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Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris > Dictator > Flashcards

Dictator Flashcards

1
Q

Tiro’s shorthand system

A

Notae Tironianae

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2
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Quote at start of part one - “The melencholy of the antique world …”

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Flaubert

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3
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Part One - Exile

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58-47BC

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4
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always …

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a child

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5
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Distance Cicero has to get from Rome

A

400 miles

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6
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Shrine to be erected on Cicero’s house

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Liberty

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7
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Quaestor offering sanctuary in Thessalonica

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Gnaeus Plancius

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8
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Highway to Byzantium

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Egnatia

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9
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Island annexed by Clodius

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Cyprus

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10
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Governor of Cyprus

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Cato, assisted by Brutus (nephew)

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11
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Who comes to see Cicero from Rome

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Titus Annius Milo

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12
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Milo’s gladiator

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Birria

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13
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Where does Tiro catch up with Caesar

A

Mutina

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14
Q

Caesar’s staff officer who recognises Tiro

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Publius Crassus (son of Marcus)

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15
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Caesar’s accounts of his campaign

A

Commentaries

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16
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Word Caesar writes on Cicero’s letter

A

Approved

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17
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Terentia’s steward

A

Philotimus

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18
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Cicero family dog - terrier, killed

A

Myia

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19
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Right of citizens to demonstrate outside house of people responsible for grievance

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Flagitatio

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20
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“It is human nature that what starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as

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entitlement

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21
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Statue puporting to by Liberty, installed by Clodius

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Statue of courtesan, stolen from Tanagra by Appius, brother of Clodius

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22
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Who has had Terentia whipped

A

Clodia

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23
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Where is Quintus appointed grain commissioner by Pompey

A

Sardinia

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24
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Murdered philosopher

A

Dio of Alexandria

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25
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Who is the exiled pharaoh behind the murder of Dio

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Ptolemy XII - the Flute Player

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26
Q

Dogs beloved of Egyptians

A

Greyhounds

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27
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Ptolemy’s 11 year old daughter

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Cleopatra

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28
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Present from Ptolemy to Cicero

A

Jade statue of Hedj-Wer, god of writing - baboon

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29
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Who provides Asicius with an alibi for the murder of Dio

A

Rufus

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30
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Whose house is attacked by the followers of Clodius

A

Milo

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31
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Who is Rufus prosecuting for bribery

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Bestia

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32
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Who defends Rufus against the suit brought by Bestia and Clodius

A

Cicero

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33
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Atticus’s new wife

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Pilia

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34
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The Medea of the Palatine

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Clodia (Cicero)

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35
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New villa left to Cicero in a will

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Cumae - Lucrine Lake

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36
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Sybil …

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Lives in a jar in Cumae

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37
Q

What is the message from the triumvirate in Luca to Cicero

A

Shut up

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38
Q

Where do the Triumvirate meet

A

Luca (Luca accord)

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39
Q

Manuscripts in Sulla’s library

A

Aristotle’s Politics

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40
Q

Cicero’s reworking of Aristotle

A

On the Republic

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41
Q

Month renamed July

A

Quintilus

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42
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Where is Crassus killed

A

Carrhae

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43
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Crassus’s legate who sends news of his death

A

Cassius (Longinus)

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44
Q

Play Crassus’s head is used as a prop during

A

The Bacchae

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45
Q

Crassus’s mouth filled with

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molton gold

46
Q

Milo and Clodius fight at

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Bovillae, Via Appia

47
Q

Where is Clodius’s funeral pyre

A

Senate chamber

48
Q

Who owns the eating house of the eating house plot

A

Licinius (near Circus Maximus)

49
Q

Who marries Cornelia, the widow of Publius Crassus

A

Pompey

50
Q

Province drawn by Cicero

A

Cilicia (including Cyprus)

51
Q

Final victory of Caesar’s in Gaul

A

Uxellodunum (capture of Vercingetorix)

52
Q

What does Caesar do to two thousand gallic fighters at Uxellodunum

A

Cuts their hands off

53
Q

Tullia’s new (third) husband

A

Publius Cornelius Dolabella

54
Q

Cicero tells Tiro he’ll meet “Where I was first visited by Tiro”

A

Thessalonica

55
Q

Rhodian quniquereme where oarsman has a dream

A

Europa

56
Q

Decisive battle of civil war, Pompey’s defeat

A

Pharsalus

57
Q

Where do Senate make for following defeat at Pharsalus

A

Corcyra (Corfu)

58
Q

Ex-Tribune who puts Cicero under house arrest when he returns to Italy

A

Vatinius (ugliest man in Rome)

59
Q

Kill stirring up trouble in Campania

A

Tiro and Rufus

60
Q

Pompey killed in

A

Egypt - Pelusium

61
Q

Pompey killed by

A

Achillas - Egyptian general and Lucius Septimus - military tribune

62
Q

Anthony’s new wife

A

Fulvia - widow of Clodius

63
Q

Part Two

A

Redux - 47BC-43BC

64
Q

Cicero and Terentia divorce at

A

Tusculum

65
Q

Library at Tusculum

A

Lyceum (Aristotle)

66
Q

Garden at Tusculum

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Academy (Plato)

67
Q

Cicero’s favourite statue

A

Hermathena - gift fromAtticus

68
Q

Book of oratory

A

Brutus

69
Q

Brutus son of

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Servilia - Caesar’s old mistress

70
Q

Companion volume to Brutus

A

Orator

71
Q

Cassius married to …

A

Brutus’s sister

72
Q

Cato commits suicide after battle of

A

Thaspus

73
Q

Cato dies at

A

Utica

74
Q

Gaulish chief strangled after Caesar’s triumph

A

Vercingetorix

75
Q

Senate meeting at

A

Pompey’s theatre, Field of Mars

76
Q

Pompey’s sons leading uprising in Spain

A

Gnaeus and Sextus

77
Q

Cicero’s new properties

A

Astura (island) and Puteoli

78
Q

Tullia dies of

A

Consumption

79
Q

Cicero’s work on grief

A

Consolation

80
Q

Cicero’s work on death

A

Tusculum Disputations

81
Q

Ceasar circulates a riposte to Cicero’s eulogy of

A

Cato

82
Q

New Master of Horse stationed on Tibur Island on Ides of March

A

Lepidus

83
Q

Gladiators nearby on the Ides of March provided by

A

Decimus

84
Q

Caesar first struck by

A

Tillius Cimber and Publius Casca

85
Q

Who knifes Brutus in the hand

A

Cassius

86
Q

Caesar’s last words

A

Even you?

87
Q

Brutus cries out

A

Long Live Cicero

88
Q

Assassins flee to

A

Capital

89
Q

Appointed Caesar’s heir

A

Octavius - now Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus

90
Q

Caesar’s eulogy delivered by

A

Mark Anthony

91
Q

Poet mistakenly killed by mob

A

Helvius Cinna

92
Q

Who bring Octavian to see Cicero

A

Balbus

93
Q

New Pontifex Maximum

A

Lepidus

94
Q

“I have put out my books and now my house has

A

a soul”

95
Q

Cicero gives Tiro …

A

On Friendship

96
Q

Agathe owns the bathhouse in

A

Baiae

97
Q

Natural phenomenon following the death of Caesar

A

Comet

98
Q

Cicero’s denounciations of Mark Anthony

A

Philippics (five)

99
Q

Philippics named after

A

Demonthenes’s oratons against Philip II

100
Q

New consuls

A

Hirtius and Pansa - both die in battle

101
Q

Hirtius suffering from what Hippocrates calls

A

Carcino

102
Q

Decimus besieged by Mark Anthony at

A

Mutina (Modena)

103
Q

Cicero says Octavian will be …

A

Raised, Praised and Erased

104
Q

Peace delegation sent to Mark Anthony

A

Piso, Philippus and Servius Sulpicius (who dies)

105
Q

Spartan warriors

A

“I shall return either with my shield, or on it”

106
Q

Battle at which Hirtius and Pansa both die

A

Forum Gallorum

107
Q

“Will the Dog Star still rise on the same date?”

A

“It will do as it is told”

108
Q

Who does Atticus lend money

A

Fulvia - Anthony’s wife

109
Q

Where do Octavian, Anthony and Lepidus meet

A

Bononia

110
Q

Cicero killed at

A

Formiae

111
Q

Cicero killed by

A

Caius Popillius Laenas (parricide defendant)

Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris (10 decks)

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