Latin Literature Introduction Toss-Ups

Question 1

What is Livius Andronicus’ full name?

Answer 1

Lucius Livius Andronicus; p. 1

Question 2

What author was born in 284 B.C. at Tarentum?

Answer 2

Livius Andronicus; p. 1

Question 3

Where was Livius Andronicus born in 284 B.C.?

Answer 3

Tarentum; p. 1

Question 4

In what year was Livius Andronicus born at Tarentum?

Answer 4

284 BC; p. 1

Question 5

In what year did Livius Andronicus die?

Answer 5

204 BC; p. 1

Question 6

What author was called the “Father of Latin Literature”?

Answer 6

Livius Andronicus; p. 1

Question 7

What honorific title was given to Livius Andronicus?

Answer 7

Father of Latin Literature; p. 1

Question 8

In what year did Livius Andronicus come to Rome as a slave?

Answer 8

272 BC; p. 1

Question 9

What author came to Rome as a slave in 272 BC?

Answer 9

Livius Andronicus; p. 1

Question 10

Which work of Livius Andronicus is a Latin translation of Homer’s Odyssey?

Answer 10

Odussia; p. 1

Question 11

Who wrote the first Latin translation of Homer’s Odyssey?

Answer 11

Livius Andronicus; p. 1

Question 12

What was the earliest extant work of Latin literature?

Answer 12

Odussia; p. 1

Question 13

What was the purpose of Livius Andronicus’ Odussia?

Answer 13

textbook; p. 1

Question 14

For whose children did Livius Andronicus compose the Odussia as a textbook?

Answer 14

Livius Salinator; p. 1

Question 15

In what early Italian meter was the Odussia written?

Answer 15

Saturnian; p. 1

Question 16

What Latin term did Livius Andronicus use to translate “Muse”?

Answer 16

Camena; p. 1

Question 17

Who wrote the first Roman comedy and Roman tragedy for the Ludi Romani of 240 BC?

Answer 17

Livius Andronicus; p. 1

Question 18

For what event in 240 BC did Livius Andronicus compose the first Roman comedy and tragedy?

Answer 18

Ludi Romani; p. 1

Question 19

What author was the first to produce plays in Rome?

Answer 19

Livius Andronicus; p. 1

Question 20

What author composed a parthenion in honor of Juno in 207 BC?

Answer 20

Livius Andronicus; p. 1

Question 21

What type of poem did Livius Andronicus compose in honor of Juno in 207 BC?

Answer 21

parthenion; p. 1

Question 22

In what year did Livius Andronicus compose a parthenion in honor of Juno?

Answer 22

207 BC; p. 1

Question 23

What author regarded Livius Andronicus’ work as antiquated and not worth reading?

Answer 23

Cicero; p. 1

Question 24

What author was born in 270 BC at Capua?

Answer 24

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 25

In what year was Gnaeus Naevius born near Capua?

Answer 25

270 BC; p. 1

Question 26

Where did Gnaeus Naevius die in exile in 201 BC?

Answer 26

Utica; p. 1

Question 27

Which author died at Utica in 201 BC?

Answer 27

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 28

In what year did Gnaeus Naevius die in exile at Utica?

Answer 28

201 BC; p. 1

Question 29

What dramatist was the first native Italian to write Latin literature?

Answer 29

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 30

What author pioneered “fabulae praetextae”, tragedies written on Roman historical material?

Answer 30

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 31

What are fabulae praetextae?

Answer 31

tragedies written on Roman historical material; p. 1

Question 32

Who was the first to write an epic on an entirely Italian subject?

Answer 32

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 33

What was the title of Naevius’ epic on the First Punic War?

Answer 33

Bellum Punicum; p. 1

Question 34

Who wrote the Bellum Punicum, the first epic on an Italian subject?

Answer 34

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 35

To what African city was Naevius exiled because of his fued with the Metelli family?

Answer 35

Utica; p. 1

Question 36

Which author was exiled to Utica because of his fued with the Metelli family?

Answer 36

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 37

With what family did Gnaeus Naevius have a fued which got him exiled to Utica?

Answer 37

Metelli; p. 1

Question 38

Which author remarked “Fato Metelli fiunt Romae consules”?

Answer 38

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 39

Translate Naevius’ remark “fato Metelli fiunt Romae consules”.

Answer 39

It’s fate that makes the Metelli consules at Rome; p. 1

Question 40

Which work of Gnaeus Naevius is an epic poem about the First Punic War, written in Saturnian verse?

Answer 40

Bellum Punicum; p. 1

Question 41

Whose Bellum Punicum details the events from Aeneas’ arrival in Latium down to the First Punic War?

Answer 41

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 42

How many books did Naevius’ Bellum Punic contain?

Answer 42

7; p. 1

Question 43

What grammarian arranged Naevius’ Bellum Punicum into 7 Books?

Answer 43

Lampadio; p. 1

Question 44

What are the titles of Naevius’ two fabulae praetextae?

Answer 44

Clastidium & Romulus; p. 1

Question 45

Who wrote a fabula praetexta entitled Clastidium?

Answer 45

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 46

Who wrote a fabula praetexta entitled Romulus?

Answer 46

Gnaeus Naevius; p. 1

Question 47

What was Plautus’ full name?

Answer 47

Titus Maccius Plautus; p. 1

Question 48

Where was Plautus born c. 254 BC?

Answer 48

Sarsina; p. 1

Question 49

Which author was born at Sarsina c. 254 BC?

Answer 49

Plautus; p. 1

Question 50

In what year did Plautus die?

Answer 50

184 BC; p. 1

Question 51

What comic playwright was born at Sarsina c. 254 BC?

Answer 51

Plautus; p. 1

Question 52

Which Broadway play is based on a compilation of Plautus’ plays?

Answer 52

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; p. 1

Question 53

The Broadway play “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” is based on a compilation of which author’s plays?

Answer 53

Plautus; p. 1

Question 54

Varro said that if the Muses had spoken Latin they would have spoken the type that appeared in which author’s plays?

Answer 54

Plautus; p. 1

Question 55

Which play of Plautus deals with a clever slave who manages to steal away from the boastful soldier Pyrgopolyneices the girl loved by his young master?

Answer 55

Miles Gloriosus; p. 2

Question 56

What is the translation of “Miles Gloriosus”?

Answer 56

The Braggart Soldier; p. 2

Question 57

Which play of Plautus was his longest?

Answer 57

Miles Gloriosus; p. 2

Question 58

In Plautus’ Miles Gloriosus, what boastful soldier is swindled out of his girl?

Answer 58

Pyrgopolyneices; p. 2

Question 59

Which play of Plautus deals with the slave Tranio who convinces his master’s father that his house is haunted?

Answer 59

Mostellaria; p. 2

Question 60

What is the translation of “Mostellaria”?

Answer 60

The Haunted House; p. 2

Question 61

In Plautus’ Mostellaria, what clever slave convinces his master’s father that his house is haunted?

Answer 61

Tranio; p. 2

Question 62

Which play of Plautus deals with the misfortunes of a miser named Euclio who tries to hide his fortune?

Answer 62

Aulularia; p. 2

Question 63

What is the translation of “Aulularia”?

Answer 63

The Pot of Gold; p. 2

Question 64

In Plautus’ Aulularia, what miser tries to hide his fortune?

Answer 64

Euclio; p. 2

Question 65

Which play of Plautus deals with a clever slave who tricks the pimp Ballio out of a girl his young master loves?

Answer 65

Pseudolus; p. 2

Question 66

In Plautus’ Pseudolus, what pimp is swindled out of one of his girls?

Answer 66

Ballio; p. 2

Question 67

Which play of Plautus deals with twins seperated at birth?

Answer 67

Menaechmi; p. 2

Question 68

Which play of Plautus is the primary model for Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors?

Answer 68

Menaechmi; p. 2

Question 69

Which play of Plautus deals with the confusion over Hercules’ birth?

Answer 69

Amphitruo; p. 2

Question 70

Which play of Plautus is the only one with a mythological subject?

Answer 70

Amphitruo; p. 2

Question 71

Which play of Plautus deals with the efforts of a well-to-do father to ransom his son who has been taken prisoner of war?

Answer 71

Captivi; p. 2

Question 72

Which play of Plautus mentions the imprisonment of Naevius?

Answer 72

Captivi; p. 2

Question 73

Which play of Plautus has no female characters?

Answer 73

Captivi; p. 2

Question 74

Which play of Plautus deals with a parasit of a young man who is in love with a courtesan?

Answer 74

Curculio; p. 2

Question 75

Which play of Plautus was his shortest?

Answer 75

Curculio; p. 2

Question 76

What author was born in 239 BC at Rudiae in Calabria?

Answer 76

Quintus Ennius; p. 2

Question 77

Where was Quintus Ennius born in 239 BC?

Answer 77

Rudiae (in Calabria); p. 2

Question 78

In what year did Quintus Ennius die?

Answer 78

169 BC; p. 2

Question 79

What author wrote an 18-book epic on Roman history entitled Annales?

Answer 79

Quintus Ennius; p. 2

Question 80

How many books did Ennius’ Annales contain?

Answer 80

18; p. 2

Question 81

Which work of Quintus Ennius is an 18-book epic poem on Roman history?

Answer 81

Annales; p. 2

Question 82

What author first adapted dactylic hexameter from Greek poetry into Latin?

Answer 82

Quintus Ennius; p. 2

Question 83

What author made dactylic hexameter the official meter of Latin epic poetry?

Answer 83

Quintus Ennius; p. 2

Question 84

Who brought Quintus Ennius to Rome?

Answer 84

Cato the Elder; p. 2

Question 85

What poet claimed that he had three hearts because he spoke Latin, Greek, and Oscan?

Answer 85

Quintus Ennius; p. 2

Question 86

What three languages made up Ennius’ three hearts?

Answer 86

Greek, Oscan, Latin; p. 2

Question 87

Who was the first Latin writer to compose Satire?

Answer 87

Quintus Ennius; p. 2

Question 88

What nephew of Ennius was a famous tragedian?

Answer 88

Pacuvius; p. 2

Question 89

What poet was the famous uncle of Pacuvius?

Answer 89

Quintus Ennius; p. 2

Question 90

What was Pacuvius’ full name?

Answer 90

Marcus Pacuvius; p. 2

Question 91

Where was Pacuvius in 220 BC?

Answer 91

Brundisium; p. 2

Question 92

In what year was Pacuvius born in Brundisium?

Answer 92

220 BC; p. 2

Question 93

In what year did Pacuvius die?

Answer 93

130 BC; p. 2

Question 94

What author did Cicero consider the “greatest of Latin tragic poets”?

Answer 94

Pacuvius; p. 2

Question 95

Who considered Pacuvius the greatest of Latin tragic poets?

Answer 95

Cicero; p. 2

Question 96

Which work of Pacuvius depicts Orestes driven mad by the Furies?

Answer 96

Dulorestes; p. 2

Question 97

What is the translation of Dulorestes?

Answer 97

Orestes the Slave; p. 2

Question 98

Who wrote the tragedies Dulorestes and Niptra?

Answer 98

Pacuvius; p. 2

Question 99

Which work of Pacuvius depicts Ulysses’ death at the hands of Telegonus?

Answer 99

Niptra; p. 2

Question 100

What is the translation of Niptra?

Answer 100

The Bath; p. 2

Question 101

What is Cato the Elder’s full name?

Answer 101

Marcus Porcius Cato; p. 3

Question 102

What author was born in 234 BC at Tusculum?

Answer 102

Cato the Elder; p. 3

Question 103

Where was Cato the Elder born in 234 BC?

Answer 103

Tusculum; p. 3

Question 104

In what year was Cato the Elder born at Tusculum?

Answer 104

234 BC; p. 3

Question 105

In what year did Cato the Elder die?

Answer 105

149 BC; p. 3

Question 106

What author was called the “Father of Latin Prose”?

Answer 106

Cato the Elder; p. 3

Question 107

Who was the first to write history in Latin?

Answer 107

Cato the Elder; p. 3

Question 108

What author brought Quintius Ennius to Rome?

Answer 108

Cato the Elder; p. 3

Question 109

What political office did Cato the Elder hold in 184 BC?

Answer 109

censor; p. 3

Question 110

What author, known for his old-fashioned and puritanical style, was called the “father of Latin prose”?

Answer 110

Cato the Elder; p. 3

Question 111

Which work of Cato the Elder was a 7-book history of Rome?

Answer 111

Origines; p. 3

Question 112

How many books did Cato’s Origines contain?

Answer 112

7; p. 3

Question 113

Which work of Cato the Elder begins with a line of hexameter?

Answer 113

Origines; p. 3

Question 114

Which work of Cato the Elder was the first prose historical text in Latin?

Answer 114

Origines; p. 3

Question 115

Which work of Cato the Elder was a treatise on farming?

Answer 115

De Agri Cultura; p. 3

Question 116

What is the alternate title of Cato’s De Agri Cultura?

Answer 116

De Re Rustica; p. 3

Question 117

Which work of Cato the Elder was the earliest Latin prose work to come down to us in its entirety?

Answer 117

De Agri Cultura; p. 3

Question 118

What was Terence’s full name?

Answer 118

Publius Terentius Afer; p. 3

Question 119

What author was born ca. 195 BC in Carthage?

Answer 119

Terence; p. 3

Question 120

Where was Terence born in 195 or 185 BC?

Answer 120

Carthage; p. 3

Question 121

In what year did Terence die?

Answer 121

159 BC; p. 3

Question 122

What comic playwright was born in Carthage in 195 BC?

Answer 122

Terence; p. 3

Question 123

What style of Greek comedy did Plautus and Terence employ?

Answer 123

New Comedy; p. 3

Question 124

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

Answer 124

Terence; p. 3

Question 125

In what year did Terence make his theatrical debut?

Answer 125

166 BC; p. 3

Question 126

Who was the literary patron of Terence?

Answer 126

Scipio Aemilianus; p. 3

Question 127

In what city were all of Terence’s plays set?

Answer 127

Athens; p. 3

Question 128

Who acted in all of Terence’s plays?

Answer 128

Ambivius Turpio; p. 3

Question 129

Which play of Terence was his earliest work?

Answer 129

Andria; p. 3

Question 130

What is the translation of “Andria”?

Answer 130

The Woman of Andros; p. 3

Question 131

In the prologue of which of Terence’s plays does he defend his use of contaminatio?

Answer 131

Andria; p. 3

Question 132

What is contaminatio?

Answer 132

combination of elements of multiple Greek plays into on Latin play; p. 3

Question 133

What is the translation of “Adelphi”?

Answer 133

The Brothers; p. 3

Question 134

Which play of Terence is a comedy about twins, one born in the country and one born in the city?

Answer 134

Adelphi; p. 3

Question 135

Which play of Terence was his biggest commercial success?

Answer 135

Eunuchus; p. 3

Question 136

What is the translation of “Hecyra”?

Answer 136

The Mother-in-Law; p. 3

Question 137

Which play of Terence was only produced after two failed attempts?

Answer 137

Hecyra; p. 3

Question 138

Which play of Terence did the audience leave in preference for a show of tightrope walkers during the first and second attempts?

Answer 138

Hecyra; p. 3

Question 139

What is the translation of “Heauton Timorumenos”?

Answer 139

The Self-Tormentor; p. 3

Question 140

Which play of Terence deals with Clinia who is about to be separated from his wife?

Answer 140

Heauton Timorumenos; p. 3

Question 141

In which play of Terence does the title character remark “homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto”?

Answer 141

Heauton Timorumenos; p. 3

Question 142

What is Lucilius’ full name?

Answer 142

Gaius Lucilius; p. 3

Question 143

In what year was Lucilius born?

Answer 143

180 BC; p. 3

Question 144

Where was Lucilius born in 180 BC?

Answer 144

Suessa Aurunca; p. 3

Question 145

What author was born in 180 BC at Suessa Aurunca?

Answer 145

Lucilius; p. 3

Question 146

In what year did Lucilius die?

Answer 146

102 BC; p. 3

Question 147

What author established hexameter as the meter of Roman satire?

Answer 147

Lucilius; p. 3

Question 148

What meter did Lucilius establish as the meter of Roman satire?

Answer 148

Dactylic Hexameter; p. 3

Question 149

Who was the first Latin write to focus exclusively on Satire?

Answer 149

Lucilius; p. 3

Question 150

What genre was Lucilius the first to focus exclusively on?

Answer 150

satire; p. 3

Question 151

What was the title of Lucilius’ collection of Satires?

Answer 151

Sermones; p. 3

Question 152

What is the alternate title of Lucilius’ Sermones?

Answer 152

Ludus ac Sermones; p. 3

Question 153

Who wrote a 30 book collection of Satires called Sermones?

Answer 153

Lucilius; p. 3

Question 154

How many books of Satires made up Lucilius’ Sermones?

Answer 154

30; p. 3

Question 155

What author did Horace call his lantern for his influence in Satire?

Answer 155

Lucilius; p. 3

Question 156

What author called Lucilius his lantern for his influence in Satire?

Answer 156

Horace; p. 3

Question 157

Whose satires on a trip to Brundisium and an ancounter with a bore were models for Horace?

Answer 157

Lucilius; p. 3

Question 158

What author was the great-uncle of Pompey the Great?

Answer 158

Lucilius; p. 3

Question 159

What is Cicero’s full name?

Answer 159

Marcus Tullius Cicero; p. 4

Question 160

What author was born on January 3, 106 BC in Arpinum?

Answer 160

Cicero; p. 4

Question 161

Where was Cicero born on January 3rd, 106 BC?

Answer 161

Arpinum; p. 4

Question 162

In what year was Cicero born at Arpinum?

Answer 162

106 BC; p. 4

Question 163

Where did Cicero die on December 7, 43 BC?

Answer 163

Formiae; p. 4

Question 164

What author died at Formiae on December 7, 43 BC?

Answer 164

Cicero; p. 4

Question 165

In what year did Cicero die at Formiae?

Answer 165

43 BC; p. 4

Question 166

What orator was Cicero’s chief rival in his early legal career?

Answer 166

Hortensius Hortalus; p. 4

Question 167

What author was the first husband of Terentia?

Answer 167

Cicero; p. 4

Question 168

Who was the wife of Cicero?

Answer 168

Terentia; p. 4

Question 169

Name Cicero’s two children.

Answer 169

Marcus & Tullia; p. 4

Question 170

To whom did Cicero address the majority of his letters?

Answer 170

Atticus; p. 4

Question 171

What is Atticus’ full name?

Answer 171

Titus Pomponius Atticus; p. 4

Question 172

Who addressed the majority of his letters to Atticus?

Answer 172

Cicero; p. 4

Question 173

Which speech of Cicero was his first in a criminal case?

Answer 173

Pro Roscio Amerino; p. 4

Question 174

Which speech of Cicero attacked Chrysogonus, an influential freedman of Sulla?

Answer 174

Pro Roscio Amerino; p. 4

Question 175

In what year did Cicero deliver his Pro Roscio Amerino speech?

Answer 175

80 BC; p. 4

Question 176

What influential freedman of Sulla did Cicero attack in his Pro Roscio Amerino speech?

Answer 176

Chrysogonus; p. 4

Question 177

Which speech of Cicero defended a Greek poet’s claim to Roman citizenship?

Answer 177

Pro Archia Poeta; p. 4

Question 178

In what year did Cicero deliver his Pro Archia Poeta speech?

Answer 178

62 BC; p. 4

Question 179

What Greek poet’s claim to Roman citizenship did Cicero defend in his Pro Archia Poeta speech?

Answer 179

Archias; p. 4

Question 180

Which speech of Cicero defended a lover of Clodia accused of poisoning her husband Quintus Metellus Celer?

Answer 180

Pro Caelio; p. 4

Question 181

In what year did Cicero deliver his Pro Caelio speech?

Answer 181

56 BC; p. 4

Question 182

What woman does Cicero paint as a promiscuous harlot in his Pro Caelio speech?

Answer 182

Clodia; p. 4

Question 183

Which speech of Cicero supported Pompey’s attemt to gain command against Mithridates?

Answer 183

Pro Lege Manilia; p. 4

Question 184

In what year did Cicero deliver his Pro Lege Manilia speech?

Answer 184

66 BC; p. 4

Question 185

What is the alternate title of Cicero’s Pro Lege Manilia speech?

Answer 185

De Imperio Gnaei Pompei; p. 4

Question 186

What series of 14 speeches by Cicero attacked Marc Antony?

Answer 186

Philippics; p. 4

Question 187

Who did Cicero’s Philippics attack?

Answer 187

Marc Antony; p. 4

Question 188

On whose speeches against Philip II did Cicero model his Philippics?

Answer 188

Demosthenes; p. 4

Question 189

In what year did Cicero deliver his Philippics?

Answer 189

43 BC; p. 4

Question 190

Which speech of Cicero prosecuted a corrupt governor of Sicily?

Answer 190

In Verrem; p. 4

Question 191

In what year did Cicero deliver his In Verrem speech?

Answer 191

70 BC; p. 4

Question 192

How many speeches did Cicero deliver against Catiline?

Answer 192

4; p. 4

Question 193

What series of 4 speeches by Cicero attacked an aristocrat accused of trying to overthrow the republic?

Answer 193

In Catilinam; p. 4

Question 194

What speech of Cicero begins with the line “quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra”?

Answer 194

In Catilinam; p. 4

Question 195

What philosophical work of Cicero is a dialogue among Cato the Elder, Laelius, and Scipio Aemilianus on old age?

Answer 195

De Senectute; p. 4

Question 196

What three men are featured in the discussion in Cicero’s De Senectute?

Answer 196

Cato the Elder, Laelius, and Scipio Aemilianus; p. 4

Question 197

What is the alternate title of Cicero’s De Senectute?

Answer 197

Cato Maior; p. 4

Question 198

Which work of Plato is Cicero’s De Senectute modeled on?

Answer 198

The Republic; p. 4

Question 199

What is the alternate title of Cicero’s De Amicitia?

Answer 199

Laelius; p. 4

Question 200

What later author wrote a commentary on Cicero’s De Republica?

Answer 200

Macrobius; p. 4

Question 201

Which work of Cicero contains the Somnium Scipionis?

Answer 201

De Republica; p. 4

Question 202

Which section of Cicero’s De Republica deals with a dream of Scipio Aemilianus?

Answer 202

Somnium Scipionis; p. 4

Question 203

Which philosophical work of Cicero is a dialogue among a Stoic, an Academic, and an Epicurean who debate the different schools of philosophy?

Answer 203

De Natura Deorum; p. 4

Question 204

In which work of Cicero do Lucius Balbus the Stoic, Aurelius Cotta the Academic, and Velleius the Epicurean debate the different schools of philosophy?

Answer 204

De Natura Deorum; p. 4

Question 205

Which three schools of philosophy are discussed in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum?

Answer 205

Stoicism, Academic, and Epicurean; p. 4

Question 206

What is Varro’s full name?

Answer 206

Marcus Terentius Varro; p. 5

Question 207

In what year was Varro born at Reate?

Answer 207

106 BC; p. 5

Question 208

What author was born at Reate in 106 BC?

Answer 208

Varro; p. 5

Question 209

In what year did Varro die?

Answer 209

27 BC; p. 5

Question 210

What author was considered Rome’s greatest scholar?

Answer 210

Varro; p. 5

Question 211

What scholar wrote over 500 volumes?

Answer 211

Varro; p. 5

Question 212

What author dated the founding of Rome to 753 BC?

Answer 212

Varro; p. 5

Question 213

To what year did Varro date the founding of Rome?

Answer 213

753 BC; p. 5

Question 214

Which work of Varro is an exhaustive treatise on the Latin language?

Answer 214

De Lingua Latina; p. 5

Question 215

How many books did Varro’s De Lingua Latina contain?

Answer 215

25; p. 5

Question 216

Which work of Varro is a treatise on farming?

Answer 216

De Re Rustica; p. 5

Question 217

What is the alternate title of Varro’s De Re Rustica?

Answer 217

Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres; p. 5

Question 218

What is Caesar’s full name?

Answer 218

Gaius Julius Caesar; p. 5

Question 219

In what year was Caesar born in Rome?

Answer 219

100 BC; p. 5

Question 220

What author was born in 100 BC in Rome?

Answer 220

Caesar; p. 5

Question 221

What author was killed on March 15, 44 BC in Rome?

Answer 221

Caesar; p. 5

Question 222

On what date was Caesar killed?

Answer 222

March 15, 44 BC; p. 5

Question 223

Which work of Caesar details his wars in Gaul?

Answer 223

(Commentarii) De Bello Gallico; p. 5

Question 224

How many total books did De Bello Gallico contain?

Answer 224

8 books; p. 5

Question 225

How many books of De Bello Gallico did Caesar personally write?

Answer 225

7 books; p. 5

Question 226

What leiutenant wrote the last book of Caesar’s De Bello Gallico?

Answer 226

Aulus Hirtius; p. 5

Question 227

What is the alternate titlte of Caesar’s De Bello Gallico?

Answer 227

Gai Iulii Commentarii Rerum Gestarum; p. 5

Question 228

Which work of Caesar details the events of the civil war?

Answer 228

(Commentarii) De Bello Civili; p. 5

Question 229

Which work of Caesar was writtten to dispel the notion that he was a revolutionary like Catiline?

Answer 229

(Commentarii) De Bello Civili; p. 5

Question 230

Which work of Caesar was a lost work on Latin grammar?

Answer 230

De Analogia; p. 5

Question 231

Who wrote a lost work on Latin grammar entitled De Analogia?

Answer 231

Caesar; p. 5

Question 232

In what year was Cornelius Nepos born?

Answer 232

100 BC; p. 5

Question 233

Which work of Cornelius Nepos contains biographies of famous men?

Answer 233

De Viris Illustribus; p. 5

Question 234

Who wrote the fist surviving Latin biographical work?

Answer 234

Cornelius Nepos; p. 5

Question 235

What is Lucretius’ full name?

Answer 235

Titus Lucretius Carus; p. 5

Question 236

According to Jerome what author was driven to madness by a love potion?

Answer 236

Lucretius; p. 5

Question 237

What author allegedly died after he was driven to madness by a love potion?

Answer 237

Lucretius; p. 5

Question 238

About what author did Vergil write “felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas”?

Answer 238

Lucretius; p. 5

Question 239

Translate “felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas”.

Answer 239

blessed was he who was able to understand the causes of things; p. 5

Question 240

What work of Lucretius deals with Epicurean philosophy?

Answer 240

De Rerum Natura; p. 5

Question 241

How many books did Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura contain?

Answer 241

6 books; p. 5

Question 242

To whom did Lucretius dedicate the De Rerum Natura?

Answer 242

Memmius; p. 5

Question 243

What goddess did Lucretius invoke in the opening lines of De Rerum Natura?

Answer 243

Venus; p. 5

Question 244

What work begins with the line “Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas”?

Answer 244

De Rerum Natura; p. 5

Question 245

Who revised and published the De Rerum Natura?

Answer 245

Cicero; p. 5

Question 246

On whose atomic theories did the De Rerum Natura rely?

Answer 246

Leucippus & Democritus; p. 5

Question 247

What is Sallust’s full name?

Answer 247

Gaius Sallustius Crispus; p. 6

Question 248

In what year was Sallust born at Amiternum?

Answer 248

86 BC; p. 6

Question 249

Where was Sallust born in 86 BC?

Answer 249

Amiternum; p. 6

Question 250

What author was born at Amiternum in 86 BC?

Answer 250

Sallust; p. 6

Question 251

What author was expelled from the Senate in 50 BC because of a scandal involving the wife of Annius Milo?

Answer 251

Sallust; p. 6

Question 252

Sallust was removed from the Senate in 50 BC because of a scandal involving whose wife?

Answer 252

Milo; p. 6

Question 253

What author became the first governor of the province Africa Nova?

Answer 253

Sallust; p. 6

Question 254

Of what province was Sallust the first governor?

Answer 254

Africa Nova; p. 6

Question 255

What author was the second husband of Terentia?

Answer 255

Sallust; p. 6

Question 256

Who was the wife of Sallust?

Answer 256

Terentia; p. 6

Question 257

What Greek historian was Sallust’s primary model?

Answer 257

Thucydides; p. 6

Question 258

What author did Quintilian consider a Roman equivalent of Thucydides?

Answer 258

Sallust; p. 6

Question 259

Whose historical monographs featured the theme of the struggle of the Populares?

Answer 259

Sallust; p. 6

Question 260

Which work of Sallust was a monograph about the conspiracy of Catiline?

Answer 260

Bellum Catilinae; p. 6

Question 261

Which work of Sallust was a monograph about the Jugurthing war?

Answer 261

Bellum Iugurthinum; p. 6

Question 262

Which work of Sallust is a historical work about the period between 78 and 67 BC?

Answer 262

Historiae; p. 6

Question 263

How many books did Sallust’s Historiae contain?

Answer 263

5 books; p. 6

Question 264

What is Catullus’ full name?

Answer 264

Gaius Valerius Catullus; p. 6

Question 265

Where was Catullus born circa 84 BC?

Answer 265

Verona; p. 6

Question 266

What author was born at Verona circa 84 BC?

Answer 266

Catullus; p. 6

Question 267

What author called his works “nugae” or “trifles”?

Answer 267

Catullus; p. 6

Question 268

What author referred to his work as a “lepidum novum libellum” or “polished new little book”?

Answer 268

Catullus; p. 6

Question 269

What lyric poet had a tendency to wallow in emotion which caused many Romans to be uncomfortable with his work?

Answer 269

Catullus; p. 6

Question 270

What group of poets rejected traditional forms in search for new styles, and included Catullus?

Answer 270

Neoterics; p. 6

Question 271

To what group of poets did Catullus belong?

Answer 271

Neoterics; p. 6

Question 272

To what women did Catullus address several of his poems?

Answer 272

Lesbia; p. 6

Question 273

What poet addressed several of his poems to Lesbia?

Answer 273

Catullus; p. 6

Question 274

What was the real name of Catullus’ Lesbia?

Answer 274

Clodia; p. 6

Question 275

Who was the husband of Catullus’ Lesbia?

Answer 275

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer; p. 6

Question 276

Which poem of Catullus mentions a visit to his brother’s grave in the Troad?

Answer 276

Poem 101; p. 6

Question 277

Which poem of Catullus begins with the line “Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle”?

Answer 277

Poem 13; p. 6

Question 278

To what pet of Lesbia does Catullus address two poems?

Answer 278

sparrow; p. 6

Question 279

Which poem of Catullus was written in Galliambic meter to express the frenzy of the cult of Cybele?

Answer 279

Poem 63; p. 6

Question 280

What is an epyllion?

Answer 280

miniature epic; p. 6

Question 281

What is the term for a miniature epic?

Answer 281

epyllion; p. 6

Question 282

In what meter was Catullus 63 written to express the frenzy of cult of Cybele?

Answer 282

Galliambic; p. 6

Question 283

Which poem of Catullus was an epyllion on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis?

Answer 283

Poem 64; p. 6

Question 284

Which poem of Catullus was a translation of Callimachus’ Lock of Berenice?

Answer 284

Poem 68; p. 6

Question 285

Which emperor wrote an autobiography entitled Res Gestae?

Answer 285

Augustus; p. 7

Question 286

What is the title of Augustus’ autobiography?

Answer 286

Res Gestae; p. 7

Question 287

What Latin text was found inscribed on the Monumentum Ancyranum in Turkey?

Answer 287

Res Gestae; p. 7

Question 288

Where was Augustus’ Res Gestae found inscribed?

Answer 288

Monumentum Ancyranum; p. 7

Question 289

What is Vergil’s full name?

Answer 289

Publius Vergilius Maro; p. 7

Question 290

What author was born on October 15, 70 BC at Andes, near Mantua?

Answer 290

Vergil; p. 7

Question 291

Where was Vergil born on October 15, 70 BC?

Answer 291

Andes, near Mantua; p. 7

Question 292

In what year was Vergil born at Andes, near Mantua?

Answer 292

70 BC; p. 7

Question 293

In what year did Vergil die?

Answer 293

19 BC; p. 7

Question 294

What shy unassuming author wrote the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid?

Answer 294

Vergil; p. 7

Question 295

What is the alternate title of Vergil’s Eclogues?

Answer 295

Bucolics; p. 7

Question 296

What is the alternate title of Vergil’s Bucolics?

Answer 296

Eclogues; p. 7

Question 297

What was the adult Vergil’s first literary work?

Answer 297

Eclogues; p. 7

Question 298

Whose first literary work was the Eclogues?

Answer 298

Vergil; p. 7

Question 299

Which work of Vergil is a 10 poem collection of pastoral poetry?

Answer 299

Eclogues; p. 7

Question 300

Which work of Vergil features shepherds as the main characters?

Answer 300

Eclogues; p. 7

Question 301

How many poems did Vergil’s Eclogues contain?

Answer 301

10; p. 7

Question 302

On what Greek poet’s Idylls did Vergil model his Eclogues?

Answer 302

Theocritus; p. 7

Question 303

On what work of Theocritus did Vergil model his Eclogues?

Answer 303

Idylls; p. 7

Question 304

In what meter were the Eclogues written?

Answer 304

Dactylic Hexameter; p. 7

Question 305

Which of Vergil’s Eclogues predicts a Golden Age that will begin with the birth of a wonder child?

Answer 305

Eclogue 4; p. 7

Question 306

Which of Vergil’s Eclogues is called Messianic because it predicts the birth of a wonder child who will issue in a golden age?

Answer 306

Eclogue 4; p. 7

Question 307

Which of Vergil’s Eclogues begins with the line “Sicelides Musae, paulo maiora canamus”?

Answer 307

Eclogue 4; p. 7

Question 308

What work of Vergil is a 4-book collection of poems concerning agriculture?

Answer 308

Georgics; p. 7

Question 309

How many books did Vergil’s Georgics contain?

Answer 309

4; p. 7

Question 310

In what meter were the Georgics written?

Answer 310

Dactylic Hexameter; p. 7

Question 311

Which book of Vergil’s Georgics discussed bee-keeping and containted the myth of Aristaeus and the bees?

Answer 311

Book 4; p. 7

Question 312

What myth is contained in the 4th book of Vergil’s Georgics?

Answer 312

Aristaeus and the bees; p. 7

Question 313

What work of Vergil is a 12-book epic about Aeneas’s journey to Latium?

Answer 313

Aeneid; p. 7

Question 314

In what meter was the Aeneid written?

Answer 314

Dactylic Hexameter; p. 7

Question 315

Which work of Vergil was written to imitate Homer and praise Augustus?

Answer 315

Aeneid; p. 7

Question 316

On what Greek text were the first 6 books of the Aeneid modeled?

Answer 316

Odyssey; p. 7

Question 317

On what Greek text were the last 6 books of the Aeneid modeled?

Answer 317

Iliad; p. 7

Question 318

What work begins with the words “Arma virumque cano”?

Answer 318

Aeneid; p. 7

Question 319

Translate “arma virumque cano”.

Answer 319

I sing of arms and a man; p. 7

Question 320

Which work of Vergil contains an allusion to the death of Marcellus, the nephew of Augustus?

Answer 320

Aeneid; p. 7

Question 321

Who fainted when Vergil read his passage about the death of Marcellus to the Imperial family?

Answer 321

Octavia; p. 7

Question 322

Whose death concludes the Aeneid?

Answer 322

Turnus; p. 7

Question 323

How many books did Vergil’s Aeneid contain?

Answer 323

12; p. 7

Question 324

What two men were Vergil’s literary executors?

Answer 324

Plotius Tucca & Varius Rufus; p. 7

Question 325

What two men did Vergil ask to burn his unfinished Aeneid if he died?

Answer 325

Plotius Tucca & Varius Rufus; p. 7

Question 326

Who forced Plotius Tucca and Varius Rufus to publish Vergil’s Aeneid after his death?

Answer 326

Augustus; p. 7

Question 327

Whose epitaph stated “Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces”?

Answer 327

Vergil; p. 7

Question 328

To what city does Calabri refer in Vergil’s epitaph because it was the city of his death?

Answer 328

Brundisium; p. 7

Question 329

To what city does Parthenope refer in Vergil’s epitaph because it is the city of his burial?

Answer 329

Naples; p. 7

Question 330

To which work does “pascua” refer in Vergil’s epitaph?

Answer 330

Eclogues; p. 7

Question 331

To which work does “rura” refer in Vergil’s epitaph?

Answer 331

Georgics; p. 7

Question 332

To which work does “duces” refer in Vergil’s epitaph?

Answer 332

Aeneid; p. 7

Question 333

What is Horace’s full name?

Answer 333

Quintus Horatius Flaccus; p. 8

Question 334

What author was born at Venusia in 65 BC?

Answer 334

Horace; p. 8

Question 335

Where was Horace born in 65 BC?

Answer 335

Venusia; p. 8

Question 336

In what year was Horace born at Venusia?

Answer 336

65 BC; p. 8

Question 337

In what year did Horace die?

Answer 337

8 BC; p. 8

Question 338

Who was Horace’s mean schoolmaster?

Answer 338

Orbilius; p. 8

Question 339

Which author had a mean schoolmaster named Orbilius?

Answer 339

Horace; p. 8

Question 340

What author served as a tribunus militum under Brutus at the Battle of Philippi?

Answer 340

Horace; p. 8

Question 341

What position did Horace hold in the army of Brutus?

Answer 341

Tribunus Militum; p. 8

Question 342

Under whom did Horace hold the position of Tribunus Militum?

Answer 342

Brutus; p. 8

Question 343

After what battle in 42 BC was Horace’s estate confiscated?

Answer 343

Philippi; p. 8

Question 344

Which author loved his Sabine farm which was given to him by Augustus through the help of Maecenas?

Answer 344

Horace; p. 8

Question 345

What author did Horace call his “lantern” for his influence in Satire?

Answer 345

Lucilius; p. 8

Question 346

What author called Lucilius his “lantern” for his influence in Satire?

Answer 346

Horace; p. 8

Question 347

What is the alternate title of Horace’s Epodes?

Answer 347

Iambi; p. 8

Question 348

Which work of Horace is a 17-book collection of poems in various meters borrowed from the Greek poet Archilochus?

Answer 348

Epodes; p. 8

Question 349

From what Greek poet did Horace borrow many of the meters used in his Epodes?

Answer 349

Archilochus; p. 8

Question 350

What is the alternate title of Horace’s Odes?

Answer 350

Carmina; p. 8

Question 351

Which work of Horace is a 4-book collection of lyric poems?

Answer 351

Odes; p. 8

Question 352

In what year did Horace publish the first 3 books of his Odes?

Answer 352

23 BC; p. 8

Question 353

In what yeard did Horace publish the 4th book of his Odes at the request of Augustus?

Answer 353

13 BC; p. 8

Question 354

To what patron did Horace address his Odes?

Answer 354

Maecenas; p. 8

Question 355

Who was Horace’s patron?

Answer 355

Maecenas; p. 8

Question 356

Which work of Horace is a collection of Satires?

Answer 356

Sermones; p. 8

Question 357

Which work of Horace was written at the request of Augustus for the celebration of the Ludi Saeculares of 17 BC?

Answer 357

Carmen Saeculare; p. 8

Question 358

For what occasion in 17 BC did Augustus request the composition of Horace’s Carmen Saeculare?

Answer 358

Ludi Saeculares; p. 8

Question 359

Which work of Horace featured a chorus of 27 girls and 27 boys for the celebration of the Ludi Saeculares?

Answer 359

Carmen Saeculare; p. 8

Question 360

What is Ovid’s full name?

Answer 360

Publius Ovidius Naso; p. 8

Question 361

What author was born at Sulmo in 43 BC?

Answer 361

Ovid; p. 8

Question 362

In what year was Ovid born at Sulmo?

Answer 362

43 BC; p. 8

Question 363

At what city in Abruzzi was Ovid born in 43 BC?

Answer 363

Sulmo; p. 8

Question 364

Where did Ovid die in exile in 17 AD?

Answer 364

Tomi; p. 8

Question 365

What author was banished to Tomi on the Black Sea because of “Carmen et Error”?

Answer 365

Ovid; p. 8

Question 366

To what location on the Black Sea was Ovid exiled because of “Carmen et Error”?

Answer 366

Tomi; p. 8

Question 367

Which work of Ovid is believed to be the “carmen et error” that got him exiled by Augustus?

Answer 367

Ars Amatoria; p. 8

Question 368

Who wrote a poem in the Getic language spoken at Tomi during his exile?

Answer 368

Ovid; p. 8

Question 369

Which work of Ovid consist of 15 books about various mythological transformations?

Answer 369

Metamorphoses; p. 8

Question 370

In what work was Ovid’s Metamorphoses written?

Answer 370

Dactylic Hexameter; p. 8

Question 371

Which work of Ovid ends with Julius Caesar’s transformation into a comet?

Answer 371

Metamorphoses; p. 8

Question 372

Which work of Ovid contains fictional letters from mythological heroines to their lovers?

Answer 372

Heroides; p. 8

Question 373

In what meter was Ovid’s Heroides written?

Answer 373

Elegaic Couplet; p. 8

Question 374

Which work of Ovid informs lovers how to win the girl or guy?

Answer 374

Ars Amatoria; p. 8

Question 375

Which work of Ovid is 6 book calendar of Roman feasts, holidays, and religious rituals?

Answer 375

Fasti; p. 8

Question 376

In what meter was Ovid’s Fasti written?

Answer 376

Elegaic Couplet; p. 8

Question 377

Which work of Ovid was intended to be 12-books long before it was cut short by his exile to Tomi?

Answer 377

Fasti; p. 8

Question 378

Which work of Ovid consisted of lamentations which he began writing upon his exile to Tomi?

Answer 378

Tristia; p. 8

Question 379

Which work of Ovid describes his last night in Rome, his voyage to Tomi, and his exile?

Answer 379

Tristia; p. 8

Question 380

Which work of Ovid consists of love elegies?

Answer 380

Amores; p. 8

Question 381

To whom does Ovid address several poems of his Amores?

Answer 381

Corinna; p. 8

Question 382

What is Livy’s full name?

Answer 382

Titus Livius; p. 9

Question 383

Where was Livy born in 59 BC?

Answer 383

Patavium; p. 9

Question 384

What is the modern name of Patavium?

Answer 384

Padua; p. 9

Question 385

What author was born at Patavium in 59 BC?

Answer 385

Livy; p. 9

Question 386

What was the title of Livy’s massive historical work?

Answer 386

Ab Urbe Condita; p. 9

Question 387

Who wrote the Ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 387

Livy; p. 9

Question 388

How many total books did Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita Contain?

Answer 388

142; p. 9

Question 389

Whose death in 9 BC concludes Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 389

Drusus; p. 9

Question 390

What monumentual historical work was published in installments by its author Livy?

Answer 390

Ab Urbe Condita; p. 9

Question 391

Who criticized livy for “Patavinitas” referring to his provincial language or slange derived from his hometown of Patavium?

Answer 391

Asinius Pollio; p. 9

Question 392

What author did Asinius Pollio criticize for “Patavinitas” or provincial language in his Ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 392

Livy; p. 9

Question 393

Which emperor was tutored by Livy and encouraged to study history?

Answer 393

Claudius; p. 9

Question 394

Which author tutored the emperor Claudius and encouraged him to write history?

Answer 394

Livy; p. 9

Question 395

How many books of Livy’s history are extant?

Answer 395

35; p. 9

Question 396

What is the Latin term for the short summaries of each book of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 396

Periochae; p. 9

Question 397

Which two books of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita are the only two without periochae?

Answer 397

136 & 137; p. 9

Question 398

What is Tibullus’ full name?

Answer 398

Albius Tibullus; p. 9

Question 399

What author wrote a collection of elegies which included several poems to Delia?

Answer 399

Tibullus; p. 9

Question 400

According to Apuleius what was Delia’s real name?

Answer 400

Plania; p. 9

Question 401

Who wrote love poems to Delia?

Answer 401

Tibullus; p. 9

Question 402

Who wrote love poems to Cerinthus?

Answer 402

Sulpicia; p. 9

Question 403

Whose corpus of poetry included the poems of Sulpicia to Cerinthus?

Answer 403

Tibullus; p. 9

Question 404

Whose corpus of poetry included the poems of Lygdamus to Naeara?

Answer 404

Tibullus; p. 9

Question 405

Who was the patron of Tibullus?

Answer 405

Messala Corvinus; p. 9

Question 406

What neice of Messala Corvinus has poems included in the Corpus Tibullianum?

Answer 406

Sulpicia; p. 9

Question 407

What poet did Quintilian call “tersus atque elegans” because of his simple and refined style?

Answer 407

Tibullus; p. 9

Question 408

What author called Tibullus “tersus atque elegans” because of his simple and refined style?

Answer 408

Quintilian; p. 9

Question 409

What did Quintilian call Tibullus because of his simple and refined style?

Answer 409

tersus atque elegans; p. 9

Question 410

What is Propertius’ full name?

Answer 410

Sextus Propertius; p. 9

Question 411

Where was Propertius born in 50 BC?

Answer 411

Assisi; p. 9

Question 412

What author was born at Assisi circa 50 BC?

Answer 412

Propertius; p. 9

Question 413

Who wrote love elegies to Cynthia?

Answer 413

Propertius; p. 9

Question 414

What author called his first book of elegies Cynthia Monobiblos?

Answer 414

Propertius; p. 9

Question 415

What did Propertius call his first book of elegies?

Answer 415

Cynthia Monobiblos; p. 9

Question 416

According to Apuleius what was Cynthia’s real name?

Answer 416

Hostia; p. 9

Question 417

Who was Propertius’ patron?

Answer 417

Maecenas; p. 9

Question 418

Which Greek poet did Propertius call himself the Roman version of?

Answer 418

Callimachus; p. 9

Question 419

Whap author called himself the Roman version of Callimachus?

Answer 419

Propertius; p. 9

Question 420

Whose elegies included the stories of Vertumnus, the dedication of the Temple of Palatine Apollo, and the legend of Hercules and Cacus?

Answer 420

Propertius; p. 9

Question 421

What is the full name of the poet Gallus?

Answer 421

Gaius Cornelius Gallus; p. 9

Question 422

What elegaic poet wrote a four book collection called Amores?

Answer 422

Gallus; p. 9

Question 423

Who wrote love elegies to Lycoris?

Answer 423

Gallus; p. 9

Question 424

What is the real name of Lycoris?

Answer 424

Volumnia; p. 9

Question 425

What was the stage name of the mime actress known as Lycoris?

Answer 425

Cytheris; p. 9

Question 426

With what politician was Lycoris romantically involved before Gallus?

Answer 426

Marc Antony; p. 9

Question 427

What author served as the first governor of Egypt?

Answer 427

Gallus; p. 9

Question 428

Which author was removed from position as governor of Egypt for setting up statues of himself?

Answer 428

Gallus; p. 9

Question 429

What is Seneca the Younger’s full name?

Answer 429

Lucius Annaeus Seneca; p. 10

Question 430

What author was born at Cordoba in 4 BC?

Answer 430

Seneca the Younger; p. 10

Question 431

In what Spanish city was Seneca the Younger born in 4 BC?

Answer 431

Cordoba; p. 10

Question 432

In what year was Seneca the Younger born at Cordoba?

Answer 432

4 BC; p. 10

Question 433

In what year did Seneca the Younger die?

Answer 433

65 AD; p. 10

Question 434

What philosophy did Seneca the Younger follow?

Answer 434

Stoicism; p. 10

Question 435

What emperor did Seneca the Younger tutor?

Answer 435

Nero; p. 10

Question 436

What stoic philosopher tutored the emperor Nero?

Answer 436

Seneca the Younger; p. 10

Question 437

To what island was Seneca the Younger exiled by Caligula for eight years?

Answer 437

Corsica; p. 10

Question 438

Which author was exiled to Corsica for alleged adultery with Caligula’s sister Julia Livilla?

Answer 438

Seneca the Younger; p. 10

Question 439

Which emperor forced Seneca the Younger to commit suicide because of involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy?

Answer 439

Nero; p. 10

Question 440

Why was Seneca the Younger forced to commit suicide in 65 AD?

Answer 440

involvement in Pisonian Conspiracy; p. 10

Question 441

Which work of Seneca the Younger is a fictional depiction of the death of the emperor Claudius?

Answer 441

Apocolocyntosis; p. 10

Question 442

What does Apocolocyntosis mean?

Answer 442

Pumpkinification; p. 10

Question 443

What genre is Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis?

Answer 443

Menippean Satire; p. 10

Question 444

What is Menippean Satire?

Answer 444

mixture of prose & poetry; p. 10

Question 445

Who wrote the Apocolocyntosis which provides a fictional account of the death of Claudius?

Answer 445

Seneca the Younger; p. 10

Question 446

Which work of Seneca the Younger consists of 124 letters addressed to his friend Lucilius?

Answer 446

Epistulae Morales; p. 10

Question 447

To whom did Seneca the Younger address his Epistulae Morales?

Answer 447

Lucilius; p. 10

Question 448

How many letters does Seneca’s Epistulae Morales contain?

Answer 448

124; p. 10

Question 449

Which work of Seneca the Younger is a tragedy on the reign of Nero?

Answer 449

Octavia; p. 10

Question 450

In Seneca’s Octavia, whose ghost fortells Nero’s doom?

Answer 450

Agrippina the Younger; p. 10

Question 451

Which work of Seneca the Younger is the only surviving example of a fabula praetexta?

Answer 451

Octavia; p. 10

Question 452

What is Lucan’s full name?

Answer 452

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus; p. 10

Question 453

Under whom did Lucan study Stoicism in Rome?

Answer 453

Cornutus; p. 10

Question 454

Who wrote an epic poem entitled Bellum Civile which details the civil war between Pompey and Caesar?

Answer 454

Lucan; p. 10

Question 455

What work of Lucan is an epic about the civil war between Caesar and Pompey?

Answer 455

Lucan; p. 10

Question 456

What is the alternate title of Lucan’s Bellum Civile?

Answer 456

Pharsalia; p. 10

Question 457

Which epic poem was considered an Anti-Aeneid?

Answer 457

Bellum Civile; p. 10

Question 458

Which emperor forced Lucan to commit suicide because of involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy?

Answer 458

Nero; p. 10

Question 459

Why was Lucan forced to commit suicide in 65 AD?

Answer 459

involvement in Pisonian Conspiracy; p. 10

Question 460

What is Juvenal’s full name?

Answer 460

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis; p. 10

Question 461

What author was born at Aquinum?

Answer 461

Juvenal; p. 10

Question 462

Where was Juvenal born?

Answer 462

Aquinum; p. 10

Question 463

Who wrote a collection of 16 Satires which display rancor towards society and hidden resentment at not belonging to it?

Answer 463

Juvenal; p. 10

Question 464

What author proclaimed that widespread moral corruption compelled him to write his sixteen satires?

Answer 464

Juvenal; p. 10

Question 465

Which author was exiled to Egpyt by Domitian?

Answer 465

Juvenal; p. 10

Question 466

Which emperor exile Juvenal to Egypt?

Answer 466

Domitian; p. 10

Question 467

To where was Juvenal exiled by Domitian?

Answer 467

Egypt; p. 10

Question 468

Who wrote the line “quis custodiet ipsos custodes”?

Answer 468

Juvenal; p. 10

Question 469

Translate “quis custodiet ipsos custodes”.

Answer 469

who will watch the guards themselves?; p. 10

Question 470

Which of Juvenal’s Satires declares his disgust at the widespread moral corruption which compels him to write satire?

Answer 470

Satire 1; p. 10

Question 471

Which of Juvenal’s Satires claims that life in Rome has become dangerous for honest men?

Answer 471

Satire 3; p. 10

Question 472

Which of Juvenal’s Satires describes why his old friend Umbricius had to abandon Rome?

Answer 472

Satire 3; p. 10

Question 473

Juvenal’s third Satire discusses which friend’s flight from Rome?

Answer 473

Umbricius; p. 10

Question 474

Which of Juvenal’s Satires contains a famous tirade against the immorality and vices of women?

Answer 474

Satire 6; p. 10

Question 475

Which of Juvenal’s Satires cites the empress Messalina as the ultimate example of an immoral woman?

Answer 475

Satire 6; p. 10

Question 476

In Juvenal’s sixth Satire how does Juvenal describe a chaste woman?

Answer 476

rara avis; p. 10

Question 477

Which of Juvenal’s Satires contains an episode of cannibalism in Egypt provoked by religious fanaticism?

Answer 477

Satire 15; p. 10

Question 478

What is Tacitus’ full name?

Answer 478

Publius Cornelius Tacitus; p. 11

Question 479

What author did Trajan appoint as proconsul of Asia?

Answer 479

Tacitus; p. 11

Question 480

Where did Trajan appoint Tacitus proconsul?

Answer 480

Asia; p. 11

Question 481

What author delivered the funeral oration for Verginius Rufus in 97 AD?

Answer 481

Tacitus; p. 11

Question 482

For whom did Tacitus deliver the funeral oration in 97 AD?

Answer 482

Verginius Rufus; p. 11

Question 483

What is the alternate title of Tacitus’ Annales?

Answer 483

Ab Excessu Divi Augusti; p. 11

Question 484

Which work of Tacitus is a historical work which covers the period from 14-69 AD?

Answer 484

Annales; p. 11

Question 485

With whose death does Tacitus’ Annales begin?

Answer 485

Augustus; p. 11

Question 486

In the Annales whose murder is cited as the opening crime of Tiberius’ reign?

Answer 486

Agrippa Postumus; p. 11

Question 487

In the Annales which emperor’s reign was said to begin with the murder of Agrippa Postumus?

Answer 487

Tiberius; p. 11

Question 488

Which work of Tacitus covers the period from 69 AD to 96 AD?

Answer 488

Historiae; p. 11

Question 489

Which work of Tacitus covers the reigns of Galba to Domitian?

Answer 489

Historiae; p. 11

Question 490

What is the alternate title of Tacitus’ Agricola?

Answer 490

De Vita Iulii Agricolae; p. 11

Question 491

Which two works of Tacitus were published in 98 AD as a combined edition?

Answer 491

Agricola & Germania; p. 11

Question 492

Which work of Tacitus provides a biography of his father-in-law?

Answer 492

Agricola; p. 11

Question 493

In which work of Tacitus does the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus give a rousing speech to his men before the Battle of Mons Graupius?

Answer 493

Agricola; p. 11

Question 494

In the Agricola, what Caledonian chieftain gives a rousing speech to his men before the Battle of Mons Graupius?

Answer 494

Calgacus; p. 11

Question 495

What is the alternate title of Tacitus’ Germania?

Answer 495

De Origine et Situ Germanorum; p. 11

Question 496

Which work of Tacitus discusses the geography and customs of the Germans?

Answer 496

Germania; p. 11

Question 497

What work of Pliny the Elder was the main source for Tacitus’ Germania?

Answer 497

Bella Germaniae; p. 11

Question 498

Which work of Tacitus provides a discussion on the decline of Latin oratory?

Answer 498

Dialogus de Oratoribus; p. 11

Question 499

What was Tacitus’ first work?

Answer 499

Dialogus de Oratoribus; p. 11

Question 500

What is Persius’ full name?

Answer 500

Aulus Persius Flaccus; p. 11

Question 501

Where was Persius born?

Answer 501

Volterra; p. 11

Question 502

What author was born at Volterra?

Answer 502

Persius; p. 11

Question 503

What author wrote six stoic satires?

Answer 503

Persius; p. 11

Question 504

How many Satires did Persius write?

Answer 504

6; p. 11

Question 505

What philosophy did Persius follow?

Answer 505

Stoicism; p. 11

Question 506

What author claimed that his muse was his “venter”, or “belly”?

Answer 506

Persius; p. 11

Question 507

What did Persius claim was his muse?

Answer 507

venter; p. 11

Question 508

What friend and teacher does Persius eulogize in his fifth saitre?

Answer 508

Cornutus; p. 11

Question 509

What author eulogized Cornutus in his fifth satire?

Answer 509

Persius; p. 11

Question 510

What is Martial’s full name?

Answer 510

Marcus Valerius Martialis; p. 11

Question 511

What author was born at Bilbilis in Spain?

Answer 511

Martial; p. 11

Question 512

Where was Martial born?

Answer 512

Bilbilis; p. 11

Question 513

Who was the most famous writer of Latin Epigrams?

Answer 513

Martial; p. 11

Question 514

What is the alternate title of Martial’s Liber Spectaculorum?

Answer 514

Liber de Spectaculis; p. 11

Question 515

Which work of Martial celebrated the opening of the Colosseum?

Answer 515

Liber Spectaculorum; p. 11

Question 516

For what occasion did Martial write his Liber Spectaculorum?

Answer 516

opening of the Colosseum; p. 11

Question 517

How many books of Epigrams did Martial write?

Answer 517

12; p. 11

Question 518

What author wrote twelve books of Epigrams?

Answer 518

Martial; p. 11

Question 519

What is the full name of Petronius?

Answer 519

Titus Petronius Arbiter; p. 11

Question 520

What author served as “arbiter elegantiae” of Nero’s court?

Answer 520

Petronius; p. 11

Question 521

What position did Petronius hold in the court of Nero?

Answer 521

arbiter elegantiae; p. 11

Question 522

What author wrote the first Latin novel?

Answer 522

Petronius; p. 11

Question 523

Which work of Petronius is a novel which contains the famous Cena Trimalchionis scene?

Answer 523

Satyricon; p. 11

Question 524

What is the Latin title of the most famous scene of the Satyricon?

Answer 524

Cena Trimalchionis; p. 11

Question 525

Which character in the Satyricon hosts an elaborate dinner party?

Answer 525

Trimalchio; p. 11

Question 526

What is Quintilian’s full name?

Answer 526

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus; p. 12

Question 527

What author was born at Calagurris in Spain?

Answer 527

Quintilian; p. 12

Question 528

Where was Quintilian born?

Answer 528

Calagurris; p. 12

Question 529

What author was summoned to Rome by Galba in 68 AD to teach rhetoric?

Answer 529

Quintilian; p. 12

Question 530

Which emperor summoned Quintilian to Rome in 68 AD to teach rhetoric?

Answer 530

Galba; p. 12

Question 531

What author received the “ornamenta consularia” for tutoring two of Domitian’s nephews?

Answer 531

Quintilian; p. 12

Question 532

What award did Quintilian receive for tutoring two of Domitian’s nephews?

Answer 532

ornamenta consularia; p. 12

Question 533

What work of Quintilian discusses the training of an orator?

Answer 533

Institutio Oratoria; p. 12

Question 534

What is Suetonius’ full name?

Answer 534

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus; p. 12

Question 535

What genre did Suetonius write?

Answer 535

Biography; p. 12

Question 536

What authorr’s father fought on the losing side at the Battle of Bedriacum in 69 AD?

Answer 536

Suetonius; p. 12

Question 537

What author received the “ius trium liberorum” from Trajan in 110 AD?

Answer 537

Suetonius; p. 12

Question 538

What award did Suetonius receive from Trajan in 110 AD?

Answer 538

ius trium liberorum; p. 12

Question 539

Which work of Suetonius contains biographies of 12 Caesars beginning with Julius Caesar and ending with Domition?

Answer 539

De Vita Caesarum; p. 12

Question 540

With which people does Suetonius’ De Vita Caesarum begin and end?

Answer 540

Caesar & Domitian; p. 12

Question 541

Which work of Suetonius contains biographies of famous writers subdivided by genre?

Answer 541

De Viris Illustribus; p. 12

Question 542

What is Pliny the Elder’s full name?

Answer 542

Gaius Plinius Secundus; p. 12

Question 543

Which work of Pliny the Elder is a 37-book encyclopedia?

Answer 543

Naturalis Historia; p. 12

Question 544

Which work of Pliny the Elder is historical work about wars in Germany?

Answer 544

Bella Germaniae; p. 12

Question 545

What author was the nephew of Pliny the Elder?

Answer 545

Pliny the Younger; p. 12

Question 546

Under what author did Pliny the Younger study?

Answer 546

Quintilian; p. 12

Question 547

To what author did Trajan give governorship of Bithynia?

Answer 547

Pliny the Younger; p. 12

Question 548

What province did Trajan give Pliny the Younger to govern?

Answer 548

Bithynia; p. 12

Question 549

What author was known for his letters to the emperor Trajan?

Answer 549

Pliny the Younger; p. 12

Question 550

What author details the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in one of his letters?

Answer 550

Pliny the Younger; p. 12

Question 551

Which work of Apuleius is the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety?

Answer 551

The Golden Ass; p. 12

Question 552

What is the alternate title of Apuleius’ Golden Ass?

Answer 552

Metamorphoses; p. 12

Question 553

How many books does Apuleius’ Golden Ass contain?

Answer 553

11; p. 12

Question 554

What myth features prominently in books 4-6 of Apuleius’ Golden Ass?

Answer 554

Cupid & Psyche; p. 12

Question 555

Which work features the myth of Cupid and Psyche in books 4-6?

Answer 555

The Golden Ass; p. 12

Question 556

What is the alternate title of Apuleius’ Apologia?

Answer 556

De Magia; p. 12

Question 557

Which work of Apuleius is a defense in his trial for witchcraft?

Answer 557

Apologia; p. 12

Question 558

What author was accused of bewitching a rich widow named Aemilia Pudentilla into marrying him?

Answer 558

Apuleius; p. 12

Question 559

What rich widow was Apuleius accused of bewitching into marrying him?

Answer 559

Aemilia Pudentilla; p. 12

Question 560

What author wrote a collection of 23 oratorical passages entitled Florida?

Answer 560

Apuleius; p. 12

Question 561

Which work of Apuleius is a collection of 23 oratorical passages?

Answer 561

Florida; p. 12

Question 562

What is Statius’ full name?

Answer 562

Publius Papinius Statius; p. 12

Question 563

What author was born at Naples circa 40 AD?

Answer 563

Statius; p. 12

Question 564

Where was Statius born circa 40 AD?

Answer 564

Naples; p. 12

Question 565

What epic poet was considered a protégé of Domitian?

Answer 565

Statius; p. 12

Question 566

Statius was considered a protégé of which emperor?

Answer 566

Domitian; p. 12

Question 567

Which work of Statius is an epic on the royal house of Thebes?

Answer 567

Thebaid; p. 12

Question 568

Which work of Statius deals with the conflict between Eteocles and Polyneices for control of Thebes?

Answer 568

Thebaid; p. 12

Question 569

Which work of Statius is an unfinished epic about Achilles?

Answer 569

Achilleid; p. 12

Question 570

Which work of Statius is a miscellany of smaller poems with verses on various topics?

Answer 570

Silvae; p. 12

Question 571

What author was called the “Christian Cicero”?

Answer 571

Lactantius; p. 13

Question 572

What honorific title was given to Lactantius because of his writing style?

Answer 572

Christian Cicero; p. 13

Question 573

What work of Lactantius justified Christianity to educated Pagans?

Answer 573

Institutiones Divinae ; p. 13

Question 574

What is the Latin title of Lactantius’ Divine Institutions?

Answer 574

Institutiones Divinae ; p. 13

Question 575

To which emperor did Lactantius dedicate his Institutiones Divinae?

Answer 575

Constantine; p. 13

Question 576

Which work did Lactantius dedicate to the emperor Constantine?

Answer 576

Institutiones Divinae ; p. 13

Question 577

By what writer of the Late Republic was Lactantius’ style greatly influenced?

Answer 577

Cicero; p. 13

Question 578

What Numidian rhetorician was Lactantius’ teacher?

Answer 578

Arnobius; p. 13

Question 579

What pupil of Arnobius wrote the Institutiones Divinae?

Answer 579

Lactantius; p. 13

Question 580

Which author tutored Constantine’s son Crispus?

Answer 580

Lactantius; p. 13

Question 581

What son of Constantine did Lactantius tutor?

Answer 581

Crispus; p. 13

Question 582

What was Jerome’s full name?

Answer 582

Sophronius Eusebius Heironymus; p. 13

Question 583

In what Dalmatian city was Jerome born?

Answer 583

Stridon; p. 13

Question 584

Which author was born at Stridon in Dalmatia?

Answer 584

Jerome; p. 13

Question 585

In what year was Jerome born at Stridon?

Answer 585

347 AD; p. 13

Question 586

In what year did Jerome die at Bethlehem?

Answer 586

420 AD; p. 13

Question 587

Which work of Jerome was a Latin translation of the Bible for common people?

Answer 587

Vulgate; p. 13

Question 588

What is the Latin title of Jerome’s Vulgate?

Answer 588

Biblia Vulgata; p. 13

Question 589

Who translated the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament into Latin?

Answer 589

Jerome; p. 13

Question 590

Which author translated the Bible into Latin?

Answer 590

Jerome; p. 13

Question 591

Which work of Jerome covers the lives of 135 Christian authors from St. Peter to himself?

Answer 591

De Viris Illustribus; p. 13

Question 592

Which Christian author wrote a De Viris Illustribus which covers the lives of 135 Christian authors, from St. Peter to Jerome himself?

Answer 592

Jerome; p. 13

Question 593

Which work of Jerome is a historical treatise from Constantine to the death of Valens?

Answer 593

Chronica; p. 13

Question 594

Which Christian author wrote a Chronica which details history from Constantine to the death of Valens?

Answer 594

Jerome; p. 13

Question 595

Which two historians participated in the emperor Julian’s Persian expedition?

Answer 595

Eutropius & Ammianus Marcellinus; p. 13

Question 596

In what year did Eutropius and Ammianus Marcellinus participate in Julian’s Persian expedition?

Answer 596

363 B.C.; p. 13

Question 597

Which emperor brought the historians Eutropius and Ammianus Marcellinus on his Persian campaign?

Answer 597

Julian; p. 13

Question 598

Which author wrote the Breviarium ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 598

Eutropius; p. 13

Question 599

Which work of Eutropius is a 10-book compendium of Roman history?

Answer 599

Breviarium ab Urbe Condita; p. 13

Question 600

How many books did Eutropius’ Breviarium ab Urbe Condita contain?

Answer 600

10; p. 13

Question 601

Which work of Eutropius covers the period from Romulus to Jovian?

Answer 601

Breviarium ab Urbe Condita; p. 13

Question 602

At which emperor’s request did Eutropius write the Breviarium ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 602

Valens; p. 13

Question 603

Because he was unable to read the works of Livy and other historians, which emperor requested Eutropius to write the Breviarium ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 603

Valens; p. 13

Question 604

Which Augustan Age author was Eutropius’s source for much of his Breviarium ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 604

Livy; p. 13

Question 605

Which Christian author was the bishop of Hippo in Africa?

Answer 605

St. Augustine; p. 13

Question 606

Where did St. Augustine serve as a bishop?

Answer 606

Hippo; p. 13

Question 607

What author converted to Manichaeism before Christianity?

Answer 607

St. Augustine; p. 13

Question 608

To which religion did St. Augustine convert before Christianity?

Answer 608

Manichaeism; p. 13

Question 609

Which work of St. Augustine discusses the errors of Paganism and the existence of an earthly city and a heavenly city?

Answer 609

De Civitate Dei; p. 13

Question 610

What does “De Civitate Dei” mean?

Answer 610

About the City of God; p. 13

Question 611

Which author wrote the “De Civitate Dei” which discusses the errors of Paganism and the existence of an earthly city and a heavenly city?

Answer 611

St. Augustine; p. 13

Question 612

Which work of St. Augustine was written to restore the confidence of his fellow Christians after the sack of Rome in 410 AD?

Answer 612

De Civitate Dei; p. 13

Question 613

Which work of St. Augustine was an autobiography recounting his spiritual struggles?

Answer 613

Confessions; p. 13

Question 614

Which work of St. Augustine reaches new levels of pyschological analysis in professing his distress over sin?

Answer 614

Confessions; p. 13

Question 615

What Christian author wrote an autobiographical work entitle Confessions recounting his spiritual struggle?

Answer 615

St. Augustine; p. 13

Question 616

Where was Ammianus Marcellinus born?

Answer 616

Antioch; p. 13

Question 617

Which historian was born at Antioch?

Answer 617

Ammianus Marcellinus; p. 13

Question 618

What historian continued the work of Tacitus to his own day?

Answer 618

Ammianus Marcellinus; p. 13

Question 619

What historian’s work did Ammianus Marcellinus continue down to his own day?

Answer 619

Tacitus; p. 13

Question 620

Who wrote a 31-book Res Geste A Fine Corneli Taciti?

Answer 620

Ammianus Marcellinus; p. 13

Question 621

What was the title of Ammianus Marcellinus’ 31-book history?

Answer 621

Res Gestae A Fine Corneli Taciti; p. 13

Question 622

Which work of Ammianus Marcellinus convers the period from Nerva to Valens?

Answer 622

Res Gestae A Fine Corneli Taciti; p. 13

Question 623

What author called himself “miles quondam et Graecus”?

Answer 623

Ammianus Marcellinus; p. 13

Question 624

What title did Ammianus Marcellinus give himself?

Answer 624

miles quondam et Graecus; p. 13

Question 625

What does Ammianus’ title “miles quondam et Graecus” mean?

Answer 625

once a soldier and a Greek; p. 13

Question 626

What play of Terence in which brothers separated at birth are reunited is often considered his masterpeice?

Answer 626

Adelphoi, Week 1

Question 627

Which play of Plautus, the only with a mythological subject, concludes with the line “clap your hands, audience, for Jupiter Almighty’s sake”?

Answer 627

Amphitruo, Week 1

Question 628

With what play does Terence make his literary debut?

Answer 628

Andria, Week 1

Question 629

Which play of Plautus, in which the prologue is spoken by the Lar Familiaris, centers around the misfortunes of Euclio who has hidden his pot of gold?

Answer 629

Aulularia, Week 1

Question 630

What play of Plautus deals with Hegio’s attempt to recover his two lost sons and contains no female characters?

Answer 630

Captivi, Week 1

Question 631

Who boldy claimed “it’s fate that makes the Metelli consul’s at Rome” causing his exile to Utica?

Answer 631

Gnaeus Naevius, Week 1

Question 632

Who spent the remainder of his life as an exile in Utica because of insults to the powerful Metelli family in his poetry?

Answer 632

Gnaeus Naevius, Week 1

Question 633

Which play of Terence was overshadowed by a show of tightrope walkers during its first production and later failed to hold the audience at the funeral games of Aemilius Paullus?

Answer 633

Hecyra, Week 1

Question 634

Which play of Terence, in which Sostrata, the mother-in-law of Pamphilus makes her debut, needed three attempts at production and is considered his worst play?

Answer 634

Hecyra, Week 1

Question 635

What author, whose work Cicero regards as antiquated, earned the title “Father of Latin Poetry” because of his translation of Homer’s Odyssey?

Answer 635

Livius Andronicus, Week 1

Question 636

What author, a member of the collegium scribarum histrionumque, produced the first Latin translation of Homer’s Odyssey?

Answer 636

Livius Andronicus, Week 1

Question 637

What author, regarded as primitive by Horace and Ennius, is said to have paved the way for Latin Literature with his translation of the Odyssey?

Answer 637

Livius Andronicus, Week 1

Question 638

What play of Plautus, in which long lost twins are reunited, is the model for Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors?

Answer 638

Menaechmi, Week 1

Question 639

In which play of Plautus does Tranio hide his master’s love affair with a rumor that his father’s house is haunted?

Answer 639

Mostellaria, Week 1

Question 640

“Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum” are the words in Saturnian meter that begin what work of Livius Andronicus?

Answer 640

Odyssia, Week 1

Question 641

What author, earned a living as a painter, although the success of his Latin tragedies earned him the distinction as the greatest author of the genre?

Answer 641

Pacuvius, Week 1

Question 642

What author, born at Brundisium, was described by Cicero as the greatest of Latin tragedians?

Answer 642

Pacuvius, Week 1

Question 643

In what play by Plautus does the title character trick the pimp Ballio out of a girl for his master?

Answer 643

Pseudolus, Week 1

Question 644

Who accompanied Marcus Fulvius Nobilior on his Aetolian campaigns and commemorated his exploits in a fabula praetexta?

Answer 644

Quintus Ennius, Week 1

Question 645

What poet claimed that Homer appeared to him in a dream and called him his reincarnation in the proem of his Annales?

Answer 645

Quintus Ennius, Week 1

Question 646

What manumitted slave of the senator Terentius Lucanus began scripting plays which earned much scrutiny because of their tendency to make slaves use clear diction?

Answer 646

Terence, Week 1

Question 647

Who wrote the first Latin prose text entitled De Agri Cultura?

Answer 647

Cato the Elder, Week 1

Question 648

What is the Latin title of the first prose historical text in Latin, written by Cato the Elder?

Answer 648

Origines, Week 1

Question 649

In what early Italic meter did Andronicus compose his Odyssia?

Answer 649

Saturnian, Week 1

Question 650

Who wrote fabulae praetextae entitled Romulus and Clastidium?

Answer 650

Gnaeus Naevius, Week 1

Question 651

Considered by Cicero to be the “greatest Roman tragedian”, which author wrote various tragedies centered on the Trojan War Saga?

Answer 651

Pacuvius, Week 1

Question 652

What author, born at Suessa Aurunca, wrote 30 books of satires entitled Sermones?

Answer 652

Lucilius, Week 1

Question 653

Which author, whom Horace called his “light”, was a prolific writer of Latin Satires?

Answer 653

Lucilius, Week 1

Question 654

How many poems are included in the collection published by Catullus?

Answer 654

116, Week 2

Question 655

Which poem of Catullus is an epyllion involving the young Phyrigian Attis?

Answer 655

Catullus 63, Week 2

Question 656

The marriage of Peleus and Thetis is described in which of Catullus’ poems?

Answer 656

Catullus 64, Week 2

Question 657

A description of the plague of Athens concludes the sixth book of what work by Lucretius?

Answer 657

De Rerum Natura, Week 2

Question 658

What work begins with the line “Aeneadum genetrix hominum divomque voluptas” and goes on to expound upon Epicurean philosophy?

Answer 658

De Rerum Natura, Week 2

Question 659

Who was forced to invent new words to describe the shape and movement of atoms in his De Rerum Natura?

Answer 659

Lucretius, Week 2

Question 660

What author claims that his goal is to spread the honey of the muses upon such a bitter doctrine as he discusses principles of Epicurean philosophy?

Answer 660

Lucretius, Week 2

Question 661

What author was said to have sufferedred from “intervalla insaniae” during which he composed the majority of his De Rerum Natura?

Answer 661

Lucretius, Week 2

Question 662

What poet, born at Verona, was fond of writing poems to a woman he called Lesbia?

Answer 662

Catullus, Week 2

Question 663

A lost play about Oedipus and a verse tribute to Terence are two of the lesser known works of what author and statesman?

Answer 663

Julius Caesar, Week 2

Question 664

What author does Catullus praise for daring to explain every period in a three-book universal history entitled Chronica?

Answer 664

Cornelius Nepos, Week 2

Question 665

What now lost work of Latin grammar was written by Julius Caesar?

Answer 665

De Analogia, Week 2

Question 666

What 25-book grammatical work by Varro of Reate was published in 43BC, shortly before Cicero’s death

Answer 666

De Lingua Latina, Week 2

Question 667

What author, a tribune of 52BC and native of Amiternum, wrote monographs on subjects such as the Jugurthine War?

Answer 667

Gaius Sallustius Crispus/Sallust , Week 2

Question 668

Who composed over 500 volumes and is commonly called “Rome’s greatest scholar,” but is also known for dating the founding of Rome to 753BC?

Answer 668

Varro of Reate/Marcus Terentius Varro, Week 2

Question 669

What lieutenant of Caesar wrote the 8th book of his De Bello Gallico?

Answer 669

Aulus Hirtius, Week 2

Question 670

Which series of speeches delivered during Cicero’s consulship attacked an aristocrat accused of trying to overthrow the republic?

Answer 670

In Catilinam, Week 2

Question 671

Which speech of Cicero prosecutes a corrupt governor of Sicily charged with extortion?

Answer 671

In Verrem, Week 2

Question 672

Which philosophical work of Cicero discusses old age?

Answer 672

De Senectute, Week 2

Question 673

What author wrote a lost grammatical work entitled De Analogia, as well as commentaries on the Gallic and Civil wars?

Answer 673

Julius Caesar, Week 2

Question 674

According to Tacitus, what author did Augustus jokingly call a Pompeian because of the republican sympathies viewed in his Ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 674

Livy, Week 3

Question 675

What text, which can be found in both Greek and Latin at Ankara details the triumphs and successes of the emperor Augustus?

Answer 675

Res Gestae, Week 3

Question 676

What author, who served as an officer in Augustus’ engineering corps, wrote De Architectura, a ten book treatise on architecture?

Answer 676

Vitruvius, Week 3

Question 677

What 142 book work covers the period from the foundation of Rome to the death of Drusus in 8 BC?

Answer 677

Ab Urbe Condita, Week 3

Question 678

What author claims to have been captured by the eyes of his beloved Cynthia in the opening line of his Elegies?

Answer 678

Propertius, Week 3

Question 679

“Phoebe silvarumque potens Diana” are the words that begin what hymn by Horace which was performed at the Ludi Saeculares?

Answer 679

Carmen Saeculare, Week 3

Question 680

What elegiac poet fell out of grace with Augustus as prefect of Egypt, was exiled, and thus committed suicide?

Answer 680

Cornelius Gallus, Week 3

Question 681

What work, based on Theocritus’ Idylls focuses on the lives of shepherds?

Answer 681

Eclogues, Week 3

Question 682

What author, who declares himself to be the Roman Callimachus, wrote elegies to his beloved Cynthia?

Answer 682

Propertius, Week 3

Question 683

What poet, whom Quintilian calls “tersus et elegans”, composed several elegies for a woman he called Delia?

Answer 683

Tibullus, Week 3

Question 684

What author, born at Assisi, wrote love elegies to a woman called Delia?

Answer 684

Propertius, Week 3

Question 685

What poet was exiled to Tomi on the Black Sea because he offended the emperor Augustus?

Answer 685

Ovid, Week 3

Question 686

Whose completion of his 12 month poetic calendar was interrupted because of his exile to Tomi?

Answer 686

Ovid, Week 3

Question 687

What author wrote a collection of fictious letters from mythological women to their love interests entitled Heroides?

Answer 687

Ovid, Week 3

Question 688

The myth of Aristaeus and his bees can be found in the fourth book of which work of Vergil?

Answer 688

Georgics, Week 3

Question 689

What author wrote the Carmen Saeculare to help Augustus celebrate the Secular Games of 17 B.C.?

Answer 689

Horace, Week 3

Question 690

What author addressed Maecenas in the opening poem of his Odes which were first published in 23 B.C.?

Answer 690

Horace, Week 3

Question 691

What author was criticized for his “Patavinitas” when writing his Historia ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 691

Livy, Week 3

Question 692

What author’s work was preserved by the periochae which summarized each book of his ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 692

Livy’s, Week 3

Question 693

What author incorporated the poems of Sulpicia into the fourth book of his collection of Elegies?

Answer 693

Tibullus, Week 3

Question 694

what work begins with the line “bella per Emathios plus quam civilia campos” and discusses the civil war between Pompey and Caesar?

Answer 694

Bellum Civile / Pharsalia, Week 4

Question 695

What author wrote a historical epic describing the civil war between Pompey & Caesar?

Answer 695

Lucan, Week 4

Question 696

What milesian tale follows the story of a man named Lucius who becomes a donkey?

Answer 696

Metamorphoses/ Golden Ass, Week 4

Question 697

Who composed a historical work for Aufidius Bassus, although he is better known for his Historia Naturalis?

Answer 697

Pliny the Elder, Week 4

Question 698

In whose letters can we find a detailed account of the erruption of Mt. Vesuvius?

Answer 698

Pliny the Younger, Week 4

Question 699

The famous Cena Trimalchionis is featured in what satirical novel written by Petronius?

Answer 699

Satyricon, Week 4

Question 700

What author wrote to his mother Helvia to console her while he was in exile at Corsica?

Answer 700

Seneca the Younger, Week 4

Question 701

What is the title of the work which Statius left incomplete at the time of his death?

Answer 701

Achilleid, Week 4

Question 702

What woman convinced Claudius to recall Seneca the Younger from Corsica so that he could tutor her young son Nero?

Answer 702

Agrippina the Younger, Week 4

Question 703

What work of Menippean Satire deals with the death of the emperor Claudius?

Answer 703

Apocolocyntosis, Week 4

Question 704

What African orator defends himself against charges of withcraft in his Apologia?

Answer 704

Apuleius, Week 4

Question 705

in what work does Quintilian discuss the training of the perfect orator?

Answer 705

Institutio Oratoria, Week 4

Question 706

What Silver Age author is said to have composed an anti-Aeneid in which Pompey is the main character in the civil war against Caesar?

Answer 706

Lucan, Week 4

Question 707

Who transferred to epic form the struggle between Pompey and Caesar in a work entitled Bellum Civile?

Answer 707

Lucan, Week 4

Question 708

What arbiter elegantiae of Nero’s court composed the first ever Latin novel?

Answer 708

Petronius, Week 4

Question 709

Who was the author of a 37 Book Encyclopedia entitled Naturalis Historia?

Answer 709

Pliny the Elder, Week 4

Question 710

Who wrote a 37 Book encyclopedia on the ancient world entitled Historia Naturalis?

Answer 710

Pliny the Elder, Week 4

Question 711

Whose systematic reading, indexing, and notetaking led to the composition of his Naturalis Historia?

Answer 711

Pliny the Elder, Week 4

Question 712

What admiral was stationed at Misenum at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius, which his nephew details in a letter?

Answer 712

Pliny the Elder, Week 4

Question 713

What author from Comum wrote letters to Trajan about the treatment of the Christians?

Answer 713

Pliny the Younger, Week 4

Question 714

What author details the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in a letter to Tacitus?

Answer 714

Pliny the Younger, Week 4

Question 715

What author did Galba summon to Rome in 68 AD to become a professor of rhetoric?

Answer 715

Quintilian, Week 4

Question 716

What author from Calagurris, Spain was summoned to Rome by Galba to become a professor of rhetoric?

Answer 716

Quintilian, Week 4

Question 717

Who was the author of De Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae in which he discusses remedies for the corruption of eloquence?

Answer 717

Quintilian, Week 4

Question 718

What author, born in 4 BC, in Cordoba, Spain served as an adivsor to Nero until he was forced to commit suicide for his involvement in the Pisonian Conspiracy?

Answer 718

Seneca the Younger, Week 4

Question 719

Who was the author of twelve books of Dialogi which treat ethical and philosophical questions from the stoic point of view?

Answer 719

Seneca the Younger, Week 4

Question 720

What author from Neapolis died before the completion of his Achilleid?

Answer 720

Statius, Week 4

Question 721

Who was the author of the Achilleid and the Thebaid?

Answer 721

Statius, Week 4

Question 722

For what emperor did Pliny the Younger compose his Panegyricus?

Answer 722

Trajan, Week 4

Question 723

What work of Suetonius is a collection of biographies of leaders and emperors from Caesar to Domitian?

Answer 723

De Vita Caesarum, Week 4

Question 724

What work of Tacitus features an imaginary discussion about the causes of the decline of oratory?

Answer 724

Diologus de Oratoribus, Week 4

Question 725

What author remarked “quidquid agunt homines” about the subject matter of his sixteen satires?

Answer 725

Juvenal, Week 4

Question 726

What author, whom Martial calls “facundus”, wrote a collection of 16 satires?

Answer 726

Juvenal, Week 4

Question 727

What father-in-law and governor of Britain does Tacitus immortalize in his biographical work?

Answer 727

Agricola, Week 4

Question 728

What stoic writer from Voletarra eulogized his patron Cornutus in his fifth satire?

Answer 728

Persius, Week 4

Question 729

Which work of Tacitus offers a history of oratory?

Answer 729

Dialogus De Oratoribus, Week 4

Question 730

Which of Tacitus’ works covers the reigns of Galba to Domitian?

Answer 730

Historiae, Week 4

Question 731

What historical work by Tacitus covers the reign of Galba to the reign of Domtian?

Answer 731

Historiae, Week 4

Question 732

What author, born at Aquinum, wrote 16 satires?

Answer 732

Juvenal, Week 4

Question 733

Whose 15th satire deals with an episode of cannibalism in Egypt?

Answer 733

Juvenal, Week 4

Question 734

What author from Bilbilis, Spain composed the Liber de Spectaulis for the opening of the Colosseum in 80 AD?

Answer 734

Martial, Week 4

Question 735

What author came to Rome in 64 AD from his hometown of Bilbilis and began a career as a writer of epigrams?

Answer 735

Martial, Week 4

Question 736

What author, born at Volaterra, composed 6 books of stoic satires which he dedicated to his patron Cornutus?

Answer 736

Persius, Week 4

Question 737

What silver age stoic philosopher used his six satires as a means to attack immorality and vice?

Answer 737

Persius, Week 4

Question 738

What author from Tagaste wrote Confessiones, a lyrical treatise on the author’s search for God in his early days?

Answer 738

Augustine, Week 5

Question 739

What magister memoriae of Valens composed the Breviarium ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 739

Eutropius, Week 5

Question 740

What student of Donatus translated the Bible into Latin?

Answer 740

Jerome, Week 5

Question 741

De Ira Dei, De Mortibus Persecutorum, and Institutiones Divinae are all works of what author known as the “Christian Cicero”?

Answer 741

Lactantius, Week 5

Question 742

Whose excellence as a professor of Rhetoric at Nicomedia compelled Constantine to appoint him as a tutor to his young son Crispus?

Answer 742

Lactantius, Week 5

Question 743

What historian from Antioch wrote a 31 book continuation of the work of Tacitus?

Answer 743

Ammianus Marcellinus, Week 5

Question 744

What fourth century historian wrote a 31 book continuation of Tacitus’ work?

Answer 744

Ammianus Marcellinus, Week 5

Question 745

Whose historical work covers the years from the principate of Nerva to the death of Valens?

Answer 745

Ammianus Marcellinus , Week 5

Question 746

What was the title of Eutropius’ 10 book abbreviated account of Roman History?

Answer 746

Breviarium ab Urbe Condita, Week 5

Question 747

Who was the author of a ten book compendium on Roman History which he wrote at the request of the emperor Valens?

Answer 747

Eutropius, Week 5

Question 748

Who undertook the task of summarizing and appending to Livy’s work in his Breviarium ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 748

Eutropius, Week 5

Question 749

Who wrote a ten book compendium of Roman history from the reigns of Romulus to Jovian?

Answer 749

Eutropius, Week 5

Question 750

What magister memoriae of Valens was charged with the task of creating a compedium of Roman history which he entitled Breviarum ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 750

Eutropius, Week 5

Question 751

What tutor to Constantine’s son Crispus was referred to as the Chirstian Cicero?

Answer 751

Lactantius, Week 5

Question 752

What author was appointed as a tutor to Constantine’s son Crispus because his learned style reflected that of Cicero?

Answer 752

Lactantius, Week 5

Question 753

What author, a student of Arnobius, composed 7 books of Divine Institutions which he dedicated to the emperor Constantine?

Answer 753

Lactantius, Week 5

Question 754

Who was the author of a De Civitate Dei and Confessiones?

Answer 754

St. Augustine, Week 5

Question 755

What bishop of Hippo was the author of De Civitate Dei and Confessiones?

Answer 755

St. Augustine, Week 5

Question 756

What student of Donatus translated the bible into Latin?

Answer 756

Jerome, Week 5

Question 757

What native of Dalmatia produced the first Latin translation of the bible?

Answer 757

Jerome, Week 5

Question 758

What author produced a school text for the children of Livius Salinator by translating the Odyssey into Latin?

Answer 758

Livius Andronicus, Week 6

Question 759

What author died as an exile in Utica after arrogantly remarking that “it’s fate that makes the Metelli consuls at Rome”?

Answer 759

Gnaeus Naevius, Week 6

Question 760

What play of Plautus centers on the boastful soldier Pyrgopoolyneices, and was his longest work?

Answer 760

Miles Gloriosus, Week 6

Question 761

What author, who boasted of his trilingual nature, wrote an 18-book epic on Roman history entitled Annales?

Answer 761

Ennius, Week 6

Question 762

What native of Brundisium did Cicero consider the greatest of Latin tragic poets?

Answer 762

Pacuvius, Week 6

Question 763

What author wrote the earliest Latin prose text entitled De Re Rustica?

Answer 763

Cato the Elder, Week 6

Question 764

The women of Andros, a mother-in-law, and a eunuch are some of the title characters of what author’s comedies?

Answer 764

Terence, Week 6

Question 765

What author did Horace consider his lantern because of the influence of his 30 books of Satires?

Answer 765

Lucilius, Week 6

Question 766

Support for the Lex Manilia and condemnation of Catiline’s actions are topics of what author’s speeches?

Answer 766

Cicero, Week 6

Question 767

Which philosophical work of Cicero presents an debate among a Stoic, an Academic, and an Epicurean about the existence and nature of the gods?

Answer 767

De Natura Deorum, Week 6

Question 768

What author fixed Rome’s founding date to 753 B.C., and wrote a 25-book treatise on the Latin language entitled De Lingua Latina?

Answer 768

Varro, Week 6

Question 769

What author commisioned his lieutenant Aulus Hirtius to write the eighth book of his Comentarii de Bello Gallico?

Answer 769

Julius Caesar, Week 6

Question 770

What author wrote the first latin biographical work entitled De Viris Illustribus?

Answer 770

Cornelius Nepos, Week 6

Question 771

What author incorporated Democritus’ atomic theory into his six book didactic work on Epicurean philosophy entitled De Rerum Natura?

Answer 771

Lucretius, Week 6

Question 772

What author was expelled from the Senate and removed from his post as governor of Africa Nova before composing two historical monographs on the conflicts with Catiline and Jugurtha?

Answer 772

Sallust, Week 6

Question 773

What author wrote poems to Lesbia and dedicated his lepidum novum libellum to Cornelius Nepos?

Answer 773

Catullus, Week 6

Question 774

What emperor’s Res Gestae were best preserved on the Monumentum Ancyranum in Turkey?

Answer 774

Augustus, Week 6

Question 775

What author predicted the birth of a wonder child who would bring about a new Golden Age in his fourth Eclogue?

Answer 775

Vergil, Week 6

Question 776

What author was reconciled to Augustus after fighting on the losing side at Philippi, and wrote several poems including the Epodes and Odes?

Answer 776

Horace, Week 6

Question 777

What author’s Ars Amatoria was like the “carmen” partially responsible for his exile to Tomi?

Answer 777

Ovid, Week 6

Question 778

What massive 142-book work by a Paduan author provided an account of the history of Rome from the founding of the city down to the death of Drusus?

Answer 778

ab Urbe Condita, Week 6

Question 779

What author addressed several poems to Delia with his four-book collection of Elegies?

Answer 779

Tibullus, Week 6

Question 780

Cynthia Monobiblos was the title of the first book of what author’s Elegies?

Answer 780

Propertius, Week 6

Question 781

What author was removed from his postition as governor of Egypt, and wrote four books of Amores which included several poems addressed to his beloved Lycoris?

Answer 781

Cornelius Gallus, Week 6

Question 782

What author wrote a Menippean Satire entitled Apocolocyntosis about the death of the emperor Claudius?

Answer 782

Seneca the Younger, Week 6

Question 783

What author wrote a historical epic entitled Bellum Civile, which discussed the civil war between Caesar and Pompey?

Answer 783

Lucan, Week 6

Question 784

A long tirade against women can be found in what author’s sixth Satire?

Answer 784

Juvenal, Week 6

Question 785

What author exploded onto the scene after delivering a funeral eulogy for Verginius Rufus, and wrote several historical works including a biography for his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola?

Answer 785

Tacitus, Week 6

Question 786

What author included a eulogy for his teacher Cornutus in his six-book collection of Satires?

Answer 786

Persius, Week 6

Question 787

What collection of 30 epigrams did Martial write to celebrate the opening of the Colosseum?

Answer 787

Liber Spectaculorum / Liber de Spectaculis, Week 6

Question 788

The Cena Trimalchionis is the only surviving portion of what Latin novel by Petronius?

Answer 788

Satyricon, Week 6

Question 789

What author received the ornamenta consularia for educating Domitian’s nephew, and wrote the Institutio Oratoria which discussed the training of an orator?

Answer 789

Quintilian, Week 6

Question 790

What author received the ius trium liberorum from Trajan, and wrote a pair of biographical works entitled De Vita Caesarum and De Viris Illustribus?

Answer 790

Suetonius, Week 6

Question 791

What author wrote a 37-book encyclopedia on the natural world entitled Historia Naturalis?

Answer 791

Pliny the Elder, Week 6

Question 792

What author detailed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a letter to the historian Tacitus?

Answer 792

Pliny the Younger, Week 6

Question 793

What author was accused of bewitching the wealthy widow Aemilia Pudentilla, and wrote a defense speech entitled Apologia?

Answer 793

Apuleius, Week 6

Question 794

What author, born at Naples, wrote a twelve-book epic on the fued between Polyneices and Eteocles entitled Thebeid?

Answer 794

Statius, Week 6

Question 795

What student of Arnobius tutored Constantine’s son Crispus, and wrote the Institutiones Divinae?

Answer 795

Lactantius, Week 6

Question 796

What author provided a Latin account of Eusebius’ Chronicon, and wrote a Latin translation of the bible?

Answer 796

Jerome, Week 6

Question 797

What author helped the emperor Valens overcome his inability to read complex republican literature by composing a 10-book abridgement of Livy’s ab Urbe Condita?

Answer 797

Eutropius, Week 6

Question 798

What author served as Bishop of Hippo afte converting from Manichaeism, and wrote a work entitled Confessiones which recounted his spiritual journey?

Answer 798

St. Augustine, Week 6

Question 799

Following the model of sine ira et studio, what author picked up where Tacitus left off and wrote a 31-book history entitled Res Gestae a Fine Corneli Taciti?

Answer 799

Ammianus Marcellinus, Week 6