part 3 Flashcards
Geographical work proceeding counterclockwise from the Straits of Gibraltar and returning there
Pomponius Mela
First “pure geographer”
Pomponius Mela
Pomponius Mela’s complaint
geography can’t be elegant
Apicius’ work (a pseud-epigraph, since he likely did not write it)
De Re Coquinaria
Collection of Recipes
Apicius’ De Re Coquinaria
Derivation of the name Apicius
famous gourmet dish
First plebeian Pontifex Maximus
Coruncianus
Freedman and secretary of Appius Claudius Caecus
Gnaeus Flavius
Work of Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus, a renowned commentary on the Twleve Tables
Triperita
The two Scaevolas
Scaevola the Augur, teacher of Cicero, and Scaevola the Pontiff, author of a systematic treatment of civil law.
Author of a consolation letter on the death of Tullia to Cicero and a famous letter on the murder of Marcus Marcellus
Sulpicius Rufus
Heads of legal schools in the Augustan Age
Labeo and Capito
Political careers of Labeo and Capito
Capito was consul, while Labeo refused Augustus’ offcer of a consulship
Works of Claudius
histories of the Etruscans and Carthagnians, a Roman history focused on Augustus’ principate, a defense of Cicero against Asinius Gallus, and a grammatical work which proposed three new letters to the Roman alphabet
Quinquennial contest of song, music, poetry, and oratory
Neronia
Institutor of the first state-supported chairs of rhetoric
Vespasian
Libretto
Fabula Saltica
Mime writer who lived under Caligula
Catullus
Major works of the mime writer Catullus
Laureolus (involved vomiting blood and a crucifixion on stage), Phasma
Seneca the Elder Nickname
The Rhetorician
Work of Seneca the Elder
Oratorum et Rhetorium Sententiae Divisones Colores
Three sons of Seneca the Elder
Novatus (took the name of Gallio), Seneca the Younger, Mela (father of Lucan)
Two parts of Seneca the Elder’s Oratorum et Rhetorium Sententiae Divisiones Colores
Controversiae, Suasoriae
Seneca the Elder’s trial of fictitious cases of Greek/Roman Law
Controversiae
Seneca the Elder’s “guiding” the action of a famous person facing a difficult decision
Suasoriae
Inventor of the recitatio
Asinius Pollio
Author reads passages of literature to an invited audience
recitatio
Exiled to death by Caligula, but saved by Caligula’s lover
Seneca the Younger
Reason for Seneca’s exile
adultery with Julia Livilla
Exiler of Seneca
Claudius
How Seneca was able to return
Agrippina the Younger persuaded Claudius to recall Seneca, so he could tutor her son Nero
Reason and manner of Seneca’s death
implication in the Pisonian conspiracy, committed suicide
Wife of Seneca the Younger
Paulina
Mother of Seneca the Younger
Helvia
Author of funeral oration for Claudius
Seneca the Younger
Seneca’s style
stichomythia (brisk interchange, line for line, of repartee between interlocutors)
Number of Seneca’s fabulae cothurnatae
9
Seneca’s fabulae cothurnatae
Hercules Furens, Hercules Oetatus, Troades, Phoenissae, Medea, Phaedra, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Phaedon
Seneca’s only surviving tragedy
Octavia
Only completely extant Roman tragedy
Seneca the Younger’s Octavia
Seneca’s treatises on ethical and philosophical questions
Dialogi
Length of Seneca’s Dialogi
12 books
Seneca questions why good men suffer misfortune when providence exists
Ad Lucilium de Providentia
Addresee of Seneca’s De Constantia Sapientis
Anaeus Serenus, an officer of Nero’s nightwatchman
Seneca argues that anger can be controlled, discussed the cruelty of Caligula
Ad Novatum de Ira
On the firmness of the wise
Ad Serenum de Constantia Sapientis
Seneca’s consolation to the daughter of Cremutus Cordus on her son’s death
Ad Marciam de Consolatione
Seneca poses the question “in what does happiness consist?”
Ad Novatum de Vita Beata
Seneca’s defense of leisure and relaxation
Ad Serenum de Otio
Seneca’s pursuit of peace of mind amidst the troubles of his life
Ad Serenum de Tranquilitate Animi
Seneca argues the value of time and the need to use it wisely
Ad Paulinum de Brevitate Vitae
Seneca consoles a powerful freedman of Claudius on the loss of his brother, really Seneca’s attempt to flatter Claudius and get him to recall Seneca from exile
Ad Polybium de Consolatione
Main purpose of Seneca’s Ad Polybium de Consolatione
to flatter Claudius and get him to recall Seneca from exile
Seneca, to his own mother concerning his exile
Ad Helviam Matrem de Consolatione
Seneca’s appeal on the duties of philanthropy, addressed to the upper class
De Beneficiis
Addressee of Seneca’s De Beneficiis
Aebutius Liberalis
Length of Seneca’s De Beneficiis
7 books
Addresee and Dedicatee of Seneca’s De Clementia
Nero
Seneca’s work designed to mollify the young emperor Nero
De Clementia
Length of Seneca’s De Clementia
3 books
Seneca’s letters addressed to his friend Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
Seneca’s new genre of Latin literature and its corresponding work
philosophical letter, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
Length of Seneca’s Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
20 books containing 124 letters
Often used as evidence to support that Seneca was a Christian
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
Seneca’s only work on science
Quaestiones Naturales
Dedicatee of Seneca’s Quaestiones Naturales
Lucilius
Seneca’s work treating questions of physics and natural phenomena
Quaestiones Naturales
Length of Seneca’s Quaestiones Naturales
7 books
Seneca’s work on moral precepts, composed on his deathbed
Quaestiones Morales
Composed on Seneca’s deathbed
Quaestiones Morales
Length of Seneca’s Quaestiones Morales
12 dialogues/books
Seneca’s Menippean Satire on the apotheosis of Claudius
Apocolocyntosis
Alternate names for Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis
Ludus de More Claudii/Divi Claudii Apotheosis per Saturam
Took his life because Tiberius found critical allusions in his tragedy Atreus. Also an orator
Mamercus Scaurus
Author of an Aeneas, his biography was written by Pliny the Younger
Pomponius Secundus
Major work of Pomponius Secundus
Aeneas
Interloctuor in Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus, wrote two fabulae praetextae, Cato and Domitius
Curiatus Maternus
Works of Curiatius Maternus
Cato and Domitius
Author of a famous epigram on the death of Tibullus
Domitius Marsus
Famous elegist, consul in 12 BC
Valgius Rufus
Author of Cynegetica, a short didactic poem on hunting
Grattius Faliscus
Author of Hellenistic didactic poetry, including De Herbis, Theriaca, and Ornithographia
Aemilius Macer
Work of Grattius Faliscus
Cynegetica
Works of Germanicus
Aratea and Prognostica
Germanicus’ translation of Aratus’ Phaenomena
Aratea
Dedicatee of Germanicus’ Aratea
Tiberius
Author of the five book didactic hexameter poem Astronomica
Manilius
Manilius’ major work
Astronomica
Author of the Astronomica, on astronomy, the zodiac, horosocpes, etc.
Manilius
Friend of Vergil and Horace, member of Maecenas’ circle
Varius Rufus
Works of Varius Rufus
Thyestes, de Morte, and Panegyric of Augustus
Author of Thyestes, de Morte, and Panegyric of Augustus
Varius Rufus
Rival of Ovid and Vergil, wrote a poem on Germanicus’ expedition
Albinovanus Pedo
Author of the Bellum Actiacum
Rabirius
Author of the Res Romanae
Cornelius Severus
Collection of poems traditionally ascribed to Vergil, although it is likely that all of the works are imitations
Appendix Vergiliana
Works in the Appenix Vergiliana
Dirae, Lydia, Catalepton, Culex, Ciris, Copa, Moretum, Priapea, Elegiae in Maecenatem, Aetna
A poem of invective on the land confiscations (AV)
Dirae
A pastoral lament to a woman named Lydia (AV)
Lydia
Two joined works of the Appendix Vergiliana
Dirae and Lydia
Collection of 15 short poems, a “container” of small texts, panegyric on Messalla (AV)
Catalepton
Epyllion on a shepherd who kills a kindly mosquito, the mosquito visits the shepherd in a dream and tells him about his descent to the Undeworld (AV)
Culex
Epyllion on the love of Scylla for Minos (AV)
Ciris
A lady innkeeper draws tenants to her inn by dancing (AV)
Copa
The morning rising of a pesant and the making of his meal, a salad (AV)
Moretum
Poems on the god Priapus (AV)
Priapea
Elegy for Maecenas (AV)
Elegiae in Maecenam
Scientific poem on the phenomena of volcanoes (AV)
Aetna
First author in Greece or Rome to create a collection of fables
Phaedrus
Freedman from Thrace
Phaedrus
Length of Phaedrus’ fables
5 books
Major inspiration for Phaedrus’ fables
Aesop
Meter of Phaedrus’ fables
iambic senarii
Work expressing the attitude of the oppressed under Tiberius and Caligula
Phaedrus’ fables
Dedicatee of one book of Phaedrus’ fables
Eutycus, a celebrated chariot driver of the Greens during Caligula’s reigns
Persecutor of Phaedrus
Sejanus
Author of Eclogues in the style of Vergil
Calpurnius Siculus
Long Panegyric on Piso in hexameters, attributed by some to Calpurnius siculus
Laus Pisonis
Major work of Nero on the war at Troy, with Paris as its hero
Troica
Author of the Troica, on the war at Troy with Paris as its hero
Nero
Poetic abridgement of the Iliad
Ilias Latina
Wrote to her husband Calenus, praised by Martial and compared to Sappho
Sulpicia
Nephew of Seneca the Younger
Lucan
Teacher of Lucan
Cornutus
Pupils of Cornutus
Lucan and Persius
Earliest friend of Lucan
Persius
Intimate friend of Lucan, at least for a while
Nero
Lucan’s work, recited at the Neronia in 60 AD
Laudes Neronis
Reason for Lucan’s break with Nero
Nero was jealous of Lucan’s literary talent
Reason for Lucan’s death
when Nero discovered Lucan’s involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy, he forced him to commit suicide
Lucan’s magnum opus
Pharsalia
Alternate name for Lucan’s Pharsalia
Bellum Civile
Subject of Lucan’s Pharsalia
Civil war between Caesar and Pompey
Termed the “Anti-Vergil”
Lucan
The “Anti-Aeneid”
Pharsalia
Unfinished in book 10 due to the author’s death
Lucan’s Pharsalia
Reason for the unfinished nature of Lucan’s Pharsalia
Lucan died
Lost works of Lucan
Iliacon, Catachthonion, De Incendio Urbis, Medea, Saturnalia, Silvae, Laudes Neronis
Lucan’s work on the Trojan War
Iliacon
Lucan’s work on descent to the underworld
Catachthonion
Authors of libretti for pantomimes
Juvenal and Lucan
More historical than epic, because there is no divine intervention
Pharsalia
Petronius’ political career
consul in 62 AD, governor of Bithynia
Reason for Petronius’ suicide
committed suicide by Nero’s command
Falsely accused by Tigellinus to Nero for involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy
Petronius
Arbiter elegantiae in Nero’s court
Petronius
Petronius’ position in Nero’s court
arbiter elegantiae
How Petronius died
opened his veins and spent his last hours at a banquet
Petronius’ final acts before his death
openly denounced the emperor’s crimes in his letter, destroyed his signet ring.
Contains the famous Cena Trimalchionis
Petronius’ Satyricon
Protagonist of Petronius’ Satyricon
Encolpius
Satirical novel on the adventures of Encolpius, Giton, Ascyltus, and Eumolpus
Petronius’ Satyricon
Only characters which appear in all episodes of the Satyricon
Encolpius and Giton
Teacher of Encolpus in the Satyricon
Agamemnon
Woman who involves Encolpius, Giton, and Ascyltus in a rite of Priapus
Quartilla
Encolpius meets whom, loses his sexual ability
Circe
How to gain Eumolpus’ estate
eat his corpse
How Encolpius gains his virility back
Humiliating magical practices with Priapus
80 poems with thematic links to the Satyricon, 68th is a reimagining of the Odyssey
Priapea (different from AV)
Father died when he was six years old
Persius
Full name of Persius
Aules Persius Flaccus
Author of a biography of Cato Uticensis that would become a model for Plutarch, committed suicide when ordered by Nero
Thrasea Paetus
Persius Flaccus’ age at death
27
First commentator on Persius
Valerius Probus
Reviser and publisher of Persius’ works
Cornutus and Caesius Bassus
Persius’ work
Satires
Length of Persius’ Satires
6 poems
Lucan’s reaction to a recitation of Persius
Lucan got so excited that he exclaimed that Persius’ works were real poetry, and his only trivialities.
Depended on patronage although he was from a wealthy family
Juvenal
Length of Juvenal’s Satires
16 satires, 5 books
Juvenal’s name for the Satires
Farragones
Teacher of Juvenal
Quintilian
Juvenal’s banisher
either Domitian or Trajan
Juvenal’s hated enemy in his Satires
Domitian
Oldest friend of Juvenal
Martial
Martial’s description of Juvenal
facundus
Patron of Juvenal, allowed him to achieve financial security
Hadrian
Sent to Egypt at eighty years old, likely because his verses gave offense to the emperor
Juvenal
Satire 1
Juvenal’s prefatory satire, in which he rails against fashionable declamations
Satire 2
Juvenal rants against homosexuals
Satire 3
Juvenal’s friend Umbricius is leaving Rome, because the city has become dangerous for honest man
Satire 4
Domitian calls a council to deliberate how to cook a gigantic turbot given to him as a gift
Satire 5
the rich Virro gives a dinner and his guests are humiliated
Satire 6
Juvenal’s longest satire, rails against the immorality and vices of women (contains qui custodiet ipsos custos)
Satire 7
Juvneal remembers fondly the patronage of Augustan age literature, lamenting the decline of study
Satire 8
Juvenal attacks the false nobility of birth
Satire 9
A dialogue where the homosexual Naevolus protests for being “ill-rewarded for his difficult services”
Satire 10
The folly of human desires (includes panem et circenses)
Satire 11
Juvenal’s friend gives him a modest dinner, which he compares with the ostentatious banquets of rich men
Satire 12
Juvenal attacks legacy hunter
Satire 13
Juvenal attacks cheats and swindlers
Satire 14
Juvenal discussed the upbringing of children
Satire 15
Juvenal recounts an episode of cannibalism in Egypt
Satire 16
Juvenal lists the advantages of military life
Believes that man is irredeemably susceptible to corruption
Juvenal
Breaks satire’s “traditional link with comedy” and brings satire “near to tragedy”
Juvenal
Statius’ father’s profession
schoolmaster
Statius’ wife
Claudia
Children of Statius
none of his own, but had a stepdaughter and a slave boy
Author of the Silvae
Statius
Statius’ work in 5 books of 32 short poems
Silvae
Length of Statius’ Silvae
5 books of 32 short poems
Emperor fawned over in Statius’ Silvae
Domitian
Contains a famous poem about him not getting any sleep
Statius’ Silvae
Only surviving epic which was completed and published by the author
Statius’ Thebaid
How long Statius spent on his Thebaid
12 years
Relationship between the Thebaid and the Aeneid
Statius wants the Thebaid to follow the Aeneid’s model “at a distance”
Two halves of the Thebaid
one half (six books) on the journey, one half (6 books) on the war (recalls the Aeneid)
Work of Gordian I based on the Thebaid
Antoninias
Author of the Antoninias based on the Thebaid
Gordian I
Unfinished epic poem by Statius
The Achilleid
Statius’ historical poem on the deeds of Domitian
De Bello Germanico
Statius’ successful pantomime libretto
Agave
Full name of Valerius Flaccus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus Balbus Setinus
Dedicatee of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica
Vespasian
Length of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonatuica
8 books
Unfinished epic poem of Valerius Flaccus
Argonautica
Silius Italicus’ political career
novus homo, consul in 68 A.D., governor in Asia
Bought a villa of Cicero’s
Silius Italicus
Silius Italicus’ opinion on Martial
Vergil’s heir
Silius Italicus’ profession
lawyer and informer for Nero
How Silius Italicus died
got an incurable disease and starved himself to death
Bough the tomb of Vergil and collected relics of him
Silius Italicus
Silius Italicus’ epic on the Second Punic War
Punica
Longest epic in Latin
Punica
Worst epic in Latin
Punica
Subject matter of Silius Italicus’ Punica
Second Punic War
Pliny the Elder’s military and political career
military service in Germany between 46 and 58, procurator under Vespasian in Gaul, Africa, and Spain
Emperor, was a close friend of Pliny the Elder
Vespasian
Summation of the entirety of the existing state of practical and scientic knowledge
Naturalis Historia
Where Pliny was commander of the naval fleet
Misenum
How Pliny the Elder died
rescuing people from the eruption of Vesuvius
Pliny the Elder’s work on the technique of fighting from horseback
De Iaculatione Equestri
Pliny the Elder’s biography of his friend Pomponius Secundus
De Vita Pomponii Secundi
Pliny the Elder’s work on the German wars
Bella Germaniae
Pliny the Elder’s handbook for students of rhetoric, includes how an orator should arrange his hair
Studiosus
Pliny the Elder’s handbook concerned with problems and variations of linguistic usage
Dubius Sermo
Pliny the Elder’s historical work, attaching itself to an earlier author, covering from the end of Claudius’ reign to the accession of Vespasian
A Fine Aufidi Bassi
Length of Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia
37 books
Pliny the Elder’s massive encyclopedia
Naturalis Historia
Dedicatee of the Naturalis Historia
Titus
Most famous author of mirabilia, chief military leader and politican in the early days of Vespasian’s reign, and a decisive supporter of him
Licinius Mucianus
Work of Julius Solinus, ¾ of which was taken from Pliny the Elder
Collectanea rerum memorabilium
Frontinus’ jobs and political career
curator aquarum (director of aqueducts) under Nerva, consul in 73/74, 98, and 100, and governor of Britain, where he preceded Agricola
Two works of Frontinus
De Aquis Urbis Romae, Strategemata
Length of Frontinus’ De Aquis Urbis Romae
4 books
Length of Frontinus’ Strategemata
4 books
Frontinus’ collection of military anecdotes
Strategemata
Alternate name for Frotinus’ De Aquis Urbis Romae
De Aquae Ductu Urbis Romae
Frontinus’ treatment of the problems of Rome’s water supply
De Aquis Urbis Romae
Introduced by the family of Seneca to high society
Martial
Said to have lived in poor lodgings up three flights of stairs
Martial
Owned a farm at Nomentum
Martial
Literary friends of Martial
Quintilian, Lucan, Seneca the Younger, Juvenal, Pliny the Younger, Silius Italicus
Work which won Martial the appreciation and money of Titus
Liber Spectacolorum
Martial’s work performed at the opening of the Colosseum
Liber Spectacolorum
Length of Martial’s Epigrams
12 books
Martial’s opinion on the epigram
humblest of all genres
Martial’s major work
Epigrams
Martial’s depiction of humans
reduces people to recurrying types with grotesque figures (e.g. parasites, plagiarists, etc.)
Social satire aims not to be harsh
Martial
Uses the technique of closing quip
Martial
Flattered by Martial’s epigrams
Domitian
Became book XIII of the Epigrams
Xenia
Became Book XIV of the Epigrams
Apophoreta
Job of Quintilian’s father
teacher of rhetoric
Teachers of Quintilian
Remmius Palaemon and Domitius Afer
Quintilian’s profession
lawyer
Summoned Quintilian to Rome
Galba
Students of Quintilian
Pliny the Younger, Tacitus
First salaried state professor
Quintilian
Appointed Quintilian the first salaried state professor
Vespasian
In charge of educating Domitian’s nephews
Quintilian
Quintilian educated his nephews
Domitian
Quintilian discusses remedies for the corruption of eloquence
De Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae
Set of notes published by Quintilian’s students against his will
Artis Rhetoricae
Length of the Artis Rhetoricae
2 books
Quintilian’s principal work
Institutio Oratoria
Dedicatee of Quintilian’s Instutio Oratoria
Victorius Marcellus
Publisher and circulator of the Institutio Oratoria
Tryphon
Sketches a comprehensive program of cultural and moral training for the orator
Quintilian’s Instutio Oratoria
Quintilian’s goal
to take up and adapt Cicero’s legacy for his own time
Contained the biggest library in Rome
Trajan’s Basilica Ulpia
Rhetoricians in the Second Sophistic School
Aelius Aristides, Herodes and Atticus, and Fronto (not the aqueduct dude)
Dedicatee of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Wrote a poem to his dying soul (animula vagula blanda)
Hadrian
Established a rhetorical and intellectual academy called the Athenaeum
Hadrian
First Christian work in Latin, produced by the communities
Acta Martyorum
Narrative works, developed out of larger or smaller autobiographical cores, which tell the story of martyrs throughout history
Passiones
Masterpiece of the genre of Passiones
Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis
Relationship of Pliny the Younger to Pliny the Elder
Nephew
Teachers of Pliny the Younger
Quintilian, Nicetes, and Musonius
Number of wives of Pliny the Younger
3
Third wife of Pliny the Younger
Calpurnia
Pliny the Younger’s political career
quaestor, tribune of the plebs, praetor, praefectus aerarii Saturni in 98 AD, curator alvei Tiberis (curator of the Tiber and its banks), consul suffectus in 100 AD, governor of Bithynia
Pliny the Younger’s friend
Tacitus
Proconsul of Africa, accused by Pliny and Tacitus of corruption
Marius Priscus
Pliny the Younger lists the virtues of Trajan, attacks Domitian
Panegyricus
Pliny’s speech of the thanks delivered to Trajan in the Senate
Panegyricus
Pliny the Younger’s letters, tenth book contains private and official letters from Pliny to Trajan
Epistulae
Length of Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae
10 books
Tenth book of Pliny’s Epistulae
private letters to Trajan
Addresee of the prefatory letter of Pliny’s Epistulae
Septicius CLarus
Mistaken for Tacitus in the Circus Maximus
Pliny the Younger
Urges Suetonius to publish the De Viris Illustribus
Pliny the Younger
Married the daughter of Agricola, later governor of Britain
Tacitus
Started his political career under Vespasian, continued it under Titus and Domitian
Tacitus
Tacitus’ political career
Quaestor (under Titus), Praetor (under Domitian), consul suffectus in 97 AD (under Nerva), governor of Asia
Consul of 97 AD, subject of a famous funeral elegy by Tacitus (who was the consul suffectus)
Virginius Rufus
Accused Marius Priscus, proconsul of Africa, of corruption
Pliny the Younger and Tacitus
Tacitus’ biography of his father-in-law
Agricola
Tacitu’s short ethnographic treatise
Germania
Tacitus’ two works published together
Germania and Agricola
Alternate title for Tacitus’ Germania
De Origine et Situ Germanorum
Used by Hitler for propagandistic purposes (due to the way it extols the virtues of the Germans)
Germania
In some ways extols the virtues of the barbarians and reveals the vice and corruption that underscores Roman rule
Tacitus’ Germania
Dedicatee of Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus
Fabius Justus
May not have been written by Tacitus
Dialogus de Oratoribus
Tacitus reports an imaginary discussion at the house of Curius Maternus between Maternus, Marius Aper, Vipstanus Messalla, and Julius Secundus
Dialogus de Oratororibus
Interlocutors of Tacitus’ De Oratoribus
Curius Maternus, Marius Aper, Vipstanus Messalla, and Julius Secundus
Discussion of the decline of oratory, eloquence, and poetry, author may have been present at the discussion in his youth
Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus
Period covered by Tacitus’ Historiae
year of the four emperors (69 AD) to the death of Domitian (96 AD)
Length of Tacitus’ Historiae
12/14 books
Tacitus’ work, covering from 69 AD to 96 AD
Historiae
Length of Tacitus’ Annales
16/18 books
Tacitus’ work possibly left incomplete by his death
Annales
Period covered by Tacitus’ Annales
death of Augustus to death of Nero
Convinced that the principate is the only solution to ensure peace, the loyalty of the armies, but does not like despotic emperors
Tacitus
Literary genre of pamphlets originating with the senatorial opposition recounting the sacrifice of martyrs of freedom
Exitus illustrium virorum
Pliny the Younger’s opinion on Tacitus’ Historiae
it would win eternal fame
Father of Suetonius and his career
Suetonius Laetus, tribune in the 13th legion
Patrons of Suetonius, allowed him to enter the court
Pliny the Younger and Septicius Clarus
Suetonius’ job under Trajan
in charge of public libraries
Granted to Suetonius for his work under Trajan
ius trium liberorum
Suetonius’ job under Hadrian
personal secretary of the emperor
Job of Suetonius’ patron Septicius Clarus
praetorian prefect
Suetonius’ encyclopedic work or else a title for his entire corpus
Pratu.Prata
Suetonius’ collection of biographies of writers subdivided by genre
De Viris Illustribus
Extant section of Suetonius’ De Viris Illustribus
De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus
Other section of Suetonius’ De Viris Illustribus
De Poetis
Suetonius’ collection of biographies of the emperors
De Vita Caesarum
Dedicatee of Suetonius’ De Vita Caesarum
Septicius Clarus
Author of a concise Epitoma of Roman military history in 2 or 4 books
Lucius Annaeus Florus
Lived in the time of Hadrian, wrote an encyclopedic work Cenae Suae
Granius Licinianus
Author of the Liber Memorabilis, which covers geography and mythology
Lucius Ampelius
Author of an epitome of Pompetius Trogus’ 44 book Phillippicae Historiae
Justin
Where Apuleius studied
Carthage, Athens, and Rome
Where Apuleius stopped on a journey to Alexandria and married Pudentilla
Oea
Son of the wealthy widow, Pudentilla, whom Apuleius married; friend of Apuleius
Pontianus
Wealthy widow, married by Apuleius
Pudentilla
Self-defense of Apuleius on charges of witchcraft brought against him by Pudentilla’s parents
Apologia
Length of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses/Asinus Aureus
11 books
Famous digression in Book 4 of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius’ novel on the metamorphoses of Lucius
Asinus Aureus
Main character of Apuleius’ Asinus Aureus
Lucius
Pamphilia’s slave who accidentally turns Lucius into an ass
Fotius
How Lucius regains his human form in the Asinus Aureus
eats roses
Cult to which Lucius converts in the Asinus Aureus
Isis
Conclusion of the Asinus Aureus
Lucius, at Osiris’ behest, becomes a lawyer in the Roman Forum
Characters of the Apuleius’ Asinus Aureus
Lucius, Aristomenes, Pythias, Milo, and Pamphilia
Apuleius defends himself against charges of witchcraft and in the process reveals the names of poets’ mistresses
Apologia
Inherited a considerable fortune but wasted it
Apuleius
23 of Apuleius’ oratorical passages
Florida
Alternate name of Apuleius’ Florida
Anthera
Length of Apuleius’ Florida
23 passages
Apuleius’ synthesis of Plato’s physics and ethics
De Platone et Eius Dogmate
Apuleius’ systematic treatment of the doctrine of demons
De Deo Socratis
Apuleius’ reworking of the pseudo-Aristotelian Peri Kosmou
De Mundo
Basis for Apuleius’ De Mundo
Peri Kosmou
Dubious works of Apuleius
Peri Hermeneias, Asclepius, Hemagoras, translations of Plato, etc.
Major work of the jurist Gaius, an introduction to Roman jurisprudence
Institutiones
Author of the Institutiones, an introduction to Roman jurisprudence, and a famous jurist of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius
Gaius
Lost works of Gaius
Edictum Provinciale and Libri rerum cotidianarum
Famous jurist under Marcus Aurelius and Septimius Severus, accompanied Severus to Britain
Papinian
Put to death by Caracalla for refusing to defend him against the charge of murdering his brother Geta
Papinian
Works of Papinian
37 books of Quaestiones, 19 books of Responsa
Famous Roman jurist under Carcalla, student of Papinian, guardian and Praetorian prefect of Alexander Severus
Ulpian
Author of Differentiarum Libri IX, on the subtle differences between cases that seem similar
Modestinus
Author of Collectanea rerum memorabilium, notes of all the unusual things he came across while reading various authors, primarily Pliny the Elder. Opens with a full Roman history from the kings to Augustus
Julius Solinus
Greatest grammarian and philologist of the 2nd century BC, taught Cicero and Varro
Aelius Stilo
Pupils of Aelius Stilo
Varro and Cicero
First librarian, wrote fiven books of commentaries on Vergil
Hyginus
Most eminent Grammaticus of the early empire, supposedly learned to read while accompanying his master’s son to school
Remmius Palaemon
Remmius Palaemon’s major work
Ars Grammatica
Contemporary of Remmius Palaemon, wrote commentaries on five speeches of Cicero
Asconius Pedianus
Revised the works of Lucretius, Vergil, and Horace
Valerius Probus
Tutor of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
Fronto
Fronto’s political career
Consul in 143 A.D. with Herodes Atticus
Rhetorician from Africa, native of Cirta, educated the adoptive sons of Antoninus Pius
Fronto
Anti-Christian speech of Fronto
Arion
Work of Aulus Gellius
Atticae Noctes
Author of the Atticae Noctes
Aulus Gellius
COlelction of notes taken on evenings during his winter spent near Athens
Aulus Gellius’ Atticae Noctes
Teachers of Aulus Gellius
Fronto, Herodes Atticus, and Sulpicius Apollinaris
Profession of Aulus Gellius
lawyer
Written around 395, contains biographies of the emperors from Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius and those of two non-emperors
Historia Augusta
Non-emperors covered in the Historia Augusta
Avidius Cassius and Lucius Verus
Authors to whom the Historia Augusta is attributed
Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Volcatius Gallatinus, Aelius Lampridius, Trebellius Pollio, and Flavius Vopiscus
Author of twelve lives from Nerva to Elegabalus, continuing Suetonius
Marius Maximus
How Nemesianus justifies his subject matter in the prologue to his Cynegetica
Says that all the mythological topics have been exhausted
Works of Nemesianus
Halieutica, Cynegetica, Nautica
Nemesianus’ didactic poem on fishing
Halieutica
Nemesianus’ didactic poem on hunting
Cynegetica
Nemesianus’ didactic poem perhaps on fowling
Nautica
Wrote four Eclogues based on Vergil
Nemesianus
Dedicatees of Nemesianus’ main works
Carinus and Numerian
Called vir clarissimus et illustris
Macrobius
Neoplatonist who belonged to the cult of the Sun
Macrobius
Macrobius’ Major work
Saturnalia
A dinner conversation, containing a medley of writers from all ages, during a festival
Macrobius’ Saturnalia
Dedicatee of Macrobius’ Saturnalia
his son Eustathius
Length of Macrobius’ Saturnalia
7 books
Dedicatee of Macrobius’ commentary on the Somnium Scipionis
his son Eustathius
Author of a commentary on the Somnium Scipionis which applies the new doctrines of Neoplatonism
Macrobius
Dedicatee of Macrobius’ De Differentiis et Societatibus Graeci Latinique Verbi
Symmachus
Macrobius’ treatise on Latin and Greek words
De Differentiis et Societatibus Graeci Latini Verbi
Author of the De Dei Natali
Censorinus
Dedicatee of Censorinus’ De Dei Natali
Cerellius
Censorinus’ work
De Dei Natali
4th century historian who continued the histories of Tacitus
Ammianus Marcellinus
The last great Roman historian
Ammianus Marcellinus
Major work of Ammianus Marcellinus
Res Gestae a fine Corneli Taciti
Admirer of Julian, served under him against the Persians
Ammianus Marcellinus
Topics covered by Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae a fine Corneli Taicti
Nerva to the death of Valens I
Length of Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae a fine Corneli Taciti
31 books
Work of Ammianus Marcellinus, picks up from where Tacitus left off
Res Gestae a Fine Corneli Taciti
Works of Aurelius Victor
Epitome de Caesaribus, Historia Tripertita
Author of the Epitome de Caesaribus and the Historia Tripertita
Aurelius Victor
Topics covered in Aurelius Victor’s Historia Tripertita
Aeneas, and from Augustus to Constantius
4th century grammarian, had a statue placed in the forum in his honor
Victorinus
Author of Ars Grammatica, commentaries on Cicero, De Definitonibus, and after converting at a very late age, Ad Candidum Arianum
Victorinus
Works of Victorinus
Ars Grammatica, commentaries on Cicero’s De Inventione, De Definitionibus, Ad Candidum Arianum
Converted from Neo-platonism to Christianity late in his life before writing the Ad Candidum Arianum
Victorinus
Exiled in 356 because of his explicitly anti-Arian position. Wrote De Trinitatis, De Synodis, and the Hymns
Hilary of Poitiers
Works of Hilary of Poitiers
De Trinitatis, De Synodis, and the Hymns
Author of the 10 book Breviarum ab urbe condita at the request of Valens, covered Romulus to Jovian
Eutropius
Eutropius’ position under Valens
magister memoriae
Topics covered by Eutropius’ Breviarum Ab Urbe Condita
Romulus to Jovian
Work of Eutropius
Breviarum ab urbe condita
Author of the Mathesis and De Errore Profanarum Religionum
Firmicus Maternus
Firmicus Maternus’ work on astrology
Mathesis
Converted to Christianity after writing the Mathesis, later wrote the De Errore Profanarum Religionum
Firmicus Maternus
Dedicatees of Firmicus Maternus’ De Errore Profanarum Religionum
Constantius and Constantine
Zealously anti-pagan work of Firmicus Maternus
De Errore Profanarum Religionum
Called the greatest living orator by Prudentius
Symmachus
Pagan, mounted a virogorous defense of the traditional religion against Christianity
Symmachus
Petitioned Valentinian II to restore the Altar of Victory in 384
Symmachus
What Symmachus petitioned Valentinian II to restore
Altar of Victory
Nickname of Symmachus
Eusebius
Wife of Symmachus
Rusticiana
Tenth book of Symmachus’ letters, contains corresponse to various emperors
Relationes
Stopped Symmachus from restoring the Altar of Victory
St. Ambrose
Length of Symmachus’ Relationes
fifty letters
Teacher of Jerome, wrote commentaries on Terence and Vergil
Aelius Donatus
Aelius Donatus’ commentaries on Vergil
Vita Vergilii
Grammatical treatises of Aelius Donatus
Arsm minor and ars maior, under the distinction of the Ars Grammatica
Wrote fables, cited Phaedrus as a source
Avianus
Wrote Orbis Terrae, Ora maritime, and a translation of Aratus
Festus Avienus
Wrote a Historia de excidio Troiae
Dares Phrygius
Tutor to both Crispus and Gratian
Ausonius
Students of Ausonius
Gratian and Crispus
First Chrstian poet to write on themes other than Christianity
Ausonius
Teacher of Ausonius
his uncle Aemilius Magnus Arborius
Author of three Praefatiunculae in elegiac couplet
Ausonius
Ausonius’ umbrella work for many works
Opuscula
Most famous of Ausonius’ works
Parentalia, Bissula, Mosella, and Ephemeris
Ausonius’ catalogue of his relatives and ancestors
Parentalia
Ausonius’ poem to a cultured German slave girl
Bissula
Ausonius’ epyllion to the namesake river
Mosella
Ausonius’ description of a normal day in his life
Ephemeris
Ausonius’ thanksgiving to Gratian
Gratiarum actio
Author of a prayer in 42 rhopalic hexameters (each word has one more syllable than the last)
Ausonius
Last poet of classical Rome
Claudian
Court poet under Honorius and Stilicho
Claudian
Claudian’s position in the court
court poet under Honorius and Stilicho
Patron of Claudian, Claudian wrote a panegyricus for him
Stilicho
Major poetic works of Claudian
De Raptu Proserpinae and the Gigantomachy
Author of the De Raptu Proserpinae
Claudian
Author of the Gigantomachy
Claudian
Attacked the enemies of Honorius, Rufinus and Eutropius, in the In Rufinum and in Eutropium
Claudian
Claudian’s historical works
De Bello Gothico and De Bello Gildonico
Poet from Spain, court poet unde Aetius, had a statue erected to him in the Forum of Trajan
Merobaudes
Major work of Merobaudes
Laus Christi
Court poet under Aetius
Merobaudes
Treated his return from Rome to Gaul by sea after the sack of Rome in his De Reditu Suo
Rutilius Namatianus
Chief literary figure of the fifth century, bishop of Auvergne, panegyrics for Avitus, Majorian, and Anthemias
Sidonius Apollinaris
Wrote an account of the Visigoths, who held him captive at one time
Sidonius Apollinaris
Descendant of Symmachus, esteemed by Theodoric until he was charged with high treason
Boethius
Wrote his De Consolatione Philosophiae while in prison for charges of treason
Boethius
Style of Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae
Menippean Satire
Length of Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae
39 poems
Deals with the problem of a good and evil God, written while the author was in prison
Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae
First major Christian Latin writer
Tertullian
Position of Tertullian
Bishop of Carthage
The “Christian Juvenal”
Tertullian
A “Barbarizing Tacitus”
Tertullian
The “Father of Latin Theology”
Tertullian
Born a pagan at Carthage and was educated in the same school of rhetoric as Apuleius
Tertullian
Profession of Tertullian’s father
centurion
Heresy Tertullian adopted at the end of his life
Montanism
