The Aeneid: Book IV

1. Line 3: consumed by the fire buried in her heart. Line 68: These were the words that fanned her sister's fire. Virgil is trying to say that Dido's love is very strong and powerful because when you think of fire, you think of powerful flames that can burn anything in a second.
2. Aeneas and Dido are going on a hunt, and Juno is going to send a storm at first light so that Aeneas and Dido will have to go to a cave. Juno is going to be waiting, and she is going to bind Aeneas and Dido in lasting marriage. Line 149: I'll shower down a cloudburst, hail, black driving rain.
3. Mercury basically chews Aeneas out, so he got scared. Mercury tells Aeneas that his fate is bad. This scares Aeneas so he considers leaving Carthage. Line 330-331: Mercury lashes out at once: "You , so now you lay foundation stones for the soaring walls of Carthage!"
4. Aeneas tells Dido that Apollo's oracle says that he must seize on Italy's noble land. Line 431-432: Grynean Apollo's oracle says that I must seize on Italy's noble land.
5. Dido says that her ghost will stalk Aeneas, and she says she will hound him with pitch-black flames. Lines 482-483: I'll hound you then with pitch-black flames. Lines 484-485: then my ghost will stalk you through the world!.
6. I would have used low-key lighting and a high angle because those two techniques would show that Dido was weak, and that there were dark and scary things going on. Line 824-825: her women see her doubled over the sword, the blood foaming over the blade.

The Aeneid: Book III

1. The battle of Actium is where Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The battle occurred in the city called Actium. The reason it is significant now is because the battle occur after Aeneas's time.
2. Andromache saw Aeneas at Hector's tomb. Andromache was pouring libations onto her husband's tomb when Aeneas saw her. Lines 364- (Andromache) implored Hector's shade to visit his tomb. Line 363- tipping wine to her husband's ashes.
3. They are both slaves. Line 393- he turned me over to Helenus, slave to slave.
4. Orestes killed Pyrrhus, so part of Pyrrhus's kingdom was passed to Helenus. Line 397- At Pyrrhus's death, part of his kingdom passed to Helenus.
5. The sign will be a snow white sow with 30 snow white piglets under the oaks along the bank of a river. Lines 464-465- A snow-white mother with snow0white young at her dugs: that will be the place to found your city.
6. Aeneas looses his father. Line 819- Here, after all the blows of sea and storm I lost my father.

The Aeneid: Book 1

1. He will rule Italy for three summers. Lines 327-328- Only three summers will see him govern Latium.
2. Aeneus will be succeeded by his son Ilus. Ilus will rule for thirty sovereign years. Line 322- (Ilus) will fill out with his own reign thirty sovereign years.
3. Romulus will eventually lead Rome into a time of peace. Lines 348-350- Then will the violent centuries, battles set aside, grow gentle, kind. Vesta and silver-haired Good Faith and Romulus flanked by brother Remus will make the laws.
4. Sychaeus, the richest man in Tyre. Line 417- Dido was married to Sychaeus, the richest man in Tyre.
5. Sychaeus was killed by Dido's brother Pygmalion. A murderous feud broke out between the the two men. Pygmalion caught Sychaeus off guard at the altar, and Pygmalion killed Sychaeus. Lines 423-425- A murderous feud broke out between both men. Pygmalion, catching Sychaeus off guard at the altar, slaughtered him in blood.
6. Dido had a dream, and in her dream, Sychaeus told her to flee from Tyre. Line 434- He urged her on: Take flight from our homeland, quick!"
7. Seven ships left Troy with Aeneus. Aeneus started with only twenty ships. Lines 463-464- A mere seven, battered by wind and wave, survived the worst.
8. Her stride, her hair gave off an ambrosial fragance, and her neck shone with a rosy glow. Lines 488-489- as she turned away her neck shone with a rosy glow, her mane of hair gave off an ambrosial fragrance. Line 491- and her stirde alone revealed her as a goddess.
9. A gown stiff with figures stitched in gold, and a woven veil with yellow sprays of aacanthus round the border. The scepter Ilione used to bear, the eldest daughter of Priam; a necklace strung with pearls, and a crown of double bands, one studded with gems, the other with gold. Lines 771-780.
10. Sometimes rivers dry up and when it is cloudy, one cannot see the stars or shadows. This means that her honor, name, and her praise may not live forever.