Collegiate Questions—Advanced Flashcards
What work, possibly inspired by Propertius 4.3, consists of 21 short poems on the theme of the “lament of the abandoned woman” in which Penelope, Dido and others are given voice by Ovid?
HĒRŌIDES
B1: Another important inspiration for the Hērōides was the ekphrasis on Theseus and Ariadne in the middle of which poem of Catullus, which focuses on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis?
(CATULLUS) 64
B2: In discussing poems like Catullus 64, what distinguishes the specific term ekphrasis from a term like “digression” or “embedded narrative”?
AN EKPHRASIS IS SPECIFICALLY A DESCRIPTION OF A WORK OF ART
(WITHIN A POEM)
In Varro’s Logistorici, what author speaks on chronology, reflecting the expertise displayed in his Liber Annālis, though he is most known for his 16 books of letters with Cicero?
ATTICUS
B1: In imitation of what work of Varro did Atticus publish an album of great Romans in which each portrait was accompanied by an epigram of 4 or 5 verses?
HEBDOMADĒS / DĒ IMĀGINIBUS / IMĀGINĒS
B2: In what city did Atticus remain for 20 years after leaving Rome at the time of the Sullan proscriptions for reasons of safety?
ATHENS
What important book, which one author read upon hearing the chant tolle, lege, ultimately inspired the ideology of authors like Tertullian and Lactantius and was translated into Latin by Saint Jerome?
(HOLY) BIBLE
B1: The author inspired to read the Bible by the words tolle, lege was Augustine. What work of Cicero was another book that changed Augustine’s life?
HORTENSIUS
B2: Before he wrote his Christian works, Lactantius was professor of rhetoric in what city?
NICOMEDIA
Perhaps inspired by Sisenna’s translations of Aristides in following the tradition of Milesian Fables, what author from Madaura wrote an 11-book novel called Asinus Aureus?
APULEIUS
B1: What bella fabella, encompassing books 5 and 6, serves as the model old wives’ tale for Apuleius’ masterpiece?
CUPID & PSYCHE
B2: The Asinus Aureus centers around Lucius’s quest for what sort of plant, which could restore him to human form?
ROSE
A so-called forte epos and a didactic Dē Morte were penned by what author, who rejected calls to fill in tibicinēs or make edits when he worked with Plotius Tucca to publish the Aeneid?
VARIUS RUFUS
B1: Varius Rufus also wrote a tragedy with what title?
THYESTES
B2: Horace’s description of Varius Rufus’s work as a forte epos contrasts with his mockery of what poet as “stuffed with rich tripe” in poems set in Ethiopia and Gaul?
(M.) FURIUS BIBACULUS
Before his death at the Lūdī Apollinārēs in 169 B.C., what “semigraecus” author published Hedyphaegetica and Ambracia, which retold events also recounted in his hexameter Annālēs?
ENNIUS
B1: In his Annālēs, Ennius declares himself the reincarnation of which Greek author because he had appeared to Ennius in a dream?
HOMER
B2: What work of Ennius is a translation which conveyed the idea that gods originated from stories about heroes of mankind?
EUHĒMERUS
What man was metaphorically addressed by the patria through the literary device of prosopopoeia, used in the first of four speeches against him delivered in 63 B.C. by Cicero?
CATILINE
B1: What man, against whom only one of the many speeches Cicero wrote was actually delivered, was defended by one of Cicero’s greatest rivals, Hortensius Hortalus?
VERRES
B2: What man was viciously attacked in Cicero’s Prō Rosciō Amerīnō for his rise from the slave markets at Delos to a life of ill-begotten luxury?
CHRYSOGONUS
Relying on his experience designing the Basilica of Fano and serving as an officer in Caesar’s engineering corps, what author set out to write a comprehensive treatise on architecture?
(MARCUS) VITRUVIUS (POLLIO)
B1: How many books comprise Vitruvius’ Dē Architectūrā?
10
B2: To whom is the Dē Architectūrā dedicated?
AUGUSTUS
Excluding sound effects, identify a literary device that can be found in the 4th line of the Aeneid — “Vī superum saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram” — a line which contains ABAB word order
SYNCHYSIS / TRANSFERRED EPITHET / HYPALLAGE
B1: Which literary device, excluding all forms of alliteration, can be found in the following sentence adapted from the Aeneid? “Tum Cererem corruptam undīs expediunt fessī rērum.”
METONYMY
B2: Which literary device can be found in the following line from Ovid’s Metamorphoses? “‘invide,’ dīcēbant, ‘pariēs, quid amantibus obstās?’”
PERSONIFICATION / APOSTROPHE
Who is the addressee of letters attributed to Sallust, whom he put in charge of Africa; the subject of the first of 12 gossipy biographies by Suetonius; and the author of Dē Bellō Gallicō?
(GAIUS JULIUS) CAESAR
B1: Who wrote the eighth book of Dē Bellō Gallicō?
(AULUS) HIRTIUS
B2: Suetonius’s biography of Caesar begins abruptly and is likely missing its opening, which would have included a dedication to what man?
SEPTICIUS CLARUS
Keenly interested in “cultural relativism,” what Roman author compared Greek, Carthaginian, and Roman statesmen in his Dē Virīs Illūstribus and was the dedicatee of Catullus’s poems?
CORNELIUS NEPOS
B1: Nepos also wrote a biography of what early author, who would have rejected “cultural relativism” in the steadfast pursuit of Rōmānitās that he displays in his seven-book history?
CATO THE ELDER
B2: What later Roman author also wrote a Chronicon and a Dē Virīs Illūstribus based on Eusebius’ Chronicle and Historia Ecclēsiastica, respectively?
JEROME
The only extant fābulae cothurnātae were written by what Silver Age author, more known for addressing Helvia with a Dē Cōnsōlātiōne and Lucillius with Stoic “moral epistles”?
SENECA THE YOUNGER
B1: Of Livius Andronicus, Ennius, Pacuvius, and Accius, how many have fully extant fābulae praetextae?
NONE
B2: Of those same individuals, how many are known to have written fābulae palliātae?
TWO
A collection of maxims in iambic trimeter was compiled from the works of what author, who composed Putātōrēs and Myrmidōn and vied with Decimus Laberius in the genre of mimes?
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
B1: The Roman mime tradition took its origins from what festival, held near the end of April?
LŪDĪ FLŌRĀLĒS
B2: What Latin name was given to mime actors because they did not wear the raised shoes common to Roman theater?
PLĀNIPEDĒS
What author, writing primarily in Asclepiadic, Alcaic, and Sapphic meters, addresses his patron Maecenas and encourages readers to “love golden moderation” and “seize the day”?
HORACE
B1: Iambī was the Latin name for what other work of Horace, which borrows more from Archilochus than Alcaeus and contains an inverted propempticon wishing ill on Maevius?
EPODES
B2: In another major Horatian work, he cites what author as his inspiration, saying that he “rubbed the city down with much salt” despite his disordered compositional style?
LUCILIUS
Six poems to Neaera and five to Cerinthus from Sulpicia are included in the corpus of what elegiac poet, who is most known for his poems to Marathus and Delia?
TIBULLUS
B1: Who was the patron of Tibullus that Tibullus accompanied on several military expeditions such as the expedition to Aquitania?
MESSALA (CORVINUS)
B2: According to Horace, Tibullus also had an unhappy love for what woman, who is not mentioned by name in his poetry?
GLYCERA
