Aeneas Test - (Solved) 1. What does Vergil attempt to do with...

Aeneas Test ( )

GRADED A+ (ACTUAL TEST ) Questions and Answers (Solved)

• What does Vergil attempt to do with his Aeneid in relation to the

Iliad and Odyssey?

Answer: Attempt by Vergil to write a Roman version of both the

Iliad and the Odyssey, but combine them into one story

• Why did Augustan Rome lead to the writing of the Aeneid?

Answer: Allowed for the Golden Age of Latin (Roman) Literature

• Who wrote the Aeneid?

Answer: Vergil

• What do the first words of the Aeneid tell us about the story?

Answer: Story about a man (Aeneas) and his arms (weapons)

• What town does Aeneas found?

Answer: Lavinium

• Who commissioned Vergil to write the Aeneid?

Answer: Augustus

• Where does the story of the Aeneid start?

Answer: Starts at the end of the Trojan War

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• What daughter of Priam continually warns people about Paris?

Answer: Cassandra

• Who commanded that the king of the winds shipwreck Aeneas

and his crew?

Answer: Juno

• Who is Aeneas' mother?

Answer: Venus

• Who is the Queen of Carthage?

Answer: Dido

• Why does Aeneas weep when he first arrives in Carthage?

Answer: Wept for his lost city and lost friends carved on a temple

in Carthage

• Who suggests that the Trojans burn the wooden horse left

behind by the Greeks?

Answer: Laocoon

• Who comes to Aeneas in a dream and warms him to flee the

city of Troy?

Answer: Hector

• Who killed King Priam of Troy?

Answer: Pyrrhus

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