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What is the Aeneid?
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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.
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Whose style Virgil used in Aeneid?
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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.
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Virgil constructs his epic in relation to...
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...to the Roman people and their cultural ideals.
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What is the most famous vignette of the Aeneid?
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The Dido story
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Who is Dido?
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Queen of the Carthage.
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What Dido does to Aeneas?
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She helps Aeneas and shipwrecked Trojans then she falls in love with Aeneid and wants him and his men to stay in Carthage.
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Why Aeneas refused to Dido?
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He got the message from Jove which reminded him that his fated land is in Italy.
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What Dido did after Aeneas's refuse?
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She builds a pyre out of Aeneas’s gifts and commits suicide on it.
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What is the prophecy of Dido before she died?
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Coming of Hannibal.
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What happened in underworld after Aeneas’s death?
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When Aeneas descends to the Underworld in Book 4, Dido’s shade refuses to speak with him.
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The Aeneid’s composition coincides with the...
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...end of the civil wars and the beginning of Augustus’s regime.
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