AeneidThingsToKnow

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

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, 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.

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.
everything on the class notes page is fair game.

be able to draw in the basic route which Aeneas took from Troy to Latium.
don't forget the map elements from the first half of the semester: there might be a couple from there on this one.