Question

passage 1: the aeneid, by virgil
introduction: in disguise, the goddess venus speaks with her son aeneas, a trojan soldier who has just arrived in the city of carthage after surviving the destruction of troy along with a difficult and violent voyage.
1 \o goddess, if i told you
2 all from the first beginning, if you had leisure
3 to listen to the record of our trouble,
4 it would take me all day long. from ancient troy,
5 in case that name means anything, we come
6 driven over many seas, and now a storm
7 has whipped us on this coast. i am aeneas,
8 a good, devoted man; i carry with me
9 my household gods, saved from the greeks; i am
10 known
11 in heaven; it is italy i seek,
12 a homeland for me there, and a race descended
13 from lofty jove. with a score of ships we started
part a
one theme in epic poems is that deities often interfere in the lives of humans. how does the author develop this theme in passage 1?
○ by comparing aeneas’s mother to venus
○ by having aeneas describe his difficult voyage
○ by revealing aeneas’s joy at seeing his mother
○ by describing how venus protects aeneas from harm

Explanation:

To determine how the author develops the theme of deities interfering in human lives, we analyze each option:

• The first option compares Aeneas’s mother to Venus, but this doesn't show divine interference.
• The second option has Aeneas describe his voyage, which is about his journey, not divine interference.
• The third option reveals his joy at seeing his mother, focusing on his emotions, not divine action.
• The fourth option describes Venus (a deity) protecting Aeneas from harm, which directly shows a deity interfering in a human's life.

Answer:

D. by describing how Venus protects Aeneas from harm