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

Achilles’s son

Menelaus’s son

Achilles’s son

Whom was Andromache married after abandoned by Neoptolemus?

The Greek prophet Calcus

The Trojan prophet Lacoon

The Trojan prophet Helenus

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

through the straight guarded by Scylla & Charybdis

Go up between Sicily & Italy

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

Neptune

Jupiter

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 black rabbit

A golden bough

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

Four horses

Three mice

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 coal-black bullocks

Four golden oxen

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 forgetfulness

The field of Isolation

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

middle

right

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

Mars

Mercury

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

Faunaus

Turnus

Turnus

Why Turnus was so easily arouse 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

lamb

steed

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 )