Virgil & The Aeneid
- 1.What type of poetry is Virgil associated with ?
- A.
Lyric
- B.
Elegy
- C.
Epic
- D.
Virgil is not a poet
- 2.Virgil's relationship to who is fundamental to understanding the Aeneid ?
- A.
Augustus
- B.
Horace
- C.
Julius Caesar
- D.
Cleopatra
- 3.The Aeneid, like Livy's history, is associated with?
- A.
Death & dying
- B.
Civic identity
- C.
Geography
- D.
Economics
- 4.Who is Aeneas' mother, thus a family relation to both Julius Caesar and Augustus ?
- A.
Juno
- B.
Dido
- C.
Hector's widow, Andromache
- D.
Venus
- 5.The first few lines Book 1 deliberatly alludes to what?
- A.
The greatness of Augusts
- B.
The gods are insane
- C.
The Homeric poems
- D.
Rome is not as great as Carthage
- 6.Book 4 is based around?
- A.
The love story of Dido & Aeneas
- B.
The birth of Rome
- C.
Juno's rage
- D.
The love story of Jupiter & Juno
- 7.A true hero is charecterized as?
- A.
A superman type - no flaws
- B.
One the strives for glory
- C.
One who must overcome his limitations
- D.
A man that is favored by all the gods
- 8.How does Dido die ?
- A.
Venus strikes her dead so Aeneas can continue on his journey
- B.
She is murdered by near by city rivals
- C.
She is murdered by her own people for betraying her dead husband
- D.
She commits suicide
- 9.Women is the Aeneid (Book 4 any ways) are potrayed as?
- A.
Loving mothers
- B.
Inexplicably irrational and destructive
- C.
Sources of temptation that can not be overcome
- D.
The only women are gods
- 10.Rome's new begining is based on?
- A.
Past values
- B.
Fresh start if new ideas
- C.
The suffering of women
- D.
Greek art
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