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OpenStudy (inowalst):

Which city's founding is chronicled in the epic poem The Aeneid? Oslo Rome Paris Athens

OpenStudy (paki):

what u guess...?

OpenStudy (inowalst):

I have no idea..

OpenStudy (paki):

choose between B and C...

OpenStudy (inowalst):

B?

OpenStudy (paki):

NO...

OpenStudy (inowalst):

C..

OpenStudy (paki):

yeah... its C... have a look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid

OpenStudy (inowalst):

You sure its not Rome? It talks all about Romans..

OpenStudy (inowalst):

"...that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans."

OpenStudy (paki):

Also in the manner of Homer, the story proper begins in medias res (in the middle of things), with the Trojan fleet in the eastern Mediterranean, heading in the direction of Italy. The fleet, led by Aeneas, is on a voyage to find a second home. It has been foretold that in Italy, he will give rise to a race both noble and courageous, a race which will become known to all nations. Juno is wrathful, because she had not been chosen in the judgment of Paris, and because her favorite city, Carthage, will be destroyed by Aeneas's descendants. Also, Ganymede, a Trojan prince, was chosen to be the cup bearer to her husband, Jupiter—replacing Juno's daughter, Hebe. Juno proceeds to Aeolus, King of the Winds, and asks that he release the winds to stir up a storm in exchange for a bribe (Deiopea, the loveliest of all her sea nymphs, as a wife). Aeolus does not accept the bribe, but agrees to carry out Juno's orders (lines 90-91, "My task is / To fulfill your commands"); the storm then devastates the fleet.

OpenStudy (inowalst):

Oh okay.

OpenStudy (paki):

yeah

OpenStudy (inowalst):

Thank you.

OpenStudy (paki):

pleasure

OpenStudy (theraggedydoctor):

dot.

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