Book 8 Aeneas in Rome

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  • Who declares war on the Trojans?
    Turnus. This was significant because it was supposed to be Latinus's job but he refused
  • Which god visits Aeneas in his dreams?
    The god of the River Tiber
  • Which omen does Tiber claim Aeneas will see when he wakes up?
    A white sow with 30 white piglets signifying that Ascanius would found Alba after 30 years have passed
  • Who does Tiber say Aeneas should ally himself with?
    King Evander and the Arcadians
  • Who was King Evander's son?
    Pallas
  • What was Pallas's response to Aeneas's arrival?
    He goes to meet him and the other Trojans alone
  • What was Evander's relationship with Anchises?

    He had admired Anchises as a young boy and Anchises had given him a quiver full of arrows, a gold cloak and a pair of golden bridles
  • Who do Evander and Aeneas offer libations to?
    Hercules
  • Who was able to foretell the future greatness of the sons of Aeneas and the future fame of Pallanteum?
    The nymph Carmentis- Evander's mother
  • What does Venus request from Vulcan?
    For him to make armour for Aeneas
  • What did Evander reveal about Turnus?
    That he was Mezentius's "guest friend" a clumsy way of mirroring the Greek concept of xenia
  • What does Evander want Aeneas to do with Pallas?

    Teach him the ways of war. Mirroring the old warrior/young warrior relationship between Evander and Anchises
  • What does Venus send to Aeneas in Book 8?
    A sign that war was threatening with the Latins in the form of lightning
  • How does Virgil imply that something bad was going to happen in Book 8?
    When Evander prays for the gods to kill him if his son was fated to die, Virgil describes that he "collapsed"
  • How does Venus appear to Aeneas in Book 8?
    In her true form, the first time in the book that she appears to him without a disguise.
  • What was depicted on Aeneas's shield?
    The future of Rome
  • How was Augustus Caesar portrayed on Aeneas's shield?

    As leading the Romans into battle alongside the gods
  • How are the Egyptian gods described by Virgil?
    "Monstrous"