him
What is the Resurrection?
500
As a poem, the Aeneid is written in this type of meter
What is dactylic hexameter?
500
The Greek term, which we've discussed in class and which applies both to tragic and to epic heroes, which refers to the problem that these heroes have to solve
What is agon?
500
The religious article Aeneas entrusts to his father as they flee Troy
What are the Penates/household gods?
500
The name of Aeneas's son
Who is Ascanius (aka Iulus)?
500
The name of the queen of Carthage's former husband, killed by Pygmalion
Who is Sychaeus?
500
What Aeneas's father's initial response to Aeneas telling him to leave Troy in Book II would map onto in the Hero's Journey
What is the delay of the call?