- The format will be the same as the midterm: the
Identifications , the plot questions, the snippets, the map and
dates.
- Material on the midterm guide: up to 20% of the ID's will come
from the first half of the semester.
- Tragedy
- Know every character who has a speaking part
- Know what sort of people the chorus is (a chorus of town
elders, a chorus of female slaves, etc.)
- Know the plot of each tragedy
- Production facts about Tragedy: stage, actors, the festival,
episode
- Sophocles
- Euripides
- Aeschylus
- Know the plot of the Aeneid: you won't be required to
remember book numbers, but you will be asked to recount things
such as, for instance the Nisus and Euryalus episode, or Aeneas'
escape from Troy, or Aeneas' affair with Dido, or the death of
Turnus, or the end of the epic, etc.
- You may send me by email plot questions which you think
are fair game: include in the subject line "suggested plot
questions."
- People and things to know in Aeneid: start with the
material in your translation and work from there: be sure to be
able to say something about what they do/what role they play in
the plot/where they appear--i.e. be sure to be able to say
something that definitely shows that you read and thought about
the reading for that ID.
- Achaemenides
- Achates
- Actium (battle of)
- Aeneas
- Alba Longa
- Allecto
- Amata
- Anchises
- Andromache
- Anna
- Ascanius/Iulus
- Augustus
- Aurora
- Ausonian
- Cacus
- Caieta
- Camilla
- Creusa
- Dardan
- Dido
- Drances
- Juturna
- Latinus
- Lausus
- Lavinia
- Evander
- Harpies/Celaeno
- Helenus
- Juno
- Mezentius
- Nisus and Euryalus
- Palinurus
- Pallas
- Sinon
- Turnus
- Things to know
- the gates of war
- the golden bough
- major prophetic accounts of the future that leads up to
Augustan Rome
- vaticinium ex eventu: prophecy after the fact
- Echoes of the Iliad and Odyssey : parallels
to Homer: find several specific events/patterns/scenes
that Virgil uses that have clear parallels in Homer:
an example is the personification of an important local river
god (Tiberinus v. Simoeis), a night-time raid, etc.
- structure of the Aeneid from notes page
- everything on the class notes page is fair game.
- FELLOW STUDENT PRESENTATION ITEMS:
- Penelopiad
- Les Troyens
- Dares of Phrygia
- O Brother Where Art Thou?
- HD and Helen in Egypt
- Beowulf
- The Song of Achilles
- Katzantzakis' Odyssey
- Zoccola's Helen of Troy
- MAP elements:
- we did not get to doing another map exercise, so here's a
map for you to study:
- be able to draw in the basic route which
Aeneas took from Troy to Latium and the following 8 places
(Aenea, Pergama, Buthrotum, Eryx, Carthage, Cumae, and Alba
Longa)
- don't forget the map elements from the first half of the
semester: there might be a couple from there on this one.
- Dates: same as for midterm, but the later Roman dates will
feature more.
