Book III

Aeneid Book III - This is not a very important book in the Aeneid. It outlines some

of the adventures Aeneas and his men have after they leave Troy and before they

arrive in Carthage.

Questions

1. The Trojans come to the Land of Mars and bury a Trojan who died there years

before. Who?

2. The Trojans started a settlement on what large island, only to be defeated by

plague and drought?

3. Aeneas' household gods spoke to him and told him for the first

time that his new home would be where?

4. On the Strophades Islands the Trojans were plagues by what?

5. Who told them that when they ate their tables, they would be in

their new home?

6. Next they landed near Actium and did what?

7. In Epirus they met Hector's wife ________ who was carried off by Pyrrhus and

was now married to _________, Priam's son.

8. Who built a replica city of Troy?

9. Who told the Trojans that when they saw a white sow with 30 white piglets, they

would be home?

10. The Trojans land in Italy but soon leave. Why?

11. Between Italy and Sicily the Trojans had seen, but were not

harmed by the _________ and _________.

12. Whom was Aeneas told to see to get an accurate prophesy of the future?

13. Who chases them away from the area around Mt. Aetna?

14. Whom do the Trojans take with them?

15. Anchises dies on the island of __________.