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How many elegies are in the Amores in total?

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49

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What meter are the Amores written?

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elegiac couplet

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Who is the main female figure in the Amores?

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Corinna

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What authors helped to inspire the Amores?

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Tibullus and Propertius

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What is another name for the Heroides?

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Epistulae Heroidum

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When were the Heroides published?

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letters 1-15: 15 B.C.

letters 16-21: sometime between 4 and 8 A.D. (before his exile)

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In what meter are the Amores?

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elegiac couplet

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What is the subject of letters 1-15 of the Heroides?

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Greek mythological women writing to their husbands (with the exception of Dido and Sappho)

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What inspired the Heroides?

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an elegy of Propertius

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In which letter of the Heroides does Dido address Aeneas?

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the 7th

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In what letter of the Heroides does Sappho address Phaeon?

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the 15th

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What is the subject of letters 16-21 of the Heroides?

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letters from lovers and replies from their women

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What three pairs make up letters 16-21 of the Heroides?

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Paris and Helen
Hero and Leander
Acontius and Cydippe

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Who suggested the format of letters 16-21 of the Heroides?

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Ovid’s friend Sabinus

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How many books are in the Ars Amatoria?

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three (the third was added later)

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What is the subject of the first book of the Ars Amatoria?

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advice to men on how to conquer women

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What is the subject if the second book of the Ars Amatoria?

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telling men how to retain a woman’s love

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What is the subject of the third book of the Ars Amatoria?

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instructing women on how to seduce men

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From whom did Ovid most likely get the idea for the Ars Amatoria?

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Tibullus

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On what works did Ovid model his Ars Amatoria?

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Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura and Vergil’s Georgics (both were didactic)

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Where can quotations from the Ars Amatoria be found?

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on the wall of Pompeii

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What is the meter of the Remedia Amoris?

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elegiac couplet

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Which work completes the didactic cycle started by the Ars Amatoria?

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Remedia Amoris

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What is the subject of the Remedia Amoris?

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how to free oneself from love

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Which work inspired the Remedia Amoris?
Lucretius's fourth work (both condemn love as a sickness)
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What is the meaning of Medicamina Faciei Feminae?
The Cosmetics of a Woman
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What is the meter of Medicamina Faciei Feminae?
elegiac couplet
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What is the subject of Medicamina Faciei Feminae?
cosmetics and the technique of application
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When did Ovid write the Metamorphoses?
from 2-8 A.D.
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How many books are in the Metamorphoses?
fifteen
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On what work is the Metamorphoses based?
the works of Hesiod (Theogony and Catalogue)
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In what meter is the Metamorphoses?
dactylic hexameter
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What is the latin title of the Metamorphoses?
Metamorphoseon Libri
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What are some of the stories in book 1 of the Metamorphoses?
Apollo and Daphne creation of the world Io and Jupiter Deucalion and Pyrrha
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What are some of the stories in book 2 of the Metamorphoses?
Phaeton
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What are some of the subjects in book 3 of the Metamorphoses?
Narcissus and Echo Actaeon and Diana Pentheus and Bacchus
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What are some of the subjects in book 4 of the Metamorphoses?
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus Pyramus and Thisbe Andromedus and Perseus
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What are some of the subjects in book 5 of the Metamorphoses?
Cyane and Arethusa | Proserpina
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What are some of the subjects in book 6 of the Metamorphoses?
Procne, Tereus, and Philomela Athena and Arachne Niobe (overall jealousy of the gods)
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What are some of the subjects in book 7 of the Metamorphoses?
Procris and Cephalus | Medea
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What are some if the subjects in book 8 of the Metamorphoses?
Meleager and the Calydonian boar hunt Icarus and Daedalus Baucis and Philemon Erysicthon
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What are some of the subjects in book 9 of the Metamorphoses?
Byblis | labors of Hercules
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What are some of the subjects in book 10 of the Metamorphoses?
Hyacinthus Eurydice and Orpheus Myrrha Pygmalion
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What are some of the subjects in book 11 of the Metamorphoses?
Peleus and Theris | Ceyx and Alcyone
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What are some of the subjects in book 12 of the Metamorphoses?
Lapiths vs. Centaurs | Achilles
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What are some of the subjects in book 13 of the Metamorphoses?
Ajax vs. Ulysses for the armor of Achilles | Polyphemus and Galatea
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What are some of the subjects of book 14 of the Metamorphoses?
Rome and the kings the Odyssey Aeneas stories of Latium and their gods, Pomona and Vertumnus
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What are some of the subjects in book 15 of the Metamorphoses?
Caesar Augustus Pythagoras
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What marks the transition from mythological stories to history in the Metamorphoses?
the introduction of Trojan War characters
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What does Ovid proclaim in the last verses of the Metamorphoses?
his certainty that he has achieved immortal fame
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What was the Fasti?
a poetic calendar
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What is the meter of the Fasti?
elegiac couplet
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How many books are in Fasti?
6 books, one for each month from January to July (intended for there to be 12, interrupted by his exile)
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On what is the Fast modeled?
Propertius's works and Callimachus's Aitia
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From whose works does Ovid draw information for the Fasti?
Verrius Flaccus, Varro, Livy, et al
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Who does Ovid criticize in the Fasti?
Augustus and Romulus
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How many books are in the Tristia?
5 books
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What was Ovid's first work in exile?
the Tristia
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What is the subject of the Tristia?
Ovid hates his exile and wants to come back to Rome
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How many books are in the Epistulae ex Ponto?
4 books
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When were the Epistulae ex Ponto published?
the first three books in 13 B.C., the fourth posthumously
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What is the meter of the Epistulae ex Ponto?
elegiac couplet
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From what does Ibis get its name?
a bird
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What is the meter of Ibis?
elegiac couplet
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When was Ibis published?
11-12 A.D.
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On what work is Ibis modeled?
a lost poem of Callimachus, probably written against Apollonius of Rhodes
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What is the subject of Ibis?
it is a long series of invectives against a detractor of Ovid's
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What is the meter of Halieutica?
hexameters
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What is the subject of Halieutica?
fishing on the Black Sea (didactic)
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How much of Medea survives?
only 2 lines (it was a tragedy)
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How many books are in the first edition of the Amores, and how many are in the second edition?
5 books, revised in 1 A.D. to contain 3 books

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