Where are the Trojans sailing, wo dies during this voyage?
They sail towards Italy.
Caeita, Aeneas’ old nurse, dies and the Trojans name the land where she’s buried after her
What does Aeneas see shortly after burying Caeita?
A region with a forest filled with birds and the beautiful Tiber river flowing through it.
What does Vergil explain?
the history of Latium, home of the Latins (and future location of Rome).
What is King Latinus looking for, and who has he found?
King Latinus is seeking a suitable husband (and future heir) for his daughter Lavinia.
Turnus, king of the Rutulians, seems most likely, but fate has delayed the marriage.
What signs and omens are seen in Latium?
Latinus sees a swarm of bees by a sacred laurel, signifying that strangers will arrive.
A scary but harmless flame engulfs Lavinia, an omen that she will be long esteemed—but also that a war is on the horizon.
What does Latinus do after these omens?
Latinus goes to a grove sacred to Faunus, a nature god of the region, to pray about the omens.
He sacrifices a hundred sheep.
A voice tells him not to marry Lavinia to a Latin. A foreigner will arrive soon, who will lead to a powerful dynasty.
What happens when the Trojans land?
The Trojans land their ships and have lunch, eating food that they’ve placed on top of pieces of bread. Ascanius jokes that they’re eating their tables—so the Harpy Caelano’s prophecy of famine has been harmlessly fulfilled.
Anchises had also told Aeneas in the Underworld to build his home on the spot where he eats his tables.
What happens after the Trojans realise where they are?
Jove sends thunder, and the Trojans rejoice to have reached their destined home. They begin immediately to build a fortress and camp.
Where do some Trojans go without Aeneas?
A delegation of Trojans (without Aeneas) journeys to Latinus’s city.
What happens in Latinus’ city?
Latinus invites them to the palace, which is richly decorated with mythological images.
He asks them how they arrived, and recalls that Trojan ancestry can be traced back to Latium.
The Trojan Ilioneus praises Jove, describes Aeneas’s greatness, asks if the Trojans can stay in peace, and offers gifts to Latinus, including some of Priam’s robes.
What does Latinus realise when the Trojan delegation comes?
Latinus realizes that Aeneas must be the foreigner destined to marry Lavinia.
He tells the Trojans they may stay, but first he wants to meet Aeneas because signs indicated his daughter’s fated marriage to Aeneas.
What does Latinus do for the Trojans?
He gives horses to the Trojans, and prepares a carriage led by half-god horses for Aeneas.
Who sees the Trojan’s good fortune?
Juno, spying on the proceedings from above
She is disgusted at the Trojans’ good fortune and is determined not to let her enemies win.
Who does Juno go to? What are her instructions?
Juno goes to the fury-goddess Allecto and instructs her to destroy Latium’s peace and turn people against each other.
What does Allecto do to Amata?
Allecto throws one of her evil magical snakes at Amata, poisoning her against Aeneas and making her angry that Lavinia won’t marry Turnus.
Amata tries to convince Latinus to cancel the marriage to Aeneas, to no avail.
She runs through the streets, whipping many of the other women of Latium into a frenzy.
They rush from the city, taking Lavinia with them, and hide her in the mountains.
Who does Allecto fly to next? What does she do?
Turnus, and disguises herself as an elderly priestess.
She encourages Turnus to attack the Trojan ships and fight Latinus because of Lavinia.
How does Turnus react to Allecto?
Turnus dismisses her, saying she should focus on her temple and leave the fighting to the men.
Allecto takes on her true, terrifying form, and throws a flame at him. Turnus becomes crazy with war-lust, like an overheated pot that bubbles over. He sends Latinus a message of war and gathers Rutulian men to be soldiers.
Where does Allecto fly after Turnus?
Allecto flies to the Trojan camp, and makes Ascanius’s hunting dogs go mad. Following after the dogs, Ascanius sees and shoots a stag.
What stag did Ascanius kill?
A stag that was a beloved pet of two Latium locals, Tyrrheus the shepherd and his daughter Silvia.
They are furious
What is Allecto’s final act?
Allecto makes a deathly war call emanate from a shepherd’s trumpet, and the Trojans rush out of their nearby camp. A battle begins between Trojans and shepherds. Tyrrheus’s son is the first to die.
How does Juno respond to Allecto’s return?
Allecto proudly shows her work to Juno, and offers to do more. Juno refuses the offer and sends Allecto away.
What do the crazed mothers do when they return from the mountains?
They ask Latinus to declare war. Latinus is reluctant to open the gates of war, which would serve as the declaration. Juno intervenes, opening the gates of war herself. The Latium men rush to arm themselves.
