part 2 Flashcards
Catullus 61-68
Epyllions, known as Carmina docta
Catullus 69-116
Epigrams in elegiac couplets
Dedicatee of Catullus 101
Cornelius Nepos
Catullus’ description of Cicero
disertissime Romuli nepotum
Catullus 5
Vivamus, mea Lesbia
Catullus 8
Miser Catulle
Catullus 85
Odi et amo
Catullus 76
Si qua recordanti
Other trifles in Catullus
Arrius’ adding of H to words, criticizes Rufus’ body order
Catullus 63
Attis and Cybele
Catullus 64
Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, includes the ekphrasis (built in disgression) of Theseus’ abandonment of Ariadne on Naxos
Catullus 61 and 62
ephitalamia (wedding sons)
Catullus 61
wedding song for the major of Manlius Torquatus and Vinia Aurunculeia, invitation to Hymenaeus, god of weddings
Catullus 62
hexameter strophes sung by two chorsus of boys and girls on the subject of marriage and virginity
Catullus 65
Catullus writes to Hortensius, excusing his only writing a translation rather than an original poem on the basis for his grief for his dead brother
Catullus 66
Catullus’ translation of Callimachus’ Lock of Berenice
Catullus 68
Story of Protesilaus and Laodamia
Lucretius’ death supposedly occurred when
on the day that Virgil put on the Toga virilis, while Pompey and crassus were consuls
Jerome’s accusation against Lucretius
Cicero edited Lucretius’ works
Jerome’s story of Lucretius’ death
made insane by a love potion and killed himself
Vergil’s description of Lucretius
felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Length of De Rerum Natura
Six books
Basis for De Rerum Natura
Epicurus’ Peri Physeos
Dedicatee of De Rerum Natura
Memmius
Transmittance of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
On two ninth-century manuscripts, the Oblongus and Quadratus
Poem aimed to popularize Epicurean doctrine in the form of a didactic poem
Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
Contemporary thought on De Rerum Natura
the work was not finished
Summary of Lucretius’ sixth book
physical phenomena, such as thunderbolts and earthquakes, are natural, not the products of divine will
Final event in the De Rerum Natura
plague of Athens
Cicero’s guides in the forum at the beginning of his career
Lucius Licinius Crassus and the two Quintus Mucius Scaevolas
Discoverer of the tomb of Archimedes
Cicero
Cicero’s description of Titus Pompinius Atticus
my light
Cicero’s military service
Served in the Social War under Pompeius Strabo
Cicero’s first case and its year
Pro Quinctio, 81 BC
Pro Quinctio
Cicero defends Quinctius against Sextus Naevius in dispute over a firm
Pro Roscio Amerino
Cicero challenges a powerful freedman of Sulla (Chrysogonus), accusing him of Roscius’ murder
Cicero’s attempt to escape consequences in Pro Roscio Amerino
he heaps praise upon Sulla
Cicero’s first wife
Terentia
Cicero defends the defendant against Sextus Naevius in dispute over a farm
Pro Quinctio
Cicero challenges a powerful freedman of Sulla, accusing him of the murder of Roscius
Pro Roscio Amerino
Children of Cicero and Terentia and their birthdates
Tullia, b. 76 B.C., and Marcus, b. 65 B.C.
Cicero’s political career
Quaestor in Sicily in 75 B.C., Aedile in 69 B.C., Consul in 63 B.C., governor in Cilicia in 51 B.C.
Pro Lege Manilia
Cicero agues in favor of giving Pompey extraordinary powers to defeat Mithridates of Pontus
Cicero’s co-consul
C. Antonius Hybrida
Cicero’s support in the civil war
supported Pompey, but received a pardon by Caesar
Cicero’s second wife
his young ward Publilia
Reason for Cicero’s divorce of Publilia
insensitive to his grief over his daughter Tullia’s death
Date of Cicero’s daughter Tullia’s death
45 BC
Date of Cicero’s Philippics
44 BC
Date of Cicero’s death
December 7, 43 B.C.
Cicero’s slave and scribe
Tiro
Cicero’s son-in-law
Tiro
Wrote five books of commentaries on Cicero for his young sons
Asconius Pedianus
Prosecutor in Pro Quinctio
Hortensius Hortalus
Pro Roscio Comedo
Cicero defends his friend and actor Roscius. Roscius partnered with Fannius to train the slave Panurgus as an actor. Panurgus is murdered by Flavius, who pays damage to Roscius in the form of a farm, which Fannius claimed half of
Pro Tullio
Cicero prosecutes a verteran of Sulla who had destroyed the country house of his plaintiff Tullius.
In Verrem
Cicero prosecutes Verres, corrupt governor of Sicily, who was defended by Hortensius Hortalus
Verres’ response to the In Verrem
fled the country before Cicero could finish
Cicero’s work attempting to expose the evils of the existing system of provincial administration
Actio Secunda in Verrem
Length of Actio Secunda in Verrem
5 books
Divinatio in Quintum Caecilium
Cicero defends his right to appear as Verres’ prosecutor.
Pro Fonteio
Cicero defends Fonteius, former governor of Gaul, against a charge of maladministration.
Date of Cicero’s first case
81 B.C.
Pro Caecina
Cicero examines whether Caecina has used illegal force to take some land which his late wife had been a tenant of
Pro Cluentio
Defense of Cluentius against a charge of poisoning.
Alternate name for Pro Lege Manilia
De Imperio Gnaei Pompei
Alternate name for De Lege Agraria
Contra Rullum
De Lege Agraria
Rullus, an agent of Caesar, has introduced legislation to give land to the surplus population of Rome. Cicero attacks the law as impractical.
Length of De Lege Agraria/Contra Rullum
3 speeches
Pro Rabirio Perduellionis
Cicero defends the aged knight Rabirius against a church, instigated by Caesar, of murdering a popular leader (Saturninus) 37 years earlier.
Pro Murena
Cicero defends Murena, a consul designate accused of electoral corruption by the defeated Servius Sulpicius Rufus and Cato the Younger
Assistants to Cicero in defending Murena
Hortensius and Crassus
Speech Delivered between the first and second Catilinarians
Pro Murena
Number of Catilinarians
4, two to the people, two to the Senate
Cicero’s rhetorical device imagining the Country itself as rebuking Catiline
prosopopoeia
Date and Addressee of First Catilinarian
November 8th, the Senate
Date and Addressee of Second Catilinarian
November 9th, people
Date and Addressee of Third Catilinarian
December 3rd, people
Date and Addressee of Fourth Catilinarian
December 5th, senate
Subject of Third Catilinarian
reports arrest of conspirators and the evidence provided by the Allobroges
Subject of fourth Catilinarian
argues for death penalty for the conspirators
Title given to Cicero by Cato the Younger
pater patriae
Pro Sulla
Cicero defends Sulla against a charge of complicity in the Catilinarian conspiracy
Pro Archia Poeta
Cicero defends the citizenship of the Greek poet Archia
Pro Flacco
Cicero defends Flaccus against a charge of extortion as governor in Asia
Cicero’s method of defense in Pro Flacco
impugns the character of the witnesses, Asiatic Greeks and Jews
Cicero’s two speeches thanking various people for allowing him to return from exile
Post Reditum in Senatu, Post Reditum in Quirites
De Domo Sua
Cicero argues he deserves compensation for his house, which has been destroyed by Clodius
De Haruspicum Responso
rejects the claims of Clodius that the “suspicious noises” heard around Rome were attributed to the reconstruction of Cicero’s house
Pro Sestio
Cicero defends Sestius, a tribune accused by Clodius of acts of violence under the lex de vi
In Vatinium
Cicero prosecutes Vatinius, a witness who had given testimony against Sestius
Pro Caelio
Defends his friend Caelius Rufus against the charge of poisoning his lover Clodia
Cicero’s method of defense in Pro Caelio
attacks Caelius’ lover Clodia (and by extension her brother, Clodius), including by implying incest between her and Claudius
De Provinciis Consularibus
Cicero speaks in favor of renewing Caesar’s Gallic command
Pro Balbo
Cicero defends the citizenship of Balbus, a rich Spaniard
In Pisonem
Cicero replies to Piso’s complaints about the De Provinciis Consularibus
Pro Plancio
Cicero defends an aedile who had befriended him in exile against the charge of procuring his election by bribery
Pro Rabirio Postumo
Cicero defends Rabirius Postumus, a friend of Caesar, against the charge of extorting oney from Ptolemy Auletes
Pro Aemilio Scauro
Cicero defends Marcus Aemilius Scarus against charges of extortion
Pro Milone
Cicero argues that Milo’s murder of Clodius on the Appian Way was in self-defense
Issues with Cicero’s delivery of the Pro Milone
Cicero was so frightened by partisans of Clodius in the courtroom that he was unable to deliver his speech
Pro Marcello
Cicero argues for the pardon of a former Pompeian, Marcellus
Pro Ligario
Cicero defends Ligarius, tried as an enemy of Caesar, moved Caesar to acquit him
Pro Rege Deiotaro
Cicero defends the Galatian king Deiotarus on the charge of attempting to murder Caesar
Number of Philippics
14
Basis for Cicero’s Philippics
Demosthenes’ orations against King Philip
Last Phillipic
Cicero proposes a public thanksgiving for the defeat of Antony at Mutina
Method of Cicero’s attacks in the Philippics
Cicero denounces Antony as a brute and a drunken bully
Cicero’s work in two books, defines the parts of speech and defends eloquence
De Inventione
Cicero’s largest treatise, in 3 books, dialogue on the difficulty and usefulness of the orator’s art
De Oratore
Interlocutors in De Oratore
Lucius Licinius Crassus and Marcus Antonius
Written for the instruction of Cicero’s son, describes the components of oratory
Partitiones Oratoriae
Interlocutors in Partitiones Oratoriae
Marcus Junior and Marcus Senior
Cicero’s work refuting Atticism
De Optimo Genere Oratorum
Critical history of Roman oratory down to Cicero
Brutus
Last orator discussed in Brutus
Hortensius Hortalus
Greatest orators according to Cicero
Marcus Antonius, Licinius Crassus, Julius Caesar, Licinius Calvus, and Hortensius Hortalus
Dedicatee of Orator/De Optimo Genere Dicendi
M. Brutus
Cicero’s treatise on the ideal orator and the path of his training
De Optimo Genere Dicendi
Another name for Cicero’s De Optimo Genere Dicendi
Orator
Cicero comments on a copy of Aristotle’s Topica
Topica
Sixth book of Cicero’s De Re Publica
Somnium Scipionis
Cicero’s work in six books, describes the degeneration of the state and contains the famous Somnium Scipionis
De Re Publica
Sequel to the De Re Publica
De Legibus
Cicero’s work in 5 books, treating the origins of laws
De Legibus
Interlocutors in Cicero’s De Legibus
Cicero, his brother Quintus, and Atticus
Dedicatee of Paradoxica Stoicorum
Brutus
Cicero’s treatise on epistemology
Academica
Division of Cicero’s Academica
two sections, the Priora and the Posteriora
Cicero’s work describing the philosophy of Stoicism
Paradoxica Stoicorum
Cicero examines the chief good which is the final end of life in 5 books
De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
Cicero’s examination in 5 books of the essentials of happiness, set at Cicero’s villa
Tusculanae Disputationes
Dedicatee of Cicero’s Tusculanae Disputationes
Brutus
Cicero’s work in 3 bookssetting forth the views of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Academics on the gods
De Natura Deorum
Interlocutors in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum
C. Vellius (Epicurean), Q. Lucilius Balbus (Stoic), and C. Aurelius Cotta (Academic)
Cicero’s treatment on divination, supplement to De Natura Deorum
De Divinatione
Cicero’s analysis of fate
De Fato
Dedicatee and principal speaker of Cicero’s De Fato
Aulus Hirtius
Cicero’s work examining old age
Cato Maior de Senectute
Interlocutors in Cicero’s Cato Maior de Senectute
Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus Minor, and Laelius
Cicero’s examination of friendship, companion piece to De Senectute
Laelius de Amicitia
Laelius’ determination on friendship
patriotism must supersede friendship
Addressee of Laelius de Amicitia
Atticus
Cicero’s work, in three books, examining moral duties, addressed to his son studying in Athens
De Officiis
Cicero’s two works addressed to his son
Partitiones Oratoriae and De Officiis
Cicero’s last work
De Officiis
Cicero’s letters from 62-43 B.C., includes the letter written to Cicero by the jurist Sulpicius on Cicero’s daughter Tullia’s death
Ad Familiares
Length of Cicero’s Ad Familiares
16 books
Editor of Cicero’s Ad Familiares
Tiro
Editor of Cicero’s Ad Atticum
Atticus
Cicero’s letters from 68-44 B.C. to his close friend
Ad Atticum
Length of Cicero’s Ad Atticum
16 books
Cicero’s letters to his brother, includes his brother’s questions on campaigning for the consulship
Ad Quintum Fratrem
Length of Cicero’s Ad Quintum Fratrem
27 letters in 3 books
Cicero’s letters of disputed authenticity
Ad Marcum Brutum
Cicero’s translation of Aratus’ astronomical Phaenomena, in his youth
Aratea
Cicero’s most successful poetic work
Aratea
Cicero’s epic poem
Marius
Cicero’s self-laudatory poem on his consulship
De Consulatu Suo
Quotes from Cicero’s De Consulatu Suo
O Fortunatam me consule Romam and cedant arma togae
Other Poetic works of Cicero
Juvenalia, Limon, Uxorius, Nilus, Thalia Maesta
Cicero’s work, now lost, written after the death of his daughter Tullia
Consolatio
Cicero’s work, now lost, an exhortation to the study of philosophy
Hortensius
Cicero’s lost prose works
Consolatio, Hortensius, Laus Catonis, De Gloria, De Virtutibus, De Auguriis, De Consiliis Suis, Chorographia, Admiranda
Cicero’s work, now lost, on geography
Chorographia
Cicero’s work, now lost, on curiosities
Admiranda
Cicero’s translations
Plato’s Timaeus, Plato’s Protagoras, Xenophon’s Oeconomicus
Brother of M. Tullius Cicero
Q. Tullius Cicero
Quintus Cicero’s political career
Praetor in 62 B.C, Governor of Asia from 61-58 B.C., served under Pompey in Sardinia, Caesar in Gaul, and his brother in Cilicia
Death of Quintus Cicero
Supported Pompey, forgiven by Caesar, but killed under Antony’s proscriptions
Works of Quintus Cicero
tragedies, none of which survive
Meeting place for those interested in antiquarian research
Titus Pomponius Atticus’ house on the Quirinal
Titus Pomponius Atticus’ summary of history down to the year 49 BC
Liber Annalis
Author of Liber Annalis
Titus Pomponius Atticus
People whom Titus Pomponius Atticus protected
Cicero’s Terentia and Antony’s wife Fulvia and lieutenant Volumnius
Cicero’s publisher
Titus Pomponius Atticus
Titus Pomponius Atticus’ other work
genealogical treatise on certain Roman families and the magistracies they held
Varro Reatinus’ political career
Quaestor in 85 B.C., later a tribune and a praetor, legate for Pompey in Spain during the Civil War
Varro Reatinus’ military career
fought in the Dalmatian campaign from 78-77, and was in Pompey’s entourage for the fight against Sertorius and later against pirates
Caesar’s task for Varro Reatinus
create a large library
Saver of Varro and Fundania from proscription in 43 BC
Fufius Calienus
Coiner of the term “Menippean Satires”
Varro Reatinus
Setter of Rome’s foundation at 753 B.C.
Varro Reatinus
Only living author whose bust was displayed in Pollio’s library
Varro Reatinus
Basis of the structure of Vergil’s Georgics
Varro Reatinus’ De Re Rustica
Varro Reatinus’ claim about the Muses
if the Muses spoke Latin they would speak like Plautus
Quintilian’s description of Varro Reatinus
most learned of the Romans
Number of Varro Reatinus’ works
over 600
Length of Varro Reatinus’ De Lingua Latina, and number of extant books
25 books, 6 extant
Varro Reatinus’ work on the origins of language
De Lingua Latina
Dedicatee of most of Varro Reatinus’ De Lingua Latina
Cicero
Varro Reatinus’ treatise on the rural life
De Re Rustica
Dedicatee of most of Varro Reatinus’ De Re Rustica
his wife, Fundania
Length of Varro Reatinus’ Menippean Satires
150 books
Menippean Satires
mixed verse and prose
Dedicatee of Varro Reatinus’ Antiquates rerum divinarum et humanarum
Caesar
Augustine’s attack on Varro Reatinus
Varro’s pagan theology
Varro Reatinus’ examination of Rome’s origins, foundation, and theology
Antiquates Rerum divinarum et humanarum
Length of Varro Reatinus’ Antiquates rerum divinarum et humanarum
25 books
Varro Reatinus’ work containing seven hundred biographies, each accompanied by an epigram
Hebdomades/Imagines
Varro Reatinus’ dialogues on philosophical and historical subjects, in prose
Logistorici
Number of Varro Reatinus’ Imagines
700
Varro Reatinus’ nine-book dictionary on the liberal arts
Disciplinae
Length of Varro Reatinus’ Disciplinae
9 books
Two autobiographical works of Varro Reatinus
De Vita Sua, Legationes
Varro Reatinus’ literary chronology of poets
De Poetis
Other major works of Varro
De Vita Populi Romani, De Gente Populi Romani, Annales, Ephemeris Navalis ad Pompeium, De Ora Maritima, Quaestiones Plautinae, De Comoediis Plautinis, De Scaenicis Originibus, De Actionibus Scaenicis, De Iure Civili
Friend of Cicero who “revived Pythagoreanism”
Nigidius Figulus
Constant opponent of Caesar, exiled and died in 45 BC
Nigidius Figulus
Major work of Nigidius Figulus
Commentarii Grammatici
Length of Nigidius Figulus’ Commentarii Grammatici
29 books
Meaning of Nigidius Figulus’ cognomen and origin
potter, he declared that the world turns on its own axis at the speed of a potter’s wheel
Philosophical school Nigidius Figulus was associated with
Neo-Pythagorean
Opinion on Nigidius Figulus by his contemporaries
Thought to have been a magician, due to his lofty subject matter
Lucan’s depiction of Nigidius Figulus
Figulus utters prophecies at the start of Lucan’s Pharsalia
Other works of Nigidius Figulus
Despaera Graecania, De Vento, De Terris, De Somnis, De Extis, De Diis
First Biographer
Cornelius Nepos
Nepos’ work in 3 books, a universal history
Chronica
Nepos’ work in 5 books, a collection of curiosities, notices, and geography, used by Pliny the Elder as a source
Exempla
Nepos’ biographical work in 16 books
De Viris Illustribus
Book of the De Viris Illustribus on foreign military leaders
De Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium
Biography of Nepos where he intended to show the example of an old-fashioned virtue combined with modern values
Atticus
Caesar’s relatives
Marius and Cinna
Caesar’s son by Cleopatra
Caesarion
Caesar’s relationship with his wife ended how
Supposedly fled to Bithynia after refusing to divorce Cornelia
Caesar’s political career
Quaestor in Spain (68 B.C.), Aedile (65 B.C.), Pontifex Maximus (63 B.C.), Praetor (62 B.C.), Propraetor in Further Spain (61 B.C.), First Triumvirate (60 B.C.), Consul (59 B.C.), governor of Illyria and Romanized Gaul (58 B.C.), dictator for life (44 B.C.)
Caesar’s magnum opus on the war in Gaul
De Bello Gallico
8th book of De Bello Gallico
written by Aulus Hirtius
Caesar’s secondary commentary
De Bello Civili (unfinished)
Author of a verse epigram on Terence
Caesar
Subject matter of the funeral elegy which Caesar wrote
funeral elegy for his aunt Julia, in which he asserts the descent of his gens from Iulus, Aeneas, and Venus
Caesar’s work in 2 books on grammar language and style
De Analogia
Dedicatee of Caesar’s De Analogia
Cicero
Time when Caesar’s De Analogia was written
during a journey across the Alps
Poem on Caesar’s expedition to Spain
Iter
Caesar’s tragedy, lost
Oedipus
Caesar’s pamphlet in 2 books, written as a reply to Cicero’s elegy of Cato the Younger
Anticatones
Cicero’s elegy of Cato the Younger
Laus Catonis
Caesar’s treatise on astronomy
De Astris
Poem written by Caesar on Hercules
Laudes Herculis
Minor works of Caesar
Dicta Collectanea
Works of the spurious Corpus Caesarianum
Bellum Alexandrinum, Bellum Africum, Bellum Hispaniense
Likely author of Bellum Alexandrinum
Aulus Hirtius
Likely authors of the Corpus Caesarianum
various officers of Caesar
De Bello Gallico, Book 1
Campaign against the Helvetii and Ariovistus
De Bello Gallico, Book 2
revolt of Gallic tribes
De Bello Gallico, Book 3
campaign against Atlantic coast peoples
De Bello Gallico, Book 4
Operations against German peoples who had crossed the Rhine, rebel Gallic leaders, and the Britons
De Bello Gallico, Book 5
Expeditions against the Britons and extermination of Gallia Belgica
De Bello Gallico, Book 6
Extermination of Gallia Belgica
De Bello Gallico, Book 7
Caesar’s defeat of Vercingetorix
Novus homo, despite being from a noble family
Sallust
Tribune of the plebs who led a campaign against Milo and Cicero
Sallust
Expelled from the senate for moral degeneracy
Sallust
Sallust’s residence
Horti Sallustiani between the Quirinal and the Pincian
Sallust’s political career
tribune of the plebs (52 B.C.), quaestor (49 B.C.), praetor (46 B.C.)
Sallust’s governorship
crappy administrator of Africa Nova, and is accused of embezzlement when he returns
Sallust’s last and unfinished work
Historiae
Sallust’s historical monograph on Catiline
Bellum Catilinae
Only two great men of the time according to Sallust
Caesar and Cato
Sallust’s quote on the war with Jugurtha
first occasion when “men dared to oppose the insolence of the nobility”
Jugurtha’s description of Rome
urbs venalis (“city for sale”)
Sallust’s description of the war against Jugurtha
Bellum Iugurthinum
Sallust’s greatest historical work, covering the period between 78 and 67 B.C.
Historiae
What events does Sallust’s Histories cover
Death of Sulla to the end of Pompey against the pirates
A spurious work of Sallust directed against Cicero
Invectiva in Ciceronem
Spurious work of Sallust’s letters
Epistulae ad Caesarem Senem de Republica
Sallust’s most constant theme
corrupted institutions and the greed that has brought the decline of the republic
Inconncinitas and its developer
rejection of symmetry, Sallust
Augustus’ propagandistic biography
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Place where a great part of Augustus’ Res Gestae is found
Monumentum Ankyranum
Dedicatees of Augustus’ Res Gestae
Agrippa and Maecenas
Augustus’ attempted poem
Ajax
Introducer of Horace to Maecenas
Varius Rufus (and sometimes Vergil)
Publishers of Vergil’s Aeneid after his death
Plottius Tucca and Varius Rufus
Varius Rufus’ poem on Epicureanism
De Morte
Varius Rufus’ works
Thyestes (tragedy), De Morte, Panegyric on Augustus
Maecenas’ literary circle
Vergil, Horace, and Propertius
Proposer of the Georgics
Maecenas
Maecenas’ prose Menippean Satire
Prometheus
Asinius Pollio political career
Consul in 40 B.C., won a triumph for victory over an Illyrian tribe
Founder of the first public library in Rome
Asinius Pollio
First to recite his own works to an audience
Asinius Pollio
Asinius Pollo’s criticisms
Cicero for a lack of Latinitas, Livy for having Patavinitas, and Caesar for lacking diligentia in his historical writing
Asinius Pollio’s major work
Historiae, a lost history of the Civil Wars
Period Covered by Asinius Pollio’s Historiae
consulship of Metellus in 60 B.C. to Phillippi
Military career of Valerius Messalla
fought with Brutus, Cassius, and then Antony but switched to Octavian at the right moment
Circle of Valerius Messalla
Tibullus, Ovid, Lygdamus, Sulpicia the Elder
Vergil’s earliest schoolteachers
Siro and Epidius
Mother of Vergil
Magia Pollia
Introducer of Vergil to Callimachean poetry
Parthenius
Story of Vergil and Augustus
following his victory over Antony and Cleopatra, Octavian stopped at Vergil’s house and had Vergil read him from the Georgics
Circumstances of Vergil’s death
At Brundisium, returning from a voyage to Greece.
Vergil’s work on the lives of shepherds
Eclogues
Number of Books in the Eclogues
10
Basis for Vergil’s Eclogues
Theocritus’ Idylls
What does Vergil refuse to speak of in his Eclogues
reges et proelia
Dedicatees of Vergil’s Eclogues
Books 4 and 8, Asinius Pollio, Books 6 and 10, Cornelius Gallus, overall work, Octavian
Eclogue 1
Dialogue between Tityrus and Meliboeus on land confiscations
Eclogue 2
The shepherd Corydon complains of his love for Alexis
Eclogue 4
The Messianic Eclogue on the birth of a child who will witness a new and happy cosmic age
Eclogue 5
Menalcas and Mopsus lament the death of Daphnis, a deified pastoral hero
Eclogue 6
The aged Silenus is captured by two young men and sings on a number of topics
Eclogue 7
Meliboeus recounts a duel between the Arcadian shepherds Thyrsis and Corydon
Eclogue 8
A singing contest dedicated to Asinius Pollio, with two stories of unhappy love: the lament of Damon, who will choose death, and the magical practices of a woman in love
Eclogue 9
Dialogue between two shepherd-poets on the reality of the Mantuan countryside and the expropriations that followed the Civil Wars
Eclogue 10
The poet Vergil consoles Cornelius Gallus for his love pains
Basis for Vergil’s Georgics
Hesiod’s Works and Days
Dedicatee of Vergil’s Georgics
Maecenas
Reason Vergil had to forfeit his farm (later got it back)
too close to wretched Cremona
Georgics Book 1
working of the fields, digression: the civil wars
Georgics Book 2
arboriculture, digression: the praise of the rural life
Georgics Book 3
Raising of livestock, digression: plague among animals of Noricum
Georgics Book 4
beekeeping, digression: story of Aristaeus and his bees, further digression: Orpheus and Eurydice
Original ending of Georgics Book 4 and reason for change
laudes Galli (praise of Gallus), removed when Gallus committed suicide after falling into disgrace with Augustus
Part of the purpose of the Aeneid
Praise Augustus’ ancestors
Order of Vergil’s will
Aeneid should be burned
Act of drawing prophecy from the Aeneid
Sortes Vergilianae
Aeneid Book 1
Juno provokes Aeolus to send the winds against Aeneas’ fleet, they are forced to put ashore near Carthage, Dido welcomes them and asks to recount the fall of Troy
Aeneid Book 2
Aeneas recounts the end of Troy, in which he loses Creusa
Aeneid Book 3
Aeneas’ account of his travels
Aeneid Book 4
Story of Dido’s love for Aeneas and after his desertion, her suicide
Aeneid Book 5
Trojans stop in Sicily and celebrate the funeral games of Anchises
Aeneid Book 6
Aeneas consults with the Cumaean Sibiyl and sees Deiphobus, Dido, Palinurus, Anchises, and a parade of future Roman heroes
Aeneid Book 7
Aeneas disembarks at the mouth of the Tiber, makes a pact with Latinus, which is destroyed when Juno launches Allecto to stir up Turnus and Amata
Aeneid Book 8
Aeneas allies with Evander against Mezentius and receives a set of armor made by Vlucan
Aeneid Book 9
The Trojan youths Nisus and Euryalus are killed during a nighttime expedition
Aeneid Book 10
Aeneas comes back to the battle, but Turnus kills Evander’s son Pallas and strips him of his belt, Aeneas kills Mezentius
Aeneid Book 11
Aeneas mourns Pallas, Camilla the Latin warrior dies
Aeneid Book 12
duel between Aeneas and Turnus, Aeneas slays Turnus, not sparing him after seeing the belt of Pallas
Author of the twelve book Interpretationes, with each book dissecting the Aeneid’s respective book
Tiberius Claudius Donatus
Meter for all of Vergil’s works
hexameter
Horace’s father
freedman, cofactor exactionum (collector of payments at auctions), and Horace’s paedagogus.
Horace’s schoolteacher
Orbilius
Horace’s nickname for Orbilius and the reason
plagosus because of his penchant for blow
Orbilius’ teaching in school
Orbilius stressed the archaic poets
Claimed to know the Odusia by heart
Horace
Horace’s military career
joined Brutus’ army and served as military tribune at Philippi
Horace’s job following the confiscation of his farm
scriba quaestorius
Horace refused what job
Augustus’ offer to make Horace his personal secretary
Horace’s companion to Brundisium
Vergil
Patron and author who died two months apart
Horace and Maecenas
Horace’s 17 short poems written between 41 and 30 BC
Epodes
Accompanied the second book of Horace’s Satires
Epodes
Horace’s name for the Epodes and his reason
Iambi, because of the predominating Iambic rhythm
Message of the Epode’s’ prefatory poem
Horace claims he will accompany Maecenas to face any danger
Events in Horace’s epodes
invective against the witch Canidia, playful invective against garlic (and Maecenas, who prepared it for him).
Horace’s claim in his Epodes
he is the first to bring Archilochus’ iambs to Latium
Epode 10
reverse propempticon (wishing someone a good voyage) to Maevius, wishing Maevius a shipwreck
Source for Horace’s Epodes
Archilochus and Hipponax
Length of Horace’s Epodes
17 poems
Length of Horace’s Satires
Two books, total of 18 satires
Horace’s famous Satire on a journey
Journey to Brundisium
Events in Horace’s satires
Ofellus, the Stoic Damasippus, Stertinius, Catius’ gastronomic theory; Tiresias and Ulysses on building estate; Horace and his slave Davus; the rich man Nasidienus expounds on gastronoimic theory
Credited by Horace with inventing satire
Lucilius
Length of Horace’s Odes
4 books
Horace’s work, composed at Augustus’ behest for the Ludi Saeculares
Carmen Saeculare
Meter of the Carmen Saeculare
Sapphic
Theme of Carmen Saeculare
hymn to the gods, especially Apollo and Diana, asking for prosperity for Rome and Augustus’ government.
Performers of Carmen Saeculare
27 boys and 27 girls
Events of Horace’s Odes
Ode to Thaliarcus on winter, ode on Sappho and Alcaeus bewitching the Underworld with their song
Famous quote of Horace’s Odes
Carpe diem
Length of Horace’s Epistles
2 books
Dedicatee of the prefatory epistle of Horace
Maecenas
New Literary Genre of Horace, and its work
Verse epistle, Epistles
Events of Horace’s Epistles
Horace instructs Tibullus on Epicurean precepts; Horace advises Lollius on reading Homer; Homer talks to Fuscus on city and country life
Two epistles of Horace’s second book
Augustus, criticizing admiration for the archaic poets and examines the development of Roman literature. The second, to Julis Florus, is a sort of retirement from poetry and describes the Roman writer’s daily life and the pursuit of philosophical wisdom.
Horace’s work which may have been in the second book the Epistles
Ars Poetica
Alternate name for the Ars Poetica
Epistula ad Pisones
Horace’s source for the Ars Poetica
Neoptolemus of Parium
Horace’s treatise in 476 lines on theories of poetry
Ars Poetica
Length of Horace’s Ars Poetica
476 Lines
Quintilian’s order of elegiac authors
Cornelius Gallus, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid
Friend and fellow student of Vergil at Rome
Cornelius Gallus
How Cornelius Gallus helped Vergil
helped preserve his land during the land confiscations following Philippi
First prefect of Egypt
Cornelius Gallus
Cornelius Gallus’ downfall and reason
fell into disgrace through his haughtiness as praefectus Aegypti, perhaps erecting figures to himself instead of Augustus. Gallus later committed suicide.
Cornelius Gallus’ major work
Amores
Length of Cornelius Gallus’ Amores
4 books
Other lover of Volumnia
Cornelius Gallus
Poet of whom Gallus was an admirer
Euphorion
Dedicatee of Parthenius’ Erotika Pathemata
Cornelius Gallus
Parthenius’ collection of prose myths about love
Erotika Pathemata
Greatest elegist according to Ovid
Cornelius Gallus
Quintilian’s opinion of Tibullus
terse but elegant (“tarsus atque elegans”)
Tibullus’ work
Corpus Tibullianum
Length of the Corpus Tibullianum
4 books
Loves of Tibullus
Delia (Plania), Nemesis, Marathus
Primary writer of Book 3 of the Corpus Tibullianum and his love
Lygdamus, Neaera
Other figure in the Corpus Tibullianum and her love
Sulpicia, Cerinthus
First Book of Propertius’ Elegies
Monobiblos
Length of Propertius’ Elegies
Four books
Addressee of Propertius’ first book of elegies
Cynthia
Subject of Propertius’ third book
epicedion for the death of Marcellus, Augustus’ son-in-law and adopted son, and how Cynthia visits him as a ghost in a dream.
Other consolation in Propertius’ elegies
on the death of Cornelia, Scribona’s daughter
Propertius’ opinion on the Aeneid
the Aeneid was a work greater than the Iliad
Propertius’ declares himself
the “Roman Callimachus”
The Roman Alcaeus
Horace
Claimant to be the first to treat Italian subjects in Greek strains
Propertius
Teachers of Ovid
Arellius Fuscus and Porcius Latro
Ovid’s original career path
law and politics, as his father wanted
Ovid’s daughter
Perilla
Married three times
Ovid
Why Ovid was exiled to Tomi
Carmen et Error
Ovid’s place of exile
Tomi on the Black Sea
What was Ovid’s Carmen et Error
Involved in the adultery of Julia Minor, Augustus’ granddaughter, with Decimus Junius Silanus, or the raunchiness of his Ars Amatoria/Metamorphoses
Ovid’s First Work
Amores
Length of Ovid’s Amores
5 books
Ovid’s new literary genre and its work
mythological elegy, Heroides
Length of Ovid’s Heroides
21 total letters, 15 one-way, 3 double letters (letter and response)
Letters by aggrieved heroines to their erstwhile lovers
Ovid’s Heroides
Double Heroides
Paris and Helen, Hero and Leander, Acontius and Cyddipe
Ovid’s lost tragedy, highly popular in antiquity
Medea
Length of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria
3 books, first two on seducing women, third on seducing men
Ovid’s didactic poem on seduction
Ars Amatoria
The opposite of the Ars Amatoria, treating how to fall out of love
Remedia Amoris
Ovid’s didactic poem on the cosmetics of women
Medicamina Faciei Femineae
Length of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
15 books
Ovid’s magnum opus, a collection over 250 myths, chronicling the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Caesar
Metamorphoses
Ovid’s poetic calendar on Roman and Italian traditions and myths
Fasti
Dedicatee of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Germanicus
Length of Ovid’s Fasti, its intended length, and the reason for the intended length
6 books, 12 books, one book for each month
Ovid’s first work in exile, first book written during the voyage to Tomi
Tristia
Contents of the second book of Ovid’s Tristia
a plea and defense addressed to Augustus
Length of Ovid’s Tristia
5 books
Ovid’s work, entirely in letters, describing the rigors of his exile and pleading for leniency. Includes a catalogue of Augustan age poets
Epistulae ex Ponto
Invective poem against Ovid’s enemy in Rome
Ibis
Basis for Ovid’s Ibis
Callimachus’ similar work
Ovid’s didactic poem on fishing
Halieutica
Spurious poem of Ovid about a nut tree
Nux
Unnamed work of Ovid
poem in the Getic language spoken at Tomi
Livy’s original interest
philosophy
Encouraged Claudius to write history
Livy
Livy’s massive historical work, a history of Rome from its foundation to the contemporary period
Ab Urbe Condita
Length of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
142 books
Number of Extant Books in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
35
Form of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
annalistic
Beginning and End of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Aeneas’ flight from Troy, death of Drusus I
Livy’s sources
Valerius Antias, Licinius Macer, Claudius Quadrigarius, Fabius Pictor
Criticism of Livy
He was an exornator rerum, caring more about an exciting narrative than a critical evaluation of sources.
Augustus’ joking description of Livy
a “Pompeian,” because of his Republican symapthies
Short summaries of Livy’s books
Periochae
Missing Periochae
136 and 137
Major work of Asinius Pollio
Histories
History from the first triumvirate onwards, including the Civil War
Asinius Pollio’s Histories
Builder of the first public library
Asinius Pollio
Works of Augustus
Commentarii de Vita sua and the Res Gestae (funeral inscription)
Agrippa’s work
Commentarii
Work of Pompeius Trogus
Historicae Philippicae
Length of Pompeius Trogus’ Historica Philippicae
44 books
Military career of Pompeius Trogus’ father
lieutenant of Caesar
Universal history, but focused on the history of Macedon
Pompeius Trogus’ Historicae Phillipicae
Pompeius Trogus’ primary source
the anti-Roman Timagenes
Abbreviator of Pompeius Trogus’ Historicae Phillipicae
Justin
Work of Velleius Paterculus
Historiae
Length of Velleius Paterculus’ Historiae
2 books
Dedicatee of Velleius Paterculus’ Historiae
M. Vincius
Velleius Paterculus’ military career
calvary commander under Tiberius and praetor for AD 15
Major theme of Velleius Paterculus’ Historiae
profuse praise of Tiberius
Historical work paying particular attention to novi homines and containing a laudatory portrait of Sejanus
Velleius Paterculus’ Historiae
Major Work of Valerius Maximus
Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium
Length of Valerius Maximus’ Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium
9 books
Source for pliny, Aulus Gellius, Lactantius, Priscian, Plutarch
Valerius Maximus’ Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium
Other work of Valerius Maximus
Exempla
Theme of Valerius Maximus’ Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium
Heavy praise of Tiberius
Senatorial historians opposed to Tiberius
Cremutius Cordus and Titus Labienus
Historical work, destroyed by Tiberius, glorying Brutus and terming Cassius the last of the Romans
Cremutius Cordus’ Annales
Historian, work was burned by Tiberius (we know nothing of it)
Titus Labienus
Major work of Curtius Rufus
Historiae Alexandri Magni
Length of Curtius Rufus’ Historiae Alexandri Magni
10 books
Author of Historicae Philippicae
Pompeius Trogus
Author of Historiae Alexandri Magni
Curtius Rufus
Greatest grammarian of the Augustan age
Verrius Flaccus
Verrius Flaccus’ position appointed by Augustus
tutor of Augustus’ grandsons Gaius and Lucius
Commentaries on the Roman calendar, used by Ovid
Verrius Flaccus’ Fasti
Verrius Flaccus’ dictionary of difficult or obsolete terms
De Verborum Significatu
Abridgements of Verrius Flaccus’ De Verborum Significatu
Pompeius Festus and Paulus Diaconus
Other work of Verrius Flaccus
Rerum Etruscarum Libri
Freedman of Augustus, in charge of the Palatine library
Hyginus
Author’s works include a commentary on Vergil, a treatise on agriculture, and on the origin of bees
Hyginus
Dubious works of Hyginus, likely written by a different Hyginus
Fabulae (myth collection), De Astronomia
Lost work of Hyginus
Urbes Italiae
Vitruvius’ work
De Architectura
Length of De Architectura
10 books
Vitruvius’ military and civilian career
officer in Caesar’s engineering corps and entrusted with building war machines. As a civilian, he developed the basilica of Fano
Dedicatee of De Architectura
Augustus
3rd book of De Architectura
Vitruvian Man
Author of an encyclopedic work under Tiberius’ reign encompassing agriculture, medicine, military art, oratory, philosophy, etc.
Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Extant section of Celsus’ encyclopedic work
De Medicina
Author of Compositiones, a book of prescriptions intended only for practical use
Scribonius Largus
Augustus’ and Horace’s doctor
Antonius Musa
Dubious work of Antonius Musa
De Herva Vettonica
Major work of Columella
De Re Rustica
Columella’s treatise on agriculture, tenth book is an homage to Vergil
De Re Rustica
Tenth book of Columella’s De Re Rustica
De Cultu Hortorum
Subject of the De Cultu Hortorum
gardens, which was left untreated by Vergil (he asked future writers to address the topic)
Columella whines about
how there are no schools for farmers
Work published in two editions, De Arboribus alone remains from the first, the entire second edition remains intact
Columella’s De Re Rustica
Author of a massive map and commentaries of it, set up at the Campus Martius after his death
Agrippa
Pomponius Mela’s work
De Chorographia
