publius vergilius maro

Question 1

vergil full name

Answer 1

publius vergilius maro

Question 2

vergil years

Answer 2

70-19 BC

Question 3

who was born in mantua

Answer 3

vergil

Question 4

where was vergil born

Answer 4

mantua

Question 5

what cultural aspect of vergil is found in aeneid

Answer 5

his celtic spirit

Question 6

whose mother was magia pollia

Answer 6

vergil

Question 7

who was vergil’s mother

Answer 7

magia pollia

Question 8

who wrote a biography of vergil

Answer 8

donatus

Question 9

who did donatus write about in his biography

Answer 9

donatus

Question 10

who commented on vergil

Answer 10

servius

Question 11

who did servius comment on

Answer 11

vergil

Question 12

who introduced vergil to callimachean poetry

Answer 12

parthenius

Question 13

what did parthenius introduce vergil to

Answer 13

callimachean poetry

Question 14

who educated vergil

Answer 14

epicurean siro and epidius

Question 15

who did epicurean siro and epidius educate

Answer 15

vergil

Question 16

who was vergil’s patron

Answer 16

maecenas

Question 17

what did vergil lose of the battle of philipi

Answer 17

mantuan farm

Question 18

why did vergil lose his farm

Answer 18

after battle of philipi

Question 19

how did vergil get his farm back

Answer 19

political influece

Question 20

who accompanied horace to brundisium in 37 BC

Answer 20

vergil

Question 21

who did vergil acompany on their trip to brindisium in 37 BC

Answer 21

horace

Question 22

who is mentioned in horace’s satire I.V

Answer 22

vergil

Question 23

who wrote eclogues

Answer 23

vergil

Question 24

another name for eclougues

Answer 24

bucolics

Question 25

what does bucolics mean

Answer 25

cowherd's songs

Question 26

where did vergil begin writing eclogues

Answer 26

his farm

Question 27

what inspired vergil's eclogues

Answer 27

thyocritus' idols

Question 28

how many poems in vergils' eclogues

Answer 28

10

Question 29

meter of vergil's eclogues

Answer 29

hexamter

Question 30

what does vergil predict in 40 BC

Answer 30

the return of a golden age under the guidance of Pollio

Question 31

who predicts the return of a golden age under the guidance of Pollio

Answer 31

vergil

Question 32

where is the prediciton of the return of a golden age under the guidance of Pollio

Answer 32

vergil's eclogues

Question 33

poems of vergil's eclogues

Answer 33

- 1st and 10th- Refer to the confiscation of his farm (Meliboeus & Tityrus) ♦ 2nd- Corydon and Alexis ♦ 3rd- Bad poet Bavius ♦ 4th- called the Messianic Ecologue - may have been discussing Christ; refers to a puer who will assure in a golden age (dedicated to Asinius Pollio cos. 40 BC) ♦ 5th- Deification of Daphnis-Caesar ♦ 6th- Silenus and Gallus, written in “exile” at the home of Siro, the song of Silenus, who tells the creation of the world ♦ 7th- contest between shepherds (Meliboeus & Tityrus) ♦ 8th- addressed again to Pollio ♦ 10th- subject is C. Cornelius Gallus and his love for Lycoris or Cytheris

Question 34

who wrote georgics

Answer 34

vergil

Question 35

how many books is vergil's georgics

Answer 35

4

Question 36

what meter is vergil's georgics

Answer 36

hexameter

Question 37

what is vergil's georgics about

Answer 37

farming

Question 38

who stopped in 29 BC in atella to have vergil read his georgics to him

Answer 38

octavian

Question 39

who did vergil personally read his georgics to after they stopped in atella to hear them

Answer 39

octavian

Question 40

to whom is bergil's georgics addressed to

Answer 40

maecenas

Question 41

who suggusted georgics

Answer 41

maecenas

Question 42

who influenced vergil's georgics

Answer 42

hesiod, nicander, alexandrians

Question 43

books of vergil's georgics

Answer 43

* Book 1- working the fields * Book 2- arboriculture * Book 3- raising of livestock, plague of animals at Noricum * Book 4- bee keeping (includes the episode of Aristaeus and Eurydice)

Question 44

who wrote aeneid

Answer 44

vergil

Question 45

how many books is vergil's aeneid

Answer 45

12

Question 46

what did propertius say about aeneid

Answer 46

a greater poem than the | Iliad was being born

Question 47

who said a greater poem than the | Iliad was being born

Answer 47

propertius

Question 48

what did augustus order to be done of the aeneid after vergil died

Answer 48

Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca to revise the Aeneid instead of burning it (which was Vergil’s wish) but they were not allowed to add anything, only cut out unnecessary things

Question 49

who edited the aeneid after vergil died

Answer 49

varius rufus and plotius tucca

Question 50

who introduced vergil to octavian

Answer 50

either maecenas or pollio

Question 51

who did either pollio or maecenas introduce vergil to

Answer 51

octavian

Question 52

what is the act of drawing prophecy from the Aeneid

Answer 52

sortes vergilianae

Question 53

what is sortes vergilianae

Answer 53

act of drawing prophecy from the Aeneid

Question 54

where did vergil die

Answer 54

brundisium

Question 55

who died at brundisium at 19 BC

Answer 55

vergil

Question 56

who commented about vergil's aeneid

Answer 56

donatus

Question 57

who commented on vergils bucolics and georgics

Answer 57

probus

Question 58

who commented on vergil's collected poems

Answer 58

servius honoratus