Funeral Games
The Funeral Games are dedicated to him.
Who is Anchises?
She stirs up trouble with the Trojan Women.
Who is Juno?
The island where Anchises' bones are buried.
What is Sicily?
It hangs in Gallery 201C (Hallway)
What is the Mosaic Floor with Combat Between Dares and Entellus?
A snake slithers up from here.
What is Anchises' tomb?
The four events at the Funeral Games
What are the boat race, foot race, boxing match, and archery contest?
She disguises herself as Beroë and encourages the women to set fire to the ships.
Who is Iris?
He attempts to stop the women from burning the ships.
Who is Ascanius?
He convinces Entellus to fight Dares.
Who is Acestes?
Acestes' arrow does this during the archery contest.
What is burst into flames and disappear?
First prize for the boat race was a cloak of braided gold fringed with crimson and a woven scene of this lover of Jupiter.
Who is Ganymede?
He extinguishes the fire.
Who is Jupiter?
The elder Seer who instructs Aeneas to proceed with his journey to Italy.
Who is Nautes?
He provides two pairs of equal gauntlets (gloves) to the fighters.
Who is Aeneas?
The number of ships lost in the fire started by the Trojan women.
What is four?
Nisus is about to win the foot race when he slips on this stuff.
What is Blood (from a sacrifice)?
She goes to Neptune pouring out her heart in a flood of lamentation.
Who is Venus?
He appears to Aeneas as a shade and advises him to obey Nautes.
Who is Anchises?
Aeneas does this to help Dares.
What is stop the boxing match?
The Trojan women and the oldest and weakest men.
Who did Aeneas leave behind in Sicily?
The target used for the archery contest.
What is a bird (dove)?
He promises that only one life will be lost at sea.
Who is Neptune?
He falls asleep at the helm and is hurled into the churning surf.
Who is Palinurus?
After the boxing match, he shatters the bull’s skull and says, “Here, Eryx, I pay your spirit a better life than Dares’!" and lays down his gauntlets (gloves).
What does Entellus do after he wins the boxing match?
The Trojans have been away from Troy for this amount of time.
What is seven summers?