Archaic Latin Poetry
He was the first to compose an epic poem in Latin by translating the Odyssey from Greek.
Who was Livius Andronicus?
She founded this city.
What was Carthage?
He was the greatest of the Greek warriors at Troy, but he died from a poisoned arrow before the city was taken.
She was Aeneas' mother.
Who was Venus?
She helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur before he dumped her.
Who was Ariadne?
Naevius' epic poem was about this war.
What was the first Punic War?
She was originally from this region of Asia.
What was Phoenicia?
The Greeks travelled to Troy in these.
What are ships?
Aeneas' son Ascanius was also know by this other name.
What was Iulus?
Theseus abandoned the daughter of Minos on this island.
What was Naxos (a.k.a. Dia)?
It was the meter used by the early Latin epic poets before they adopted dactylic hexamter.
What were Saturnians?
He murdered his brother-in-law, Dido's husband.
Who was Pygmalion?
This Greek heroes specialty was speaking and deception.
Who was Odysseus/Ulysses?
She was Aeneas' Trojan wife.
Who was Creusa?
Skilled in witchcraft and drugs, she helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece.
Who was Medea?
He was the first we know of to have written Latin verse in dactylic hexameter.
Who was Ennius?
She tried her best to help her sister, Dido.
Who was Anna?
The abduction of his wife, Helen, was the cause of the Trojan War.
Who was Menelaus?
Aeneas' father-in-law, the king of Troy.
Who was Priam?
Mars impregnated this descendant of Aeneas and then pretty much forgot about her.
Who was Rhea Silvia (a.k.a. Ilia)?
Before they invoked the Muses, Roman poets invoked these water goddesses of inspiration.
Who were the Camenae?
This Libyan king unsuccessfully courted Dido.
Who was Iarbas?
The leader of all the Greek forces, he was a pretty clumsy leader.
Who was Agamemnon?
Aeneas' brother-in-law, the greatest defender of Troy until Achilles killed him.
Who was Hector?
She was the one woman of Aeneas that he did not leave behind in some way.
Who was Lavinia?