Aeneid

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What is Aeneid? start learning		The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.
Whose style Virgil used in Aeneid? start learning		Style of Homer, re-creates entire scenes from the Homer. Books 1-6 of the Aeneid show such close parallels to the Homeric epics that they are often called “Virgilian Odyssey.”. Virgil often places Aeneas in situations identical to Homer.
Virgil constructs his epic in relation to... start learning		to the Roman people and their cultural ideals
What is the most famous vignette of the Aeneid? start learning		The Dido
Who is Dido start learning		Queen of the Carthage
What Dido does to Aeneas? start learning		She helps Aeneas and shipwrecked Trojans then she falls in love with Aeneid and wants him and his men to stay in Carthage.
Why Aeneas refused to Dido? start learning		He got the message from Jove which reminded him that his fated land is in Italy.
What Dido did after Aeneas's refuse? start learning		She builds a pyre out of Aeneas’s gifts and commits suicide on it
What is the prophecy of Dido before she died? start learning		Coming of Hannibal.
What happened in underworld after Aeneas’s death? start learning		When Aeneas descends to the Underworld in Book 4, Dido’s shade refuses to speak with him.
The Aeneid’s composition coincides with the... start learning		end of the civil wars and the beginning of Augustus’s regime.

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