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The Aeneid by virgil
Classics 100 with Struck at University of Pennsylvania
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By: Allison Lyons
Created: 2011-05-02
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Anchises
Aeneas's father, symbol of Trojan's history
Ascanius
Aeneas's son
Dido
Queen of Carthage, kills herself after Aeneas's departure
Pygmalion
Dido's brother who murdered her husband, forcing her to leave Tyre
Creusa
Aeneas's wife
Juno
queen of Gods, asks Aelous to release winds, hates Trojans cause she knows they are going to destroy Carthage
Venus
mother to Aeneas
Jupiter/Jove
king of gods
Sinon
was left behind by Odysseus supposedly, but really was there to convince the Trojans to bring the horse into the house and then let the Trojans out of its belly
Minerva
who the Trojan horse was supposedly meant for
People who appeared to Aeneas in Troy
Hector: tells him to leave
Venus: tells him not to kill his mother
fire from Ascanius's forehead to tell Anchises to go
Creusa: tells Aeneas to leave her behind
Polydorus
Aeneas makes a sacrifice at Thrace but when breaks a root from a tree, the tree talks telling him who he is and that he died because the Thracian king killed him for his gold
Crete
go there because Apollo tells them to because that is the land of ancestors (Teucrus), horrible plague comes, gods of Troy tell him it is the wrong place
Strophades/island of the Harpies
eat goats and cows, which they weren't supposed to do, Harpies attack and they try to defend... one of the Harpies puts a curse on them saying that they will not establish their city until they are so hungry they eat their tables
Andromache and Helenus
received part of the city when Pyrrhus died, Andromache tells them they have to avoid Scylla and Charybdis by going the long way around Sicily
Achaemenides
Ithacan who Ulysses left when he was fleeing the Cyclops
Mercury
told Aeneas to leave behind Carthage
Games and Conflagration
Juno convinces women to set fire to the ships but Jupiter puts a rainstorm on it to put it out
Acestes
Aeneas leaves the old and the frail, the women tired of sailing (father urges him to listen to Nautes, the seer)
Palinurus
Venus agrees to have one of the Trojans killed in exchange for Neptune to give the Trojans a safe passage across the waters
Sibyl
Coast of Cumae, will give Aeneas access to Dis, but only if he gets the golden bough
Charon
has to give the branch to Charon in order to cross the river
Deiphobus
saw him in Dis, wife betrayed him
Blessed Groves
where aeneas finds his father in dis, and his father tells him the history of Rome
About this deck
By: Allison Lyons
Created: 2011-05-02
Size: 25 flashcards
Views: 12
Created: 2011-05-02
Size: 25 flashcards
Views: 12
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