APFIVE Mythological Allusion in an Aeneid Simile
Describe references and allusions to Greco-Roman mythology and legend in Latin texts.
The simile ‘qualem primo qui surgere mense aut videt, aut vidisse putat per nubila lunam’ evokes which lunar deity or moon-associated goddess?
Inter quas Phoenissa recens a volnere Dido errabat silva in magna; quam Troius heros ut primum iuxta stetit adgnovitque per umbras obscuram, qualem primo qui surgere mense aut videt, aut vidisse putat per nubila lunam, demisit lacrimas, dulcique adfatus amore est
A
Venus’s role as goddess of love and beauty
B
Luna (the personified Moon) and Diana (goddess associated with the moon)
C
Apollo’s association with the sun and prophecy
D
Juno’s jealousy and persecution of Trojan heroes
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