Aeneid

**Useful Proper Names from the Aeneid**
Introductory Comment
It is helpful in reading the Aeneid to know that Vergil uses multiple names to refer to the same characters, groups, and places. Although there may be certain anthropological or geographical distinctions between one name and another, for our purposes they are identical.
Our Hero Aeneas
nate dea	son of the goddess, goddess-born
Anchisiades	son of Anchises
ipse	used by itself to refer to the most important figure, i.e., Aeneas
Queen Dido
Elissa	simply another name for Dido
Phoenissa	literally "the Phoenician woman"
Boo! The Greeks--all these may be translated "Greek"
Achivus	Achaean
Argolicus	Argive
Danaus	Danaan
Doricus	Doric
Grajus	Greek
Pelasgus	Pelasgian
Yay! The Trojans--all these may be translated "Trojan"
Dardanius	Dardanian
Iliacus	Ilian
Phrygius	Phrygian
Phryx	Phrygian
Teucrus	Teucrian
Troius	Trojan
Trojanus	Trojan
Tros	Trojan
O Doomed Troy--all these may be translated "Troy"
Ilion	Ilium
Ilium	Ilium
Pergama	Pergamon or Pergamum
Troja	Troy
Carthaginians
Poenus	Phoenician
Punicus	Punic or Phoenician
Sidonius	Sidonian
Tyrius	Tyrian
Italy
Ausonia	Ausonia
Hesperia	Hesperia or Westland
Italia	Italy

USEFUL LINKS (back to top)

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NEED A COMPLETE TEXT OF THE AENEID?

Vergil at the Latin Library

Vergil at the Bibliotheca Augustana (with text illustrations)

Vergil's text hyperlinked at the Perseus Project

DICTIONARIES AND COMMENTARIES

Lewis's Elementary Dictionary

Lewis and Short (the largest online)

Textual Assistance for Specific Passages

Grammatical Assistance at U Penn.

Conington's Commentary from Perseus

ONLINE TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH

1. Aeneid: Dryden's English with hyperlinks from Perseus

2. Plain Dryden at MIT (#1 in GoogleTM for years)

3. Aeneid: Williams's English with hyperlinks from Perseus

4. Latin/English framed text (Williams translation)

3. Aeneid: from T. S. Kline (modern! scroll down to find it)

4. Iliad: in the Samuel Butler translation at MIT

5. Odyssey: in the Butler translation at MIT

SUMMARIES OF THE AENEID (NO SUBSTITUTE FOR LATIN!)

Online Summary from Bulfinch

1. Adventures of Aeneas

2. Aeneas in the Underworld

3. Aeneas in Italy, Part One

4. Aeneas in Italy, Part Two

Online Summary from the University of Cincinnati

Complete CliffNotesTM for the Aeneid at Yahoo!

Complete SparkNotesTM for the Aeneid

Barron's BooknotesTM for the Aeneid at PinkMonkey

Materials from Middlebury

1. Introductory Commentary (what makes Vergil special)

2. Notes for Book Four ("tight and terse," "old school")

3. Esthetic Commentary on Book Four (ignore the typos)

MATERIALS IN GERMAN

1. Translation by J. H. Voss at Projekt Gutenberg

opening page includes content summary for each book

2. Plot summary in German

3. German translation, Latin original, other materials

4. German translation of Bk. 6 selections: in der Unterwelt

GENERAL RESOURCES ONLINE (QUASI METASITES)

All the best sites have been gathered for you at virgilius.org

The Vergil Homepage (no updates since 1999)

Seton Hall's Cotter resources for the Aeneid (last update in 2005)

Numerous Vergil Links (U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

AP Resources at the Maret School (Ms. McGlennon)

AP Resources for Monahan High School (Ms. Sameth)

AP Resources for Danville, especially Book 1 (Ms. Gilmore)

AP Resources of Dr. Bishop (check out the "magic vocab lists")

AP Vocabulary Resources for Piux VI High School (Mrs. Lukes)

AP Vocabulary Resources and NLE practices (Mrs. Kehoe)

Mr. J's Vergil Page

AP Links of Mr. White

Homepage of virgil.org

HEAR THE AENEID!

(You may need to download free Real Player for some pages.)

1. Aeneid 1.1-11 (read by Wendell Clausen, Harvard)

2. Aeneid 1.1-49 (at SORGLL, read by Robert P. Sonkowsky)

3. Aeneid 1.195-207 (read by Wendell Clausen)

4. Aeneid 1.588-610 (read by Wendell Clausen)

5. Aeneid 4.9-29 (read by Vojin Nedeljkovic at Viva Voce)

6. Aeneid 4.331-61 (read by Wendell Clausen)

7. Aeneid 4 in its entirety (read by Wilfried Stroh, U Munich)

(Note that Iliad 1 in Greek is also found at this site.)

8. Aeneid 6.12-41 (read by Wendell Clausen)

9. Aeneid 6.15-204 (read by Wendell Clausen)

10. Aeneid 6.450-74 (read by Wendell Clausen)

11. Aeneid 12.926b-52 (read by Richard F.Thomas, Harvard)

VOCABULARY (back to top)

1. Try Mr. A's Complete Flashcards for Pharr's Vocabulary

foldout.

(These are the words that occur 24 or more times in bks. 1-6.

For genders, c. = common, i.e., could be either masc. or fem.)

A. Words beginning with A

B. Words beginning with B-D

C. Words beginning with E-G

D. Words beginning with H-L

E. Words beginning with M-N

F. Words beginning with O-R

G. Words beginning with S

H. Words beginning with T-V

2. Practice the 49 Most Common Verbs in Aeneid 1-6 (24 or

more times).

A. Flashcards

B. Principal Parts (You may use either J or I.)

3. Try Mr. A's Complete Flashcards for All Vocabulary that

Occurs 12-23 Times in Aeneid 1-6.

(Pharr, pp. 97-100 of grammatical appendix).

A. Words beginning with A

B. Words beginning with B-C

C. Words beginning with D-F

D. Words beginning with G-J

E. Words beginning with L-N

F. Words beginning with O-Q

G. Words beginning with R-S

H. Words beginning with T-V

4. Practice Verbs that Occur 12-23 Times in Aeneid 1-6. (You

may use either J or I.)

A. Flashcards for verbs beginning with A

B. Practice pincipal parts of verbs beginning with A

C. Flashcards for verbs beginning with C

D. Practice principal parts of verbs beginning with C

E. Flashcards for verbs beginning with D-H

F. Practice principal parts of verbs beginning with D-H

G. Flashcards for verbs beginning with I-L

H. Practice principal parts of verbs beginning with I-L

I. Flashcards for verbs beginning with M-O

J. Practice principal parts of verbs beginning with M-O

K. Flashcards for verbs beginning with P-R

L. Practice principal parts of verbs beginning with P-R

M. Flashcards for verbs beginning with S

N. Practice principal parts of verbs beginning with S

O. Flashcards for verbs beginning with T-V

P. Practice principal parts of verbs beginning with T-V

5. Learn the forms of the irregular 1st declension noun Aeneas.

6. Check out the People and Places of Many Names below.

7. Learn the Names of the Winds in the Aeneid below.

8. General Translation Tips for Vergil.

9. Practice vocabulary occurring more than 50 times courtesy

of Ms. Sameth.

A. Part One

B. Part Two

C. Part Three

10. Practice and quiz yourself on easily confused words.

A. Practice (courtesy of Ms. Sameth)

B. Self-Quiz (from Ms. Sameth)

C. Broader general list of easily confused vocabulary from

Georgetown

SCANSION (back to top)

(You may need the free Acrobat Reader.)

1. Mr. A's Revised Introduction to Scansion as a .pdf file.

2. Check your recognition of various meters: matching 1.

3. Check your scansion of Aeneid 1.1-7 with this .pdf file.

4. Practice scansion identification in Aeneid 4.1-12.

5. Practice scansion in Mr. A's scansion cloze1.

6. Take a scansion test over Aeneid 1.1-11.

7. The world's only "You Make It" scansion test.

FIGURES OF SPEECH (back to top)

1. Great source for the terminology in English (U of Kentucky)

2. Good list with examples by Betsy Prueter

3. Four exercises in one courtesy of Ms. Sameth

4. Mr. A's figures of speech flashcards: 50 items from drawn

from the entire Aeneid.

5. Mr. A's figures of speech in English: definitions and

English examples.

ACTIVITIES PER BOOK (back to top)

Activities per book generally follow this format:

1. identification of quotes and speakers

2. identification of figures of speech

3. grammatical activities (especially participles)

4. commentary

5. practice quizzes

6. sight reading practices

1. BOOK 1 (back to top)

A. Identify the subject of each quote.

B. Identify additional subjects of these quotes.

C. Identify the speaker of each quote.

D. Identify the speakers of these quotes (Ms. McGlennon)

E. Identify the figures of speech.

F. Identify more figures of speech.

G. Identify the return of the figures of speech.

H. Identify even more figures of speech.

I. Identify the son of the figures of speech.

J. Identify these figures of speech: it can't be!

K. Identify these figures of speech: dî immortâlês!

L. Identify the last figures of speech.

M. Tricked you! Identify more figures of speech.

N. But wait! There are more figures of speech!

O. Examine the less common grammar of the book.

P. Practice participles from Bk. 1.

Q. Put the chronology of 1.81-156 in order (Ms. Sameth).

R. Take a practice quiz over 1.81-156 (Ms. Sameth).

S. Take a Bk. 1 content quiz (Professor Wilson).

TIPS FOR SIGHT READING

1. Don't worry about every word the first few times.

2. Go for main ideas: subject, verb, object, etc.

3. Let the words "wash over" till you know what's next.

4. No macrons on purpose: decide what goes with what.

5. Follow any connections to related parts of the poem.

T. Sight reading practice: Aen. 1.1-11 (the proem).

U. Sight reading practice: Aen. 1.64-76 (Juno's appeal).

V. Sight reading practice: Aen. 1.148-56 (Neptune simile).

W. Sight reading practice: Aen. 1.180-93 (Aeneas hunts).

X. Sight reading practice: Aen. 1.254-66 (Jove prophesies).

Y. Sight reading practice: Aen. 1.267-79a (Jove speaks on).

Z. Sight reading practice: Aen. 1.494-506 (Dido as Diana).

2. BOOK 2 (back to top)

A. Terminology/quotation identification for Bk. 2 (Ms. Sameth)

B. Identify the subject of each quote.

C. Identify more subjects of quotes.

D. Identify even more subjects of quotes.

E. Identify the subjects of these quotes.

F. Identify the speaker of each quote.

G. Identify the figures of speech.

H. Identify more figures of speech.

I. Identify still more figures of speech.

J. Identify the additional figures of speech.

K. Try to identify these figures of speech.

L. It's still not over: more figures of speech.

M. Identify these figures of speech: can it be?

N. Is this the end? More figures of speech.

O. Test yourself with figures of speech not on the syllabus.

P. Test more figures of speech not on the syllabus.

Q. Practice participles from Bk. 2.

R. Take a Bk. 2 content quiz (Professor Wilson).