Exam 23: Legends of Aeneas

Wealthy land-owning families who formed the privileged political class at Rome were known as the _______.

In Latin, numina are literally "_______."

What is the term for the legal transfer of something into the ownership of a numen?

Which of the following are among the differences between the epic poems of Homer and Vergil?

Who accompanies Aeneas on his descent into the underworld?

The executive branch of Roman republican government consisted of _______.

_______ seems once to have been a numen of fresh water, but under Greek influence also took on the protection of animal and human fertility.

The head of a Roman familia, endowed with patria potestas, was the _______.

Which of the following numina was an Etruscan import and associated with handicrafts?

Which numen is represented on this ancient Roman coin?

Until the final victory of Augustus in 30 BC, the doors of _______ had stood opened for more than two hundred years.

One of the oldest known inscriptions in the Greek alphabet (found on a small island in the Bay of Naples) refers to _______.

Who was the numen who presided over women as members of the family?

Which three things does Anchises list as Aeneas' "god-given skill" as a Roman?

Which of the following are entirely or mostly absent from the native myth traditions of Rome?

Which hero had numerous special cults, including the Ara Maxima, dedicated to him in the Form Boarium of Rome?

Though similar, the Lares were always fixed to a specific location, while the _______ were portable.

The Roman vision of the state as an enlarged family is perhaps most clear from the exaltation in myth of a set of duties called _______.

Which of the following are among the places visited by Aeneas in his wanderings after his escape from Troy?

After Julius Caesar's death, which two Romans conquered the senatorial armies and divided the world between themselves?