The Aeneid
Across
- 2. North African city where Aeneas delays his journey
- 6. Greek enemies during the Trojan War
- 8. City Aeneas is destined to found
- 9. Italian warrior prince and rival of Aeneas
- 13. Aeneas journeys here to speak with the dead
- 16. Book where Dido's tragedy unfolds
- 19. Trojan ally, dies avenging his friend
- 21. Sea journey filled with storms and trials
- 22. Aeneas’s son, also called Iulus
- 23. Aeneas’s most defining characteristic
- 24. Queen of Carthage who falls in love with Aeneas
- 25. Aeneas
- 27. Aeneas’s homeland, destroyed in war
- 28. Quality lacking in Turnus’s leadership
- 31. Camilla’s role in the poem
- 32. King who represents divine order and fate
- 34. Representation of tragic female resistance
- 35. Heroic suffering in the face of hardship
- 36. Aeneas’s father and wise counsellor
Down
- 1. Personal loss that leads to noble sacrifice
- 3. Daughter of Latinus and future wife of Aeneas
- 4. Divine control over human destiny
- 5. Leader of the Arcadians and ally of Aeneas
- 7. Hero and son of Venus; founder-to-be of Rome
- 8. Latin tribe that Aeneas must fight
- 10. Close companion of Euryalus, known for his loyalty
- 11. Young warrior and son of Evander
- 12. Book featuring Aeneas's descent into the Underworld
- 14. The unchangeable force that drives the plot
- 15. Kingdom of Evander
- 17. King of the Latins, father of Lavinia
- 18. Book in which Aeneas recounts the fall of Troy
- 20. Land of the Cyclopes visited briefly
- 26. Conflict between love and responsibility
- 27. Aeneas' last kill of the poem
- 29. Aeneas's prophetic destination in Italy
- 30. Aeneas’s divine mother who aids him
- 32. Queen of the gods who opposes Aeneas
- 33. Roman virtue of duty to gods, family, and country
- 35. The overall genre of The Aeneid