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
Who was Propertius’s patron?
Maecenas
Who was Cicero’s wife?
Terentia
Who taught Vergil Epicurean philosophy?
Siro
Who introduced Horace to Maecenas?
Vergil and Varius Rufus
Who taught Ovid rhetoric?
Arellius Fuscus and Pocius Latro
Who was Cicero’s assistant?
Tyro
Which two authors both studied under Antiochus?
Varro and Cicero
Who was Ovid’s patron?
Messala Corvinus
Who edited Horace’s works?
Marcus Valerius Probus
Who was Cicero’s publisher and close friend?
Atticus
Who did Quintilian call the “supreme guide of wayward youth”?
Martial
Who was Vergil’s patron, the same person to whom he dedicated the Georgics?
Maecenas
To whom did Horace dedicate Epistle 1.4?
Tibullus
To whom did Vergil dedicate the Messianic Eclogue?
Asinius Pollio
Who was Ovid’s primary lover?
Corinna
Which friend of Seneca the Younger did he dedicate many works to?
Lucilius
Who was Pliny the Younger’s teacher?
Quintilian
With which author was Vespasian friends?
Pliny the Elder
Who was referred to as the Christian Cicero?
Lactantius
Who was Nero’s arbiter elegentiae?
Petronius
What woman is associated with Ovid’s “error” that resulted in his exile?
Julia
Who was Seneca the Younger’s teacher?
Quintilian
Who gave Verginius Rufus’s funeral oration?
Tacitus
To whom was Pliny the Elder married?
Calpurnia
Who was referred to as the Christian Juvenal?
Tertullian
Who was Tacitus’s father-in-law?
Agricola
Who served as the imperial secretary to both Trajan and Hadrian?
Suetonius
Who greatly influenced Pliny the Elder?
Pomponius Secundus
What two earlier authors served as primary models for Juvenal?
Horace and Lucilius
With whom did Seneca the Younger commit adultery?
Julia Livilla
Who was Apuleius’s wife, the subject of his Apologia?
Aemilia Pudentilla
Who served as Marcus Aurelius’s tutor?
Fronto
Who was Nero’s tutor?
Seneca the Younger
Who refused to defend Caracalla on the murder of Geta?
Aemilius Papinianus
Who was the tutor of Constantine’s son Crispus?
Jerome
Who was the tutor of Gratian, the son of Valentinian?
Ausonius
Who was Augustine’s mother?
Monica
Who was the teacher of Jerome?
Donatus
Who was the tutor of Domitius Ulpianus?
Aemilius Papinianus
Who served as the court poet to the emperor Honorius?
Claudian
Who wrote a commentary on Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis?
Donatus
Who was Seneca the Younger’s nephew?
Lucan
From whom did both Cicero and Caesar study oratory?
Apollonius Molon
Who did Horace call “fetale monstrum”?
Cleopatra
