Latin Lit Qs Flashcards
TU: In 207 BC, who composed a parthenion in honor of Juno
Livius Andronicus
TU: In whose entourage did Livius Andronicus come to Rome
Livius Salinator
TU: What was the name of Andronicus’ professional association
Collegium Scribarum Histrionumque
TU: Who proved that he was an able playwright, and not just a translator, with his creative license in producing the Odusia
Livius Andronicus
TU: How many lines of the Odusia survive
46
TU: In what meter was the Odusia written
Saturnian
TU: What Roman author of Campanian origin fought in the first Punic War, which granted him inspiration for his Bellum Punicum
Gnaeus Naevius
TU: What grammarian, a contemporary of Accius, arranged the Bellum Punicum into 7 book
Lampadio
TU: Where did Naevius die while in exile
Utica
TU: What are the names of Naevius’ two praetextae
Romulus and Clastidium
TU: Who was the victorious general at the battle of Clastidium
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
TU: What titles were shared by Livius Andronicus and Gnaeus Naevius
Equos Troianus and Danae
TU: What two works of Gnaeus Naevius dealt with the Trojan War
Hector Proficescens and Iphigenia
TU: What work of Naevius deals with the cult of Dionysus
Lycurgus
TU: Which of Naevius’ comedies is from Menander
Gymnasticus
TU: Which of Naevius’ comedies has a fragment still extent
Tarentilla
TU: At 1,437 lines, which play of Plautus is his longest
Miles Gloriosus
TU: At 729 lines, which play of Plautus is his shortest
Curculio
TU: What does Curculio translate to
Weevil
TU: What is the best-known comedy of Caecilius Statius
Plocium (The Necklace)
TU: In whose list of comedians was Caecilius Statius placed first
(Volcacius) Sedigitus
TU: While many authors praise Caecilius Statius’s writings, what author has reservations concerning the purity of his Latin
Cicero
TU: Who first introduced the use of Greek in his annals
Fabius Pictor
TU: Who criticized Fabius Pictor’s lack of objectivity in his decidedly pro-Roman stance concerning the clash with Carthage
Polybius
TU: What author was taken prisoner during the Second Punic War and may have known Hannibal personally
Cincius Alimentus
TU: Polybius and Dionysus of Halicarnassus acknowledged the objectivity and insight of what author’s annals written in Greek
Cincius Alimentus
TU: What annalist was an interpreter in the Senate for the embassy of the three Greek philosophers, and lingered at length over the origins of Rome, since he had strong etiological interests
Gaius Acilius
TU: What annalist was mocked by Cato for apologizing for any mistakes he might have made in composing his Greek annals
Aulus Postumius Albinus
TU: What man is termed by Suetonius as a semi-graecus in reference to the Greek culture around Rudiae
Ennius
TU: Who is said to have brought Ennius to Rome
Cato the Elder
TU: What Roman author accompanied Fulvius Nobilior to Greece and was charged with depicting the military campaign up until the battle of Ambracia
Ennius
TU: What tragedy of Ennius was his last
Thyestes
TU: What work of Ennius was inspired by a Greek poem by Archestratus of Gela and is the first attested Latin Poem in hexameters
Hedyphagetica
TU: What work of Ennius is a celebratory work written to praise the victor of Zama
Scipio
TU: What work of Ennius discusses he belief in the gods’ origin from deeds of ancient heroes
Euhemerus
TU: In the comedian rankings of Volcacius Sedigitus, who is ranked last
Ennius
TU: What is the earliest Latin prose text that comes down to us in entirety
De Agri Cultura
TU: What work of Cato is a collection of memorable sayings or anecdotes
Apophthegmata
TU: The audience of what play of Terence preferred a show of tightrope walkers during its debut
Hecyra
TU: What Roman playwright had constant, careful concern for verisimilitude
Terence
TU: In the prologue of what play does Terence defend against contaminatio
Andria
TU: What play of Terence was met with the greatest success
Eunuchus
TU: What Roman author is also known as a painter
Pacuvius
TU: What work of Pacuvius translates to the bath
Niptra
TU: While Cicero judged Pacuvius the greatest of the Latin tragic poets, what other Roman author criticized Pacuvius as being contorted, bombastic, and reckless with neologisms
Lucilius
TU: What 9 book work of Accius seems to be a mixture of prose
Didascalica
TU: Who dedicated his first grammatical work, the De Antiquitate Litterarum, to Accius for writing the Didascalica
Varro Reatinus
TU: What Roman author chooses to only write of events at which he was personally present and show why and how they came about
Sempronius Asellio
TU: What Roman author decided to embellish his history works including fantastic and miraculous elements
Coelius Antipater
TU: In whose historical work does Sulla appear to be somewhat of a hero
Sisenna
TU: Who was the teacher of Varro and Cicero and started the critical task of publishing and commenting on literary texts
Aelius Stilo
TU: Who was the first author to write fabulae togatae
Titinius
TU: What author is a native of Bologna and flourished in 89 BCE
Pomponius
TU: What Roman author doubled as a knight
Laberius
TU: What Roman author attacked Julius Caesar and as a result was forced to perform in his own mimes
Laberius
TU: What author of mimes seems to be proverbial for his ability to coin sententiae, sayings and maxims of general character
Publilius Syrus
TU: What name is given to the first book of Lucilius’ satires
Concilium Deorum
TU: Whom did Lucilius attack in his first book of satires
Lentulus Lupus
TU: How did Lucilius depict Lentulus Lupus dying in his first book of satires
Indigestion
TU: Whose banquet does Lucilius depict in the 30th book of his satires
Granius
TU: What book of Lucilius’ satires is dedicated to his ‘ladylove’
16
TU: What speech of Cato the Elder opposes the war against Rhodes
Oratio pro Rhodiensibus
TU: What work of Latin Literature consists of a preface and 170 short chapters
De Agri Cultura
TU: To whom was Accius’ Didascalica dedicated
Baebius
TU: Who reworked a text by Aristedes of Miletus entitled Fabulae Milesiae
Sissena
TU: What productions were originally put on ex tempore
Atellan Farce
TU: What Roman author was born at Lanuvium
Aelius Stilo
TU: In books 22 and 23 of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, who is sent by the senate to consult the oracle at Delphi after the defeat at Cannae
Fabius Pictor
TU: Who is the principal opponent of Terence
Luscius of Lanuvium
TU: What title is given to the fabula togata of Naevius
Ariolus
TU: In the prologue of what play of Terence does he claim that Caecilius Statius’ plays were doomed when they were new to the stage
Hecyra
TU: Who wrote ‘numquam poetor nisi si podager’ in reference to his gaut
Ennius
TU: Of what poet did Horace say that he never sallied forth to sing of arms unless he was drunk
Ennius
TU: At whose funeral games in 160 BC did Hecyra fail to hold an audience
Aemilius Paulus
TU: What Roman author introduced epigrams of Greek type into Latin poetry
Catulus
TU: What Roman author wrote a work in 6 or more books titled Erotopaegina which dealt with the myths reworked in Alexandrian poetry
Laevius
TU: What Roman author wrote a translation in hexameters of the Iliad
Matius
TU: What Roman author ventured into a new genre known as mimiambs, which were not meant for performance, but rather private reading
Matius
TU: Who was the author of a Moretum that Macrobius would call an “idyll”
Sueius
TU: Who was the author of Pulli
Sueius
TU: What work of Sueius goes in depth of names of various nuts
Moretum
TU: What native of Cisalpine Gaul was referred to as the Latin Siren
Valerius Cato
TU: What Roman author wrote Lydia, which shows the Alexandrianizing character of poetry, and Dictynna, which tells the Cretan myth of the goddess Diana
Valerius Cato
TU: What author was born at Cremona
Marcus Furius Bibaculus
TU: Whose historical epic, Pragmatia Belli Gallici, was ridiculed by Horace for its clumsy pomposity
Marcus Furius Bibaculus
TU: Who wrote a historical poem on Caesar’s campaign against Ariovistus entitled the Bellum Sequanicum
Varro Atacinus
TU: What work of Varro Atacinus, which was named for his beloved, did the elegiac poets regard as one of the earliest instances of Latin erotic poetry
Leucadia
TU: Who wrote a free translation in Latin hexameters of Apollonius’s Argonautica
Varro Atacinus
TU: What Roman author was born in Brescia
Cinna
TU: What work of Cinna focuses on the incestuous love of Myrrha and her father
Zmyrna
TU: Who wrote a Propempticon addressed to Asinius Pollio in 56 BC
Cinna
TU: Who wrote an epicedion concerning the untimely death of his wife Quintilia
Calvus
TU: What Roman author wrote an epyllion entitled Io
Calvus
TU: What Roman author was the son of Licinius Macer, a famous orator and historian
Calvus
TU: In whose entourage did Catullus travel to Bithynia
Gaius Memmius
TU: What name is given to the first 60 poems of Catullus
Nugae
TU: What name is given to poems 61 through 68 of Catullus
Carmina Docta
TU: What poem of Catullus recounts the marriage of Peleus and Thetis
64
TU: What poem of Catullus, written in Galliambics, deals with the young Attis who is obsessed with the cult of Cybele
63
TU: What poem of Catullus is a translation of the Lock of Berenice
66
TU: About what Roman author is it said “qui postea amatorio poculo in furorem versus, cum aliquot libros per intervalla insaniae conscripsisset?”
Lucretius
TU: What work, dedicated to Gaius Memmius, discusses Epicurean philosophy in 6 books
De Rerum Natura
TU: Despite his disparaging the works of Epicureans Amafinius and Catius, who edits Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
Cicero
TU: The plague at Athens in 430 BC, which had already been told by Thucydides, ends what work of Lucretius
De Rerum Natura
TU: Who found himself obliged to create new periphraes such as semina, primordia, and corpora prima, due to the “poverty of the ancestral vocabulary” for his De Rerum Natura
Lucretius
TU: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas is said by Vergil about what other Roman author
Lucretius
TU: In his Silvae, Statius talks about the furor arduus of what learned Roman author
Lucretius
TU: Who wrote a historical handbook which included all Roman history to the year 49 BC entitled Liber Annalis
Atticus
TU: Of the original 25, 6 books of what work of Varro remain
De Lingua Latina
TU: To whom were the last 21 books of the De Lingua Latina dedicated
Cicero
TU: What work of Varro, hailed as a revelation by Cicero, is a history of customs, institutions, and sets of mind of the Roman people
Antiquitates
TU: To what are the first and second parts of Varro’s Aniquitates dedicated respectively
Res Humanae and Res Divinae
TU: What author wrote a collection of Imagines, which are also called Hebdomades, about famous Roman and Greek, statesmen, poets, philosophers, and more
Varro Reatinus
TU: Who wrote 76 books of Logistorici, dialogues on philosophical and historical subjects with double titles
Varro Reatinus
TU: Who wrote 9 books of Disciplinae dealing with medicine, architecture, astronomy, music, and more
Varro
TU: To whom is the first book of Varro’s De Re Rustica dedicated
Fundania
TU: To what cattle raiser is the second book of Varro’s’ De Re Rustica dedicated
Turranius Niger
TU: To what country neighbor is the third book of Varro’s De Re Rustica dedicated
Quintinus Pinnius
TU: What Roman author wrote the Commentarii Grammatici, a work of at least twenty-nine books characterized by the juxtaposition of grammatical and antiquarian subjects
Nigidius Figulus
TU: What Roman author declared that the world turned on its own axis at the speed of a potter’s wheel, perhaps in reference to his own cognomen meaning potter
Nigidius Figulus
TU: What Roman author was born in either Ostiglia or Pavia
Cornelius Nepos
TU: Which book of Cornelius Nepos’ De Viris Illustribus is still extant
De Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium
TU: Which of Cornelius Nepos’ works was a three-book work of chronography
Chronica
TU: Which of Cornelius Nepos’ works was a five book work perhaps on geography
Exempla
TU: What work of Caesar is a treatise on problems of language and style
De Analogia
TU: Who wrote Laudes Herculis, Dicta Collectanea, and Oedipus
Caesar
TU: What work of Caesar is a poem describing his expedition to Spain in 45 BC
Iter
TU: What Roman author was born at Amiternum
Sallust
TU: Who was appointed governor of Africa Nova by Caesar, only to prove himself not worthy of the job as he was accused of embezzlement upon returning to Rome
Sallust
TU: What Roman author used made up speeches for his works
Sallust
TU: What is an episadion
Funeral Elegy
TU: What group is known as the cantores Euphorionis
Neoterics
TU: Who made a successful speech that resulted in a reduction of taxes on wealthy women
Hortensia
TU: Whom does Cicero call emendator sermonis usitati
Sisenna
TU: What author wrote Ethiopid and Lucubrationes
Furius Bibaculus
TU: What Roman author wrote in choliambic meter for his mimiambs
Matius
TU: Who uses the word columbulatim to describe a kiss in one of his mimiambs
Matius
TU: According to his satires, Horace was introduced to Maecenas by what man
Varius Rufus
TU: What tragedy did Varius Rufus write
Thyestes
TU: What work of Varius Rufus, of which a few fragments remain, attacks Mark Antony for his greed for wealth and immoderate passion for luxury
De Morte
TU: What native of Arezzo, though he was not a successful writer himself, paved the way as a patron for several other writers including Vergil and Ovid
Maecenas
TU: Who claimed that his Ajax had died, not by the sword as Sophocles’ hero had, but by the sponge used for erasing as part of his poetic experiment
Augustus
TU: What Epicurean philosopher conducted the school in Naples that the young Vergil had attended
Siro
TU: On returning from a voyage to Greece, what Roman author died at Brundisium in 19 BC
Vergil
TU: Where is Vergil buried
Naples
TU: What work of Vergil consists of 10 brief poems in hexameters
(Bucolics )Eclogues
TU: What work of Vergil is a didactic poem in four books of hexameters
Georgics
TU: What does Vergil call the 58 unfinished verses of his Aeneid
Tibicines
TU: Upon whose idols did Vergil draw for his Bucolics
Theocritus
TU: In the first poem of Vergil’s Bucolics, what two shepherds have a dialogue
Tityrus and Meliboeus
TU: Which poem of Vergil’s Bucolics is a prophetic song for the birth of a child who will witness the coming of a new and happy cosmic age
4
TU: Which poem of Vergil’s Bucolics is dedicated to Asinius Pollio
8
TU: Which poem of Vergil’s Bucolics is dedicated to Cornelius Gallus
10
TU: Who coined the term plagosus in reference to his teacher Orbilius
Horace
TU: Who was brought to Rome by his father so that he could attend the school of the grammarian Orbilius
Horace
TU: Theomnestos, Cratippus of Pergamum, and Orbilius were all teachers of what Roman author
Horace
TU: After his farm had been confiscated by the triumvirs, who had to become a Scriba Quaestorius in order to earn a living
Horace
TU: What work of Horace, published with his second book of Satires, did he call Iambi
Epodes
TU: What work of Horace consists of 17 short poems
Epodes
TU: Who states that he borrows the numeri and animi from Archilochus, but not the res in the writing of his Epodes
Horace
TU: Which epode of Horace is a propempticon to Maevius telling him to be shipwrecked
10
TU: Autarkeia and Metriotes were the basic objectives of whose inquiry in his satires
Horace
TU: Who imagines Sappho and Alcaeus bewitching an astonished Underworld with their song in one of his odes
Horace
TU: What work of Horace, sometimes considered to be the second book of Epistles, is a treatise in 476 hexameters that sets forth Peripatetic theories on poetry
Ars Poetica
TU: What Roman author, a fellow student of Vergil, was appointed praefectus Aegypti by Augustus
Cornelius Gallus
TU: What Roman author was condemned to exile and the confiscation of his property after he had disgraced Augustus, following which he committed suicide
Cornelius Gallus
TU: What Roman author had a close relationship with Parthenius of Nicaea who dedicated to Gallus the Erotika pathemata, a prose collection of myths about love
Cornelius Gallus
TU: What Roman author wrote to a woman named Delia, though her real name was Plania
Tibullus
TU: In whose works can you find poems about the love of Sulpica for Cerinthus
Tibullus
TU: Who writes the first six poems of book 3 of the Corpus Tibullianum to Neaera
Lygdamus
TU: What two important manuscripts come down to us from Tibullus
Vaticanus and Ambrosianus
TU: What Roman author wrote to Cynthia, though her real name was Hostia
Propertius
TU: What work of Ovid, whose first two books were dedicated to men and the third to women, was written in elegiac couplets
Ars Amatoria
TU: What work of Ovid, of which only a hundred verses remain, opposes the traditional rejection of cosmetics and explains the technique for several beauty preparations
Medicamina Faciei Femineae
TU: What work of Ovid teaches how to heal oneself of love
Remedia Amoris
TU: In Ovid’s Heroides, what three pairs of lovers make up the second series that have responses
Paris and Helen; Hero and Leander; and Acontius and Cydippe
TU: What 15 book work of Ovid was prevented a final revision due to his exile
Metamorphoses
TU: In what work of Ovid did he write “flebilis ut noster status est, ita flebile carmen” in reference to his exile
Tristia
TU: What Roman author is described as “tersus atque elegans”
Tibullus
TU: What Roman author wrote a funeral elegy for Cornelia
Propertius
TU: What work of Ovid, based off Callimachus, is an invective against some enemy of his
Ibis
TU: What two poetasters attacked Vergil
Maevius and Bavius
TU: Who claims that the goal of poetry is to instruct and entertain in his Ars Poetica
Horace
TU: What Roman author was born at Aquinum
Juvenal
TU: In what satire of Juvenal does he target homosexuality
2
TU: In what satire of Juvenal, his longest, does he target the immorality and vices of women
6
TU: In what satire of Juvenal does he describe an episode of cannibalism in Egypt
15
TU: Legacy hunters, cheats and swindlers, homosexuals, and women were all targets of what satirist
Juvenal
TU: In Juvenal’s sixth satire, what woman, the imperial prostitute, is especially targeted
Messalina
TU: What Roman author, the son of a learned schoolmaster, was born at Naples
Statius
TU: “Tanta dulcedine captos adficit ille animos” is a quote from Juvenal about what Roman author in his composing of the Silvae
Statius
TU: What Roman author recalls the Bellum Civile with his acies fraternae in his Thebaid
Statius
TU: Who uses the Aeneid as a model for one of his works though he claims that his own work should follow at a distance
Statius
TU: What work of Statius was interrupted by his death
Achilleid
TU: Who attempted to narrate the entire life of Achilles but died before he had the chance to rival Homer
Statius
TU: Who attempted to imitate Apollonius of Rhodes in telling the story of Jason’s expedition for the Golden Fleece
Valerius Flaccus
TU: What man, a lawyer and former proconsul of Asia under Vespasian, was diagnosed with an incurable disease and let himself die by starvation
Silius Italicus
TU: What is the longest and perhaps the worst Latin historical epic to come down to us
Punica
TU: About whose magnum opus did Pliny the Elder write “scribebat carmina maiore cura quam ingenio
Silius Italicus
TU: What Roman author met Domitius Corbulo, Pomponius Secundus, and the young Titus while on the frontier for military campaigns, which led him to write such works as De Iaculatione Equestri
Pliny the Elder
TU: What work of Pliny the Elder did Tacitus use as a source for his Germania
Bella Germaniae
TU: Following the death of Claudius, what author retired from public life to dedicate himself to oratory and law and wrote Studiosus, an essay in six books on rhetoric
Pliny the Elder
TU: What work of Pliny the Elder is a handbook on grammar
Dubius Sermo
TU: What work of Pliny the Elder covers the subjects of metallurgy, cosmology, anthropology, botany, and more in 37 books
Naturalis Historiae
TU: What author, a curator aquarum under Nerva, wrote a work on Rome’s water supply titled De Aquis
Frontinus
TU: What work of Frontinus is a collection of military anecdotes in four books
Strategemata
TU: What Roman author, annoyed by city life, left Rome to stay at Forum Corneli, only to return to Rome one last time before retiring to his native Bilbilis
Martial
TU: What names are given to the last two books of Martial’s Liber Spectaculorum
Xenia and Apophoreta
TU: What Roman author, who received teaching from Remmius Palaemon and Domitius Afer, was summoned to Rome by Galba in 68 AD to begin his work as a teacher of rhetoric
Quintilian
TU: De Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae, Artis Rhetoricae, and Institutio Oratoria are all works by what man
Quintilian
TU: To whom is the Institutio Oratoria dedicated
Victorius Marcellus
TU: What Roman author, who was taught rhetoric under Quintilian and Nicetes Sacerdos, was appointed praefectus aerarii Saturni in 98 AD
Pliny the Younger
TU: Pliny the Younger teamed up with Tacitus to bring an accusation against what man, the proconsul of Asia, for charges of corruption for which he was exiled
Marius Priscus
TU: The tenth book of Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae consists of letters he wrote to what man and his replies
Trajan
TU: About whom was Pliny the Younger’s Panegyricus
Trajan
TU: In the prefatory letter of Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae, to what man does he write that the letters do not follow any chronological order
Septicius Clarus
TU: What Roman author married the daughter of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an influential statesman
Tacitus
TU: What is the manuscript title of Tacitus’s Germania
De Origine et Situ Germanorum
TU: Curiatus Maternus, Marius Aper, Vipstanus Messala, and Julius Secundus are all interlocutors in what work of Tacitus
Dialogus de Oratoribus
TU: Who celebrates his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola in a work titled Agricola
Tacitus
TU: What title is given to the encyclopedic work of Suetonius which was subdivided into different sections based on the subjects treated
Pratum (or Prata)
TU: What section of Suetonius’ De Viris Illustribus is the only one still extent, though it is damaged at the end
De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus
TU: Crates of Mallus to Valerius Probus is the range of people in what section of Suetonius’ De Viris Illustribus
De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus
TU: What work of Suetonius details the lives of Roman rulers starting with Julius Caesar and ending with Domitian
De Vita Caesarum
TU: What Roman author’s father’s status as a duovir iuri dicundo allowed him to complete his studies at Carthage
Apuleius
TU: Who had to defend himself at Sabrata due to charges of witchcraft brought about by his parents-in-law
Apuleius
TU: Who married the widowed mother of his friend Pontianus by the name of Pudentilla
Apuleius
TU: De Deo Socratis, De Platone et eius Dogmate, and De Mundo are philosophical works of what author
Apuleius
TU: “To the Platonic philosopher, the citizens of Madaura” is a dedication engraved on the base of a statue to what man
Apuleius
TU: What work of Apuleius, a reworking of the pseudo-Aristotelian Peri Kosmou, discusses the forces governing the universe
De Mundo
TU: What work of Apuleius is a collection of 23 oratorical passages from lectures and public readings he gave in Africa
Florida
TU: Clodia for Lesbia, Hostia for Cynthia, and Plania for Delia are among the pseudonyms discussed in what work of Apuleius
Apologia
TU: Fotis and Pamphila who are connected with transformative magic are characters in what work of Apuleius
Metamorphoses
TU: What self-made freedman of Vicenza learned to read while he accompanied his master’s son to school
Remmius Palaemon
TU: What megalomaniac philologist, who claimed that philology was born with him and would die with him, gave Varro the epithet “pig” and wrote an Ars Grammatica
Remmius Palaemon
TU: What Roman author of Padua and contemporary of Remmius Palaemon writes commentaries on five speeches of Cicero
Asconius Pedianus
TU: Contra Obtrectatores Vergilii and Vita Sallustii are works of what Roman author, who is said to have become blind at 72 and lived for another 12 years by Jerome
Asconius Pedianus
TU: Emendare, distinguere, and adnotare are among the work of what Roman author who comes closest to employing the tactics practiced by modern philologists
Valerius Probus
TU: What Roman author, a native of Cirta who educated Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, wrote a miscellany of minor writings such as letters to and from members of the imperial family
Fronto
TU: What Roman author, taught by Sulpicius Apollinaris, took a collection of notes on evenings during a winter spent in Athens
Aulus Gellius
TU: What pupil of Javolenus Priscus, who was the head of the Sabinian school in the Trajanic period, was entrusted by Hadrian with completing the revision of the edictum praetorium
Salvius Julianus
TU: What 90 book work of Salvius Julianus is a systematic, large-scale survey of civil and praetorian law
Digesta
TU: Which books of the Ab Urbe Condita are preserved
1-10 and 21-45
TU: Which two books of the Ab Urbe Condita lack any periochae
136 and 137
TU: What author is seen as an exornator rerum in his dramatic interpretations of his history possibly because he strayed away from public office in Rome
Livy
TU: Valerius Antias, Licinius Macer, and Claudius Quadrigarius were all sources used by what Roman author for his Ab Urbe Condita
Livy
TU: Who challenged Livy’s style of Patavinitas
Asinius Pollio
TU: What Roman author is Augustus said to have jokingly called a Pompeian because of his nostalgic sympathy towards republican ideals
Livy
TU: What Roman author was born in Teate
Asinius Pollio
TU: Whose histories, begun in the year of Sallust’s death, covered the period of the first triumvirate to the battle of Philippi
Asinius Pollio
TU: According to Asinius Pollio, what Roman author lacked diligentia and regard for the historical truth
Julius Caesar
TU: According to Asinius Pollio, what Roman author lacked a sense of correct and pure Latinitas
Cicero
TU: According to Seneca the Elder, few writers could escape the censure of what author’s strictum et asperum et nimis iratum iudicium
Asinius Pollio
TU: What Roman author wrote the Historiae Philippicae
Pompeius Trogus
TU: What 44 book work, written by Pompeius Trogus, is a genuine universal history that extended from the earliest oevents of Babylon to the author’s own day
Historiae Philippicae
TU: What Roman author depended on the works of Timagenes, who was hostile to Rome, in his writing of his histories
Pompeius Trogus
TU: What Roman author was born in Aeclanum in Irpinia
Velleius Paterculus
TU: What Roman author wrote a two book history dedicated to Marcus Vinicius
Velleius Paterculus
TU: In his Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium, what Roman author heaps large amounts of praise for Tiberius shortly after the death of Sejanus
Valerius Maximus
TU: What Roman author wrote Exempla, a handbook of models of vices and virtues intended for the use of the rhetorical schools
Valerius Maximus
TU: De humanitate et clementia, De religione, and De patientia are all chapters of what work of Valerius Maximus
Exempla
TU: What Roman author killed himself in the tomb of his ancestors after his work was publically burnt
Titus Labienus
TU: What Roman author, whose Annales glorified Brutus and termed Cassius the last of the Romans, killed himself during a trial that had been set in motion against him by Sejanus
Cremutius Cordus
TU: What Roman author wrote Historiae Alexandri Magni
Curtius Rufus
TU: What Roman author, the greatest grammarian of his age, did Augustus choose as tutor for his grandsons Lucius and Gaius
Verrius Flaccus
TU: What Roman author was born at Praeneste
Verrius Flaccus
TU: What work of Verrius Flaccus is an alphabetic glossary of difficult or obsolete terms
De Verborum Significatu
TU: While the original De Verborum Significatu of Verrius Flaccus is lost, what later grammarian’s abridgment of the work is still extant
(Sextus Pompeius) Festus
TU: What ten book work of Vitruvius Pollio did he dedicate to Augustus
De Architectura
TU: What Roman author had been entrusted with constructing war machines as an officer in Caesar’s engineering corps
Vitruvius
TU: What Roman author composed a book of prescriptions titled Compositiones, written without literary pretensions and intended only for practical use
Scribonius Largus
TU: Under the name of what doctor of Augustus and Horace does a work entitled De Herba Vettonica come down to modern day, though it is a work of a later period
Antonius Musa
TU: What native of Gades wrote De Re Rustica
Columella
TU: What is the only book that remains from the first edition of Columella’s De Re Rustica
De Arboribus
TU: Which book of his De Re Rustica does Columella treat as an homage to the tradition of Vergil’s Eclogues
(10th) De Cultu Hortorum
TU: What author, a Spaniard from Tingerenta, is known as a pure geographer
Pomponius Mela
TU: What geographic work of Pomponius Mela in 3 books is preserved
Chorographia
TU: One book on sauces and another on the complete preparation of certain dishes make up the nucleus of what work of Apicius
De Re Coquinaria
TU: What Roman author, who was accustomed to spending six months in Rome teaching and six months in the country writing, wrote works such as Pithana, Responsa, Epistulae, and De Iure Pontificio
Antistius Labeo
TU: What opponent of Antistius Labeo wrote works such as De Iure Pontificio, De Iure Sacrificiorum, and Coniectanea
Gaius Ateius Capito
TU: Who wrote a work titled Oratorum et Rhetorum Sententiae Divisiones Colores that describes the spread of the exercise of declamatio
Seneca the Elder
TU: In which of his works does Seneca the Elder describe fictitious cases based upon Roman or Greek law or upon imaginary legislation
Controversiae
TU: In which of his works does Seneca the Elder describe an orator’s attempt to guide the action of a historical or mythological figure through a difficult situation
Suasoriae
TU: Attalus and Papirius Fabianus were teachers of what author who came to Rome from his hometown of Cordoba
Seneca the Younger
TU: What Roman author was accused by Claudius of involvement in the adultery of Julia Livilla
Seneca the Younger
TU: What Roman author was banished to Corsica until Agrippina convinced Claudius to let him return to tutor the young Nero
Seneca the Younger
TU: What work of Seneca the Younger is a philosophical work on ethical and psychological questions in 12 books
Dialogi
TU: Which of the books of Seneca’s Dialogi was addressed to the daughter of Cremutius Cordus
Consolatio ad Marciam
TU: Which of the books of Seneca’s Dialogi was written to reassure his mother of her exiled son’s wellbeing on Corsica
Ad Helviam Matrem
TU: Which of the books of Seneca’s Dialogi was addressed to a freedman of Claudius in order to console him for the loss of a brother
Ad Polybium
TU: What work of Seneca the Younger, dedicated to his brother Novatus, analyzes the origins of human emotions and how to control them
De Ira
TU: What work of Seneca the Younger addresses the problem of happiness and the role that comfort and wealth can play in achieving it
De Vita Beata
TU: What work of Seneca the Younger advocates for a middle ground between leisure and active engagement in Roman society
De Tranquillitate Animi
TU: What work of Seneca the Younger, the only scientific work of his, was dedicated to Lucilius
Naturales Quaestiones
TU: What 7 book work of Seneca the Younger, dedicated to Aebutius Liberalis, discusses acts of kindness and their effects
De Beneficiis
TU: What Roman author wrote the laudatio funebris for Claudius, which confounds the reasoning for his writing of the Apocolocyntosis
Seneca the Younger
TU: What Roman author wrote a short didactic poem on hunting entitled Cynegetica, in which there are Vergilian influences
Grattius
TU: What Roman author’s use of the word nostri when describing the Faliscans leads to the addition of Faliscus to his name
Grattius
TU: What Roman author wrote an epigram on the death of Tibullus
Domitius Marsus
TU: What author wrote a 5 book didactic poem on astronomy
Manilius
TU: Zodiac signs, the twelve athla, the locus Fortunae, stars, and planets are all contained in what work of Manilius
Astronomica
TU: Who, an elegant rival of Vergil and Ovid, wrote a poem dealing with Germanicus’s adventurous expedition to the northern seas
Albinovanus Pedo
TU: Who wrote a historical poem titled Res Romanae in which the death of Cicero and the war between Octavian and Sextus Pompey are contained
Cornelius Severus
TU: Quintilian terms what Roman author as a better versificator than a poeta
Cornelius Severus
TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana is an invective that may be two poems joined together
Dirae
TU: Which of the works of the Appendix Vergiliana is a collection of 15 poems one of which is a panegyric for Messalla
Catalepton
TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana is a miniature epic as an epyllion in hexameters that deals with a mosquito saving the life of a shepherd only to be repaid with death at the hands of the shepherd
Culex
TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana tells the love story of Scylla who betrays her father for Minos
Ciris
TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana tells the story of a lady innkeeper who draws people to her business by dancing
Copa
TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana describes the morning routine of a peasant
Moretum
TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana recalls the death of Augustus’ most influential advisor
Elegiae in Maecenatem
TU: Which poem of the Appendix Vergiliana imitates Manilius and describes causes and phenomena of volcanoes
Aetna
TU: Whose works can be found in the Appendix Perottina
Phaedrus
TU: Who wrote eclogues inspired by those of Vergil which provide the first instance of an allegorical conception of pastoral poetry
Calpurnius Siculus
TU: What work’s ideas did Nero scorn due to their clear Republican ideals in depicting the civil war between Caesar and Pompey
Bellum Civile
TU: On April 30th 65 AD, what Roman author took his life at just 25 years old as a result of his supposed involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy without finishing his Pharsalia
Lucan
TU: Who recited laudes at the Neronia of 60 AD which he had written specifically for the occasion
Lucan
TU: Catachthonion, Iliacon, De Incendio Urbis, and Medea were all written by what author of the Silver Age
Lucan
TU: What work, considered by some to be anti-Aeneid, in 10 books describes Pompey and Caesar’s conflict
Bellum Civile
TU: Ardens et concitatus was a term used by Quintilian to describe what Roman author
Lucan
TU: Who is the narrator of Petronius’ Satyricon
Encolpius
TU: What two characters in Petronius’ Satyricon appear in every scene
Encolpius and Giton
TU: What character in Petronius’ Satyricon is a teacher of rhetoric
Agamemnon
TU: What character in Petronius’ Satyricon quarrels with Encolpius and captures Giton
Ascyltos
TU: What character in Petronius’ Satyricon is the wife of Trimalchio
Fortunata
TU: What character in Petronius’ Satyricon is an elderly poet who comes across Encolpius soon after Giton was captured
Eumolpus
TU: Valerius Probus informs us of the life of what Roman author with Etruscan origin who was born at Volterra
Persius
TU: Scriptitavit et raro et tarde is used to describe what Roman author which accounts for his only writing 6 books of satires in his lifetime
Persius
TU: What friend of Persius saw to the publication of his works after they had been revised by Cornutus
Caesius Bassus
TU: Who claims for himself the quality of rusticitas, which coincides with his self-proclaiming of semipaganus
Persius
TU: What Roman author who practiced as a lawyer in Africa and in Rome, became an adherent of the Montanists, known for intransigence and fanaticism, before abandoning them and founding his own sect
Tertullian
TU: What work of Tertullian is an exhortation to a group of imprisoned Christians
Ad Matyras
TU: Ad Nationes, De Testimonio Animae, and the Apologeticum were all composed in 197 AD by what author to defend Christianity from the attacks of the pagans
Tertullian
TU: What work of Tertullian attacks Christians who contaminated their faith with pagan philosophical doctrines and proposed excessively free interpretations of the Bible
De Praescriptione Haeriticorum
TU: In what work of Tertullian, perhaps the most notable work in his maturity, does he rework pagan sources
De Anima
TU: What work of Tertullian addresses the governor of Africa Proconsularis
Ad Scapulam
TU: What work of Tertullian discusses theater, the amphitheater, and the circus
De Spectaculis
TU: What work of Tertullian discusses the clothing of women, which he believes should be particularly modest
De Cultu Feminarum
TU: What work of Tertullian discusses the appropriateness of a woman’s leaving the house with her face uncovered
De Virginibus Velandis
TU: What work of Tertullian discusses sexual relations outside of marriage
De Pudicitia
TU: What work of Tertullian discusses military service, which is declared to be incompatible with allegiance to the Christian faith
De Corona
TU: What work of Tertullian warns against all economic activities connected with the pagan cults
De Idololatria
TU: What Roman author’s habit of demonizing all that is feminine and accusing woman of being Satan’s most dangerous instrument is made evident in his works on the modesty of women
Tertullian
TU: The discussion of anima naturaliter Christiana can be found in what work of Tertullian
Apologeticum
TU: What Christian author was born at Cirta, the same city as Fronto’s birth
Minucius Felix
TU: What Roman author contrasts Tertullian’s crudity with his logic and calm reasoning in the writing of his Octavius
Minucius Felix
TU: What Carthage born author was a renowned teacher of rhetoric until 246 AD when he gave all his goods to the poor
Cyprian
TU: Although he was able to fight against the persecution of Decius, what Roman author could not escape the wrath of Valerian who condemned him to death in 258 AD
Cyprian
TU: What work of Cyprian on his own conversion served as a precedent for Augustine’s confessions
Ad Donatum
TU: What work of Cyprian discusses the attacks of the pagans and divine punishment
Ad Demetrianum
TU: What work of Cyprian discuses the attitude Christians who denied their faith during the prosecutions must adopt
De Lapsis
TU: What work of Cyprian is a firm stand against all heresies and schisms
De Catholicae Ecclesiae Unitate
TU: What work of Cyprian discusses the rules of conduct that women who have vowed to consecrate themselves to God must follow
De Habitu Virginum
TU: What deacon and friend of Cyprian wrote a Vita Cypriani, the first Latin example of a biography of a bishop or saint
Pontius
TU: What Roman author, who sided against Cyprian regarding the lapsi, had a principal work titled De Trinitate
Novatianus
TU: What Roman author, clearly inspired by Tertullian, wrote a De Spectaculis and a De Bono Pudicitiae
Novatianus
TU: What author of Poetovium who died as a martyr as a result of Diocletian’s persecutions, wrote many biblical commentaries, of which only one on Revelations remains
Victorinus
TU: What Roman author was born at Gaza
Commodian
TU: What Roman author wrote 2 books of poems in the style of acrostics
Commodian
TU: What work of Commodian consists of 2 books of poems, the first of which against the pagans and Jews and the second of which for Christians seeking a more devout life
Instructiones
TU: What work of Commodian is a history of the world, which is seen as a clash between God and the devil
Carmen Apologeticum
TU: To what author is the Pervigilium Veneris often attributed
Florus
TU: The refrain “Cras amet qui numquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet” is found in what work
Pervigilium Veneris
TU: What Roman author, drawing from the eighth book of Homer’s Odyssey, wrote the De Concubitu Martis et Veneris on Vulcan’s trick on Mars and Venus
Reposianus
TU: What Roman author wrote a satirical poem on a cook and a baker arguing over the superiority of their callings titled Iudicium Coci et Pistoris Iudice Vulcano
Vespa
TU: De Litteris, De Syllabis, and De Metris are works by what author
Terentius Maurus
TU: What Roman author was inspired by Grattius Faliscus in the composition of his Cynegetica on hunting
Nemesianus
TU: Who opens his most ambitious work with a long proem that belongs to the genre of the recusatio in which he declares that he does not want and does not know how to write other genres of poetry
Nemesianus
TU: What Roman author was a friend of Septimius Severus, but ran into troubles with Caracalla which led to his death in 212
Aemilius Papinian
TU: What Roman author, whose works include 37 books of Quaestiones and 19 books of Responsa, had a profound influence on jurisprudence and legislation
Aemilius Papinian
TU: What Roman author is a Phoenician from Tyre
Domitius Ulpian
TU: Ad Edictum Praetoris, Ad Masurium Sabinum, Liber Singularis, Regularum, Disputationes, Responsa, and Institutiones are all works of what Roman author who enjoyed great favor at the court of Caracalla and Severus Alexander
Domitius Ulpian
TU: Although it was known as Polyhistor in the Middle Ages, whose Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium was concerned with geography
Gaius Julius Solinus
TU: What late Latin author of African descent wrote a 20 book treatise on grammar titled De Compendiosa Doctrina dedicated to his son
Nonius Marcellus
TU: What Roman author, who had Jerome among his pupils at Rome, composed an Ars Minor and Ars Maior on grammar
Aelius Donatus
TU: Commentaries on Terence and Vergil are attributed to what author who is better known for his extensive grammar textbooks
Aelius Donatus
TU: Who is the author of Interpretationes Vergilianae, a work divided into 12 books for each book of the Aeneid
Tiberius Claudius Donatus
TU: What Roman author, who was probably a pupil of Aelius Donatus, wrote a commentary on Vergil and is remembered in Macrobius’ Saturnalia
Servius
TU: What Roman author was closely affiliated with the Symmachi family
Macrobius
TU: What Roman author wrote a commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, a long passage from the last book of Cicero’s De Republica
Macrobius
TU: To what son did Macrobius dedicate his commentary on Cicero and the Saturnalia
Eustathius
TU: A treatise on Greek and Latin words titled De Differentiis et Societatibus Graeci Latinique Verbi was written by what author and dedicated to a member of the Symmachi family
Macrobius
TU: What work of Latin literature is a dialogue at the house of Vetteius Praetextatus in 7 books during a Roman festival
Saturnalia
TU: What Roman author, whose father was an important senator named Phosphorius, held the proconsulate of Africa and prefecture of Rome and wrote panegyrics to Valentinian and Gratian
Symmachus
TU: Epitome Rei Militaris, a treatise on recruiting, formations, the tactics of battle and siege, and naval engagements, and veterinary work titled Mulomedicina are among the works of what Roman author
Vegetius
TU: What Roman author was born at Sicca Veneria
Arnobius
TU: What 7 book work of Arnobius expounds Christian doctrine and refutes doctrines of polytheism
Adversus Nationes
TU: What Roman author, a pupil of Arnobius, taught Latin rhetoric at Nicomedia before being chosen by Constantine as a tutor for his son Crispus
Lactantius
TU: What work of Lactantius describes his voyage from Africa to Bithynia
Hodoeporicum
TU: What work of Lactantius discusses the perfect harmony of nature and immortality of the soul
De Opificio Dei
TU: What work of Lactantius consists of 7 books dedicated to Constantine
Divinae Institutiones
TU: What work of Lactantius discusses the necessity for God to grow angry against the wicked in order to demonstrate his love for the good
De Ira Dei
TU: What work of Lactantius records the deaths of all persecuted Christians
De Mortibus Persecutorum
TU: What work of Lactantius is an elegy on the phoenix, the symbol of Christ
De Ave Phoenice
TU: What Roman author was born at Syracuse
Firmicus Maternus
TU: What Roman author wrote the most complete Latin treatise on astrology that has come down to us titled Matheseos Libri VIII
Firmicus Maternus
TU: What work of Firmicus Maternus on the refutation of paganism did he dedicate to Constantius and Constantine
De Errore Profanarum Religionum
TU: At the request of Valens, what Roman author depends on Livy and Suetonius for the composition of his Breviarum ab Urbe Condita
Eutropius
TU: What Roman author, appointed magister memoriae by Valens, took part in Julian’s expedition against the Parthians and wrote a history covering the period from Romulus to the death of Jovian in 364 AD
Eutropius
TU: What Roman author was born at Antioch in Syria
Ammianus Marcellinus
TU: What Roman author continues the history of Tacitus starting with the reign of Nerva to the death of Valens at Adrianople in his Rerum Gestarum Libri XXXI
Ammianus Marcellinus
TU: Aelius Lampridius, Volcacius Gallicanus, Aelius Spartianus, Flavius Vopiscus, Julius Capitolinus, and Trebellius Pollio are all said to be authors of what work
Historia Augusta
TU: The Vita Diversorum Principum et Tyranorum is the manuscript title of what work which is a collection of biographies meant to include the lives of Nerva to the immediate predecessors of Diocletian
Historia Augusta
TU: What Roman author was born at Burdigala, which is now Bordeaux
Ausonius
TU: What Roman author studied at Tolosa then Bordeaux before teaching the future emperor Gratian
Ausonius
TU: What work of Ausonius honors people in their daily occupations
Commemoratio Professorum Burdigalensium
TU: What work of Ausonius discusses some of the most typical subjects of instruction such as the labors of Hercules, the parts of the year, and how mankind became honest
Eclogarum Liber
TU: What work of Ausonius is a genuine plan of study to be followed for cultural education
Protepticus ad Nepotem
TU: Griphus Ternarii Numeri, Cento Nuptialis, and Grammaticomastix are all written by what Roman author
Ausonius
TU: In what work of Ausonius does he describe the typical day of a high imperial bureaucrat
Ephemeris
TU: What Roman author, who was accused by Orosius of being a paganus pervicacissimus, was born at Alexandria
Claudian
TU: What Roman emperor went to the court of Honorius at Milan in 395 where he was connected to the general Stilicho and had a statue of him built in the forum in 400
Claudian
TU: Poems for Honorius and Stilcho and poems on the Gigantomachy are among the works of what Roman author
Claudian
TU: Whose official debut as a Latin poet had taken place at Rome with his panegyric for Probinus and Olybrius, but is more famous for a poem on mythology titled De Raptu Proserpinae
Claudian
TU: What late Roman author, along with his Descriptio Orbis Terrae and Ora Maritima, translated Aratus’s Phaenomena, which had already been done by Cicero and Germanicus
Rufius Festus Avienus
TU: What work of Prudentius consists of 12 hymns, 6 to be sung on various parts of the day and 6 to be sung at particular Christian holidays or festivals
Cathemerinon
TU: What work Prudentius deals with the mysteries of the Trinity and of Christ’s Passion
Apotheosis
TU: What work of Prudentius discusses the struggle between the virtues and the vices in the human soul
Psychomachia
TU: What work of Prudentius discuses the Altar of Victory, which the Christians remove against the Pagans’ wishes
Contra Symmachum
TU: What work of Prudentius consists of 14 hymns in honor of Christian martyrs
Peristephanon
TU: What work of Prudentius consists of 48 strophes on episodes of the Old and New Testaments
Dittochaeon
TU: What Roman author, who was a pupil of Ausonius, was born at Burdigala
Paulinus of Nola
TU: What Roman author became the governor of Campania until he married the Spanish Therasia when he retired first to Spain then to Nola
Paulinus of Nola
TU: To what patron of Paulinus of Nola does he dedicate about half of his poems and is celebrated every year on the occasion of his natalicium, day of martyrdom
St. Felix
TU: What Roman author was born at Treviri
Ambrose
TU: What Roman author was sent as a consularis Liguriae et Aemiliae to Milan as basically a governor of all northern Italy
Ambrose
TU: After the death of the Arian Auxentius, what Roman author became the bishop of Milan
Ambrose
TU: What work of Ambrose consists of 6 books with 9 speeches on Creation
Hexameron
TU: In what work of Ambrose does he deal with the Trinitarian theology in three books
De Fide
TU: In what work of Ambrose does he discuss sin and grace
De Paenitentia
TU: In what work inspired by Cicero does Ambrose list the duties of priests and provide Christians with precepts for living
De Officiis Ministrorum
TU: In what work does Ambrose discuss the relationship between the wealthy and the poor and property
De Nabuthae
TU: What Roman author was born at Stridon in Dalmatia
Jerome
TU: What Roman author, whose teachers included Marius Victorinus and Donatus, was chosen by Pope Damasus as his secretary
Jerome
TU: What Roman author, who met his future enemy Rufinus while at schooling, died at Bethlehem
Jerome
TU: From St. Peter to the author himself, who composed 135 biographies of Christian writers titled De Viris Illustribus
Jerome
TU: What work of Jerome translates, expands, and updates the work of Eusebius with the same title including many important notices on ancient Latin authors
Chronicon
TU: What Roman author was born at Thagaste
Augustine
TU: While reading Cicero’s Hortensius, what Roman author subscribed to Manichaeism at a young age before converting to Christianity at Milan after listening to his mother and the sermons of Ambrose
Augustine
TU: What Roman author became bishop of Hippo in 395 where he died after it was besieged by the Vandals led by Genseric in 430
Augustine
TU: What work of Augustine in 13 books is a praise, exaltation of God written in the first years of his episcopate
Confessiones
TU: A description of two cities, one belonging to God and the other to the devil, can be found on what 22 book work of Augustine defending Christians and blaming Pagans
De Civitate Dei
TU: Urged by the death of his wife and the suggestions of Paulinus of Nola, what Roman author took up the ascetic life and traveled to Tours where he met the bishop Martin who heavily influenced his future works
Sulpicius Severus
TU: What work of Martianus Capella is a 9 book encyclopedia of classical learning
De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae
TU: In the first two books of what Latin work is there a wedding in Jupiter’s galactic palace before shifting focus to 7 of the 9 liberal arts from Varro’s Disciplinarum Libri as Mercury’s wedding gift to Philology
De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae
TU: What Roman author was born at Tarragona
Orosius
TU: Whose first work, the Commonitorium de Errore Priscillianistarum et Origenistarum, was on the heresies most widespread in Spain and dedicated to Augustine?
Orosius
TU: What 7 book work of Orosius, his principal work, was requested by Augustine as a collection of material for his own De Civitate Dei
Historiae adversus Paganos
TU: What Roman author recounts his sea voyage from Ostia to the northern part of Tuscany in his two book work of elegiac couplets titled De Reditu Suo
Rutilius Namatianus
TU: What Roman author, who lived in Ravenna at the court of Valentinian III and had Aetius has his patron, was recognized with a state in the Forum of Trajan
Merobaudes
TU: Although often attributed to Claudian, what is chief work of Merobaudes
De Christo
TU: What Roman author was born at Lyon
Sidonius Apollinaris
TU: What Roman author, who married a daughter of the emperor Avitus, was consul in 468 and a later prefect before abandoning politics for an ecclesiastical career as he became a bishop of Auvergne
Sidonius Apollinaris
TU: 24 carmina divided into panegyrics to the emperors Avitus, Majorian, and Anthemius and 9 books of letters among which is a praise of Euric are among the works of what Roman author
Sidonius Apollinaris
TU: What Roman author, born at Rome around 480, was accused of conspiring against Theodoric and was imprisoned and put to death in 524
Boethius
TU: The Institutio Arithmetica and the De Institutione Musica belong to an encyclopedic corpus of what author
Boethius
TU: De Differentiis Topicis and De Divisione are two writings on syllogism by what Roman author
Boethius
TU: What work of Boethius, which in form is a Menippean satire, is a dialogue between philosophy and the imprisoned author
De Consolatione Philosophiae
TU: What Roman author, who replaced Boethius as magister officiorum, was born at Squillace
Cassiodorus
TU: Who, at the age of 92, composed a De Orthographia for the use of monks at Vivarium
Cassiodorus
TU: What Roman author modeled his own Chronica off of Jerome in his surveying of events from Adam to the year 519
Cassiodorus
TU: What work of Cassiodorus is a two book encyclopedic handbook devoted to sacred and profane literature
Institutiones
TU: What work of Cassiodorus is a historical work in 12 books on the Goths
De Origine Actibusque Getarum
TU: Aelius Paetus, Sulpicius Rufus
Historiae Augusta
