The Adventures of Aeneas Greek Mythology The Adventures of Aeneas
Roman Name of the Olympian Gods Zeus Hera Hades Poseidon Artemis Aphrodite Hermes Ares Hephastus Jupiter （木星） Juno Pluto （冥王星） Neptune （海王星） Diana Venus （金星） Mercury （水星） Mars （火星） Vulcan
Which goddess gave birth to Aeneas? Venus
Aeneas was held to be the founder of _______. Rome
Which Trojan woman did Aeneas and his men met at the next landing following their escape from the threat of Harpies? Andromache
When Troy fell, Andromache was given to ______. Agamemnon’s son Menelaus’s son Achilles’s son Achilles’s son
Whom was Andromache married after abandoned by Neoptolemus? The Greek prophet Calcus The Trojan prophet Helenus The Trojan prophet Lacoon The Trojan prophet Helenus
According to Helenus, which coast of Italy was the Trojans’ destined home? The west coast
By which route did Helenus told Aeneas to sail to Italy? a long circuit southward around Sicily Go up between Sicily & Italy through the straight guarded by Scylla & Charybdis a long circuit southward around Sicily
Who occupied the southern part of Sicily when Aeneas arrived there? Cyclops
Who warned Aeneas of the threat of Cyclops? One of Ulysses’s sailors
Which god was back of the storm that endangered Aeneas’s group? Juno Jupiter Neptune Juno
Juno hated Aeneas particularly for the concern of her pet city ______. Carthage
Who was the founder of Carthage? Dido
Who promised Venus that he would set Dido’s heart on fire with love the moment she laid eyes on Aeneas? Cupid
Dido came to Africa for fleeing from ______ who wanted to murder her. Her brother
Whom did Zeus dispatch to remind Aeneas of his mission? Mercury
Why was Dido so angry when she learned that Aeneas was leaving? Because he planned to leave secretly
What happened to Dido after Aeneas left her? She killed herself.
What was the great fire Aeneas see when he looked back at the walls of Carthage? Dido’s funeral pyre
Where did the sibyl of Cumae told Aeneas to go to for learning what he needed to know from his father Anchesis? Down to the underworld
To go to the underworld, Aeneas must first find _____ in the forest. A blue dove A golden bough A black rabbit A golden bough
What creatures led Aeneas to Lake Avernus, a dark foul-smelling sheet of water which was the entrance of the underworld? Two doves Three mice Four horses Two doves
What did Sibyl slaughter at the dead of the night on the bank of Lake Avernus to Hecate, the dread Goddess of the night? Four snow-white rams Four golden oxen Four coal-black bullocks Four coal-black bullocks
What made Charon, the ferryman of the dead souls, ferry Aeneas? The golden bough
What did Aeneas gave Cerberus so that he would make him no trouble? cake
In which area of the underworld did Aeneas see Dido? The field of Mourning The field of Isolation The field of forgetfulness The field of Mourning
How did Dido respond to Aeneas’s speech? Neither looking at nor answering him
On which side of the crossroad did Aeneas find his father? left right middle right
Which spirits wouldn’t Charon admit to his boat? Those who had not been duly buried.
What instructions did Aeneas get from his father? How he would best establish his home in Italy and how he could avoid or endure all the hardships that lay before him
What had Latinus, the aged King of the City of Latium been warned by the spirit of his father? Not to marry his daughter, to any man of the country, but to a stranger who was soon to arrive
What destiny was given to the race born from the union of King Latinus’s daughter and the stranger that was soon to come? To hold the entire world under their sway
Whom did Juno summon to loose war over the land so as to prevent Aeneas’s success in union with Lavinias? Alecto Mercury Mars Alecto
Alecto was one of the _______? Furies
How many schemes (efforts) did Alecto made in preventing Aeneas’s success? Three
Alecto first inflamed the heart of ______ to prevent the marriage between Aeneas and Lavinia. Queen Amata, Lavinias’s mother, wife of King Latinus
Alecto then aroused anger in ______, who soon led his army to Latium to fight against the Trojans. Ascanius Turnus Faunaus Turnus
Why Turnus was so easily aroused to stand against the Trojans? So far he was the most favored among the suitors for Lavinia’s hand.
Alecto’s third effort was to cause a Latin farmer’s pet ______ to be killed by one of the Trojans. stag steed lamb stag
Which Trojan killed the pet stag? Aeneas’s son
How did King Latinus respond to Ascanius’s killing the stag? He shut himself up in the palace and let matters go as they would.
According to the custom of the city, when war was determined upon, the two folding gates of the god Janus should be _______. Unbarred by the king
As the king shut himself up in the palace, who finally open the doors of the temple of Janus? Juno
The reason why Mezentius became Turnus’s ally was because ______. He was so cruel that his subjects, the great Etruscan people, rebelled against him and he had to fled to Turnus.
The third ally of the Latins was _____, who had been reared by his father in a remote wilderness, and, as a baby, had learned to bring down the swift flying crane or the wild swan. Camilla
Who, in the perilous situation for the Trojans, visited Aeneas in a dream? Father Tiber, the god of the great river the Trojans were encamped near
Father Tiber bade Aeneas to go swiftly _______ to where Evander dwelt, a king of poor little town. upstream
King Evander and his men showed the Trojans the hill near great Tarpeian rock, where some day the golden, glistening _____ would rise. Capitol (Jupiter的神殿)