- 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%.
- Material on the midterm guide: up to 30% 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 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."
- People and things to know in Aeneid: start with the
material in the back of our 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.
- MAP elements: be ready to fill in the items from the map on
PP. vi-vii in our translation.
- and be able to draw in the basic route which Aeneas took
from Troy to Latium.
- and don't forget the map elements from the first half of the
semester: there might be a couple from there on this one.
- Dates: use the time table in this
document, but a few Roman dates have been added to the
table.