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The Aeneid Facts
Book 9
100

This character is slain by Achilles' son.

Who is Priam?

100

The Greeks leave what wooden animal at the gates of Troy?

Horse 

100

Aeneas wants to vengefully kill which character before the goddess Venus stops him

Helen

100

What is Juno's favorite city?

Carthage

100

The Aeneid was written by who?

Virgil

100

While Aeneas is away, Turnus and the Rutulians attempt to do this.

What is storm the Trojan camp?

200

Who charms Dido into forgetting her dead husband?

Cupid or Anna

200
Aeneas sees these people drinking from the Lethe in the Elysian Fields.

Who are the future heroes of Rome, his descendants?

200

This man is killed by the god of sleep.

Who is Palinurus?

200

the Trojan horse is an offering to which god?

Minerva

200

How many books is the Aeneid?

12 books

200

These two Trojan warriors attempt a night raid on the Rutulian camp but are caught and killed.

Who are Nisus and Euryalus?

300

This character's name changes, likely to foreshadow the coming of the future Julius Caesar.

Who is Ascanius (Iulus)?

300

It is prophesied that who will found Rome?

Romulus

300

How did Dido's husband Sychaeus die?

Dido's brother killed him

300

Which god tries to sink the Trojan ships?

Aeolus

300
The character Aeneas was meant to mirror which roman ruler?

Augustus

300
These men are brothers described as towering like pines; both killed by Turnus.

Who are Pandarus & Bitias?

400
These are the "wives" Aeneas has or is destined to have in The Aeneid.

Who are Creusa, Dido*, and Lavinia?

400

It is prophesied that Aeneas will rule Lavinium for how long before his death?

three years

400

How does Laocoon die?

Strangled by two sea serpents

400

Anchises sees a sign from which god?

Jove

400

The Aeneid was written in this time period:

a) 150 – 100 BC

b) 50 BC – AD 0

c) AD 50 – AD 100

d) AD 200 – AD 250

What is B (between 30-19 BC)?

400

The Trojans’ ships, built from sacred wood, are set on fire by the Rutulians but are miraculously transformed into these creatures by divine intervention.

What are sea nymphs?

500

Who is the young man who was bound up and brought to the gates of Troy?

Sinon

500

This sign appeared to Latinus, warning him not to marry his daughter to an Italian.

What is her hair catching on fire?

500
This man's head, bowed in death, is compared to a fragile poppy bowed by dew.

Who is Euryalus?

500

The king of the gods sends down Mercury to Carthage to do what?

to make Dido and her people be hospitable to the Trojans.

500

Virgil caused the emperor's sister to weep and faint with grief by reading this portion of The Aeneid aloud.

What is Book 6, the description of Marcellus, Augustus' heir?

500

Turnus ultimately escapes from the Trojan stronghold by doing this dramatic action.

What is jumping into the Tiber?