- 01Virgil's summary of Aeneas's wanderings and destiny
- 01Juno’s fear of Troy’s destiny
- 02Juno appeals to Aeolus
- 03The storm wrecks the Trojan fleet
- 01Neptune rebukes the winds and restores calm
- 01Landing on the Libyan shore and making camp
- 02Aeneas hunts the stags and shares the feast
- 01Venus pleads for Aeneas and Troy
- 02Jupiter’s prophecy of Rome
- 01Prophecy of Rome and Caesar's future empire
- 02Mercury sent to open Carthage to the Trojans
- 03Aeneas sleepless in the night
- 01Venus appears as a huntress in the wood
- 01Dido’s flight from Tyre and founding of Carthage
- 02Venus guides Aeneas to the city
- 03Carthage under construction and the temple omen
- 01Aeneas sees the painted scenes of Troy
- 02Dido’s entrance and rule in the temple
- 03Ilioneus pleads for Trojan refuge
- 01Dido’s welcome and offer of aid
- 02Aeneas reveals himself and thanks Dido
- 03Dido recognizes Aeneas and prepares the feast
- 01Venus sends Cupid in Ascanius’s form
- 02The feast at Dido’s court
- 03Dido’s wine, song, and request for Troy’s story
The Aeneid
by Virgil · c. 19 BCE · 12 chapters · 24/7 tutor
Roman national epic and political mythology.
12Chapters
127Lessons
355Topics
Certificate of completion included
This course was produced by Cavua from a public-domain text.
Skills this course leaves you with.
- Summarize the plot and structure of Books I through VI of The Aeneid
- Explain how Virgil presents Aeneas as a hero of duty and destiny
- Analyze the roles of Juno, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury in the poem's action
- Describe major episodes such as the fall of Troy, Dido's story, and the descent to the underworld
- Interpret the poem as Roman political mythology and national epic
- Identify key themes including exile, fate, piety, and empire
Curriculum
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- Chapters
- 12
- Lessons
- 127
- Topics
- 355
- 01The fall of Troy and Aeneas’s escape
- 01The Greeks’ abandoned camp and the Trojan debate over the horse
- 02Laocoon’s warning and the spear through the horse
- 03Sinon’s capture and fabricated backstory
- 04Sinon’s tale of Greek withdrawal and his escape
- 05The false explanation of Minerva’s wooden frame
- 01Laocoon’s death by the serpents
- 02The Trojans drag the horse into Troy
- 03The Greeks emerge and open the gates
- 01Hector’s ghost warns Aeneas to flee Troy
- 02The gods’ statues and the first signs of Troy’s fall
- 01Pantheus’s warning and the fall of Troy
- 02Night assault in the streets
- 03Coroebus’s disguise and the mistaken Greeks
- 04Cassandra’s rescue and the final rout
- 01Assault on the palace walls
- 02Postern passage to Priam's closet
- 01Pyrrhus breaches Priam’s palace
- 02Priam’s death at the altar
- 03Aeneas sees Helen and Venus reveals the gods
- 01Anchises refuses to flee Troy
- 02Omens persuade Anchises to depart
- 03Creusa lost in the escape
- 04The Trojan exiles gather at dawn
- 01Flight from Troy and the voyage to Thrace
- 02Polydore’s murder and funeral rites
- 03Delos, Apollo’s oracle, and the mistaken call to Crete
- 01Teucrus, Cybele, and the founding of Pergamus in Crete
- 02The household gods reveal Italy as the true destination
- 03Departure from Crete and the storm at sea
- 01Arrival at the Strophades and the Harpies' attack
- 02Celaeno's prophecy and the departure from the islands
- 01Landing at Leucate and Buthrotus
- 02Helenus’s prophecy and instructions for Italy
- 03Departure gifts and farewell from Buthrotus
- 01Departure from the shore and arrival in Italy
- 02Sacrifices at Pallas and Juno's shrines
- 03Sailing past Tarentum, Charybdis, and Mount Aetna
- 01The volcanic island and the stranded Greek
- 02Achaemenides’ escape from Polyphemus
- 03Polyphemus returns to the shore
- 01Escape from the Cyclops and the voyage past Sicily
- 01Dido confides her love for Aeneas
- 02Anna urges marriage and alliance
- 01Dido’s sacrifices and consuming love
- 02Juno and Venus plot the hunt
- 03The royal hunting expedition
- 01Dido and Aeneas in the cave
- 02Fame spreads the secret love
- 03Hyarbas’s complaint to Jupiter
- 01Jupiter sends Mercury to Carthage
- 02Mercury delivers the warning to Aeneas
- 03Aeneas plans a secret departure
- 01Dido’s accusation and plea for delay
- 02Aeneas’s defense and divine command
- 03Dido’s curse and Aeneas’s departure preparations
- 04Dido’s renewed appeal through Anna
- 01Aeneas rejects Dido’s pleas
- 02Dido’s omens and resolve to die
- 03The funeral pyre and magic rites
- 04Dido’s final night of despair
- 01Mercury's warning and Aeneas's departure
- 02Dido's fury and call to pursue the Trojans
- 01Dido's curse against Aeneas and his descendants
- 02Preparations for sacrifice and death
- 03Dido's suicide on the funeral pyre
- 01The town’s outcry and Anna’s grief
- 02Dido’s final agony
- 03Juno sends Iris to release Dido
- 01Storm-driven landing in Sicily
- 02Acestes welcomes the Trojans
- 01Anchises’ funeral rites and promised games
- 02The serpent at Anchises’ tomb and renewed sacrifices
- 03The opening of the funeral games
- 01The four-galley naval race and starting lineup
- 02Gyas, Menoetes, and the first turn at the rock
- 03Mnestheus overtakes Sergesthus and Cloanthus wins by vow
- 04Prizes for the victors and Sergesthus’s consolation
- 01Race prizes and starting lineup
- 02The foot race and disputed finish
- 03Aeneas settles the dispute
- 01Challenge for the gauntlet fight
- 02Entellus’s aged strength and the heavy gauntlets
- 03The bout, Dares’s defeat, and Aeneas’s intervention
- 01Bull-slaying sacrifice and renunciation of the gauntlets
- 02Archery contest for the dove
- 03Acestes’ flaming arrow and the omen
- 01Ascanius summoned to lead the cavalry display
- 02Trojan boys’ cavalry maneuvers and legacy
- 01Iris stirs the Trojan matrons
- 02Beroe’s speech and the ship-burning
- 03Ascanius and Aeneas halt the fire
- 01Nautes advises leaving the weak behind
- 02Anchises’ shade and the descent to Pluto
- 03Founding Acesta and organizing the settlement
- 01Departure rites at Eryx
- 02Venus pleads with Neptune
- 03Neptune promises safe passage
- 01Neptune’s calm passage and Palinurus’s sleep
- 02Palinurus cast overboard and the ship’s escape
- 01Arrival at the Cumaean shore and the Sibyl's cave
- 02Daedalus's carvings in the temple of Phoebus
- 03The Sibyl's sacrifice and prophetic cave
- 01Aeneas’s prayer to Apollo and the Sibyl’s possession
- 02The Sibyl’s prophecy of Italian wars
- 03Descent to the underworld and the golden bough
- 01Misenus found dead on the shore
- 02Aeneas seeks the golden bough
- 03Funeral pyre and burial rites for Misenus
- 01Misenus’s funeral rites
- 02Sacrifices at Avernus and the underworld gate
- 01The phantom guardians of the underworld
- 02Acheron, Cocytus, and Charon's ferry
- 01The Stygian floods and unburied ghosts
- 02Palinurus’ death and plea for burial
- 03Charon’s challenge and the golden bough
- 01Cerberus and the judges of the dead
- 02The Mournful Fields of lost lovers
- 03Aeneas pleads with Dido's shade
- 01Heroes and Trojan shades in the underworld
- 02Deiphobus’s account of Helen’s betrayal and death
- 01The left path to Tartarus
- 02Rhadamanthus and the punishments of the guilty
- 03The Elysian fields beyond the gate
- 01Teucer’s heroic race and the blessed dead
- 02Musaeus and the path to Anchises
- 01Anchises greets Aeneas and shows the souls
- 02The souls in Lethe and the world-soul
- 01Purification of souls and the Lethean flood
- 02The line of Trojan and Alban kings
- 03Augustus and the Roman kings
- 04Roman heroes and Marcellus
- 01Anchises’ prophecy of Marcellus
- 02The gates of Sleep and Aeneas’ departure
- 01Circe’s enchanted coast and Neptune’s rescue
- 02Arrival at the Tiber and invocation to Erato
- 01Latinus’s lineage and Lavinia’s suitors
- 02Portents foretelling Lavinia’s foreign marriage
- 03Faunus’s oracle at Albunea
- 01The omen of eating the trenchers
- 02Sacrifices, thunder, and the search for Latium
- 03The embassy to Latinus and the first sight of the city
- 01Picus's palace and ancestral carvings
- 02Latinus receives the Trojan embassy
- 03Latinus's prophecy and gift of horses
- 01Juno’s complaint at the Trojans’ success
- 02Juno summons Alecto to stir war
- 01Fury’s assault on Amata
- 02Amata’s Bacchic frenzy and the women’s procession
- 01Amata’s frenzy and the Fury’s deception
- 02Alecto’s dream warning to Turnus
- 03Turnus’s scornful reply and Alecto’s wrath
- 01Turnus roused to war
- 02The Fury stirs conflict among the Trojans
- 01Ascanius wounds the stag
- 02Allecto stirs the Latins to war
- 01Juno sends the Fury to stir Italy
- 02Turnus and Amata inflame the people
- 03Latin king resists the mob
- 01Mars’s gates and the Roman declaration of war
- 02Juno forces open the gates of war
- 03Italian cities arming for battle
- 01Latium’s war preparations
- 02Mezentius, Lausus, and Aventinus
- 03Coras, Catillus, and Praeneste’s forces
- 04Messapus and Clausus’s allied contingents
- 05Halesus, Oebalus, Ufens, and Umbro
- 06Virbius and Turnus in command
- 01The gathering of allied forces
- 02Camilla’s arrival and martial grace
- 01Turnus assembles the Latin forces
- 02Venulus sent to Diomedes
- 01Aeneas’s anxious deliberation
- 02Tiber’s prophetic dream and promise
- 03Aeneas’s morning prayer to the river gods
- 01Sacrifice of the sow and departure by river
- 02Arrival at Evander’s Arcadian settlement
- 03Aeneas’s plea for alliance
- 04Evander’s recognition and promise of aid
- 01Evander’s account of Hercules and Cacus
- 02Evander’s feast and Hercules’ shrine
- 03Arcadian origins and Rome’s early sites
- 01Venus pleads with Vulcan for Aeneas
- 02The Cyclops forge Aeneas’s shield
- 01Evander prepares to meet Aeneas
- 02Evander’s pledge of aid and the story of Caere
- 01Mezentius overthrown and the Tuscan revolt
- 01Evander's promised cavalry support
- 02The divine omen of the shining arms
- 03Aeneas interprets the sign as war's call
- 01Evander’s sacrifice and farewell lament
- 02The Trojan and Arcadian march to the Tuscan camp
- 01Vulcan’s promised arms for Aeneas
- 02The shield’s prophetic Roman scenes
- 01The rape of the Sabine women and the peace oath
- 02Metius, Porsena, and early Roman heroes
- 03The silver goose and the Gallic assault
- 01The underworld and Roman heroes on the shield
- 02Actium and Cleopatra’s defeat
- 03Caesar’s triumph and the nations of Rome
- 01Juno sends Iris to Turnus
- 02Turnus rallies the Latin confederates
- 03The Trojan camp prepares its defenses
- 04Turnus challenges the camp from the ramparts
- 01Juno's plea and Jupiter's promise
- 02The ships transformed into sea nymphs
- 03Turnus rallies the Rutulians
- 04Night watch and Nisus with Euryalus
- 01Nisus proposes a night raid
- 02Ascanius and the Trojan rewards
- 03The slaughter in the enemy camp
- 04Flight through the forest and Nisus’s prayer
- 05Nisus kills Volscens and dies beside Euryalus
- 06The aftermath of the raid and the mothers' grief
- 01Amata’s grief and the alarm in the camp
- 02The assault on the walls and the tower set ablaze
- 03Turnus’s slaughter at the breach
- 01Ascanius kills Numanus
- 02Apollo restrains Ascanius
- 03The battle intensifies at the walls
- 01The Latins force the gate and Turnus rushes to the breach
- 02Pandarus opens the gate and admits the war
- 03Turnus kills Pandarus and drives the Trojans back
- 01Turnus kills the Trojan champions
- 02Mnestheus rallies the Trojans
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01How many chapters are in the Aeneid course?
The Aeneid course has 12 chapters, each with its own lessons and topics.
02How many lessons are in the Aeneid course?
There are 127 lessons across the course, and you can ask your 24/7 tutor about any of them.
03Can I see what the Aeneid course covers before I start?
Yes. The full curriculum is listed on this page, beginning with "BOOK I".
04Do I get a certificate for the Aeneid course?
Yes. Finishing the course earns a personal Cavua certificate of completion.
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