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FJCL Latin Literature Flashcards

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What author is considered the founder of Latin literature?

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Livius Andronicus

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What Latin author was a Greek from Tarentum and brought to Rome as a slave?

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Livius Andronicus

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What Latin author translated Homer’s Odyssey into Latin using Saturnian verse?

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Livius Andronicus

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In what verse did Livius Andronicus translate Homer’s Odyssey into Latin?

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Saturnian

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What were fabulae praetextae?

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Dramas based on Roman subjects

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Who was the first native Roman writer of note?

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Gnaeus Naevius

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What Latin author is best known for his Bellum Punicum, an epic poem on the First Punic War?

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Gnaeus Naevius

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In what verse did Gnaeus Naevius write his Bellum Punicum?

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Saturnian

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What are fabulae palliatae?

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Latin comedies derived from Greek originals

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What Latin author invented fabulae praetextae, dramas based on Roman subjects?

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Gnaeus Naevius

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What trilingual Latin author was born in Rudiae?

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Ennius

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Ennius is said to have had three hearts because he could speak what three languages?

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Latin, Greek, and Oscan

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Who is said to have had three hearts because he could speak three languages: Latin, Greek, and Oscan?

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Ennius

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Who wrote the Annales, an 18 book long epic telling the story of Rome starting with the fall of Troy?

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Ennius

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In what verse did Ennius write his Annales?

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Dactylic Hexameter

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What work of Ennius is an 18 book epic about the history of Rome up to the author’s time?

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Anales

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Who was the first writer to adapt Greek hexameter verse into Latin?

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Ennius

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How many of Plautus’s comedies are fully extant?

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20

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What play of Plautus has only a fragment still extant?

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Vidularia

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What play of Plautus concerns Jupiter’s love of Alcmene, the mother of Hercules?

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Amphitryon

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What play of Plautus revolves around a pot of gold?

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Aulularia

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What play of Plautus focuses on a man named Hegio searching for his lost sons?

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Captivi

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What play of Plautus has no female characters?

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Captivi

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What play of Plautus was his favorite?

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Epidicus

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In what play of Plautus are long lost twins reunited in Syracuse and serves as the model for Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors”?

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Menaechmi

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What play of Plautus has a haunted house as a setting?

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Mostellaria

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What play of Plautus has the braggart soldier Pyrgopolynices as the main character?

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Miles Gloriosus

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What play of Plautus contains the only extant passages of the Carthaginian language?

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Poenulus

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What play of Plautus is translated as ‘Rope’?

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Rudens

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In what play of Plautus does the titular slave help his master obtain enough money to free
a courtesan named Phoenicium from Simo?

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Pseudolus

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What Latin author, born in Tusculum, was staunchly anti-Carthaginian?

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Cato the Elder

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What Latin author ended all his speeches with “Carthago delenda est”?

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Cato the Elder

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What Latin author was Rome’s first prose writer and the first to write Roman history in Latin?

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Cato the Elder

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What Latin author wrote Origines, a lost work in 7 books on the beginnings of Italian civilization?

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Cato the Elder

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What 7 book work of Cato the Elder deals with the beginnings of Italian civilization and early Roman history?

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Origines

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What work of Cato the elder is a handbook on agriculture in which he praises cabbage?

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De Agri Cultura (De Re Rustica)

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What Latin author’s De Agri Cultura is the first surviving prose work?

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Cato the Elder’s

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What Latin author’s Origines was the first history written in Latin?

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Cato the Elder’s

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What Latin comic playwright was brought to Rome as a slave from Carthage?

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Terence

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What Latin comedian became friends with Scipio Aemilianus and joined his literary circle?

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Terence

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What Latin author died on a trip to Greece in 159 BC?

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Terence

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The audience of what comedy of Terence left the play to watch tightrope walkers instead?

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Hecyra

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What comedy of Terence is translated to ‘The Brothers’?

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Adelphoi

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What comedy of Terence is translated to ‘The Self-Tormentor’?

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Heauton Timorumenos

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What comedy of Terence is named for the parasite in the play?

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Phormio

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What comedy of Terence is translated as ‘The Eunuch’?

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Eunuchus

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What comedy of Terence is translated to ‘The Woman of Andros’?

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Andria

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About what Latin author did Vergil say the line “Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas” (Lucky is one who is able to understand the causes of things)?

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Lucretius

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What author said “Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas” (Lucky is one who is able to understand the causes of things) in reference to the poet Lucretius?

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Vergil

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What Latin author followed the Epicurean philosophy?

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Lucretius

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What Latin author took a love potion that made him insane and commit suicide in 55 BC?

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Lucretius

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What Latin author wrote the De Rerum Natura, an unfinished didactic poem in 6 books?

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Lucretius

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What 6 book didactic work of Epicurean philosophy ends with the explanation of the plague of Athens?

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Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura

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To what governor of Bithynia does Lucretius address his De Rerum Natura?

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Gaius memmius

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Who, the greatest Latin orator, was born in Arpinum in 106 BC?

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Cicero

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What Latin author’s name means ‘chickpea’?

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Cicero

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Delivered in 81 BC, what is the earliest speech of Cicero?

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Pro Quinctio

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Against what other famous orator does Cicero argue in his Pro Quinctio?

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Hortensius

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In what speech, his first political speech, does Cicero defend his client accused of patricide?

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Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino

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In 63 BC, what Latin author as consul exposed the Catilinarian conspiracy with a series of speeches?

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Cicero

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In which of his Catilinarian speeches does Cicero successfully convince the senate to execute Catiline’s co-conspirators?

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In Catilinam IV

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Whose death in 45 BC led Cicero into a downward spiral?

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His daughter Tullia’s

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Against what man does Cicero write 14th scathing Philippics?

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Mark Antony

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Mark Antony and Octavian execute what Latin author at Formiae in 43 BC?

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Cicero

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What philosophical dialogue of Cicero contains the Somnium Scipionis in its 6th book?

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De Re Publica

66
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In what philosophical work of Cicero, to which De Divinatione and De Fato are sequels, does Cicero give Epicurean, Stoic, and Academic conceptions of the gods?

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De Natura Deorum

67
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What work of Cicero, also called Cato Maior, concerns old age?

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De Senectute

68
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What Roman historian is most well known for his monographs?

A

Sallust

69
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Who Latin author writes the Bellum Catilinae, a monograph criticizing the conspirator of 63 BC?

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Sallust

70
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What Latin author writes Bellum Iugurthinum, a monograph praising Marius in his war against the Numidian king?

A

Sallust

71
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What work of Sallust is a fragmentary work covering 78-67 BC?

A

Historiae

72
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What Latin lyric poet was born in Verona?

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Catullus

73
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With what wife of Quintus Caecilius Metellus does Catullus fall in love and make the subject of many of his poems?

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Clodia (called Lesbia in his poems)

74
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What Latin author falls in love with Clodia and calls her Lesbia in his poems?

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Catullus

75
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What Latin author travels to Bithynia with Gaius Memmius and visits his brother’s grave there?

A

Catullus

76
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What author writes “Ave atque vale” to his dead brother in Poem 101?

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Catullus

77
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Who wrote Commentarii de Bello Gallico in 7 books, one for every year he fought the Gauls?

A

Julius Caesar

78
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What officer of Caesar wrote an 8th book of the Commentarii de Bello Gallico?

A

Hirtius

79
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What Latin author wrote the Commentarii de Bello Civili on his feud with Pompey?

A

Julius Caesar

80
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Who instructed his friends Varius and Tucca to burn the Aeneid, but refused at the behest of Augustus?

A

Vergil

81
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What Latin author was born near Mantua in 70 BC?

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Vergil

82
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Which work of Vergil is a collection of 10 pastoral poems in dactylic hexameter?

A

Eclogues

83
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Which of the Eclogues is known as the ‘Messianic’ Eclogue?

A

4th

84
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What Latin author wrote the Aeneid?

A

Vergil

85
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What Roman author died of a fever in Brundisium in 19 BC then was buried in Naples?

A

Vergil

86
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What work of Vergil was a 4 book long poem in dactylic hexameter promoting Octavian’s program of moving people from the cities to the farms?

A

Georgics

87
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Who was the patron of Vergil?

A

Maecenas

88
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What Latin author and military engineer wrote the De Architectura dedicated to Augustus?

A

Vitruvius

89
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What Latin author, born in Venusia, wrote Odes and Epodes?

A

Horace

90
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Influenced by the Satires of the earlier Lucilius, what Roman author wrote his Sermones?

A

Horace

91
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What Roman historian was born in Patavium (Padua)?

A

Livy

92
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Who wrote the Ab Urbe Condita?

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Livy

93
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How many books long is Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita?

A

142

94
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How many of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita’s 142 books are still extant?

A

35

95
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What name is given to the summaries of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita?

A

Periochae

96
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With what event in 9 AD does Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita end?

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Death of Drusus

97
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What Roman poet, born in Assisium, fell in love with a woman named Hostia?

A

Propertius

98
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What name did Propertius give Hostia in his elegies?

A

Cynthia

99
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What man was the patron of Horace, Propertius, and Vergil?

A

Maecenas

100
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What Roman poet fell in love with a woman named Plania, whom he calls Delia in his elegies?

A

Tibullus

101
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Whose works contain six poems by Sulpicia, the only extant poems by a Roman woman?

A

Tibullus’s

102
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Tibullus’s second book of elegies is given what name shared by the goddess of revenge?

A

Nemesis

103
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Alliteration, hybrid Greek-Latin words, and figura etymologica (using more than one form of the same word) were all favorites of what Roman elegist?

A

Tibullus

104
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What Latin author wrote ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’, ‘Halieutica’, and ‘Ibis’ while on exile in Tomi?

A

Ovid

105
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What Latin author, born in Sulmo, was exiled to Tomi by Augustus due to a ‘carmen et error’?

A

Ovid

106
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What work of Ovid covers a number of transformation myths?

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Metamorphoses

107
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What work of Ovid takes the shape of fictional, mythological letters from spurned women to their loved ones?

A

Heroides (my personal favorite work)

108
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Which Roman emperor wrote a Greek history of the Etruscans?

A

Claudius

109
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What Latin author, known as the Rhetor, wrote Controversiae and Suasoriae?

A

Seneca the Elder

110
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What stoic Latin author, born in Corduba, served as tutor to Nero?

A

Seneca the Younger

111
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What author wrote the Apocolocyntosis, a work which mocked Claudius and documented the emperor’s pumpkinificiation?

A

Seneca the Younger

112
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What Latin author wrote the Naturalis Historia in 37 books?

A

Pliny the Elder

113
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What Latin author wrote Naturales Quaestiones, a work on natural science from a Stoic point of view?

A

Seneca the Younger

114
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What tragedy of Seneca the Younger, based on a work of Euripides by the same name, was more sympathetic to Jason rather than the titular sorceress?

A

Medea

115
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What Latin author wrote the Epistulae Morales, 124 letters to Lucilius on philosophy?

A

Seneca the Younger

116
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To what friend of his did Seneca the Younger write the Epistulae Morales?

A

Lucilius

117
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What tragedy attributed to Seneca is the only complete fabula praetexta?

A

Octavia

118
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What Latin author, born in Comum, wrote a history of German wars, a study of linguistics, a treatise on the use of javelin from horseback, and a biography of Pomponius Secundus?

A

Pliny the Elder

119
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What satirist, born in Volaterrae, was a friend of the poet Lucan?

A

Persius

120
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Who is said to have written “et raro et tarde” in reference to his measly 6 satires?

A

Persius

121
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About what author does Lucan remark “That is real poetry,
whereas what I have written is utter tripe, child’s play”?

A

Persius

122
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What Latin author, born in Calagurris in Spain, does Martial call “the supreme guide of wayward youth”?

A

Quintilian

123
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What Latin author was the first person to receive a paid professorship from Vespasian?

A

Quintilian

124
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What Latin author wrote the Institutio Oratoria, a twelve book long treatise on the perfect orator?

A

Quintilian

125
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What meter is primarily used for epic poetry?

A

Dactylic Hexameter

126
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What three Roman authors were forced to commit suicide for their involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy against Nero?

A

Lucan, Petronius, and Seneca the Younger

127
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What Latin author wrote the Bellum Civile, an epic poem documenting the war between Caesar and Pompey?

A

Lucan

128
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What work of Lucan concerns the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey, the latter of whom the work praises?

A

Bellum Civile/Pharsalia

129
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What other name is given to Lucan’s Bellum Civile?

A

Pharsalia

130
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What Latin author served as the arbiter elegentiae of Nero?

A

Petronius

131
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The cena Trimalchionis is the longest surviving part of what fragmentary novel of Petronius?

A

Satyricon

132
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What name is given to works combining prose and poetry?

A

Menippean Satire

133
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Who is the author of the Satyricon?

A

Petronius

134
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What is the principal work of Petronius?

A

Satyricon

135
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Who invents the characters of Encolpius, Ascyltus, and Giton in his novel, which has the dinner of Trimalchio as a scene?

A

Petronius (in the Satyricon)

136
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What Latin author, born in Naples, wrote 32 Silvae, poems on various subjects?

A

Statius

137
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What Latin author wrote the Thebaid, an epic poem in 12 books telling the story of the Seven Against Thebes?

A

Statius

138
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What Latin author started the Achilleid but never finished it?

A

Statius

139
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What Latin author is widely regarded as the worst Latin poet?

A

Silius Italicus

140
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What Latin author wrote the Punica, a 17 book long poem about the 2nd Punic War?

A

Silius Italicus

141
Q

How did Silius Italicus die?

A

Starved himself

142
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What Latin author, born in Bilbilis in Spain, rose to the rank of tribune and was given the ius trium liberorum?

A

Martial

143
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What Latin author wrote the Liber Spectaculorum, a work honoring Titus’s opening of the Colosseum?

A

Martial

144
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What Latin author is most famous for his epigrams?

A

Martial

145
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Xenia & Apophoreta are the names given to the 13th and 14th books of what author’s Liber Spectaculorum?

A

Martial’s

146
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What author said “Hominem pagina nostra sapit” and refused to use mythology in his epigrams?

A

Martial

147
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What Latin author married the daughter of Cn. Julius Agricola and wrote the Dialogus de Oratoribus about the decline of oratory?

A

Tacitus

148
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What Latin author wrote Agricola, a biography of his father-in-law?

A

Tacitus

149
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What Latin author wrote Germania, a discussion of the geography, politics, and customs of the German people?

A

Tacitus

150
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What Latin author wrote the Historiae in 12 books and the Annales in 18 books?

A

Tacitus

151
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What Latin author born in Aquinum, was most well known for his particularly scathing 16 satires?

A

Juvenal

152
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What Latin satirist was banished to Egypt by Domitian for mentioning an affair the emperor’s wife had with the actor Paris?

A

Juvenal

153
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What author, born in Comum, is most famous for his letters including one describing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius?

A

Pliny the Younger

154
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What Latin author became governor of Bithynia and wrote a Panegyricus for Trajan?

A

Pliny the Younger

155
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What Latin author wrote the De Viris Illustribus, a series of biographies on various literary figures?

A

Suetonius (Jerome writes his own later)

156
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What Latin author wrote De Vita Caesarum, which is a series of biographies covering the lives of Caesar and the emperors through Domitian?

A

Suetonius

157
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What Latin author was born at Madaura?

A

Apuleius

158
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What Latin author was accused of using magic to charm his wife and wrote the Apologia in his defense?

A

Apuleius

159
Q

What Latin author wrote Florida, a collection of passages from his speeches?

A

Apuleius

160
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What Latin author tells the story of Lucius and his transformation into a donkey in his Golden Ass?

A

Apuleius

161
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The story of Cupid and Psyche is contained in what work of Apuleius?

A

Golden Ass (Metamorphoses)

162
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What Latin author wrote Noctes Atticae about his time spent in Athens?

A

Aulus Gellius

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