Citing details from our readings, please answer each of the following questions with responses of

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1. Consider the divinities that appear in books 1 and 4 of the Aeneid.

 Which divinities play major roles in these books of the Aeneid?

 How and why do they intervene in human affairs? 

The two divinities that play the largest role in books 1 and two are Juno and Venus.
Venus is Aeneas’s mother and thus comes to his aid when Juno tries to intervene. Juno dislikes
Aeneas due to his trojan heritage and the prophecy that a trojan will destroy her favorite city of
Carthage. Juno continually tries to throw Aeneas off course by sending storms and obstacles in
his path. Venus comes to his aid by her own divine intervention and sends her support through
other gods like cupid.

2. Carthage loomed large in the Roman imagination as an economic competitor and rival for
hegemony in the Western Mediterranean.

 Discuss Virgil’s depiction of Dido the Carthaginian, citing details from the text.
 How is the situation of the leader of Carthage like that of the proto-Roman Aeneas?

 Virgil depicts Dido as a powerful ruler which the people of carthage respect. When is struck by
cupid’s arrow, she turns into a love crazed ruler who loses the trust of her subjects. Dido and
Aeneas have a lot of similarities, for one they are both respected by their people and considered
to be quality leaders. They are both fled their homelands due to disaster and found carthage.
While Dido’s love for Aeneas eventually leads to suicide there is sense of a heroism because she
ended the madness.
3. Augustus famously “found a city of brick, but left it of marble.”

 Discuss two major monuments built by Augustus.

 The temple of Apollo was the largest temple of Apollo ever built in Rome. Augustus built the
temple right beside his current home in order to demonstrate its importance. The temple housed a
huge library where many Augustan poets resided. Augustus also built a forum; within the forum
housed a temple to Mars. The temple was dedicated to the revenge of the killers of Ceaser.

4. Discuss Augustus’ program of moral legislation.

 What sorts of restrictions did he introduce? 

 What, specifically, did these laws prohibit? 
 What did they encourage?

Augustus introduced reform in the hope to promote successful marriages and the production of
life. Specifically, he made tight restrictions against homosexual relationships and adultery.
Augustus also gave more rights to women who had more than 3 children, allowing them to
purchase property without a male companion.