Horace

Question 1

On what earlier authors did Horace base his Epodes?

Answer 1

Archilochus and Hipponax

Question 2

What did Horace call “Iambi”?

Answer 2

Epodes

Question 3

How many short poems are in the Epodes?

Answer 3

17

Question 4

When did Horace write the Epodes?

Answer 4

between 41 and 30 B.C., they were published in 30 B.C.

Question 5

To whom is the prefatory poem of the Epodes addressed?

Answer 5

Maecenas

Question 6

What is the meter most prevalent in the Epodes?

Answer 6

iambic

Question 7

Which Epode is referred to as “gnomic” because it celebrated drinking?

Answer 7

the 13th

Question 8

How many books are in Horace’s Satires?

Answer 8

two

Question 9

What is another name for Horace’s Satires?

Answer 9

Sermones

Question 10

How many poems are in Horace’s first book of Satires?

Answer 10

10

Question 11

To whom did Horace dedicate his Satires?

Answer 11

Maecenas

Question 12

In what year did Horace publish his Satires?

Answer 12

35 B.C.

Question 13

Which poem in Horace’s Satires is modeled on Lucilius’s Iter Siculum?

Answer 13

poem 5

Question 14

When was Horace’s second book of Satires published?

Answer 14

30 B.C., with the Epodes

Question 15

How many poems are in Horace’s second book of Satires?

Answer 15

8

Question 16

Which poem in Horace’s second book of Satires inspired Petronius’s Cena Trimalchione?

Answer 16

poem 8

Question 17

When were the first three books of the Odes written?

Answer 17

from 30-23 B.C. (published in 23 B.C.)

Question 18

When was the fourth book of the Odes published?

Answer 18

13 B.C.

Question 19

Who influenced book 4 of the Odes?

Answer 19

Pindar

Question 20

Who does Horace address in the first Ode?

Answer 20

Maecenas

Question 21

When did Horace write the Epistulae?

Answer 21

23-20 B.C.

Question 22

How many poems are in Horace’s Epistulae?

Answer 22

20 poems

Question 23

In what meter is the Epistulae?

Answer 23

hexameter

Question 24

When was the second book of the Epistulae published?

Answer 24

posthumously

Question 25

How many poems are in Horace’s second book of Epistulae?

Answer 25

2

Question 26

What is an alternate name for Horace’s Ars Poetica?

Answer 26

Epistula ad Pisones

Question 27

Who was Horace’s source for his Ars Poetica?

Answer 27

Neoptolemus of Parium

Question 28

In which work is Horace’s Carmen Saeculare contained?

Answer 28

Odes, last poem of book 3

Question 29

For what event was the Carmen Saeculare written?

Answer 29

Ludi Saeculares in 17 B.C.

Question 30

In what meter is the Carmen Saeculare written?

Answer 30

Sapphic

Question 31

To whom does Horace dedicate the Carmen Saeculare?

Answer 31

Apollo and Diana

Question 32

Who sang the Carmen Saeculare?

Answer 32

27 boys and girls

Question 33

Which work of Horace contains invectives against a witch, a slanderer, garlic, and Maecenas?

Answer 33

Epodes

Question 34

Which work of Horace talks of the basics of Peripatetic theories on poetry?

Answer 34

Ars Poetica

Question 35

Which work of Horace contains a song of joy for the death of Cleopatra?

Answer 35

Odes

Question 36

Which work of Horace contains the story of a city and country mouse?

Answer 36

Satires (specifically 2.6)

Question 37

Which work of Horace is a series of letters written to various people of importance?

Answer 37

Epistulae

Question 38

When was the first book of Epistulae written?

Answer 38

20 B.C.