Vergil's Works
This is Vergil's most famous work.
What is the Aeneid?
This is the main character of the Aeneid.
Who is Aeneas?
Octavian was gifted this title after defeating Antony and Cleopatra.
What is Augustus?
princeps
What is prince/chieftain?
This goddess is the mother of Aeneas.
Who is Venus?
This series of poems shows the plight of farmers and shepherds dispossessed of their land.
What is Virgil's Eclogues (Bucolics)
This city is the hometown of Aeneas.
What is Troy?
The second triumvirate was made up of Octavian, Mark Antony, and this man.
Who is Marcus Leppidus?
Augustus
What is revered (one)?
This is the only Trojan fighter that is more powerful than Aeneas.
Who is Hector?
Vergil apocryphally asked for this to be done to the Aeneid while on his deathbed.
3
The Aeneid is comprised of this many books.
What is 12?
The decisive Battle of Actium between Octavian and Antony happened in this year.
What is 31 BC?
auctoritas
What is authority?
Aeneas's son changes his name from Ascanius to this.
What is Iulus?
"The Georgics" were published in this year.
What is 29 BCE?
The first half of the Aeneid echoes this earlier Greek work.
What is the Odyssey?
Vergil was born on this day.
What is October 15th (Ides of October)?
imperium
What is power/empire/the ability to command armies?
Venus/Aphrodite and this other god saved Aeneas during the Trojan war.
Who is Poseidon/Neptune?
In Eclogues 1, the shepherd Tityrus will never forget the face of this young man.
Who is Augustus?
The Aeneid is written in this meter.
What is dactylic hexameter?
This country was considered Rome's "breadbasket."
What is Egypt?
primus inter pares
What is first among equals?
This man is Aeneas's father.
Who is Anchises?