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When Aeneas's ship gets caught in storm and death seems imminent, he cries out, 'Bravest Danaan, -blank-, why could I not go down when you had wounded me, and lose my life on Ilium's battlefield?' Which Greek hero is Aeneas addressing?

Diomedes. Diomedes is the hero Aeneas battled with. Interestingly enough, he reappears near the end of the epic expressing his best wishes for Aeneas's success.

What Trojan actually managed to escape the Greeks and reach Italy before Aeneas?

Antenor. Antenor sails up the Timavus river and settles in the city of Padua.

What is the name of Dido's evil brother?

Pygmalion. Pygmalion murders Dido's husband, Sychaeus, on a sacrificial altar. His ghost appears to Dido in a dream and tells her to flee.

What is the name of the Greek soldier who was chosen to lie to the Trojans about the wooden horse?

Sinon. Sinon plays his part admirably. Read the epic (its so much more powerful in Latin).

Which one of the following places on the Greek mainland does Aeneas NOT go to?

Chaonia. Aeneas encounters the harpies in Strophades. He visits Actium (foreshadowing the great battle to take place there centuries later). In Buthratum he meets Andromache, the wife of the dead Hector.

Which African king does Dido reject for a husband?

Iarbas & Hiarbas. Iarbas curses Dido for rejecting him, choosing instead a 'decadent eastern prince' (Aeneas).

In the Underworld, Aeneas sees the ghost of one of the three men in Roman history to win the 'spolia opima'. Can you name him or one of the two other men?

Claudius & Cladius Marcellus & Marcellus & Romulus & Cossus & Aulus & Cornelius & Aulus Cornelius & Aulus Cornelius Cossus. Of all spoils the most important were the Spolia Opima, a term applied to those only which the commander-in-chief of a Roman army stripped in a field of battle from the leader of the foe. The first were said to have been won by Romulus from Acro, king of the Caeninenses, the second by Aulus Cornelius Cossus from Lar Tolumnius king of the Veientes, the third by M. Claudius Marcellus from Viridomarus (or BritovmartoV as he is called by Plutarch), king of the Gaesatae.

Which banished god rules over a golden age in Italy before the coming of Aeneas?

Saturn & Saturnus. After being defeated by his son Jupiter, Saturn flees to Italy. He is represented as being castrated-a symbol of his loss of "power".

Pallas and his father, both Greeks, aid Aeneas in his fight against Turnus in Italy. Can you name Pallas's father?

Evander. Evander and his son Pallas offer Aeneas unexpected help. The help of this Greek king is crucial to Aeneas's victory.

What is the name of the warrior-queen ruler of the Volscians who allies with Turnus against Aeneas?

Camilla. Vergil greatly admires warrior-women in his epic, praising the courage of Penthesilea and Camilla.