quintus horatius flaccus

Question 1

horace full name

Answer 1

quintus horatius flaccus

Question 2

horace years

Answer 2

65-8 BC

Question 3

who was born in venusia

Answer 3

horace

Question 4

where was horace born

Answer 4

venusia

Question 5

what is a coactor exactionum

Answer 5

(collector of payments at auctions

Question 6

what was horace’s father’s occupation

Answer 6

coactor exactionum (collector of payments at auctions)

Question 7

which of horace’s odes refer to his humble beginnings

Answer 7

II.20 and III.30

Question 8

which of horace’s satires shows gratitude for his father

Answer 8

1.6

Question 9

who did horace study under

Answer 9

orbilius

Question 10

who was orbilius’ student

Answer 10

horace

Question 11

who did horace fight with in the civil war

Answer 11

brutus

Question 12

who did brutus fight with in the civil war

Answer 12

horace

Question 13

what was horace’s role in the civil war

Answer 13

tribunus militum-in command of a legion

Question 14

who was a tribunus militum-in command of a legion iin the civil war

Answer 14

horace

Question 15

what is a tribunus militum

Answer 15

in command of a legion

Question 16

who fled from the battle of philippi

Answer 16

horace

Question 17

who became a scriba quaestorius

Answer 17

horace

Question 18

what is a scriba quaestorius

Answer 18

clerk of quaestor

Question 19

who gave horace a sabine farm

Answer 19

maecenas

Question 20

what did maecenas give to horace

Answer 20

a sabine farm

Question 21

did horace like his farm

Answer 21

he absolutely did

Question 22

who introduced horace to maecenas

Answer 22

vergil and varius rufus

Question 23

who did vergil and varius rufus introfuce horace to

Answer 23

maecenas

Question 24

who wrote epodes

Answer 24

horace

Question 25

what was horace's first work

Answer 25

epodes

Question 26

what did horace call his epodes

Answer 26

"iambi"

Question 27

how many poems is epodes

Answer 27

17

Question 28

how does one write an epode

Answer 28

longer verse followed by a shorter one

Question 29

when was horace's epodes published

Answer 29

30 BC

Question 30

what was special about horace's last epode

Answer 30

it is written in iambic trimeter-- not epodic

Question 31

who wrote odes

Answer 31

horace

Question 32

who was the influence of horace's' book 4 of odes

Answer 32

pindar

Question 33

what book of horace's odes in inspired by pindar

Answer 33

4

Question 34

how many odes are there in total in horace's odes

Answer 34

88

Question 35

who wrote sermones

Answer 35

horace

Question 36

what of horace's work includes his satires

Answer 36

sermones

Question 37

who wrote epistulae

Answer 37

horace

Question 38

who wrote ars poetica

Answer 38

horace

Question 39

who wrote carmen saeculare

Answer 39

horace

Question 40

what was horace's carmen saeculare written for

Answer 40

maidens to sing

Question 41

where was horace's carmen saeculare sung

Answer 41

ludi saeculares

Question 42

meter of horace's carmen saeculare

Answer 42

sapphic

Question 43

who commissioned horace to write carmen saeculare

Answer 43

augustus

Question 44

who edited horace's works

Answer 44

M. Valerius Probus

Question 45

whose work did M. Valerius Probus edit

Answer 45

horace's

Question 46

who commented on horace's work

Answer 46

Pomponius Porphyrio

Question 47

whose work did Pomponius Porphyrio comment on

Answer 47

horace's

Question 48

who called horace “felicissime audax"

Answer 48

quintilian

Question 49

who called horace “curiosa felicitas”

Answer 49

petronius

Question 50

how did horace refer to himself

Answer 50

as an “epicurean pig” and ridicules stoicism

Question 51

who called himself an “epicurean pig” and ridicules stoicism

Answer 51

horace