Deck 23: Legends of Aeneas

Question 1

Which of the following are entirely or mostly absent from the native myth traditions of Rome?

A) Divine myth
B) Legends of Roman heroes
C) Foundation stories
D) A creation story

Answer 1

A,D

Question 2

One of the oldest known inscriptions in the Greek alphabet (found on a small island in the Bay of Naples) refers to _______.

A) a famous cup owned by Nestor in Homer's Iliad
B) the pietas of Aeneas
C) Aeneas' duel with Achilles in Homer's Iliad
D) Heracles' battle with Cacus on the future site of Rome

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Wealthy land-owning families who formed the privileged political class at Rome were known as the _______.

A) patricians
B) imperii
C) fasces
D) plebeians

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The executive branch of Roman republican government consisted of _______.

A) the praesidium
B) the tribunes of the people
C) the senators
D) two consuls

Question 5

After Julius Caesar's death, which two Romans conquered the senatorial armies and divided the world between themselves?

A) Cato the Younger
B) Octavian
C) Marc Antony
D) Brutus

Question 6

In Latin, numina are literally "_______."

A) protectors
B) spirits
C) nodders
D) switchers

Question 7

What is the term for the legal transfer of something into the ownership of a numen?

A) sacrificium
B) coviri
C) res publica
D) imperium

Question 8

Until the final victory of Augustus in 30 BC, the doors of _______ had stood opened for more than two hundred years.

A) Juno
B) Jupiter
C) Janus
D) Mars

Question 9

Who was the numen who presided over women as members of the family?

A) Venus
B) Juno
C) Ceres
D) Minerva

Question 10

Which of the following numina was an Etruscan import and associated with handicrafts?

A) Juno
B) Proserpina
C) Pluto
D) Minerva

Question 11

_______ seems once to have been a numen of fresh water, but under Greek influence also took on the protection of animal and human fertility.

A) Venus
B) Ceres
C) Liber
D) Mercury

Question 12

Which hero had numerous special cults, including the Ara Maxima, dedicated to him in the Form Boarium of Rome?

A) Evander
B) Hercules
C) Aeneas
D) Ulysses

Question 13

Though similar, the Lares were always fixed to a specific location, while the _______ were portable.

A) Effigiae
B) Genii
C) Penates
D) Persollae

Question 14

The head of a Roman familia, endowed with patria potestas, was the _______.

A) optimus pater
B) vir maximus
C) genius
D) paterfamilias

Question 15

The Roman vision of the state as an enlarged family is perhaps most clear from the exaltation in myth of a set of duties called _______.

A) auctoritas
B) pietas
C) fortitude
D) sapientia

Question 16

Like Achilles, Aeneas had a _______.

A) vulnerable heel
B) mortal father and a divine mother
C) divine father and a mortal mother
D) choice between a short life and eternal glory or a long life after which he'd be forgotten

Question 17

Which of the following are among the places visited by Aeneas in his wanderings after his escape from Troy?

A) Delos
B) Athens
C) Thrace
D) Crete

Question 18

Who accompanies Aeneas on his descent into the underworld?

A) The Sibyl
B) Numinor
C) Dido
D) Anchises

Question 19

Which three things does Anchises list as Aeneas' "god-given skill" as a Roman?

A) To impose good conduct on peace
B) To thrust the proud from the throne
C) To measure the heavens and tell the rise of the stars
D) To forgive the beaten and humble

Question 20

Which of the following are among the differences between the epic poems of Homer and Vergil?

A) Vergil and Homer use different meters
B) Characters and events in Vergil's poem are subordinated to a patriotic purpose
C) Vergil does not use many of Homer's technical devices, such as fixed descriptive epithets
D) Vergil's poem is painstakingly learned and marked by a literate self-consciousness

Question 21

Which numen is represented on this ancient Roman coin?

A) Faunus
B) Silvanus
C) Janus
D) Liber