Episode 55 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 55: Among the Shades. See what you remember about Books 4-6 of the Aeneid by clicking “START” below!
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Which deities, for different reasons, engineer the marriage between Aeneas and Dido in Book 4?
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Virgil gives a series of shout outs to famous Roman dynasties in:
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Who says the following?: “If that wicked being must sail surely to land and come to harbour, because such is the fixed and destined ending required by Jupiter’s own ordinances, yet let him afterwards suffer affliction in war.”
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A famous (and imaginary) scene, often depicted in European paintings, is of Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and his family. What happens in this scene?
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As we discussed in the episode, readers of the early Augustan Age would have likely associated Dido with:
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Who is Anna in the Aeneid?
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Which ideology or doctrine does Anchises’ long speech to Aeneas in the underworld in Book 6 NOT allude to or endorse?
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What talisman does Aeneas need in order to get out of the underworld?
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What does Dido say to Aeneas in the underworld?
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Virgil locates the entrance to the underworld at Lake Avernus, a spot about ten miles west of the city of:
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Which of the following is NOT an example of a “helpful princess” in ancient literature?
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What role does Rhadamanthus play in Virgil’s underworld?
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Aeneas and Dido are married:
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Who guides Aeneas through the underworld?
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In Sicily at the end of Book 5, due to divine prompting, the Trojan women:
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