part 4 Flashcards
Heresy Tertullian adopted at the end of his life
Montanism
What Tertullian is best known for
defenses of Christians against pagan persecutions
Tertullian’s work to Christians in prison awaiting execution
Ad Martyras
Tertullian’s major invective, in 5 books
In Marcion
Tertullian’s major work, addressed to provincial governors—calls for protection for Christians from the attacks of the populace
Apologeticus
Tertullian warns Scapula, governor of Africa, to leave Christians alone
Ad Scapulam
Whose quote “We multiply every time we are mowed down by you; the blood of Christians is the seed.”
Tertullian
Tertullian’s attack on deviations from Rome
On the Prescription of the heretics
Other works of Tertullian
On the Dress of Women, On Patience, On Prayer, On Modesty, on the Chaplet, on Idolatry, etc.
Tertullian defends the corporeality of the soul against the Gnostics
De Anima/On the Soul
Defends the doctrine of the Trinity against Praxeas
Tertullian’s Contra Praxeas
Author of the Octavius, a Latin apology for Christianity
Minucius Felix
Major work of Minucius Felix, a Latin apology for Christianity designed to refute attacks by Fronto
Octavius
Author of the Octavius
Minucius Felix
Major work of Minucius Felix
Octavius
Inspiration for Minucius Felix’ Octavius
Cicero’s De Natura Deorum
Lost work of Minucius Felix
De Fato
Interlocutors in Minucius Felix’ Octavius
Minucius acts as an umpire while his friends Caecilius Natalis and Octavius Januaris debate Christianity
Lesser known bishop of Carthage, born a pagan and served as a rhetorician until he converted
Cyprian
Martyred under the regin of Valerian while protecting Christians from the empire—had already escaped the persecutions of Decius
Cyprian
Bishop of Carthage, lacked the intellectualforce and eloquence of Tertullian
Cyprian
Cyprian’s work on the unity of the Church
De Unitate Ecclessiae
Cyprian’s work on those who had lapsed during the persecutions
De Lapsis
Cyprian draws on Minucius Felix to argue that educatedmen should turn to the Church
Ad Donatum
Cyprian’s work on the attacks of the pagans and divine punishment
Ad Demetrianum
Major works of Cyprian
De Unitate Ecclesiae, De Lapsis, Ad Donatum, Ad Demetrianum
First Christian writer to write exclusively in Latin
Novatian
Had a serious argument with Cyprian over treatment of Lapsi
Novatian
Major work of Novatian
De Trinitate
First recorded Christian poet
Commodian
Commodian’s two books of 80 poems total, first attacks pagan and Jews, second describes varieties of Christians
Instructiones
Works of Commodian
Instructiones and Carmen Apologeticum
Commodian’s historical work, from Israel to incarnation to anti-Christ
Carmen Apologeticum
Massive collection of poems from Africa, authors are unknown
Anthologia Latina
Most famous sequence of the Anthologia Latina
Pervigilium Veneris
Possible author of the Pervigilium Veneris
Publius Annius Florus
93 lines in trochaic tetrameters, depicts a festival for Venus on Sicily
Pervigilium Veneris
Refrain of the Pervigilium Veneris
Cras amet qui numquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet (Let him love tomorrow who has never loved, and let him who has loved love tomorrow)
Author of the brief hexameter poem De Concubitu Martis et Venis found in the Anthologia Latina
Reposianus
Author of the Iudicium Coci et Pistoris Iudice Volcano, found in the Anthologia Latina; satiric poetry, with a cook and a baker arguing over the superiorities of their callings
Vespta
Compositions made by use of whole or half-verses taken from classical poems and stitched together in such a way that the original meaning is completely changed
cento
Best known author of centos, takes up the subject of Seneca’s Medea using Vergilian hexameters
Hosidius Geta
Works of Terentius Maurus
De Litteris, De Syllabis, De Metris
Rather gry drammarian of the second/third century, works include De Litteris, De Syllabis, and De Metris
Terentius Maurus
Important figure in the court of the Severans and the Gordians, Gordian I wanted him to be tutor to his son, Gordian II; had a library of over 62,000 volumes
Serenus Sammonicus
Work of Serenus Sammonicus, includes sixty prescriptions
Liber Medicanalis
Major work of Arnobius
Adversus Nationes
Author of Adversus Nationes, written to allay his bishop’s suspicions of his bona fides after his conversion to Christianity
Arnobius
Arnobius’ work, written to allay his bishop’s suspicions of his bona fides following his conversion to Christianity
Adversus Nationes
Arnobius’ pupil
Lactantius
Length of Arnobius’ Adversus Nationes
7 books
The “Christian Cicero”
Lactantius
Lactantius’ advancement under Diocletian
Diocletian made Lactantius professor of rhetoric at Nicomedia
Lactantius’ advancement under Constantine
Constantine appointed Lactantius tutor to his son Crispus
Tutor of Constantine’s son Crispus
Lactantius
Lactantius’ earliest work, defense on the doctrine of providence
De Opificio Dei (On the Handiwork of God)
Lactantius’ work aiming to justify Christianity to educated minds; dedicated to Constantine
Divinae Institutiones
Dedicatee of Lactantius’ Divinae Instituiones
Constantine
Length of Lactantius’ Divinae Institutiones
7 books
Lactantius’ work on God’s wrath
De Ira Dei
Dubious work of Lactantius, celebrates with passionate exulation the downfall of the emperors who persecuted Christians
De Mortibus Persecutorum
Lactantius’ work describing a voyage from Africa to Bithynia, also a grammatical treatise
Hodoeporicum
Counseled by St. Ambrose
Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius
Urged Gratian to remove the altar of victory from the Senate house
St. Ambrose
Elected Bishop of Milan in AD 374 while still unbaptized
St. Ambrose
Famous bishop of Milan
St. Ambrose
Father of Church Song
St. Ambrose
Ambrose’s synthesis of Christian doctrine, borrows from Cicero’s De Officiis
De Officiis Ministrorum
Sermons of St. Ambrose
Hexameron
Authors of work including: On Virgins, On Virginity, On Widows, On Faith, On the Holy Spirit
St. Ambrose
First considerable Christian poet in the Latin tongue; a Spanish priest, he wrote Books of the Evangelists
Juvencus
Work of Juvencus
Books of the Evangelists
Pupil of Ausonius, consul in 378, governor of Campania, wrote fifty epistulae (to Jerome, Augustine, etc.)
Paulinus of Nola
Only extant comedy from the empire
Querolus sive Aulularia
What the author of the Querolus sive Aulularia declared
it was to be read “fabellis atque mensis,” in places other than the theatre
Last great Christian poet/greatest Christian Latin poet
Prudentius
Collections of Prudentius’ lyrical poems
Cathemerinon and Peristaphanon
Serves as an introduction to Prudentius’ entire collection of works
Oraefatio
Prudentius’ working venerating martyrs, especially Spanish
Peristaphanon
Prudentius’ working refuting a series of errors on the Trinity and the divinity of Christ
Apotheosis
Prudentius’ hexameter work on the origin of sin
Hamartigenia
Prudentius’ most famous poem, an epic where personified virtues like Modesty and Patience wage a series of epic combats with speeches
Psychomania
Prudentius’ work refuting Symmachus’ Altar of Victory plea 20 years earlier
Contra Symmachum
Three early years of Jerome’s life
spent in the desert of Chalcis, where he learned Hebrew.
Jerome’s famous dream
accused of being Ciceronian, not Christian
Intimate friend of Pope Damasus
St. Jerome
St. Jerome’s Latin translation of the bible, took 20 years to finish
the Vulgate
Writing period of Jerome’s Vulgate
20 years
Authors of De Viris Illustribus
Nepos, Suetonius, and Jerome
Jerome’s translation of Eusebius’ Chronological Canons, dealing with chronological system
Chronicon
Augustine’s religions before becoming Christian
Pagan, Manichean, and Neoplatonist
Father and mother of Augustine
Patricius and Monica
Augustine’s quote on his behavior in early years
behold with what companions I awlkedthe streets of Babylon, in whose filth I was rolled as if in cinnamon and precious ointments
Son of Augustine by his mistress
Adeodatus
Partier in his youth, converted to Christianity after much prayer by his mother Monica
St. Augustine
Heresy which disputed the doctrine of original sin and maintained that men were naturally good; Augustine battled against it
Pelagians
Augustine’s autobiographical treatise on his search for God and early days
Confessiones
Augustine’s magnum opus, written to answer why so many calamities had befallen the empire with the advent of Christianity
De Civitate Dei (City of God)
Length of Augustine’s De Civitate Dei
22 books
First example of poetry based on rhythm
Augustine’s Psalm against the Donatists
Augustine’s universal history on the problem of evil
Psalm against the Donatists
Priest of Marseilles who wrote On the Government of God
Salvian
Defends Origen in the De Adulteratione Librorum Origensis
Rufinus
Wrote the De Benedictonibus Patriarchum and a reworking of Eusebius’ Historia Ecclesiata
Rufinus
Works revolved around the figure of St. Martin, including the Vita Sancti Martini; we also get 2 Dialogi, which recount the saint’s miracles and deeds
Sulpicius Severus
Author of De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae, an encyclopedia in books on classical learning
Martianus Capella
Length of Martianus Capella’s De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae
Martianus Capella
Source for the De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae of Martianus Capella
Varro’s Disciplinae
Martianus Capella’s elaborate allegory of Mercury and Philologia, an encyclopedia in books on classical learning; the last seven books describe one of the liberal arts each
De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae
Numidian, wrote De Compendiosa Doctrina for Constantine’s son
Nonius Marcellus
Length of Nonius Marcellus’ De Compendiosa Doctrina
20 books
Work of Nonius Marcella, contains the diction, grammar, and subject material of older Latin authors
De Compendiosa Doctrina
Last great classical work of antiquity
Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae
Other works of Boethius
De Trinitate, Contra Euychen et Nestorium
Bishop of Vienne, wrote a verse paraphrase of the old testament
Avitus
Historian, he was secretary to Belisarius, whom he accompanied on campaigns
Procopius
Works of Procopius
Anecdota and History of the Wars of Justinian
Procopius’ secret history covering 527-553, attack on the policies of Justinian
Anecdota
Priscian’s work
Institutiones Grammaticae
Length of Priscian’s Institutiones Grammaticae
18 books
Author of the Instutiones Grammaticae
Priscian
African poem who offended the Vandal King Gunthamund; wrote a lengthy didactic poem called On the Praises of God
Dracontius
Author of Ad Ecclesiam, in which he invited all Christians to donate their private wealth to the Church
Salvianus
Works of Salvianus
De Gubernatione Dei and Ad Ecclesiam
Spanish priests who fled the Vandals, encountered Jerome and Augustine
Orosius
Works of Orosius
Commonitorium de Orrore Priscillianstrarum et Origenistrarum, Liber Apologeticus, Historiae adversus Paganos
Orosius’ work denouncing the Pelagian heresy
Liber Apologeticus
Orosius’ main work
Historiae adversus Paganos
Author of the Historiae adversus Paganos
Orosius
Length of Orosius’ Historiae adversus Paganos
7 books
Orosius’ 7 book history, from the dawn of mankind to Imperial Rome
Historiae adversus Paganos
Orosius’ work written at the behest of Augustine
Historiae adversus Paganos
Military writer during the reign of Theodosius; wrote Epitoma Rei Militaris
Vegetius
Vegetius’ main work
Epitoma Rei Militaris
Other work of Vergetius, a guide to veterinary medicine
Digesta Artis Mulomedicinae
Author of Atellan Farce; only one line of his survives
Aprissius
Works of Naevius, written while he was in jail
Hariolus and Leon
Member of the embassy in 216 BC to consult the Delphic oracle about the Roman defeat at Cannae
Fabius Pictor
Considered the “Father of Latin poetry”
Ennius
Considered the “Father of Latin prose”
Cato the Elder
Only comedy of Pacuvius
Pseudo
Non-author members of the Scipionic Circle
Gaius Laelius Sapiens, Lucius Furius Philus, and Publius Rutilius Rufus
Birthplace of Polybius
Megalopolis
Ashes of whom were borne to burial by Polybius; they were great friends
Philopoemen
Invented an instrument for cryptography called the “[name of author] square”
Polybius
Other play of Terence performed at the funeral games of Lucius Aemilius Paullus; revived specifically for the occasion
Hecyra
Praised by Varro for his character drawing
Titinius
Wrote several plays, including Fullonia, Gemina, Iurisperita, Barbatus (“Embroiderer”), Quintus (an attack on those who didn’t speak Latin), Simulans; contemporary of Terence and survived him
Titinius
Contemporary of Terence; called the most famous and the best represented author of fabulae togatae
Lucius Afranius
Wrote The Fire. When Nero staged this, an actual house was set on fire
Lucius Afranius
Father of Panaetius; a Stoic philosopher
Panaetius
Teachers of Panaetius at Pergamum
Crates of Mallus, Diogenes of Babylon, Antipater of Trasus
Priest of Poseidon Hippios at Lindus
Panaetius
Placed statues of himself in the temple of the Muses
Accius
Accius’ first play
Atreus
Wrote Aquae Claudiae, about life at a local Roman watering hole; famous for his fabulae togatae
Atta
Birthplace of Archias
Antioch
Wrote 37 epigrams; Cicero famously defends his citizenship
Archias
Served under Pompey in the Civil War and was awarded the corona navalis
Varro Reatinus
Result of Laberius’ loss of the contest with Publilius Syrus
forfeited his equestrian status; however, Caesar awarded him 500,000 sesterces and a gold ring, which would allow him to regain his equestrian rank
Place of Cicero’s death
Formiae
Cicero’s acting teacher
Quintus Roscius Gallus
Dedicatee of Cicero’s Topica
Gaius Trebatius Testa
Lost works of Publilius Syrus
Putatores and Mumurco
Lynched at Julius Caesar’s funeral because he was mistaken for a conspirator
Cinna
Brought Parthenius back to Rome
Cinna
Author of a history of Rome in at least 75 books; covering a period from Rome down to c. 90 BC
Valerius Antias
Catullus 1
Catullus dedicates his book of poetry to Nepos
Catullus 4
About Catullus’ favorite sailing boat
Catullus 9
Catullus rejoices that his friend Veranius has returned to Rome from a trip in Iberia
Catullus 13
Catullus invites his friend Fabullus to his dinner, but informs him that his wallet is so full of cobwebs that Fabullus will need to provide the food and bring a pretty girl. In return Catullus will give him a perfume that smells so wonderfully that Fabullus will “want to be all nose.”
Catullus 14
Catullus discusses how his friend Calvus “re-gifted” a book that he had received, giving it to Catullus
Catullus 22
Catullus discusses with Varus how Varus’ friend Suffenus, has no skill in writing, calling him a “caprimulgus”
Catullus 36
Catullus attack Volusius’ writing skill
Catullus 51
A reinterpretation of a famous poem by Sappho of Lesbos
Catullus 69
Attack on Rufus, whom Catullus claims has very bad smelling armpits
Catullus 95
Catullus praises the Zmyrna by Cinna but attacks Volusius’ Annales
Catullus 2
About Lesbia’s pet sparrow
Catullus 84
Catullus jokes how Arrius tends to add an initial ‘h’ to words
Wrote the Io, an epyllion and elegy on the death of his love Quintilia
Licinius Calvus
Works of Maecenas
Prometheus, Symposium, De Cultu Suo
Maecenas’ prose in which Vergil and Horace are speakers
Symposium
Vergil’s epitaph
Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces (“Mantua bore me, Calabria snatched me away, now Naples holds me; I sand of pastures, fields, and leaders)
Author from Pontus; Wrote Geographia, 17 books on geography during the age of Augustus and Tiberius
Strabo
Said by Suetonius to be good-looking and something of a dandy
Tibullus
Model of Martial; friend of Tibullus, Vergil, and Horace; member of the Circle of Maecenas
Domitius Marsus
Domitius Marsus’ book of satirical epigrams so named because of its bitterness
Cicuta
Non-admired epic of Domitius Marsus
Amazonis
Also wrote two elegies on Atia, the mother of Augustus
Domitius Marsus
Thracian slave who became a freedman of Augustus
Phaedrus
Wrote a book on dice playing and proposed adding three letters to the Latin language
Claudius
Major work of Aufidius Bassus; treatment of the Roman campaigns in Germany from AD 10-16
Bellum Germanicum
Famous as the hardest Latin author to read
Persius
Once defended the Jewish queen Berenice and later a woman accused of forgery
Quintilian
Greek historian; Jewish priest and policitician before the capture of Jerusalem in 70
Josephus
Place of Josephus’ capture
Jotapata
Wrote a 7-book history of the Jewish wars written in Greek
Josephus
Josephus’ 20-book history of the Jewish people from Creation down to the time right before the revolt in AD 70
Jewish Antiquities
Josephus’ 2-book apologia for Judaism
Against Apion
Priest of Apollo at Delphi
Plutarch
Plutarch’s collection of works; 78 miscellaneous works and 50 biographies
Moralia
Plutarch’s work including 23 pairs (a Greek paired with a Roman) of biographies
Parallel Lives
First pair of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
Epaminondas and Scipio Africanus
Author of the lost work “Prata” (“Meadows”)
Suetonius
Stoic philosopher, author of Manual, 4 books of oral Stoic teachings
Epictetus
Wrote Epitome Bellorum Omnium Annorum DCC (Abridgment of all the Wars over 700 Years); Planned as a panegyric of the Roman people
Lucius Annaeus Florus
Wrote “Vergilius Orator an Poeta” (Was Vergil an Orator or Poet?)
Publius Annius Florus
Wrote the poem “Ego Nolo Caesar Esse” (I don’t want to be Caesar)
Annius Florus
Author from Samosata – works included Dialogues of the Sea Gods, How to Write History, Lovers of Lies, and True Histories (all in Greek)
Lucian
Birthplace of Galen
Pergamum
Began his career as a gladiator physician and later served in the court of Marcus Aurelius
Galen
Important writer of Greek literature, wrote on subjects ranging from grammar to gout, and ethics to eczema
Galen
Consul with Severus Alexander in 229
Cassius Dio
Birthplace of Cassius Dio
Nicaea
Cassius Dio’s 80-book history of Rome, written in Greek, from the founding of the city down to AD 229
Roman History
Wrote a set of biographies of twelve emperors from Nerva to Elagabalus as a continuation of Suetonius
Marius Maximus
Major work of Vespa – a poem in 99 hexameters in which a baker and cook argue their respective merits before Augustus
Vespae Iudicium Coci et Pistoris Iudice Vulcano
Called the “Christian Vergil and Horace”
Prudentius
Author of Carmina – a collection that includes panegyrics of Anthemius, Majorian, and Avitus
Sidonius Apollinaris
Author of Epistulae in 9 books – collected c. 477 BC – modeled off Pliny the Younger
Sidonius Apollinaris
Second Fabula palliata of L. Andronicus
Ludius
Whose work did Sallust attach his to
Sisenna
Real name of Propertius’ Cynthia
Hostia
Described by Quintilian as “ardens et conatus”
Lucan
Whom did Quintilian call ‘terse but elegant’
Tibullus
Whom did Quintilian praise for his “sanctitas”
Licinius Calvus
