The Aeneid

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Across
  1. 1. Who (which god) insists that Aeneas go to Italy?
  2. 3. Venus bestowed _____ onto her son so that people would fall in love with him for his looks.
  3. 6. What is Dido standing on when she kills herself? pyre
  4. 7. What is another word for the lower depths of Hades, or the underworld?
  5. 9. The leader of the Volscians, a race of warrior maidens.
  6. 11. The god/goddess's altar behind which Helen was hiding. Ironic because this divine beings followers are virgins.
  7. 14. Who is the sister of Dido?
  8. 16. Wooden animal that the Greeks used to invade Troy.
  9. 17. star What is another phrase used for "sun" that rose on Ida's ridges?
  10. 18. Where Aeneas and his soldiers are destined to go
  11. 20. Which god sends a messenger to tell Aeneas that he needs to leave Carthage?
  12. 22. Venus and Juno promote the affair between Dido and who?
  13. 26. Another name for the Greeks
  14. 28. The wife of Aeneas
  15. 29. The goddess of love and the mother of Aeneas.
  16. 30. This person's fate was to be killed by twin serpents along with his sons.
  17. 31. Dido kills __________
  18. 33. Author of the Aeneid
Down
  1. 2. Name of the state that Aeneas is destined to establish
  2. 4. From what continent are Dido's suitors?
  3. 5. Dido's _______ " Dearer to your sister then daylight is, will wear out your life, young as you are, in solitary mourning"?
  4. 8. King of Pallanteum (a region of Arcadia) and father of Pallas.
  5. 10. Aeneas's _________ warned him from verbally attacking Helen.
  6. 12. Where is Aeneas coming from at the beginning?
  7. 13. Who is Aeneas’ guide to the underworld?
  8. 15. The holy statue that was stolen in Troy by the Greeks was a tribute to whom?
  9. 19. The ruler of the Rutulians in Italy.
  10. 21. Character Turnus kills which angers Aeneas
  11. 23. Juno's favorite city in the whole world
  12. 24. What is another name for Jupiter?
  13. 25. Son of Venus (Not Aeneas)
  14. 27. Person who persuades the Trojans to take in the wooden horse as an offering to Minerva.
  15. 32. Feeling that Dido feels for Aeneas after Cupid strikes her.