Aeneid Book IV || with 100% Errorless Answers.
What are the two dominant images of the book? correct answers Wound and the flame
What effect gas Aeneas had on Dido? correct answers She loves him after his sad tale is told to
her; Dido is obsessed with Aeneas
Why was Dido determined to remain unmarried? correct answers She loved her first husband
Sychaeus
What advice does Anna give Dido? correct answers Trojan walls would increase their might,
Trojans can protect them
What meaning does the simile from 91-97 have for the story? What effect does her passion have
on Dido? correct answers Dido's wounded by love, like the wounded deer that doesn't know it's
been wounded
What suggestion does Juno make to Venus? correct answers Juno proposes the idea that Aeneas
could marry Dido; thus, he wouldn't go to Italy
What is Venus' reaction to the suggestion made by Juno (to marry Aeneas and Dido?) correct
answers She was okay with it, she was convinced
How does Juno propose to accomplish her plan? correct answers The go on a hunting party with
Aeneas; there will be a storm and Dido and Aeneas will come together in the same cave where
she'll marry them
How does Venus react to this plan? correct answers She agrees and goes along
Why does Vergil have Juno choose the occasion of a hunt for the consummation fo the love
affair? correct answers Dido is hunted and trapped by fate and the gods
What comment does the simile comparing Aeneas to Apollo in 190-201 make on this love affair?
correct answers They are both similar, beautiful but cannot be
How do the people of Libya find out about the love affair? correct answers Fama/Rumo - an
inescapable growing demoniacal power
Find an example of personification in this passage correct answers Rumor is a monster and
African ruler (Iarbus)
Who is Iarbus? What prayer does he make to Jupiter? correct answers Ane ex-lover of Dido,
prays to Jupiter to not give Aeneas what he couldn't have
How does Jupiter answer Iarbus' prayer? correct answers Jupiter dispatches Mercury to remind
Aeneas that he should live in Italy, not Carthage
, What is Aeneas' reaction to Mercury's message? correct answers Though he was happy he
accepts the truth and moves on, he leaves at once
What comment does the simile in 403-8 make on Dido's behavior when she discovers Aeneas is
about to leave her? correct answers She is very mad and angry, she does not know how to control
herself
What complaints does Dido make to Aeneas? correct answers That he is leaving out of his own
sure will, he used her
How does Aeneas answer Dido? correct answers The gods are who make him do it, he never
held the wedding torch
What hope does Dido express and what threat does she make? correct answers She hope he
drowns at sea crying her name
What kind of heroism does Aeneas display at the oak tree simile? Is this kind of heroism
generally exhibited by a Homeric hero (ex. Achilles?) Measure Aeneas' behavior against the
Stoic ethical ideal. correct answers He is completely shaken and disturbed being with Dido, but
he still knows his roots; he followed the Stoic ethical ideal because he put aside his emotional
connection
Describe Dido's condition after Aeneas; final rejection, measure her behavior against the Stoic
ethical ideal correct answers She is moved to madness, curses Aeneas and his followers, kills
herself, heartsick has a meltdown, opposite of Stoic ethical ideal
What does Dido resolve to do? correct answers Kill herself
How does Dido conceal her plan to kill herself from Anna? correct answers She says the funeral
is to ward off Aeneas' love, pretends to be over him
Why does Dido think her plan is the only course of action (killing herself?) correct answers
Aeneas wouldn't listen to her
What reference to roman history does the final part of Dido's curse contain? correct answers
Punic wars between Rome and Carthage
Explain how the two dominant images of the book become real elements in the narrative at the
end of book IV and the beginning of book V correct answers She kills herself with a sword (the
wound) and burns on a funeral pyre (flame)
Explain why Dido is considered a tragic figure? correct answers She was a proud queen who
through fate, falls into ever deepening degradation
Iarbus correct answers Son of Jupiter, rejected by Dido, African king
What are the two dominant images of the book? correct answers Wound and the flame
What effect gas Aeneas had on Dido? correct answers She loves him after his sad tale is told to
her; Dido is obsessed with Aeneas
Why was Dido determined to remain unmarried? correct answers She loved her first husband
Sychaeus
What advice does Anna give Dido? correct answers Trojan walls would increase their might,
Trojans can protect them
What meaning does the simile from 91-97 have for the story? What effect does her passion have
on Dido? correct answers Dido's wounded by love, like the wounded deer that doesn't know it's
been wounded
What suggestion does Juno make to Venus? correct answers Juno proposes the idea that Aeneas
could marry Dido; thus, he wouldn't go to Italy
What is Venus' reaction to the suggestion made by Juno (to marry Aeneas and Dido?) correct
answers She was okay with it, she was convinced
How does Juno propose to accomplish her plan? correct answers The go on a hunting party with
Aeneas; there will be a storm and Dido and Aeneas will come together in the same cave where
she'll marry them
How does Venus react to this plan? correct answers She agrees and goes along
Why does Vergil have Juno choose the occasion of a hunt for the consummation fo the love
affair? correct answers Dido is hunted and trapped by fate and the gods
What comment does the simile comparing Aeneas to Apollo in 190-201 make on this love affair?
correct answers They are both similar, beautiful but cannot be
How do the people of Libya find out about the love affair? correct answers Fama/Rumo - an
inescapable growing demoniacal power
Find an example of personification in this passage correct answers Rumor is a monster and
African ruler (Iarbus)
Who is Iarbus? What prayer does he make to Jupiter? correct answers Ane ex-lover of Dido,
prays to Jupiter to not give Aeneas what he couldn't have
How does Jupiter answer Iarbus' prayer? correct answers Jupiter dispatches Mercury to remind
Aeneas that he should live in Italy, not Carthage
, What is Aeneas' reaction to Mercury's message? correct answers Though he was happy he
accepts the truth and moves on, he leaves at once
What comment does the simile in 403-8 make on Dido's behavior when she discovers Aeneas is
about to leave her? correct answers She is very mad and angry, she does not know how to control
herself
What complaints does Dido make to Aeneas? correct answers That he is leaving out of his own
sure will, he used her
How does Aeneas answer Dido? correct answers The gods are who make him do it, he never
held the wedding torch
What hope does Dido express and what threat does she make? correct answers She hope he
drowns at sea crying her name
What kind of heroism does Aeneas display at the oak tree simile? Is this kind of heroism
generally exhibited by a Homeric hero (ex. Achilles?) Measure Aeneas' behavior against the
Stoic ethical ideal. correct answers He is completely shaken and disturbed being with Dido, but
he still knows his roots; he followed the Stoic ethical ideal because he put aside his emotional
connection
Describe Dido's condition after Aeneas; final rejection, measure her behavior against the Stoic
ethical ideal correct answers She is moved to madness, curses Aeneas and his followers, kills
herself, heartsick has a meltdown, opposite of Stoic ethical ideal
What does Dido resolve to do? correct answers Kill herself
How does Dido conceal her plan to kill herself from Anna? correct answers She says the funeral
is to ward off Aeneas' love, pretends to be over him
Why does Dido think her plan is the only course of action (killing herself?) correct answers
Aeneas wouldn't listen to her
What reference to roman history does the final part of Dido's curse contain? correct answers
Punic wars between Rome and Carthage
Explain how the two dominant images of the book become real elements in the narrative at the
end of book IV and the beginning of book V correct answers She kills herself with a sword (the
wound) and burns on a funeral pyre (flame)
Explain why Dido is considered a tragic figure? correct answers She was a proud queen who
through fate, falls into ever deepening degradation
Iarbus correct answers Son of Jupiter, rejected by Dido, African king
