- The final will have up to 25% content from the first half of
the semester
- The format will be the same as the midterm: the
Identifications section will be worth roughly 30%, the plot
questions will be about 30%, and the snippets will be about 30%,
with the map and dates about 10%.
- 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 Aeneas: you won't be asked to say
what happened by 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." I will post them here. Send them to me by Friday
the 30th of November.
- People and things to know in Aeneid: this list is
incomplete, BUT I will only add figures to the exam that are
significant (i.e. if you find a character of the status of
Mezentius or Allecto who is left off the list, that is fair
game, but Capys, Privernus, Promolus, or the like are not fair
game.
- Achaemenides
- Achates
- Actium (battle of)
- Aeneas
- Pius Aeneas: piety
- toward gods
- toward family
- toward native land
- something like "proper respect"
- where is he merciless, cruel, questionably virtuous (be
ready to give several examples)
- 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), night-time raid, etc.
- MAP elements: be ready to label the following on a map of the
Mediterranean
- Ausonia
- Sicily
- Rome
- Latium
- Carthage
- Cumae
- Etna
- Tiber
- and be able to draw in the basic route which Aeneas took
from Troy to Latium (there are many such maps on the
internet: find one that is trustworthy).
- and don't forget the map elements from the first half of the
semester.