CLST 103 - Final Exam (100% correct answers)

Vergil's Aeneid correct answers -Arma virumque cano (I sing of arms and man) -Tells story of Trojan prince who fled from Troy when Greeks had won Trojan War -Aeneas wanders -He ends up in Latium where he founds the Roman people -Genre: Epic (epic poetry) -12 books, 10,000 lines of hexameter verse -Epic poem in tradition of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey -Great poem about Rome's earliest ancestor and how he came to be there -Setting: ca. 1200 BC ( Bronze Age) -Written in 30-19 BC (more than a millennium after events occurred) -Battle of Actium brought civil wars to and end -After Battle of Actium, peace returns (but slowly) -So this work has an agenda -AGENDA: to remind Romans of their great past, their promise for the future and why they should all work together for a greater good -Aeneas = son of Anchises and Venus, ancestor of Julius Caesar and Augustus -Coin depicting Aeneas with his father on his shoulders, and holding a goddess -Rome is not yet a city in 1200 BC, but Aeneas visits the future site of the city and presents an offering -The story of a man who goes through terrible ordeals, has to overcome the hatred of a goddess, find his way to Rome, and eventually Rome emerges as a result of his heroic deeds -This work depends on the works of Homer that preceded it -Aeneid is in 2 halves 1) First 6 books -Wanderings around the Mediterranean while trying to get home (similar to Homer's Odyssey) -These were most influential later (in the Renaissance) 2) Second 6 books -War between natives of Latium and Trojan foreigners (similar to Homer's Iliad) -In ancient times, these last 6 books were the most popular -It was relatable to them (civil wars and fighting for territory) First 6 Books of Aeneid correct answers -Focus heavily on ill-fated love affair between Aeneas (Trojan prince) and Dido (queen of Carthage) -At this point Carthage is just being built -Romans and Carthaginians are not at war yet -Looked like Aeneas and Dido were going to fall in love, but this was not what the gods wanted -BOOK 1 - great storm at sea and arrival at Carthage -BOOK 2 - Narrating the Fall of Troy all the way up to Dido's court -BOOK 3 - Narrating travels to Dido's court -BOOK 4 - Love story (Aeneas and Dido) -BOOK 5 - Funeral games (for Aeneas' father who died while he was away in Carthage) -BOOK 6 - Trip to the underworld Last 6 Books of Aeneid correct answers -BOOK 7 - outbreak of war