The Aeneid Book VI

What prophecy does the Sibyl of Cumae give Aeneas?

• Rome will be a great imperial city

• Aeneas will win glory beyond his wildest dreams

• The people of Italy will welcome Aeneas as their liberator

• New wars, and a new Achilles, await Aeneas in Italy

The Sibyl tells Aeneas that in order to go to The Underworld he must...(select all that apply)

• Pluck a golden bough

• Bury his friend Misenus

• Build a temple to Apollo

• Sacrifice black animals

How do the souls of the dead cross the River Styx?

• The gods send breezes to waft them across

• The ferryman Charon takes them across in his boat

• Those who are righteous have the strength to swim across; the unrighteous can never cross

• The souls cross on a bridge guarded by a giant armed with spears

Aeneas meets Palinurus who cannot enter Hades because...

• His corpse has not been buried

• He competed with the gods who won't forgive him

• He neglected his duty

• He was cursed by the Sibyl

In the Fields of Mourning, Aeneas meets Dido and attempts to justify leaving her. Dido responds by...

• Bitterly cursing Aeneas and all his descendants

• Weeping and falling into Aeneas' arms

• Fleeing from Aeneas, without a word, to rejoin her husband Sychaeus

• Praying to Juno to punish Aeneas for leaving her

In Virgil's Underworld, those who were wicked in life

• Share the same fate as those who have been good

• Are never allowed to enter the underworld

• Are imprisoned in Tartarus and severely punished

• Are kept in limbo for three years and then allowed to mingle with the other souls

In the Blessed Groves Aeneas meets his father Anchises. Anchises tells Aeneas that the souls of the dead

• Are rewarded or punished for all eternity

• Have new powers which they can exercise on earth to haunt people

• Are incapable of real thought or emotion because their sinews have been destroyed in death

• Are reborn after a thousand years have passed

Anchises shows Aeneas

• The tablets on which the Roman code of laws are written

• A great temple in which all the great exploits of Romans are portrayed in sculpture

• The souls of famous Roman leaders yet to be born

• His household deities

Which Roman festival was held in February to honour the dead?

• Lupercalia

• Parentalia

• Liberalia

• Lemuria

A 'shade' is

• A god of the underworld

• The spirit of a dead person in the underworld

• The name of an area in the underworld

• A prophet like the Sibyl