OCR Classical Civilisation The World of the Hero (Virgil) overview quiz quiz

Dutiful devotion to gods, family and state

Outstanding skill and prowess on the field of battle

The single-minded pursuit of personal fame and glory

Cleverness, cunning and deception in dealing with others

Aeneas cutting down fleeing Greek soldiers in the burning streets of Troy

Aeneas carrying Anchises and leading Ascanius from burning Troy

Aeneas overseeing the building of a great fleet of ships on the shore

Aeneas kneeling in prayer to the goddess Juno for safe passage

He has stopped loving her and simply wishes to be free of her

Dido herself angrily orders him to leave her city at once

Jupiter sends Mercury to remind him of his destiny in Italy

Juno commands him to sail away and abandon Carthage forever

The fall of the city of Troy to the Greek besiegers

The death of Aeneas himself before he reaches Italy

The lasting anger of the goddess Juno against the Trojans

The enmity between Rome and Carthage (the Punic Wars)

His father Anchises

The silent shade of Dido, who turns away from him

Jupiter, descending in person into the underworld

The Sibyl of Cumae, who only guides him down below

To excel above all of the other peoples in both sculpture and astronomy

To rule the nations, spare the conquered and crush the proud

To grow rich and prosperous through trade with all peoples

To worship the gods more devoutly than any other nation

Furor is the ordained destiny of Rome, whereas fatum is mere blind rage

They mean exactly the same thing and Virgil uses the two words as synonyms

Furor is destructive passion and chaos; fatum is destiny and order

Furor belongs only to the gods, whereas fatum belongs only to mortal humans

Venus

Minerva

Diana

Juno

Dido, Pallas, Lausus, Camilla and Turnus

Only nameless Trojan soldiers killed in the fighting

Only the Greek warriors who had sacked the city of Troy

Anchises and Creusa alone, who both die early in the poem

A direct command from Jupiter to show no mercy

Seeing the belt of the dead Pallas worn by Turnus

Turnus suddenly attacking him again as he hesitates

The advice of the Sibyl, who urges him to strike

Because Aeneas himself dies at the very end before founding his city

Because Turnus escapes alive and the long war is left wholly unresolved

Because the killing avenges Pallas yet shows the hero of pietas overcome by furor

Because the gods themselves intervene at the very last moment to stay Aeneas' hand entirely

It has no connection at all to either one of Homer's two great epic poems

It simply copies the funeral games for Patroclus from the Iliad

It retells the story of the Trojan Horse exactly as Homer did

It reworks the underworld (Nekyia) of Odyssey Book 11 for Roman ends