Holding Out for a Hero
While in the Underworld, this hero witnesses a cortege of Roman heroes.
Who is Aeneas?
The Oracle at Delphi is inspired by this god (and by several noxious vapors).
Who is Apollo?
Following his death, the corpse of this Trojan warrior is dragged by Aeneas around the battlefield for twelve days.
Who is Hector?
This rocky island home is where a certain long-suffering king spends years trying to get back after the Trojan War.
What is Ithaca?
What is Latin?
This hero, infamous for falling asleep, survives a shipwreck by stripping naked and clinging to flotsam.
Who is Odysseus?
This divine craftsman rigs his marriage bed so as to trap his wife in the act of adultery.
Who is Hephaestus?
After the fall of Troy, this infant son of Hector is thrown from the Scaean Gates.
Who is Astyanax/Skamandrios?
This Underworld river is the boundary sworn upon by the gods, whose waters represent the inviolable cosmic law.
What is the River Styx?
Before riding out into battle, Aeneas clasps his own son, whom Vergil calls by this name to relate him to the line of Augustus.
What is Iulus?
This hero is tricked into fighting by Athena, appearing as his brother Deiphobus, which leads to a fatal chase around the battlements.
Who is Hector?
After a failed rebellion against Zeus, this god is made to labor under King Laomedon.
Who is Poseidon?
This Trojan priest tries to warn his people against trusting the Greeks, but he and his sons are soon consumed by sea serpents.
Who is Laocoön?
This river runs beside the walls of Troy and even takes part in the fighting during the Iliad, swelling in anger and choking with bodies.
What is the River Xanthos/Skamandros?
Aeneas lodges his spear in the trunk of this type of tree, sacred to Faunus.
What is an olive tree?
Menelaus tells this hero the tale of when he managed to wrassle the Old Man of the Sea to the ground.
Who is Telemachus?
According to Hesiod, this "quick-glancing" goddess is generated from the foam of the sea.
Who is Aphrodite?
After a night of drinking, this member of Odysseus’ crew falls off of Circe's roof, snaps his neck, and dies.
Who is Elpenor?
The people of this luxurious, seafaring town give Odysseus passage home after he washes up shipwrecked.
What is Scheria?
The Latin brothers Amycus and Diores face this capital punishment at the hands of Aeneas.
What is decapitation?
After losing the armor of Achilles to Odysseus, this hero kills himself and refuses to speak even in death.
Who is Great Ajax?
In mass hysteria, Queen Amata and the mothers of Latium steal Lavinia and seek to consecrate her to this god.
Who is Bacchus/Dionysus?
Upon Odysseus' return home, this disloyal goatherd is tied up, castrated, and killed.
This “city of sandy soil” is ruled by Nestor and sits on the western Peloponnese.
What is Pylos?
In the words of one simile, Aeneas is to the citizens of Latium what a shepherd is to these animals favored by Homer.
What are bees?