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Relationships Flashcards

1
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Before Pliny the Elder adopted him, what was the relationship of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger?

A

Pliny the Younger was his nephew

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2
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Who was Lucan’s teacher?

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Cornutus

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3
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Who claimed to be the Roman version of Callimachus?

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Propertius

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4
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Who was Catullus’s lover?

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Lesbia

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5
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Who saw himself as the reincarnation of Homer?

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Ennius

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6
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To whom did Catullus donate his libellus?

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Cornelius Nepos

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7
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Who was Propertius’s lover?

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Cynthia

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8
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With whom did Catullus go to Bithynia?

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Memmius

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9
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Who did Ennius accompany to the battle of Ambracia?

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Marcus Fulvius Nobilior

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10
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From what earlier historian did Livy draw from for his work?

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Fabius Pictor

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11
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Who was Vergil’s mother?

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Magia Pollia

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12
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To whom did Lucretius address his De Rerun Natura?

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Gaius Memmius

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13
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Who brought Livius Andronicus to Rome?

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Livius Salinator

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14
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Who brought Ennius to Rome?

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Cato the Elder

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15
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What other famous author was Vergil’s fellow student?

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Cornelius Gallus

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16
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Who was Pacuvius’s patron?

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Lucius Aemilius Paullus

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17
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Who did Naevius attack in his poems?

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the Metelli

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18
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Who was Persius’s teacher?

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Cornutus

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19
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Who was Ennius’s nephew (and pupil)?

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Pacuvius

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20
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With whom was Ennius such good friends that they were buried near each other?

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Caecilius Statius

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21
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Who was often Cato the Elder’s political partner?

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Valerius Flaccus

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22
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Who valued Augustus’s friendship so much that when he renounced it, this author killed himself?

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Cornelius Gallus

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23
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Who introduced Vergil to Callimachean poetry?

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Parthenius

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24
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Who was Horace’s teacher that he called “Plagosus”?

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Orbilius

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25
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Who was Propertius’s patron?

A

Maecenas

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26
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Who was Cicero’s wife?

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Terentia

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27
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Who taught Vergil Epicurean philosophy?

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Siro

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28
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Who introduced Horace to Maecenas?

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Vergil and Varius Rufus

29
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Who taught Ovid rhetoric?

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Arellius Fuscus and Pocius Latro

30
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Who was Cicero’s assistant?

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Tyro

31
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Which two authors both studied under Antiochus?

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Varro and Cicero

32
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Who was Ovid’s patron?

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Messala Corvinus

33
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Who edited Horace’s works?

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Marcus Valerius Probus

34
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Who was Cicero’s publisher and close friend?

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Atticus

35
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Who did Quintilian call the “supreme guide of wayward youth”?

A

Martial

36
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Who was Vergil’s patron, the same person to whom he dedicated the Georgics?

A

Maecenas

37
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To whom did Horace dedicate Epistle 1.4?

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Tibullus

38
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To whom did Vergil dedicate the Messianic Eclogue?

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Asinius Pollio

39
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Who was Ovid’s primary lover?

A

Corinna

40
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Which friend of Seneca the Younger did he dedicate many works to?

A

Lucilius

41
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Who was Pliny the Younger’s teacher?

A

Quintilian

42
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With which author was Vespasian friends?

A

Pliny the Elder

43
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Who was referred to as the Christian Cicero?

A

Lactantius

44
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Who was Nero’s arbiter elegentiae?

A

Petronius

45
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What woman is associated with Ovid’s “error” that resulted in his exile?

A

Julia

46
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Who was Seneca the Younger’s teacher?

A

Quintilian

47
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Who gave Verginius Rufus’s funeral oration?

A

Tacitus

48
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To whom was Pliny the Elder married?

A

Calpurnia

49
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Who was referred to as the Christian Juvenal?

A

Tertullian

50
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Who was Tacitus’s father-in-law?

A

Agricola

51
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Who served as the imperial secretary to both Trajan and Hadrian?

A

Suetonius

52
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Who greatly influenced Pliny the Elder?

A

Pomponius Secundus

53
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What two earlier authors served as primary models for Juvenal?

A

Horace and Lucilius

54
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With whom did Seneca the Younger commit adultery?

A

Julia Livilla

55
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Who was Apuleius’s wife, the subject of his Apologia?

A

Aemilia Pudentilla

56
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Who served as Marcus Aurelius’s tutor?

A

Fronto

57
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Who was Nero’s tutor?

A

Seneca the Younger

58
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Who refused to defend Caracalla on the murder of Geta?

A

Aemilius Papinianus

59
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Who was the tutor of Constantine’s son Crispus?

A

Jerome

60
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Who was the tutor of Gratian, the son of Valentinian?

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Ausonius

61
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Who was Augustine’s mother?

A

Monica

62
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Who was the teacher of Jerome?

A

Donatus

63
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Who was the tutor of Domitius Ulpianus?

A

Aemilius Papinianus

64
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Who served as the court poet to the emperor Honorius?

A

Claudian

65
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Who wrote a commentary on Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis?

A

Donatus

66
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Who was Seneca the Younger’s nephew?

A

Lucan

67
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From whom did both Cicero and Caesar study oratory?

A

Apollonius Molon

68
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Who did Horace call “fetale monstrum”?

A

Cleopatra

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