Relationships Flashcards
Before Pliny the Elder adopted him, what was the relationship of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger?
Pliny the Younger was his nephew
Who was Lucan’s teacher?
Cornutus
Who claimed to be the Roman version of Callimachus?
Propertius
Who was Catullus’s lover?
Lesbia
Who saw himself as the reincarnation of Homer?
Ennius
To whom did Catullus donate his libellus?
Cornelius Nepos
Who was Propertius’s lover?
Cynthia
With whom did Catullus go to Bithynia?
Memmius
Who did Ennius accompany to the battle of Ambracia?
Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
From what earlier historian did Livy draw from for his work?
Fabius Pictor
Who was Vergil’s mother?
Magia Pollia
To whom did Lucretius address his De Rerun Natura?
Gaius Memmius
Who brought Livius Andronicus to Rome?
Livius Salinator
Who brought Ennius to Rome?
Cato the Elder
What other famous author was Vergil’s fellow student?
Cornelius Gallus
Who was Pacuvius’s patron?
Lucius Aemilius Paullus
Who did Naevius attack in his poems?
the Metelli
Who was Persius’s teacher?
Cornutus
Who was Ennius’s nephew (and pupil)?
Pacuvius
With whom was Ennius such good friends that they were buried near each other?
Caecilius Statius
Who was often Cato the Elder’s political partner?
Valerius Flaccus
Who valued Augustus’s friendship so much that when he renounced it, this author killed himself?
Cornelius Gallus
Who introduced Vergil to Callimachean poetry?
Parthenius
Who was Horace’s teacher that he called “Plagosus”?
Orbilius
