Virgil and Ovid

Question 1

Virgil’s Aeneid is the ________ epic poem from ancient Rome

Answer 1

greatest

Question 2

What is Virgil’s full name?

Answer 2

Publius Vergilius Maro

Question 3

Whether the setting is an empire (the Aeneid) or a village garden (the Georgics), Virgil is interested in the value and pathos of the human struggle to build a _____, even in a hostile or near-impossible conditions.

Answer 3

home

Question 4

How old was Virgil when Julius Cesar was assassinated?

Answer 4

26

Question 5

What seems to be Augustus’s motive in asking Virgil to provide him with a great national epic?

Answer 5

to justify, glorify and immortalize his rule and power.

Question 6

How old was Virgil when he died?

Answer 6

51

Question 7

Since the Aeneid was still incomplete when Virgil died, he gave orders from his deathbed for it to be _________

Answer 7

burned

Question 8

What themes of the Iliad and Odyssey are combined in the Aeneid?

Answer 8

Virgil incorporates the themes of a wanderer in search of a home from the Odyssey, and the hero in battle from the Iliad.

Question 9

Who tells the full story of the Trojan horse? Virgil or Homer?

Answer 9

Virgil

Question 10

What does the word pietas mean?

Answer 10

Duty, devotion to a particular people and entities

Question 11

What is Ovid’s full name?

Answer 11

Publius Ovidius Naso

Question 12

Name three poets that Ovid knew from the literary circles of Rome:

Answer 12

Properius, Horace, and Virgil

Question 13

Who wrote “my muse is slutty but my life is chaste”?

Answer 13

Ovid

Question 14

Who exiled Ovid from Rome to Tomis, a remote town on the Black Sea?

Answer 14

The Empreor Augustus

Question 15

What does the word metamorphoses mean?

Answer 15

Changes