Unit 13-Reflections of Truth: Imperial Rome Flashcards
Who was the Roman author who lived at the time of the birth of Christ, and collected tales from Greek and Roman mythology, legends, and history into fifteen books which he called Metamorphoses because each involved some supernatural transformation?
Ovid
Who wrote “The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe” from Metamorphoses?
Ovid
Who wrote “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus” from Metamorphoses?
Ovid
Who wrote the historical biography of Julius Caesar called “Julius Caesar,” who was very well known for his development of the biography?
Plutarch
Who wrote “The Wooden Horse” from the Aenid?
Virgil
Who was perhaps the greatest of all Roman poets, was a shy, frail boy born in a small village near Mantua in northern Italy, and is most known for his Eclogues, a group of pastoral poems in which mythical shepherds sing songs in an idealized natural settings, his Georgics, a group of poems on agriculture which are intensely patriotic, and his masterpiece, the Aeneid, which is the national epic of twelve books that recounts the legendary settlement of Rome by the hero Aeneas and the Trojans?
Virgil
Who wrote the essay “The True Basis of Morality”?
G. Campbell Morgan
Who wrote “The Neronian Persecution,” which describes the persecution of Christians during Nero’s reign?
Tacitus
Who was the brilliant orator, statesman, and outstanding lawyer as well as the greatest historian of his time, and gist Histories and Annals are a critical record of the moral and political corruption and decay of Rome?
Tacitus
