Gods
Also known as Jupiter
Who is Zeus?
The Trojans land here in North Africa after their ships are scattered.
Where is Carthage?
Venus offered her to Paris as the most beautiful woman in the world.
Who is Helen?
She is the queen of Carthage who welcomes the Trojans and hosts a banquet in their honor.
Who is Dido?
This son of Aeneas is destined to rule in Italy, but is currently a child.
Who is Ascanius?
Also known as Pluto
Who is Hades?
Following the destruction of their home, the Trojans wandered for this many years.
What is seven?
To protect Aeneas and Achates as they enter Carthage, Venus cloaks them in this, rendering them invisible.
What is a thick mist/cloud?
Dido is originally from this Phoenician city, which she fled after her brother Pygmalion killed her husband.
What is Tyre?
Upon landing, Aeneas kills this many deer, one for each of his surviving ships.
What is seven?
This god intervenes to calm the sea after Aeolus releases the winds.
Who is Neptune?
What was the reason that the Trojans lost their major conflict?
To ensure Dido welcomes the Trojans, Venus sends this winged son to disguise himself as Ascanius and infect her with love.
Who is Cupid?
Dido's husband, whose ghost informs her of his murder, was named this.
Who is Sychaeus?
While in a storm, Aeneas laments that he did not die at Troy at the hands of this fierce Greek warrior.
Who is Achilles?
She is the queen of the gods and main antagonist who hinders Aeneas.
Who is Juno?
The walls of the temple of Juno in Carthage are decorated with murals depicting scenes from this major conflict.
What is the Trojan War?
Who is Jupiter?
As she builds her new city, Dido is depicted in a temple painting, acting like this Greek goddess of the hunt.
Who is Diana?
Aeneas states to his men, "perhaps one day, remembering even this will be a..."
What is pleasure (or joy)?
In Jupiter's prophecy to Venus, he declares that this future emperor will be a descendant of Aeneas, bringing peace and ending the war-like era of Juno.
Who is Augustus?
At the end of Book 1, Dido requests that Aeneas tell her his account of the Trojans' long years wandering and the fall of this city.
Where is Troy?
DAILY DOUBLE
Venus is often called by this name, referring to the island of her birth.
What is Cytherea?
To make Dido forget her dead husband and fall for Aeneas, Cupid makes her forget her vow to this goddess of marriage.
Who is Juno?
Upon landing in Carthage, Aeneas meets his mother disguised as this type of maiden.
What is a Spartan huntress?