1. The Adventures of Aeneas
Greek Mythology
The Adventures of Aeneas

2. 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

3. Which goddess gave birth to Aeneas?
Venus

4. Aeneas was held to be the founder of _______.
Rome

5. Which Trojan woman did Aeneas and his men met at the next landing following their escape from the threat of Harpies?
Andromache

6. When Troy fell, Andromache was given to ______.
Agamemnon’s son
Menelaus’s son
Achilles’s son
Achilles’s son

7. Whom was Andromache married after abandoned by Neoptolemus?
The Greek prophet Calcus
The Trojan prophet Helenus
The Trojan prophet Lacoon
The Trojan prophet Helenus

8. According to Helenus, which coast of Italy was the Trojans’ destined home?
The west coast

9. 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

10. Who occupied the southern part of Sicily when Aeneas arrived there?
Cyclops

11. Who warned Aeneas of the threat of Cyclops?
One of Ulysses’s sailors

12. Which god was back of the storm that endangered Aeneas’s group?
Juno
Jupiter
Neptune
Juno

13. Juno hated Aeneas particularly for the concern of her pet city ______.
Carthage

14. Who was the founder of Carthage?
Dido

15. Who promised Venus that he would set Dido’s heart on fire with love the moment she laid eyes on Aeneas?
Cupid

16. Dido came to Africa for fleeing from ______ who wanted to murder her.
Her brother

17. Whom did Zeus dispatch to remind Aeneas of his mission?
Mercury

18. Why was Dido so angry when she learned that Aeneas was leaving?
Because he planned to leave secretly

19. What happened to Dido after Aeneas left her?
She killed herself.

20. What was the great fire Aeneas see when he looked back at the walls of Carthage?
Dido’s funeral pyre

21. 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

22. To go to the underworld, Aeneas must first find _____ in the forest.
A blue dove
A golden bough
A black rabbit
A golden bough

23. 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

24. 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

25. What made Charon, the ferryman of the dead souls, ferry Aeneas?
The golden bough

26. What did Aeneas gave Cerberus so that he would make him no trouble?
cake

27. 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

28. How did Dido respond to Aeneas’s speech?
Neither looking at nor answering him

29. On which side of the crossroad did Aeneas find his father?
left
right
middle
right

30. Which spirits wouldn’t Charon admit to his boat?
Those who had not been duly buried.

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. Alecto was one of the _______?
Furies

36. How many schemes (efforts) did Alecto made in preventing Aeneas’s success?
Three

37. Alecto first inflamed the heart of ______ to prevent the marriage between Aeneas and Lavinia.
Queen Amata, Lavinias’s mother, wife of King Latinus

38. Alecto then aroused anger in ______, who soon led his army to Latium to fight against the Trojans.
Ascanius
Turnus
Faunaus
Turnus

39. 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.

40. Alecto’s third effort was to cause a Latin farmer’s pet ______ to be killed by one of the Trojans.
stag
steed
lamb
stag

41. Which Trojan killed the pet stag?
Aeneas’s son

42. 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.

43. 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

44. As the king shut himself up in the palace, who finally open the doors of the temple of Janus?
Juno

45. 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.

46. 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

47. 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

48. Father Tiber bade Aeneas to go swiftly _______ to where Evander dwelt, a king of poor little town.
upstream

49. 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)