05 October Warm Up: Initial Lines of Aeneid by Vergil and important characters in the Epic

WARM-UP COPY THE VERY FAMOUS FIRST WORDS OF GREATEST LATIN EPIC, THE AENEID.  THEN COPY THE NAMES OF KEY FIGURES IN THE EPIC AND THE MYTH OF THE FOUNDATION OF ROME BELOW IT.  DON’T WORRY ABOUT IDENTIFYING THESE FIGURES NOW. YOU WILL DO THAT AFTER YOU TAKE THE VOCABULARY QUIZ.

Of war and a man I sing, who first from Troy’s shores, an exile by the decree of fate, came to Italy and Lavinium’s shores. Much was he tossed on the sea and land by the violence of the gods, because of cruel Juno’s unforgetting anger. Much, too, did he endure in war as he sought to found a city and bring his gods to Latium. From him are descended the Latin people, the elders of Alba, and the walls of lofty Rome.   -- Vergil, opening lines of the Aeneid.

Write in your composition book the following terms, leaving at a space of one line between each name.  Take great care to spell each name correctly

Aeneas=

mother of Aeneas =

father of Aeneas =

Ascanius (p. 31) =

Paris of Troy

King Priam of Troy

Helen, Queen of Sparta

Menelaus

Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (a kingdom in Greece)

Homer

Iliad

Odyssey

Odysseus or Ulysses

Achilles

Hector

Minerva (Athena)

What did the gods tell Aeneas during the fall of Troy ( p.30)?

Dido

Lavinia

Lavinium

King Latinus