Lit Tests Stuff Flashcards
The Culex is a poem about what?
A gnat
The father of Elegiac poetry is said to be who?
Cornelius Gallus
The female counterpart of Catiline in Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae is who?
Sempronia
Who was the anonymous work Ad Herrenium once attributed to?
Cicero
What years to the Historiae of Sallust cover?
78-64 BC
Cicero’s Orator was intended for the edification of who?
Brutus
Pliny the Elder has what relation to Pliny the Younger?
Maternal Uncle
Whom does Martial cleverly flatter in his epigrams?
Domitian
Who calls Petronius the Arbiter Elegentiae of Nero?
Tacitus
Suetonius worked as a secretary for what Emperor?
Hadrian
Who wrote Ad Q. Fratrem?
Cicero
The speech of the common man of Italy can be found in what author’s work?
Petronius
Gaius Lucilius wrote how many books of satires?
30
Who was educated to become a lawyer, wrote a Medea, and declared that his poetry would make him immortal?
Ovid
In what meter did Horace write his Satires?
Dactylic Hexameter
In book X of the Institutio Oratoria, what does Quintilian discuss the importance of?
Reading
‘Closet Dramas’ is the term applied to what author’s tragedies?
Seneca
When did Livy begin writing his history of Rome?
29 BC
What is Ovid’s Fasti inspired by?
Callimachus’ Aetia
Who is the author of the Ad Herrenium?
Unknown
What is the first publication of Sallust?
Bellum Catilinae
Whose work is described as ‘nihil est pura et inlustri brevitate dulcius’?
Caesar’s
What emperor addressed a ‘little poem’ to his soul?
Hadrian
Who was the friend with whom Catullus enjoyed writing poetry?
Calvus
A place in Italy called Sirmio is fondly remembered in whose poems?
Catullus
The epitaphs of the Scipios were written in what meter?
Saturnian
What was Juvenal’s praenomen?
Decimus
Book 1 of Caesar’s De Bello Gallico deals with the events of what year?
58 BC
In 41 AD the emperor exiled Seneca to where?
Corsica
When did Quintus Horatius Flaccus die?
8 BC
Which balding emperor wrote De Cura Capillorum?
Domitian
Who describes the Romans as ‘the lords of the earth, the toga-clad nation’?
Vergil
Who advocates that a poet should keep his work 9 years before allowing it to be published?
Horace
Who wrote Historia Naturalis?
Pliny the Elder
Where were most of the plays of Plautus set?
Athens
In what meter was the Carmen Saeculare written?
Sapphic Strophe
Where is the story about the sword of Damocles found?
Tusculan Disputations
What two authors wrote about the death of Augustus’s nephew Marcellus?
Vergil and Propertius
Who was the most famous scandal-monger among Roman writers?
Suetonius
What poet wrote “Oh, Earth, be not heavy on her; she was not heavy on you”?
Martial
Both Juvenal and Lucilius begin their satires with an attack on what?
Current Literature
The Lesbia of Catullus’s poems is attacked by Cicero in which of his speeches?
Pro Caelio
Seneca’s the Elder’s works entitled Controversiae and Suasoriae are arguments which illustrate the what of the day?
Training in Rhetoric
Which writer was governor of Asia under Trajan?
Tacitus
In what book of the De Rerum Natura does Lucretius attempt to help overcome his fear of death?
3
What tragedian wrote fabulae praetextae as well as the Annales and two works on farming?
Accius
Seneca wrote a tragedy based on an earlier Greek one by Aeschyulus in which, however, the Roman playwright has Thyestes recite the prologue and the character of Clytemnestra is diminished. Identify the play.
Agamemnon
Cicero’s basic philosophical position was what?
Academic
The daughter of a famous orator was renowned in her own right for delivering a speech in the Forum against a special tax on the property of wealthy women. Who was she?
Hortensia
Cicero’s earliest surviving speech was delivered on whose behalf?
Quinctius
What are the dates of the Golden Age of Literature?
63 B.C. - A. D. 14
What writer lived during the reigns of all the Julio-Claudian emperors?
Seneca the Younger
The De Legibus is based on what philosophy’s concept of law?
Stoic
The Pro Marcello of Cicero is a speech of thanks to whom?
Caesar
Cicero’s De Natura Deorum is one of five philosophical works dedicated to what man?
Brutus
Who accompanied Memmius to Bithynia in 57 BC?
Catullus
What 3 writers described the Hercynian Forest?
Tacitus, Caesar, and Pliny the Elder
Sassia and Oppianicus are major characters in a speech by Cicero with what title?
Pro Cluentio
The two most famous quotations of Juvenal, ‘panem et circenses’ and ‘mens sana in corpore sano’, both come from which satire of his with what topic?
Rome (III)
What author describes going on a boar hunt with a stylus and tabella instead of a spear?
Pliny the Younger
Whose history solely addresses the period from the foundation legends of Rome to c. 171 BC?
Ennius
What author was the first to write satire in Latin?
Ennius
What is the subject of Eclogue 5 of Vergil?
The Deification of the shepherd Daphnis
In his dialogue, Brutus, Cicero states that what man is the first Orator whose speeches are ‘worthy of attention’?
Marcus Porcius Cato
How many of Cicero’s speeches against Catiline does he deliver to the Senate?
2 (1 and 4)
What first century AD author wrote commentaries on Cicero’s speeches?
Asconius Pedianus
What author was given an equestrian statue in the Forum Ulpium?
Claudian
What freedman of Augustus wrote mythological Fabulae?
Hyginus
Which Mennippean Satire of Varro was aimed at the first triumvirate?
Trikaranos
Who was the author of the Dialogus De Oratoribus?
Tacitus
With what type of writing should Salvius Julianus be associated?
Law
What is the topic of Pomponius Mela’s Chorographica?
Geography
The earliest recorded tragedy performance was at which games (Ludi) in 240 BC?
Ludi Romani
The Gigantomachia and De Bello Getico are lesser known works of what late Latin poet who spent his childhood in Alexandria?
Claudian
In the proem of the Annals, Ennius dreams he is the reincarnation of whom?
Homer
Which tragic poet was known for his skills as a painter?
Pacuvius
Whose poem displayed grief over the death of his wife Quintilia?
Calvus
Which work of his did Horace call iambi?
Epodes
Who celebrated the end of the First Punic War with the first Latin tragedy and comedy at the Ludi Romani of 240 BC?
Livius Andronicus
Who, the son of a farmer and a woman named Magia Polla, was educated in Cremona and Mediolanum before coming to Rome?
Vergil
What are 3 names for the lover of Cornelius Gallus?
Cytheris, Volumnia, Lycoris
What heroine does not receive a reply from her lover in Ovid’s Heroides?
Phyllis
To whom did Macrobius dedicate his commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, the sixth book of the De Re Publica?
Eustachius
What author of satires repeatedly advances the image of the stomach as the symbol for the degradation of mankind?
Persius
What author was born where Vergil died?
Pacuvius
In which play of Plautus do the sisters Pamphila and Panegyris argue with their father Antipho over the anticipated return of their husbands from sea?
Stichus
Which epistolarian discussed his founding of both a library and a school?
Pliny
In whose corpus has the work of Lygdamus been included?
Tibullus
In which Plautine comedy does the title character steal a seal-ring from the boastful soldier Therapontigonus?
Curculio
Who wrote the Bellum Alexandrinum?
Aulus Hirtius
What was the name of the bride in Martianus Capella’s allegory about the marriage of Mercury?
Philologia
In which of Ovid’s works can we find a touching lament for the poet Tibullus?
Amores
Who is the only Italian ally not sympathetically treated by Vergil in the Book VII catalogue?
Mezentius
Whose comedy Incendium was staged in a realistic and costly production by Nero?
Afranius
Valerius Maximus dedicated his Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium Libri Novem to which emperor?
Tiberius
What distinguished orator and author of over 180 learned books on the law wrote a letter of condolence to Cicero after the death of Tullia?
Sulpicius
What author’s death is praised by Tacitus’ sixteenth book of the Annals, and before his death “broke his signet-ring so that it might not be used for imperiling others”?
Petronius
Which writer is credited with writing the line “docendo discitur”?
Seneca
Which Roman politician is mentioned as a source by Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Josephus?
Marcus Cluvius Rufus
In what book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses does the story of Orpheus and Eurydice lie?
Book 10
In what book of the Thebaid does Hypsipyle tell the tale ofher saving her father from the women of Lemnos?
Book 5
What was the topic of Julia Balbilla’s first and second epigrams?
Memnon
What writer is attributed with the phrase “ab ovo usque ad mala”?
Horace
What author is attributed with the phrase “Quintili Vare, legiones redde!”?
Suetonius
What work did Boethius write while imprisoned?
De Consolatione Philosophiae
What writer wrote 42 fables and dedicated them to Theodosius?
Avianus
What author wrote Ora Maritime, heavily borrowing from the 6th century BC work Massiliote Periplus?
Avienus
Corrippus’s most famous work Iohannis is also known by what other name?
De bellis Libycis
What work opens with the line “Quo usque tandem abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra”?
In Catalinam 1
What author is attributed the phrase “dabit deus his quoque finem”?
Vergil
Who brought Ennius to Rome after he served in the Roman army in Sicily in 204 BC
Marcus Porcius Cato
Who is praised by Lucretius in the opening lines of Book 3 of his De Rerum Natura?
Epicurus
Which emperor condemned Seneca the Younger to death because he was jealous of Seneca’s oratorical fame?
Caligula
What writer of Histories continued to attack the name of Cicero post mortem and was a critic of Caesar, Sallust, and Livy?
Asinius Pollio
What jurisconsult wrote the tripertita which contained the Laws of the 12 Tables and their explanation in legal matters?
Sextus Aelius Paetus
What writer wrote De Die Natali for his patron Q. Caerellius as a birthday gift?
Censorinus
What consular colleague of Marius in 102 BC was praised for his elegance and refined diction by Cicero in his De Oratore?
Quintus Lutatius Catulus
Which of Vergil’s Eclogues focuses on the love pangs of the elegiac poet Gallus?
10
What is the last work published by Ovid in his exile?
Epistulae ex Ponto
What work of Cicero is a Stoic guide to moral living?
De Officiis
The reign of which Julio-Claudian emperor is entirely missing from the extant books of the Annales of Tacitus?
Caligula
How many speeches of Pliny the Younger are extant?
1
Which empress wrote memoirs of her exploits, which have been lost?
Agrippina the Younger
The Libri Didascalion, Libri Pragmaticon, and Annales were written by whom?
Lucius Accius
Which letter from the Heroides of Ovid is from Penelope to Odysseus?
1
In what work does Cicero denounce Catiline while running for the consulship of 63 BC?
In Toga Candida
The Bellum Poenicum is about which war?
The First Punic War
Of the tragedies Seneca the Younger wrote, which has no historical model?
Thyestes
Under which famed teacher of Rhodes did both Cicero and Caesar study oratory?
Apollonius Molon
According to the traditional dispositio, what was the last part of a speech?
Peroratorio
What is the subject matter of Catullus 63?
The story of Attis and Cybele
In which poem by Horace appears the story of the country mouse and the city mouse?
Sermones 2.6
Whose magnum opus was a 44 book work about the beginning of Philip V’s empire entitled Historiae Philippicae?
Gnaius Pompeius Trogus
How many separate parts make up the Actio Secunda in Verrem by Cicero?
5
Cicero’s Epistulae ad Familiares feature an exchange with what Ciceronian protege who is seeking wild animals for the games?
M. Caelius Rufus
Which speech was Cicero’s first political speech, delivered in 80 BC?
Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino
What events do Pollio’s histories treat?
Caesar’s Civil War
What was Cicero’s first case?
Pro Quinctio
Which of Cicero’s orations against Catiline were delivered before the people?
2 and 3
What author composed a poem to a tree which almost fell on him?
Horace
What is the only extant latin poem written in Galliambic meter?
Catullus 63
Roman literature begins with what?
A safety pin
Caesar staged a contest in 45 BC and awarded who the prize for his talent as a composer of proverbial sayings?
Publilius Syrus
Lucius Varius Rufus wrote a highly praised tragedy called what?
Thyestes
Which poet criticized Julius Caesar in his verse?
Catullus
A natural pause in a line of verse is called what?
Caesura
The question of why the wicked sometimes prosper and the good suffer is discussed in which work of Cicero?
De Natura Deorum
What emperor wrote a poem called Troica?
Nero
Who wrote the philosophical works De Clementia and De Beneficiis?
Seneca the younger
In which year did Cicero deliver his famous speeches against Catiline?
63 BC
In terms of Oratory, Caesar belonged to what school?
Attic
In the tenth book of whose epic poems can one read about Julius Caesar’s visit to Alexander the Great’s tomb in Alexandria?
Probably Lucan but don’t put too much faith in this
Which philosopher’s works did the emperor Caligula describe as “sand without lime”?
Seneca the Younger
Cicero first published his Academica in two books entitled what?
Lucullus and Catulus
What play did Terence write first?
Andria
Who are the interlocutors in Cicero’s De Amicitia
Gaius Fannius, Laelius, and Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Which ancient author wrote a commentary on Cicero’s Pro Milone?
Quintus Asconius Pedianus
Caesar’s Tusculan Disputations is dedicated to whom?
Marcus Brutus
The Greek Poet Archias was the teacher of which famous Roman?
Cicero
A treatise on the immortality of the soul, congenial to later Christians, is found in what part of Cicero’s corpus?
Somnium Scipionis
The extant books of Livy contain the Early history of Rome along with what two wars?
The Macedonian and Syrian Wars
What author is said to have helped Vergil recover his farm?
Cornelius Gallus
In which book of the Aeneid does Mezentius die?
Book X
Which of Cicero’s Catilinarians gave concrete evidence of the conspiracy?
3rd
Book II of Ovid’s Tristia was addressed to whom?
Augustus
Which poet described the Pomptine Marshes, infamous for malaria and bandits?
Horace
What were scholia?
Notes in the margins of texts
We find a protest against the inhumanity of the gladiatorial games in whose Epistulae?
Seneca the Younger
To whom did Cicero dedicate his Orator, De Finibus, and the Tusculan Disputations?
Marcus Junius Brutus
What title was given to the lost tragedy of Varius Rufus which earned him a million sesterces from Octavian and was considered by Quintilian to be the equal of any Greek play?
Thyestes
Which Roman author wrote Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, nine books of memorable deeds and sayings intended for the use of Orators?
Valerius Maximus
In Atellana, what were “Maccus” and “Bucco”?
Fools
What tragic poet was a native of Brundisium whose works only survive as about 500 fragments from works such as Paullus, Antiopa, and Teucer?
Marcus Pacuvius
What lady made a successful speech against an attempt by the triumvirs to tax property of wealthy Roman women?
Hortensia
What was the ordinary meter of Roman tragedy used in dialogue?
Iambic senarii
In what work does Seneca the Younger use Caligula’s furies and cruelties as examples to be avoided?
De Ira
Which work of Cicero, dealing with kinds of arguments, reflects a work by Aristotle of the same name?
Topica
Who wrote ‘is there such resentment in heavenly minds?’
Vergil
What work is the source of the famous quotation “Death then is nothing, affects us not at all”?
De Rerum Natura
To whom is the prayer in Horace’s Carmen Saeculare addressed?
Apollo, Diana, and the Capitoline Deities
In what year was Vergil born?
70 BC
Which meter is often called “limping” because of the position of a long syllable?
Choliambic
During which stretch of years did Vergil compose the Aeneid?
29-19 BC
In which city did Vergil die?
Brundisium
In which speech did Cicero attack Sulla’s freedman Chrysogonus?
Pro Roscio
Which author wrote “There is nothing so ridiculous that some philosopher won’t say it”?
Cicero
Which scholar tutored Marcus Aurelius?
Cornelius Fronto
In what year do the first two books of Caesar’s Bellum Civile take place?
49 BC
In book 3 of the Aeneid, which kinsman of Aeneas speaks to him from the grave?
Polydorus
Which poet wrote an epicedium for Cornelia, the wife of Octavian?
Propertius
By which Roman emperor was Quintilian appointed a professor of rhetoric?
Vespasian
Lucilius makes fun of what political opponent of Scipio Aemilianus by writing a satire in which he is tried for his extravagant luxury by a council of the gods?
Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Lupus
What author is attributed the quote “Ille mi par esse deo videtur”?
Catullus
What speech did Cicero deliver in 57 BC asking the Senate for the return of his home?
De Haruspicum Responso
Which writer of Latin comedies in the early second century BC openly criticized Terence’s plays?
Luscius Lanuvius
Who was the grammarian and commentator of the 5th century AD whose greatest work is a commentary on Vergil?
Servius
What author wrote Epitoma Rei Militaris in 4 books, which is the only account of Roman military practive to have survived intact?
Vegetius
What work of Seneca comprises 10 ethical treatises?
Dialogi
The Epodes of Horace consist of how many poems?
17
Which later Latin grammarian and rhetorician wrote a work called De Metris?
Aelius Festus Aphthonius
According to Horace’s epistles, what Roman writer of fabulae togatae was a strong believer of the female character and popular enough that his plays were still performed during Horace’s time?
Titus Quinctius Atta
Dracontius’s Satisfactio was addressed to which Vandal king?
Gunthamund
What novel tells the story of an exile from Antioch?
Historia Apollonii
A long inscription from which province commemorates Gargilius Martial?
Mauretania
Which medicinal work was written by Theodorus Priscianus?
Euporiston Libri
Consultus Fortunatus wrote what work with an exposition divided into question-and-answer form?
Ars Rhetorica
Nero may have imagined himself as what mythological figure in a poem he composed, the Troica?
Paris
What historian named Cassius as the last of the Romans in his Annales?
Cremutius Cordus
Who wrote a famous poem about “The Ship of State”?
Horace
Who describes Catiline as ‘nobili genere natus, fuit magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque’?
Sallust
Suetonius begins each of his Lives with the what of his subject?
Genealogy
What does the Historiae of Tacitus begin with?
The year of the four emperors
Who addresses women with lovely names like Pyrrha, Chloe, and Lalage in his poetry?
Horace
A famous speech which successfully attacked the peace proposals of Pyrrus and was still being circulated in Cicero’s day was written by whom?
Appius Claudius Caecus
Which of Horace’s odes are called the Roman odes?
III. 1-6
Who wrote an encomium on Scipio Africanus?
Ennius
What latin orator’s principle of composition was “rem tene, verba sequetur”?
Cato the Elder
What 3 works of Tertullian defended Christianity against pagan charges of atheism around 197 AD?
Ad Martyres, Apologeticus, and Ad Nationes
Which historian’s world history Historiae Phillipicae only survives in an epitome written by Justin?
Pompeius Trogus
Which poet of Nero’s reign published seven eclogues in the style of Vergil?
Calpurnius Siculus
Who are the 3 teachers of Horace?
Orbilius, Cratippus, and Theomnestos
What member of the Roman imperial family left us more than 720 lines of a poem entitled Aratea?
Germanicus (Astronomical work)
Which late latin author wrote the Mosella, a poem of his travel in Gaul?
Ausonius
Which author wrote a 12 book commentary on the Aeneid that has come down to us intact?
Tiberius Claudius Donatus
Which Eclogue praises Octavian for the return of Vergil’s farm?
Eclogue 1
Why did Silius Italicus kill himself?
He was dying of a tumor
To whom did Seneca the Younger write the Epistulae Morales?
Lucilius
Which emperor brought Quintilian from Spain to Rome?
Galba
Which author’s work contains a scene where Roma attempts to stop the protagonist?
Lucan
In his defense of Roscio of Ameria in 80 BC, Cicero squared off with which orator?
Erucius
Before his own editing, how many books was Ovid’s Amores?
5
Statius was a favorite of which emperor?
Domitian
Which work contains the ekphrasis of a statue of Diana and Actaeon?
Apuleius’s Golden Ass
Who said “ut ameris, amablis esto”?
Ovid
Who said “Satura tota nostra est”?
Quintilian
Who said “Solitudinem faciunt pacem apellant”?
Tacitus
What poet died in 8 BC?
Horace
What author wrote Niptra and Dulorestes?
Pacuvius
Who wrote Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium?
Solinus
Who did Tacitus give a funeral oration for in 97 AD?
Rufus
In addition to his work as a literary patron, what genre did Cicero’s friend Atticus write?
History
The art of persuasion is a subject in a work by whom?
Quintilian
In whose work is the parable of the belly found?
Livy
To whom did Vergil dedicate his 4th eclogue?
Pollio
Catullus’s epyllion on the wedding of Peleus and Thetis contains a long digression on what?
The story of Ariadne
Who was the author of a Medea which Quintilian praised as the greated tragedy written?
Ovid
According to Suetonius, how many conspirators were involved in the assassination of Caesar?
60
What author’s philosophy can best be described as Eclecticism?
Cicero
Which Stoic author had considerable influence on Christian ethics?
Seneca the Younger
What writer wrote secret satires about Nero?
Lucan
In what work does Horace describe his trip to Brundisium with Vergil?
Sermones
Both Pompey and Cicero went to Rhodes to study with which Stoic philosopher?
Posidonius
How did Tacius portray Tiberius?
Vicious and Cunning
Which work of Cicero was modeled largely on Plato’s “Myth of Er”?
Somnium Scipionis
What work on rhetoric did Cicero write to replace his early work De inventione on the same subject?
De optimo genere oratorium
In which book of the De Bello Gallico is the revolt of the Gauls begun by the Carnutes described?
VII
What author writes about the ‘neighborliness’ of apartment dwellers?
Martial
How many epigrams did martial write?
1500
Whose writings served primarily as the foundation for later Roman jurists?
Scaevola
Who is the hero of Lucan’s epic poem?
Pompey
With what event does Tacitus’s annales begin?
The death of Augustus
In his poem about a journey to Brundisium, whom did Horace imitate?
Lucilius
Augustus himself wrote part of a tragedy about what mythological man?
Ajax
What philosophy does Apuleius seem to subscribe to?
Neo-Platonist
In what speech did Cicero support Caesar’s extended command in Gaul and attacked Lucius Calpurnius Piso?
De Provinciis Consularibus
What author wrote a series of anecdotes about Latin and Greek literature?
Gellius
In which book of the Aeneid does vergil describe Augustus’ nephew Marcellus?
6
Who is described by Juvenal as a “rara avis”?
A good woman
Which of Cicero’s works is thought to have influenced St. Augustine?
Hortensius
What poet wrote a work on months and festivals entitled Annales?
Accius
What man attempted to establish a Roman school of philosophy based largely on Stoic thought?
Quintus Sextius
Cicero was born in the same town as what other famous statesman?
Marius
Publilius Syrus was a writer of mimes but is best know for what type of work?
A collection of moral maxims
Cicero : Helvia :: Caesar : ?
Aurelia (Their mothers)
When Lucan said “That is real poetry, whereas all I have written is utter tripe, child’s play,” he was talking about the work of whom?
Persius
Which friend and fellow author in a letter on Martial’s death describes him as “talented, subtle, penetrating, and sincere”?
Pliny the Younger
Which author enjoyed a successful public career under Domitian but later wrote of the pain and difficulty involved in surviving under such a tyrant?
Tacitus
What is the last work written by Cicero on moral philosophy?
De Officiis
Which of Horace’s works had become a textbook even before he died?
Odes
The proverbial quotes of Terence, “quot homines tot sententiae” and “fortis fortuna adiuvat” come from what play of his?
Phormio (homo sum… is from Heautontimoromenos, not these)
To what work was Quintilian referring when he wrote “It is a safer model for Orators than Poets”?
Pharsalia
What dialogue is characterized as an unattractive piece written by Seneca to win a recall from exile?
De Consolatione ad Polybium
Who addressed a poem to Cicero beginning with the words, “Disertissime Romuli Nepotum”?
Catullus
What author was the first Roman Stoic to write Satire in verse?
Persius
Cicero imitates the conversation of Socrates and Cephalus in Plato’s Republic in the early part of which work?
De Senectute
The Stoic Epictetus was among the philosophers banished from Rome by what emperor?
Domitian
What work is a manual of oratory based on Greek writers traditionally but incorrectly ascribed to Cicero?
Rhetorica ad Herennium
Which poet wrote a poem on the inevitability of death, beginning with the words, “Eheu, fugaces, Postumi, Postumi, / labuntur anni”?
Horace
What freedman, the most learned of the Augustan scholars and the teacher of Augustus’ grandsons, wrote the first encyclopedic lexicon in latin?
Verrius Flaccus
What two authors served as governors under Trajan?
Tacitus and Pliny the Younger
The image of the Ivory tower is found in what work?
De Rerum Natura
According to his introduction, for what reason did Livy write his history?
To instruct
Whose works include poems on the death of a friend’s parrot, an invocation to sleep, an epithalamium, and an affectionate letter to his wife?
Statius
What three Greeks influence the work of Ennius?
Aristarchus, Euripides, and Aeschylus
Who is the author of a work concerned with literary criticism and the education of children as well as with aspects of style and rhetoric?
Quintilian
What office did Sallust hold when he acted against Cicero and Milo in 52 BC?
Tribune
What is the subject of Eclogue V of Vergil?
The deification of the shepherd Daphnis
What work is a set of biographies of Roman men of letters arranged into categories - grammarians and rhetoricians, poets, orators, and philosophers written by Seneca?
De Optimo Genere Oratorum
Other than the novi poetae, what were Catullus and his inner circle of friends referred to as by Cicero?
Delicata Iuventus
Whose work contained a detailed description of a massive tsunami that hit Alexandria in 365 AD?
Ammianus Marcellinus
In which of Cicero’s works do we find a discussion of three forms of government blended (monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy)?
De Officiis
In what year did Horace’s epodes first appear?
30 BC
In the Aeneid, Camilla is killed by whom?
Arruns
What are glyconics and pherecrateans?
lyric meters
What hymn, one of the earliest fragments of Latin Literature, is an invocation of the Lares and Mars as an agricultural deity?
The hymn of the Arval Brethren
After his death, who edited Persius’s work?
Cornutus
What poem in trochaic tetrameters celebrates the renewal of life on Sicily?
Pervigilium Veneris
Medea, Oedipus, and Thyestes are 3 of the 9 surviving tragedies of what author?
Seneca
What was the charge on which Cicero defended Roscius in Pro Roscio Amerino?
Extortion
What work of Horace was his first published?
Satires
To which emperor was Vitruvius’s De Architectura dedicated?
Augustus
What term is used to describe a Latin wedding hymn?
Epithalamium
In whose work would you find 5 books of fictitious legal cases, called controversiae, with speeches by both sides?
Seneca the Elder
In the writings of which 4th century AD orator do we find a letter to the emperor Valentinian requesting that the Altar of Victory be restored to the Curia in Rome?
Symmachus
Which work of Boethius takes the form of a Menippean Satire?
De Consolatione Philosophiae
Which poet’s historical epic on the expedition of Germanicus into the northern seas is lost but for a 30 line fragment?
Albinovanus Pedo
What is an epideictic oration?
A funeral speech
Which senator, bishop, and educated author is a significant source on the political demise of the western Roman empire in the 5th century?
Sidonius
Which author’s works on original sin and predestination influenced later western theologians, particularly John Calvin?
Augustine
In which comedy, likely adapted from a Greek work by Menander, is the prologue spoken by the lar familiaris?
Aulularia
Which author of the Institutiones Grammaticae was heavily influenced by the works of Apollonius Dyscolus?
Priscian
What work, issued in AD 533, collects the influential private writings of Roman lawyers?
Digest
Which Latin writings, dated AD 493-496, detail life on the fundus tuletianus in Vandal ruled Africa?
Tablettes Albertini
Which friend of Ennius and comic dramatist first came to Rome as a slave from Milan?
Caecilius Statius
What is an epicedium?
A song sung in mourning over a corpse
Which author’s Historia Sacra, or Chronicle, begins at creation and summarizes Old Testament and early Christian events?
Sulpicius Severus
Which work of Cicero, written in 55 BC, is set up as a dialogue whose speakers include Marc Antony, Caesar Strabo, and Licinius Crassus?
De Oratore
Which author wrote De Aquis Urbis Romae?
Frontinus
According to tradition, who was the first to teach public speaking at Rome?
Plotius Gallus
Which philosophy believed that the gods had no concern for human activities?
Epicureanism
Which class of Roman society first made serious use of oratory?
Patricians
Which of Seneca’s tragedies is not based on an earlier Greek tragedy?
Thyestes
What writer wrote mostly surviving history/biography of Alexander the Great which later proved to be an inspiration for the medieval Alexander romances?
Curtius Rufus
The term nugae describes what type of poetry?
Poetry that is lacking seriousness
What was Cinna’s most famous poem?
Zmyrna
What literary style was characterized by grace, charm, and urbanity?
Neoteric
What is the one surviving example of the fabula praetexta?
Octavia
Who divided his work into smaller units referred to as pentads and decads?
Livy
Who composed a two book Anticato in reply to Cicero’s Cato
Caesar
What author’s epitaph reads “Nemo me lacrimis decoret nec funera fletu faxit. Cur? Volito vivus per ora vivum”?
Ennius
Whose De Constantia Sapientis espouses the notion that the wise man can suffer neither wrong nor insult?
Seneca
What is the earliest work attributed to Tacitus?
Dialogus de Oratoribus
What emperor’s wars in Germany were the topic of an epic by Statius?
Domitian
Of what type of poem is Catullus 61 an example?
Epithalamium
Who tells the tale of his run-in with an annoying conversationalist who is, at the end of the piece, hauled off to court to bear witness, which the author claims is Apollo saving him?
Horace
In which author’s work is this quote found: “Interrogavi ipsos an essent Christiani. Confitentes iterum ac tertio interrogavi, supplicium minatus; perseverantes duci iussi”?
Pliny the Younger
The eariest known writing in Latin appears on what?
The Lapis Niger
What author pioneered the use of allegory in Christian writing in his Psychomachia?
Prudentius
What shepherd’s deification is the subject of Vergil’s fifth eclogue?
Daphnis
Who wrote Niptra and Antiope?
Pacuvius
To whom did Macrobius dedicate his Saturnalia?
Eustacius, his son
Which early tragedian, although ridiculed by Lucilius and Persius, was regarded as the greatest Roman tragedy writer by Varro and Cicero?
Pacuvius
According to Suetonius, the emperor Caligula was fond of the phrase “oderint dum metuant”. In what tragedian’s play does this line appear?
Accius’s Atreus
Which orator and advocate first came to fame in 95 BC when he argued on behalf of the province of Africa, which had brought its governor to trial?
Hortensius
What man wrote a lost history about the Roman Civil Wars recounting the years from 60 BC to 42 BC?
Asinius Pollio
Which of case was undertaken by Cicero in part because the defendant’s conviction might have resulted in leniency for Catiline?
Pro Murena
Which Roman wrote three poems expressing his affection for a boy named Marathus?
Tibullus
How many poems comprise the 4th book of Horace’s Odes?
15
After his death, near what city was Vergil buried?
Naples
What author was the grandson of Seneca the Elder?
Lucan
To whom did Seneca the Younger address his De Ira?
His brother
What does Caesar describe in book V of his Gallic Wars?
The geography of Britain
Which book of the Aeneid ends with the death of Palinurus?
Book V
What is the theme of book V of De Rerum Natura?
Creation
The encyclopedist Celsus lived during the reign of which emperor?
Tiberius
Roman actors were always men except in which genre?
Mime
Which future emperor was tutored by Livy in his historical studies?
Claudius
Which writer had a history of painting and sculpture included in his work?
Pliny the Elder
What was the topic of Cicero’s De Provinciis Consularibus?
Prolonging Caesar’s command in Gaul
Which of Cicero’s works has the same name as a work by Aristotle?
Topica
In which of the Phillipics did Cicero give support to Octavian?
III
Which satire of Juvenal is a skit on the administration of Domitian?
IV
Which poet does not give the names of those he satirizes but aims “parcere personis, dicere de vitiis”?
Martial
Which emperors banished philosophers from Italy?
Vespasian and Domitian
When CIcero was attacked as an Asianist and accused of employing an over-elaborate rhythmical style, he defended himself in which two works?
Brutus and Orator
Whose works were affected by his preference for “the Republic at its worst to the Empire at its best”?
Tacitus
The line in Romeo and Juliet “at lovers’ perjuries they say Jove laughs,” is a translation of a line from what work?
Ars Amatoria
In what writer’s work would we find a description of Hannibal?
Livy
A detailed account of the Siege of Massilia is found in whose work?
Caesar
During his consulship, which speech did Cicero deliver?
De Lege Agraria
What epic poet died at the age of 26?
Lucan
Other than Caesar, which author’s third wife was named Calpurnia?
Pliny the Younger
Who was the brother of Gallio, the governor of Achaea who dismissed the charges of heresy brought by the Corinthian Jews against Paul?
Seneca the Younger
According to extant literature, what emperor believed that “information lodged anonymously ought not to be regarded in dealing with any charge… for it is not consonant with our enlightened age”?
Claudius
Who was Clodia (Lesbia) the wife of?
Q. Metellus Celer
What author was consul in 100 AD?
Pliny the Younger
What historian served as quaestor under Titus and as praestor under Domitian?
Tacitus
Demea and Micio are two of the main characters in which play?
Adelphoi
Why were Horace’s lands confiscated?
He fought at Philippi against Octavian
What were the Sosii?
Booksellers
Who, according to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “wielded the stateliest measure ever molded by the lips of man”?
Vergil
Caelius Rufus, Caecilius, and Licinius Calvus were all friends of what writer?
Catullus
What did the Romans call a short, profound statement?
Sententia
What pre-Renaissance humanist writer discovered Cicero’s long-presumed-lost letters on a visit to northern Italy?
Petrarch
What oration of Cicero deals with a former teacher having been charged with faking his Roman citizenship?
Pro Archia
What oration of Cicero deals with a young Roman having been accused of attempting to poison his mistress and murdering an Egyptian envoy?
Pro Caelio
What philosophical dialogue of Cicero shows how Sophocles proved to a jury that he was quite rational?
De Senectute
In which work can one read about how to capture the elk with no leg joints in the Hercynian forest of Germany?
Caesar’s De Bello Gallico
What writer sends Nape to deliver a message to his lover, only to have Nape come back empty-handed?
Ovid (nape is Corinna’s Hairdresser)
What was Pliny the Younger’s excuse for not accompanying his uncle to investigate the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius?
He had too much homework to do
What do we call the elision of a word which ends vowel + M with the next word which begins with a vowel?
Echthlipsis
The characteristics of Latin and Greek hybrid works, Graeco-Latin adverbs such as dulice, alliteration and figura etymologica (the use in one phrase of two or more words from the same stem) are typical of which writer’s style?
Plautus
The family of Gaius Lucilius was connected to the family of which famous man?
Pompey the Great
The most famous writer of the principate of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, the author of de constantia sapientis and de vita beata was who?
M. Annaeus Lucanus
Whose work used archaisms in profusion and inflicted upon Latin its final injury and was the author of Encomium on Smoke and Dust and Praise of Carelessness?
M. Cornelius Fronto
What did Livy initially call his Ab Urbe Condita?
Annales
Whose work is possibly being described in “There is also in existence a copy of verse of 70 hexameters, complaining of the expulsion of the philosophers under Domitian… The lines are not good enough nor sufficiently classical to be the production of anyone writing in the silver age”?
Sulpicia the Younger
Who was a speaker of distinction, employed a Ciceronian style, tried his hand at Greek verses, and wrote a treatise on the pronunciation of the final “s” in a Latin word?
M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus
What is the praenomen of the author of the Pharsalia?
Marcus
Who is the author of the De Familiis?
Messalla Senior
Who is the author of the Dulorestes?
Pacuvius
Who wrote the phrase “Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra…”?
Cicero
What contemporary of L. Octavius Cornelius Salvius Iulianus Aemilianus wrote an enchiridion on justice, which is mentioned in the compilation of Justinian?
Pomponius (the Jurist)
What man wrote On Virtue, On Duty, and On Patience, none of which survive?
Brutus (the assassin of Caesar)
What scholar of Beirut is important as marking the beginning of a return to the study of Republican authors?
M. Valerius Probus
What did Marcus Furius write?
Epic poetry
A very early writing was on the tabula delabata, listing the magistrates for the various years; these were later collected in which chronicle of events?
The Annales Maximi
Our phrase e pluribus unum comes from what work?
Vergil’s Moretum, on Salad, unlike the other Moretum, which was on types of nuts and was by Sueius, a neoteric
In what position(s) did Marcus Porcius Cato serve with Valerius Flaccus?
Censor and Consul
What African author converted to Christianity under the reign of the emperor Diocletian?
Arnobius of Sicca
What author revised portions of Tacitus’s Historiae?
Pliny the Younger
What author wrote a treatise on the duties of priests based on Cicero’s De Officiis?
St. Ambrose
Terence’s Eunuchus is based upon which Greek play by Menander?
Kolax
Whose tragedy inaugurated the theatre of Pompey in 55 BC? (And what was the tragedy)
Accius’s Clytemnestra
Who said the phrase “Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur”? In what work is it found?
Ennius, Cicero’s De Senectute
Who said the phrase “Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit”?
Vergil
In which play did prisoners-of-war Tyndarus and Philocrates switch places to fool their master, Hegio?
Captivi
Where can you go today to see an original of Augustus’s Res Gestae?
Ankara, Turkiye (Monumentum Ancyranum)
Who was called the father of Church song?
Ambrose
Who wrote Factum et Dictum Memorabilia?
Valerius Maximus
What jurist wrote Quaestiones?
Papinian
Who wrote the Laudes Herculis?
Caesar
Who published Persius’s works posthumously?
Caesius Bassus
What play of Terence was first presented at the Megalensian Games of 161 BC?
Adelphoi
In what year did Catullus come to Rome?
62 BC
What work was called by its author De Optimo Genere Dicendi?
Cicero’s Brutus
What poet expresses his love for Lycoris?
Gallus
How many satires of Persius were published?
6
What genre did Lucius Annaeus Florus write?
History
Lutatius Catulus introduced what Greek form to Latin Literature?
Epigram
Who wrote the Commentarii Gramatici?
Nigidius Figulus
In which book of Lucan’s Pharsalia does Pompey die?
8
Who was the most eminent grammaticus of the early Empire?
Remmius Palaemon
About what did Vibius Sequester write?
Geography
Who wrote Onomasticon, Life of Constantine, and an Ecclesiastical History?
Eusebius
What school of philosophy did Plotinus follow?
Neo-platonism
What latin author introduced the name Mediterranean Sea?
Julius Solinus
Lygdamus’s writings have frequently been included in whose corpus?
Tibullus
In which Plautine play does the title character steal a seal-ring from the boastful soldier Therapontigonus?
Curculio
Who wrote Bellum Alexandrinum, a continuation of Caesar’s history of the civil war?
Hirtius
What writer and teacher of rhetoric was the tutor of St. Jerome?
Aelius Donatus
What author, born in 82 BC, wrote the Io and had his wife Quintilia’s death commemorated by Catullus?
Licinius Calvus
Whose Cacata Charta does Catullus ridicule in Catullus 36?
Volusius
On what author’s work did Vergil model his Georgics?
Hesiod
Who wrote the Cynegetica, a didactic poem on hunting?
Grattius Faliscus
In what work does is the quotation “Cras amet qui nunquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet” found?
Pervigilium Veneris
What author was the first to write “Oderint dum metuant”?
Lucius Accius
In which eclogue is the phrase “Tu, Tityre, patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi”?
Eclogue 1
Furius, Aurelius, Juventus, and Mamurra all appear in whose works?
Catullus
Which emperor brought Quintilian to Rome from Spain?
Galba
What freedman of Augustus wrote Urbes Italiae and may have been the author of mythological Fabulae?
Hyginus
Who was called a “Pompeian” by Augustus because his history looked favorably upon the Republic?
Livy
Horace’s Carmen Saeculare was addressed to which two deities?
Apollo and Diana
In the first book of his Odes, Horace makes three references to what Greek poet from Lesbos?
Alcaeus
The Pervigilium Veneris is about a springtime festival of Venus set on what island?
Sicily
Whose De Poetis contains the lives of Terence, Horace, and Lucan?
Suetonius
What work of Varro Reatinus is a collection of biographical sketches on famous Greeks and Romans?
Hebdomades
What author’s Equos Troianus was performed at the opening of the Theater of Pompey?
Naevius
What author wrote lost works including De Incendio Urbis and the Catachtonion?
Lucan
What rival does Terence bash in the prologue of his Eunuchus?
Luscius
What author, a Greek brought to Rome, wrote a 40 book history recounting the period between the First Punic War and the sack of Carthage?
Polybius
What books of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita are completely missing Periochae?
136 & 137
To whom was the Naturales Quaestiones dedicated?
Lucilius Junior
What 3 authors were cited as a main source for Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita?
Gaius Licinius Macer, Claudius Quadrigarius, and Valerius Antias
The history of what Roman historian, who lived during the reign of Tiberius, did Pliny the Elder complete in his Bellum Germanicum?
Aufidius Bassus
The earliest inscrition of Latin, reading “Manios me fhefhaked Numasioi,” was found on what artifact?
Praeneste Fibula
Who said the phrase “Quot homines, tot sententiae”?
Terence
In which Catilinarian is the phrase “Rem publicam, Quirites, vitamque omnium vestrum… videtis”?
In Catilinam III
In what work is the phrase “Phoebe silvarumque potens Diana” found?
Carmen Saeculare
Who said the phrase “Iuvenile vitium est regere non posse impetum”?
Seneca the Younger
Which of Juvenal’s satires lampoons Domitian convening a council to deliberate on how to cook a turbot?
4th
How many books comprise the Thebaid?
12
Of what genre was Statius’ Agave?
Pantomime
What man is the subject of Lucan’s Pharsalia?
Julius Caesar
Who, with Pylades of Cilicia in 22 CE, introduced pantomime with one silent actor playing all parts supported by a chorus and an orchestra?
Bathyllus
Which emperor does Valerius Maximus flatter in his collection of Anecdotes?
Tiberius
Which work of the Appendix Vergiliana is a set of two bucolic poems about the loss of an estate?
Dirae
Which work of Martial became the 13th book of his Epigrammaton Libri?
Xenia
To whom is Seneca the Younger’s De Beneficiis, on the duties of philanthropy, dedicated?
Aebutius Liberalis
What was the “closing argument” of a speech called?
Peroratorio
What author, called Setinus because of his birthplace, is often said to have been one of the Quindecemviri Sacris Faciundis?
Valerius Flaccus
What poet was described by Quintilian as Tersus atque elegans?
Tibullus
Although we hear much about this man, we rarely hear about the fact that he wrote the probable tragedy Prometheus. Who is this?
Maecenas
Who wrote a work discussing the events between the Social War and Sulla’s dictatorship?
Cornelius Sisenna
What 4th century author put together a compendium full of material from earlier Roman authors, such as Lucilius and Varro, for Constantine’s son?
Nonius Marcellus
Which author was a prominent member of the Achaean league and a tutor to Paullus’ sons?
Polybius
A Praetorian prefect, jurist, and authror of two massive works, one of which is preserved in Justinian’s Digest, what author was put to death by Caracalla for refusing to defend him?
Papinian
What author of the Iliacon and Catacthonon was taught by Cornutus?
Lucan
Which author wrote the Consolatio ad Marciam?
Seneca the Younger
CIcero defends a man from Clodius’ accusations and advocates for Consensus Bonorum Hominum in which speech?
Pro Sestio
Which author, who served in the army in Germany and wrote a text praising Sejanus, was born at Aeclanum?
Paterculus
Who came to Rome with Scipio Aemilianus and wrote the now-lost text that was a model for Cicero’s De Officius?
Panaetius
What poet wrote poems to a woman named Claudia?
Statius
A jurist and lecturer under Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, who wrote 3 works, including one which became known as his “aurea,” but is now, ironically, lost?
Gaius
Who, referred to by Juvenal and Suetonius, was a teacher and grammarian in Rome during the time of Tiberius and Caliugula and is said to have taught Persius?
Quintus Remmius Palaemon
Which author got in a serious argument with Cyprian over the treatment of Christians and wrote a De Trinitate?
Novatian
What Spanish Pries fled the Vandals and wrote Historiae Adversus Paganos?
Orosius
To whom did Suetonius dedicate De Vita Caesarum?
Septicius Clarus
To whom was the Naturalis Historia dedicated?
Titus
Who wrote a history of the civil wars from the consulship of Metellus in 60 BC to the Battle of Phillipi?
Asinius Pollio
Who was Cicero’s constantly overshadowed co-consul, whom Cicero admonished in one of his letters?
Hybrida
How many books of elegies did Propertius write?
4
What was Horace’s birthday?
December 8
In what meter is the Pervigilium Veneris?
Trochaic Septenarii
Who compiled an extensive commentary on the speeches of Cicero for his sons, of which only five are extant?
Asconius Pedianus
What poem begins with the short phrase “Ordior Arma”?
Punica
Who, borrowing from Pomponius Mela and Pliny the Elder, compiled a text alternately titled De mirabilibus mundi, Collectanea rerum memorabilium, or Polyhistor?
Solinus
What author was consul suffectus in 100 AD?
Pliny the Younger
What was the title of Pomponius Secudus’s only known Fabula Praetexta?
Aeneas
What tutor to Geta and Caracalla also wrote several books on medicine?
Sammonicus
To whom was Ovid’s Fasti dedicated?
Germanicus
What author was referred to as Facundus by Martial?
Juvenal
What writer has among his works Fullonia, Barbatus, Setina, and Quintus?
Titinius
About whom did Jerome remark, “Would that he could affirm our doctrine as readily as he destroys others”?
Lactantius
Which late Roman author, a native of Africa, was connected to the Symmachi and dedicated his commentary on Cicero to his son Eustachius?
Macrobius
What Roman author wrote acrostic poems and Carmen Apologeticum, a history of Israel to the Last Judgement?
Commodian
Which Republican author appears at the conclusion of the first book of Bellum Civile uttering dark prophecies?
Nigidius Figulus
Which author does Cicero call “emendator sermonis usitati”?
Sisenna
Which author, consul in 514 AD, replaced Boethius as magister officiorum and wrote a history of the Goths?
Cassiodorus
Who, the freedman and secretary of Appius Claudius Caecus, published the legis actiones of his patron?
Gnaeus Flavius
Whose De Verborum Significatu is preserved in the epitome of Sextus Pompeius Festus?
Verrius Flaccus
Which Roman author, whose life is Eulogized in the work of Cornelius Nepos, wrote a Liber Annalis?
Atticus
Which Roman historian wrote at least 75 books of the Annales, which were used by Livy?
Valerias Antias
Which Plautine Comedy, based on Menander’s Synaristosae, contains the characters Demipho, Selenium, and Alcesimarchus?
Cistellaria
Which Roman author wrote Putatores and Mumurco?
Publilius Syrus
Which Roman author, an adherent of Stoicism, wrote about providence, constancy, and anger in his Dialogi?
Seneca the Younger
Which author was lavishly rewarded for his Thyestes, which was commissioned by Augustus for the games of 29 BC?
Varius Rufus
Which Roman author was the last person upon whom Nero conferred the consular office?
Silius Italicus
Which Roman author received the ornamenta consularia for tutoring the great-nephews of Domitian?
Quintilian
Which orator of the Silver Age was forced to commit suicide because of allusions to the emperor in his Atreus?
Mamercus Scaurus
Which author wrote Ad Donatum, Ad Demetrianum, and De Habitu Virginum?
Cyprian
For whose daughter did Seneca the Younger write Ad Marciam de Consolatione?
Cremutius Cordus
Which author, a pupil of Alexander Polyhistor, wrote about agriculture, bees, and Vergil?
Hyginus
Who studied under Diogenes of Babylon, became friends with Scipio Aemilianus, and wrote De Officiis?
Panaetius
Who served as the interpreter for the embassy of Greek philosophers in 155 BC, and wrote a history of Rome in Greek?
Gaius Acilius
What Early Roman literary figure also fought at the (Roman) battle of Thermopylae?
Cato the Elder
What kind of fish is the focus of Juvenal’s fourth satire?
Turbot
Which character in Satyricon is an elderly poet who recites a poem about the fall of Troy to the other characters?
Eumolpus
Which poem by Catullus suggests his girlfriend give him several thousand kisses?
Catullus 5
What poet semi-rebelliously did not mention Augustus a single time in any of his surviving poems?
Tibullus
Who wrote a now-lost work to his wife Polla Argentia?
Lucan
Whose fifteen-book history of Rome described Fabius Maximus Cunctator as “unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem”?
Ennius (Annales was initially 15 books)
What Roman political figure was the subject of oratory by both Cicero and Calvus?
Vatinius
Before writing The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a commentary on the morals and politics of what historical work?
Ab Urbe Condita
Which of the great Roman Satirists was born as Suessa Aurunca?
Gaius Lucilius
Of the works included in the Appendix Vergiliana, which covers the story of Scylla, Nisus, and Minos?
Ciris
What work of Ovid includes the line “flendus amor meus est: elegi quoque flebile carmen”?
Heroides
What geographical author also wrote a less notable work called Hypomenemata?
Strabo
What Christian author from the late empire suggested the solution to Barbarian invasions was more donations and tithing to the church?
Salvianus
Which of the early Roman historians made the editorial decision to begin with the sack of Rome in 390 BC rather than the prehistoric foundation of the city?
Claudius Quadrigarius
Who dedicated the De Errore Profanarum Religionum to Constantine and Constantius?
Firmicius Maternus
What reworking of the pseudo-Aristotelian Peri Kosmou was possibly the last work witten by Apuleius?
De Munda
What late Republic political figure wrote the autobiographical De Consulatu et de Rebus Gestis Suis?
Catulus
Who wrote a counter-narrative to Nero’s attitude towards the Pisonian conspiracy with Laus Pisonis?
Calpurnius Siculus
For the past two millennia, what author’s only surviving poetry was the line “une tellures dividit amne duas” describing the division of Europe and Asia by a river?
Gallus
It was well known by the Romans that Livy praised pro-Republic figures such as Brutus and Cassius without repercussion. What Augustan era historian referenced Livy in his defense against the charge of criticizing Tiberius’ regime by pointing out Livy had never been punished by Augustus?
Cremutius Cordus
Poets often made meta-poetic remarks on their own poetry. Which poet wrote “paulo maiora canamus”?
Vergil
In what meter was the Epicharmus of Ennius written?
Trochaic Septenarii
Mamercus Scaurus was forced to commit suicide by what emperor due to references he made in his play Atreus?
Tiberius
What author criticized annalist history, calling it a “child’s story” rather than real history?
Sempronius Asellio
Serenus Sammonicus wrote what medical handbook, which included things like the work Abracadabra?
Liber Medicinalis
What group of authors were called the cantores Euphorionis by Cicero?
The Neoterics
The De Consulatu et de Rebus Gestis Suis was written by what man, who diead after his co-consul Marius persecuted him?
Lutatius Catulus
What tragic historian wrote his Historiae from the Social War to Sulla’s death, portraying the dicator as a hero?
Sisenna
Which Plautine comedy features the courtesan Phronesium and her three suitors?
Truculentus
What politician forced Plotius Gallus to close his rhetorical school in 92 BC?
Domitius Ahenobarbus
What author created an abbreviated version of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita at the request of Valens?
Eutropius
Asinius Pollio accused what author of lacking Latinitas in his works?
Cicero
