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who wrote::
Vergilium vidi tantum... |
Ovid
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put the following in order:
propertius, tibullus, gallus, ovid |
gallus, tibullus, propertius, ovid
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what poet does Ovid lament in his Amores?
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Tibullus
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What poet was born, perhaps, in 48 BC?
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Tibullus
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Who had an estate between the Praeneste and Tibur?
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Tibullus
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What literary figure fought against Octavian at Philippi?
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Messala
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Who accompanied Messala on a campaign in the east, and possibly against the Aquitani?
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Tibullus
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what poet does Ovid lump together with Catullus and Gallus?
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Tibullus
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What was the first book of Tibullus, published in 26 BC, known to antiquity as?
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Delia
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The second book of Tibullus was known to antiquity as?
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Nemesis
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How did antiquity know Tibullus' third book?
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Messala
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How many books of elegy did Tibullus write?
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originally 3, later divided into 4
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addressee of Tibullus' first poem in book one
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Messala
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in which book of Tibullus do Lygdamus and Sulpicia write?
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book 3
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the third book of Tibullus contains a panegyric on whom?
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Messala
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What poet's second poem in his first book is a paraklausithyron?
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Tibullus
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What poet speaks of a love philter which a witch had given to him to ensure his love will be reciprocated?
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Tibullus
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What poet was invited to an official mission to the east, but fell sick at Corcyra and wrote a poem of loneliness?
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Tibullus
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what boy does Tibullus address some elegies?
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Marathus
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what poet wrote a birthday poem for Messala?
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Tibullus
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What poet speaks of the great advantages of country life and love over military service in his last poem of his first book?
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Tibullus
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What Tibullan lover was not impressed by poetry, did not enjoy sentiment, and expected the poet to gratify her expensive tastes?
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Nemesis
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how many poems are there in Tibullus' second book?
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six poems (fragmentary book)
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what poet writes of being helpless to stop serving the whims of his mercenary lover?
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Tibullus, to Nemesis
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what poet addresses Macer in a poem/
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tibullus
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what poet wrote of merrymaking at a country festival, probably the Ambarvalia?
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Tibullus
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who wrote a birthday poem for Cornutus?
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Tibullus
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son of Messala, he was appointed a quindecimvir and had the occassion commemorated...by whom?
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Messalinus, poem commemorating occassion written by Tibullus
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which poet asks Apollo to accept the new priest of the sibyll.....
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Tibullus
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whom did Lygdamus write to?
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Neaera
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what poem opens the fourth book of Tibullus?
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a panegyric of Messala
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ward of Messala
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Sulpicia
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how many poems did Sulpicia write in the Tibullan book 4?
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at least six or seven, maybe more
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what author presents her thoughts on her lover going on a boar hunt?
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Sulpicia
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whom does Sulpicia write to?
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Cerinthus
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in the Tibullan corpus, who ardently prays to Apollo for his lover's recovery?
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Cerinthus
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Who was born near Mevania?
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Propertius
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Where was Mevania?
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in Umbria
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What equestrian poet was orphaned in boyhood?
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Propertius
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Cynthia is the chief subject of which book of Propertius?
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fourth book
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real name of Cynthia
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Hostia
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What girl did Propertius love in his youth?
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Lycinna
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which of the following liked Propertius: OVid or Horace?
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Ovid, Horace probably disliked him
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What poet speaks of his lover's death: Propertius, Tibullus, Catullus, or Sulpicia?
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Propertius
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how many books of Propertius?
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four books
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first book of Propertius called...
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Cynthia monobiblos
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what poet has a poem in which he returns from a party to find his lover asleep, and admires her beauty?
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Propertius
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what poet reproaches Bassus...
for urging him to break up with his girlfriend? |
Propertius
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What poet warns Gallus not to encroach on his turf and make overtures to his girlfriend?
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Propertius
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What poet was Propertius' rival for attention with Cynthia?
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Gallus
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what poet addresses Ponticus?
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Propertius
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what poet fears for his lover's good name when she goes to Baiae?
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Propertius
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What poet has a poem on the rape of Hylas by nymphs? Whom does he address it to, on what pretext?
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Propertius
addressed to Gallus, warning that nymphs may carry off his boy love |
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whom does Propertius dedicate his eecond book to?
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Maecenas
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Who claims to be the first Roman to follow in the steps of Callimachus and Philetas?
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Propertius
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What "puppy love" of Propertius....
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Lycinna
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Who laments Paetus, who drowned at sea?
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Propertius
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What poet asks how Postumus could go soldiering off in the East while leaving his wife?
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Propertius
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Who wrote an elegy on Marcellus which doesn't name him?
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Propertius
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What astrologer deters Propertius....
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Horos
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What poet is reproached by the ghost of his lover....
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Propertius
repraoched for infidelity |
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who wrote about Acanthis?
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Propertius
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Propertius' last poem is an elegy for whom?
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Cornelia daughter of Augustus' wife Scribonia
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What poet addresses the judges of the dead in one of his elegies?
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Propertius
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what poet was born ninety miles from Rome?
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Ovid, in Sulmo
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what poet was discouraged from becoming a poet by his father?
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Ovid
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What poet writes that fate did not give him a chance to meet Tibullus?
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Ovid
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Who was born in Abruzzi?
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Ovid
Sulmo, specifically |
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What poet, born in 43 BC....
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Ovidovid
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What poet deserted a political career for poetry?
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Ovid
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What poet was banished at the age of forty?
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Ovid
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four works written by Ovid in Exile
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Tristia
Halieuticon Ibis Epistulae ex Ponto |
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Who wrote a Medea which does not survive?
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Ovid
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how many books originally in the Amores? how many now?
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five originally, cut down to three
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What critic says Ovid was overfond of his genius, and chose to indulge it rather than control it?
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Quintilian
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how many elegies in Ovid's Amores
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49 elegies in 3 books
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What poet writes that Cupid constrains him to write of love rather than war?
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Ovid
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who wrote:
casta est quam nemo rogavit |
Ovid
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What poet addressed a lady who has almost lost her hair through bleach?
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Ovid
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What poet protests to his lover that he has not made love with Cypassis, his maid?
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OVid
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Cypassis to what poet....
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Ovid
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What poet reproaches his lover for having attempted to procure an abortion?
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Ovid
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Who advises Macer to write on love?
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Ovid
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cow, bull, and crow dream in what author?
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OVid
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what poet wrote a dirge on the "hallowed poet" Tibullus?
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Ovid
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What poet describes a festival of Juno which he attended with his wife at Falisci?
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Ovid
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first letter in Heroides
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Penelope to Odysseus
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Thracian woman who loved Demophon
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Phyllis
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Which lover in Heroides speaks of tear stains?
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Briseis to Achilles
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Who follows the plot of the Euripidean play in his letter from Phaedra to Hippolytus?
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Ovid
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who recalls youthful frolics on the slopes of Ida in her reproach to her lover in HeroideS?
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Oenone, to Paris
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in Heroides, who writes to Jason?
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Hypsipyle
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Who writes a letter to Orestes...
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Hermione
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who writes a letter to Heracles...
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Deianeira
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she wrote a letter to her brother Macareus
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Canace
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incestuous relationship between Macareus and who?
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Canace
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who wrote:
si tibi cura mei.... |
Ovid, Heroides: Laodamia to PRotesilaus
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Danaid in Ovid's Heroides
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Hypermnestra
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how many elegaic epistles in Heroides?
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twenty one
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In Heroides, letter between Acontius and.....
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Cydippe
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what friend of Ovid composed replies to the Heroides?
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Sabinus
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which poem of Ovid compares agricultural cultivation to...
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Medicina Faciei
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this poet was the praeceptor....
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Ovid
praeceptor amoris |
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how many books in Ars Amatoria?
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3 books
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What poet recommends the theater as a place to pick up women?
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Ovid
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who writes:
ut ameris amabilis esto |
be thou lovable that you may be loved
Ovid |
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What poem did Ovid complete when he was fifty, just before he went into exile?
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Metamorphoses
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What work does Ovid say he burned?
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Metamorphoses
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In the Metamorphoses, who delivers a long discourse on vegetarianism and the cycle of generation, and the eternal circulation of the mind?
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Pythagoras
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how many books in Metamorphoses
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15
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which poem has nearly 12,000 hexameter lines?
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Metamorphoses
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how many books in Fasti, and how many were projected?
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six completed out of projected twelve
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whom are the Fasti dedicated to, and whom were they originally dedicated to?
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dedicated to Germanicus, originally to Augustus
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brother of Gallio
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Seneca the Younger
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terse statments popular in the silver age
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sententiae
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first Roman to read his works before an audience
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Asinius Pollio
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uncle of Lucan
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Seneca the Younger
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born about 4 BC
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Seneca the Younger
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He was taken to Rome in infancy by an aunt, and was a sickly boy
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Seneca the Younger
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quaestor in AD 33, he arose Caligula's jealousy
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Seneca the Younger
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He was spared death at Caligula's hands...only because he was so sick that he would probably die soon.
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Seneca the Elder
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This person procured Seneca the Elder's exile--on what charge?
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Messalina, wife of Claudius, on charge of adultery with Julia Livilla, sister of Caligula
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how many years was Seneca the Younger in exile?
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eight
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she recalled Seneca
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Agrippina the Younger
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reluctant accessories to Agrippina the Younger's murder
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Seneca and Burrus
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event of 65 BC
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Pisonian conspiracy
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he bequeathed his friend the noblest possession yet remaining him, the pattern of his life
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Seneca the Younger
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plays in the Senecan corpus, how many?
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ten plays (at least one is spurious)
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two Hercules plays written by Seneca
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Hercules Furens and Hercules Oetatus
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who wrote Phoenissae
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Seneca the Younger
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who wrote Troades
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Seneca the Younger
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Who wrote Oedipus, Phaedra, Agamemon, Theyestes, and Medea?
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Seneca the Younger
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chief source of Seneca the Younger
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Euripides
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who was recalled to Rome in 49 AD....
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Seneca the Younger
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brother of Seneca the Younger
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Gallio
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Who wrote Phoenician Women?
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Seneca the Younger
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whom did Jason marry after spurning Medea?
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Creusa
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Who wrote Hercules on Oeta?
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Seneca the Younger
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Only surviving fabula praetexta
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Octavia (spuriously attributed to Seneca)
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play of "Seneca" which alludes to Nero's death and burning of Rome
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Octavia
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in what year did Nero divorce Octavia to marry Poppaea Sabinea?
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62 AD
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Who wrote De Clementia? How many books? How many books survive?
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Seneca the Younger
three books two books out of three survive |
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Who wrote De Beneficiis? How many books?
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Seneca the Younger
seven books |
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Who wrote De Providentia? Whom is it addressed to?
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Seneca the Younger
addressed to Lucilius |
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to whom does Seneca address the Epistles and Quaestiones Naturales?
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Lucilius
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Who wrote De constantia? Addressed to whom?
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Seneca the Younger
addressed to Serenus |
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Who wrote De Ira? How many books? addressed to whom?
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Seneca the Younger
three books addressed to Novatus, who is Seneca's brother Gallio |
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jurist who wrote Cicero a consolation for the death of his daughter
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Servius Sulpicius
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first of Seneca's consolations
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Ad Marciam
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which work of Seneca examines life according to nature, the happy life, and is addressed to Gallio?
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De vita beata
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Which work of Seneca addresses Serenus on the justification for retiring from public life?
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De otio
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Who wrote De tranquillitate animi? addressed to?
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Seneca the Younger
addressed to Serenus |
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Who wrote De brevitate vitae?
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Seneca the Younger
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which work of Seneca is a groveling appeal to a powerful freedman of Claudius to effect recall from Corisca?
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Ad Polybium de Consolatione
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whose mother was Helvia? What did he write her?
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Seneca the Younger
Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione |
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the consolation essays of Seneca are known as the....
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Dialogi
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Which work of Seneca is addressed to the emperor Nero at age eighteen?
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De clementia
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How many Epistulae Morales did Seneca write? To whom?
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124 Epistulae Morales to Lucilius
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who wrote and where:
non sum uni angulo natus, patria mea totus hic mundus est |
Seneca the Younger
Epistulae Morales |
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who wrote:
Leisure without letters is death... |
Seneca the Younger
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Who wrote, how many books, addressed to whom: Naturales Quaestiones
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Seneca the Younger
seven books addressed to Lucilius |
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who divides the science of nature into three heads: caelestia, sublimia, and terrestria?
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Seneca the Younger
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which work of seneca ridicules the physical failings of Claudius?
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Apocolocyntosis
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who supports Claudius' deification and who opposes it in Apocolocyntosis?
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Heracles supports it
Augustus rejects it |
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in Apocolocyntosis, who proves that Claudius was his slave/
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Caligula
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which work in 261 hexameters celebrates Piso of the Pisonian conspiracy?
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Laus Pisonis
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his patron was Meliboeus, and he wrotes the Eclogues
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Calpurnius Siculus
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born in Cordova in AD 39, he was brought as an infant to Rome
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Marcus Annaeus LUCANUS
Lucan |
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teacher of Lucan
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Cornutus
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this emperor admitted Lucan to his inner circle, recalling him from Athens and making him quaestor and augur
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Emperor Nero
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how many books in Bellum Civile?
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ten books
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name all the major writers of silver epic
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Valerius Flaccus
Publius Papinius Statius Silius Italicus Lucan |
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In book 4 of Lucan's Civil War, who is defeated in Africa and commits suicide?
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Curio
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Pompey's wife following Julia
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Cornelia
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philosophy followed by Lucan
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Stoicism
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who advises Cato to consult the oracle of Hammon in Bellum Civile?
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Labienus
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which silver age epic has a catalogue of snakes and their effects in the Libyan desert?
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Bellum Civile
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whom did Valerius Flaccus dedicate the Argonautica to?
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Vespasian
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he translated Apollonius of Rhodes
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Varro of Atax
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In Argonautica, what brother of Aeetes is attacking Colchis?
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Perses
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at what point does Argonautica break off?
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Argonauts planning to surrender Medea
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in Argonautica, Juno imperosnates this sister of Medea
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Chalciope
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main source for the life of Silius Italicus
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a letter of Pliny
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he had a villa near Naples, near which he starved himself to death
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Silius Italicus
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according to Pliny, what poet celebrated Virgil's birthday with more solemnity than his own, approaching his tomb as a temple?
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Silius Italicus
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how many books and verses in Punica
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17 books
12,200 verses |
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17 book....
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Punica by Silius Italicus
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who saves Hannibal in a cloud in Punica?
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Minerva
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heroine of Saguntum, another Camilla in Silius Italicus' Punica
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Asbyte
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favorite mountain of Pan
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Maenalus
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according to Punica, what does Dido's sister become?
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Anna becomes an Italian nymph
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Who wrote the Thebais?
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P. Papinius Statius
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What unfinished work of Papinius Statius....
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Achilleid
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poet born around AD 40 or AD 45 in Naples
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P. Papinius Statius
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to whose court was P. Papinius Statius admitted?
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Domitian's
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Who did P. Papinius Statius marry?
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Claudia
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What poet adopted a slave child of his household, whose death he mourns in his last, unfinished poem?
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Publius Papinius Statius
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Where did Publius Papinius Statius die?
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Naples
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how many books in Thebais?
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twelve books
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Thebais opens with an invocation to whom?
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Domitian
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only ambusher not killed by Tydeus
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Maeon
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what seven against Thebes dude was lured from his defense of Tydeus' body by a disguised fury?
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Hippomedon
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son of Creon, he jumped from the city wall to save the city
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Menoeceus
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the Achilled begins with an invocation to whom?
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Domitian
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how many books of the Achilleid
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one book and beginning of the second
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King of Scyros, he had Achilles
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Lycomedes of Scyros
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daughter of Lycomedes of Scyros
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Deidameia
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what poet, work:
mountain so high that stars rest upon it |
Thebais, Papinius Statius
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how many poems, books, in silvae
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five books of thirty two poems
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a work of raw material, whose author hesistated to publish it, as he attests in book one
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Silvae by P. Papinius Statius
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marriage song
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epithalamion
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farewell song
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propempticon
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birthday poem
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genethliacon
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eulogy
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epicedion
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thanksgiving or compliments
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eucharisticon
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felicitation on recovery from illness
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soteria
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Statius' Silvae are written mostly in....
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hexameter
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what poet flatters the emperor Domitian.....
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Papinius Statius
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who wrote an epithalamion for his friend Stella and his bride Violentilla?
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Publius Papinius Statius
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wife of Lucan
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Polla
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wife of Papinius Statius
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Claudia
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who wrote a plea for sleep?
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Papinius Statius, Silvae
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Who said that Statius was very popular, but still had to sell Agave to Paris, and mimes?
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Juvenal
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work of Papinius Statius on Pentheus
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Agave
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whom did Papinius Statius write an epistle concerning Thebais to?
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Vibius Maximus
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who complains of the Theseid of Cordus?
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Juvenal
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who wrote:
si natura negat....facit indignatio versum |
Juvenal
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what two satirists does Juvenal invoke?
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Lucilius and Horace
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who came first: Persius or Juvenal?
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Perius
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poet who was born in AD 34 in Etruria to a wealthy family
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Persius
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died of a stomach ailment at age twenty-eight
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Persius
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satirist, he was orphaned at age six
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Persius
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his teacher was the Stoic Cornutus
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Persius
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he traveled with Thrasea Paetus
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Persius
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he "sows the seed of Cleanthes in their years"
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Cornutus, as per Persius
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what poet was acquainted with the historian Servilius Nonianus and the poet Caesius Bassus?
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Persius
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how many satires and hexameter verses did Persius write?
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six satires, 650 hexameter verses
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whose first satire in the form of a dialogue with a friend is an attack on the corruption of literature and literary taste in Rome?
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Persius
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who wrote:
auriculas.....asini quis non habet |
Persius
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what poet talks about how men pray openly for worthy objects but for immoral and criminal aspirations in private?
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Persius
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what author says an Alcibiades is unfit to guide others?
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Persius
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what poet eulogizes Cornutus and explores that all men are slaves?
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Persius
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which satire of which poet is a justification of spending on worthy objects?
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Satire 6 by Persius
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who speaks of Juvenal wandering through the clamorous Subura?
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Martial
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only other ancient to mention Juvenal
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Martial
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birthplace of Juvenal
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Aquinum
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what satirist speaks of a barber that shaved him when he was young, and the consulship of Juncus?
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Juvenal
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who was banished for insulting an actor? name of the actor? who executed the actor/
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Juvenal was banished for insulting the actor Paris, who was put to death by Domitian
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what emperor does Juvenal despise?
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Domitian
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how many satires did Juvenal write?
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16 satires
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longest satire of Juvenal
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satire 6--a book in itself of 661 lines
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what is common to Juvenal 3, 10, and 14?
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they are each over three hundred lines
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obscure satirist
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Persius
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some say he was banished by Trajan to Scotland, others by Domitian to Egypt
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Juvenal
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who wrote in satire 4:
quidquid agunt homines, votum timor ira voluptas gaudia discursus, nostri farrago libelli est |
Juvenal
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what satirist in his Satire 2 rails against homosexuality?
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Juvenal
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What Roman, according to Juvenal, used cosmetics and carried a mirror to war?
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Otho
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which author and work has Umbricius, and tells why it is impossible for an honest man to live in Rome, and narrates about the capital?
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Juvenal Satire 3
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who invokes the Muse Calliope fora mock epic account of how a council summoned by Domitian decided to cook a huge turbot?
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Juvenal Satire 4
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which satire advocates suicide over marriage?
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Juvenal Satire 6
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what author maintained that women procured abortions, killed stepchildren, and made their husbands insane with potions?
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Juvenal
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which author directed satires against pride of birth and maintained that virtue was the only true nobility? Catiline/Cicero example
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Juvenal Satire 8
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which satire by which author is on the human yearning for wealth, power, long life, glory, personal beauty and the vanity of such, counselling leaving everything to the gods?
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Juvenal Satire 10
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who has a trirade against legacy hunters coming from giving thanks to a friend saved froma shipwreck?
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Juvenal Satire 12
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satirist who wanted people to know themselves
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Juvenal Satire 11
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which Satire of which author maintains precepts are useless in raising children if there are bad examples, since children imitate paretns
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Juvenal Satire 14
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Which satirist and satire has the satirists' disgust at rioting and cannibalism in Egypt?
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Juvenal Satire 15
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who says:
Hominem pagina nostra sapit |
Martial
our pages taste man |
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who wrote short elegaic epigrams
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Martial
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born around AD 40 in Bilbilis, Spain
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Marcus Valerius MARTIALIS
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he was befriended by Seneca and Lucan when he came to Rome, a year before the Pisonian conspiracy
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AD 65
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he was given an honorary miitary tribuneship and the ius trium liberorum
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Martial
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who paid for Martial's passage back to Spain, and why
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Pliny
Martial's poetry not welcome under Nero |
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who wrote a letter on the death of Martial?
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Pliny
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Martial's first publication
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liber spectaculorum
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occassion of liber spectaculorum
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opening of colosseum by Titus in AD 80
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in AD 80, who composed....
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Martial, Liber Spectaculorum
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who opened the colosseum
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Titus AD 80
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Martial piece with thirty three shitty poems
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Liber spectaculorum
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Martial piece with mottoes for Saturnalia gifts
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Xenia
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Martial piece with mottoes for holiday party gifts; arranged in pairs
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Apophoreta
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how many books of Epigrams proper did Martial write?
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twelve books
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what author, who wrote a total of around 1,561 pieces, praised Domitian?
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Martial
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who wrote a poem on the little six-year old slave girl? name of slave girl?
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Martial
slave girl = Erotion |
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who wrote about the finicky shopper Mamurra?
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Martial
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who addresses Fabula, who choses her friends to emphasize her own beauty?
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Martial
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who says:
Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba? |
Martial
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who writes of the country life and simple life of his native Spain
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Martial
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who addresses a poem of farewell to his namesake....
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Martial
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title of Petronius' most famous work
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Satyrica
Satyricon |
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Satyricon and Apocolocyntosis are example of what form?
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Menippean Satire
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which work is a bunch of episodes strung together by the wrath of Priapus?
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Satyricon
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Nero's arbiter elegantiae
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Petronius
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after being a proconsul of Bithynia, who was chosen to be an intimate of Nero?
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Petronius
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he was jealous of Petronius, and charged him with having robbed Scaevinus
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Tigellinus
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which book has Trimalchio
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Satyricon
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Encolpius, Ascyltus, Giton, and Agamemnon are all in what novel?
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Satyricon
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Encolpius' teacher of oratory
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Agamemnon
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Encolpius is staying with whom, where?
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Ascyltus and Giton in a Campanian seaport
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what girl in Satyricon swears she cannot remember being a virgin, ever, upon a seven-year-old girl's birthday?
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Quartilla
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whom does Encolpius quarrel with, over whom?
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he quarrels with Ascyltus, over Giton
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who, upon reaching the consulate in 100 AD....
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Pliny the Younger
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What year did Pliny deliver his Panegyric in?
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100 AD, year of his consulate
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where was Quintilian born, and when?
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Calagurris in Spain, AD 35 or 40
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who appointed Quintilian to what position?
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Vespasian appointed Quintilian the first salaried professor of rhetoric at Rome
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appointed tutor to Domitian's grandnephews
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Quintilian
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Who wrote De causis corruptae eloquentiae?
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Quintilian
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work published in AD 95
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Institutio Oratoria
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how many books in Institutio Oratoria
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twelve books
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who writes about the value of reading Greek and latin for an orator?
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Quintilian
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who wrote, and who accepted the definition:
vir bonus dicendi peritus |
Cato wrote it, Quintilian accepted it
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Quintilian's professed model
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Cicero
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according to Jerome, who wrote two declamatory collections?
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Quintilian
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consul in 74, 98, and 100 AD
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Frontinus
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Frontinus' theoretical treatise on military science
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De re militari
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how many books of Stratagemata
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four
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Frontinus' aqueduct work; how many books/
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De Aquis Urbis Romae in 2 books
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What author illustrates his military precepts with examples from Greek history
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Frontinus
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what author, in his fourth book, has stuff on ethics in military matters?
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Frontinus
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Frontinus was water commander under what emperors?
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Nerva and Trajan
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fourth century author who undertook to write a continuation of Tacitus
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Ammianus Marcellinus
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this emperor ordered ten copies of Tacitus' work to be made and distributed annually
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Tacitus
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only writer to make mention of Tacitus, he wrote eleven letters to Tacitus
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Pliny the Elder
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married the daughter of Agricola, governor of Britain
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Tacitus
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as consul under Nerva in 97 AD he gave the funeral oration for Verginius Rufus
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Tacitus
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he was governor of Asia Minor under Trajan, probably in 112 AD
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Tacitus
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what oppressive African governor did Pliny the Younger and Tacitus prosecute/
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Marius Priscus
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who wrote an inquiry in dialogue form about the change in oratory... since Cicero's day?
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Tacitus
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what emperor did Tacitus' father-in-law Agricola come to displeasure?
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Domitian
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who recalled Agricola from Britain?
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Domitian
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Who wrote that "posse etiam sub malis principibus magnos viros esse"?
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Tacitus
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Who exposed Domitian's tyranny....
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Tacitus
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Tacitus' two works written in 98 AD
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Agricola and Germania
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who wrote a geographic and ethnological treatise on the Germans...
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Tacitus Germania
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how many books of the Tacitus' Historiae?
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12 books
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How many books of Tacitus' Annales?
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18 books
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what history covered from the year of the four emperors, AD 69, to the death of Domitian in 96 AD?
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Tacitus' Historiae
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Tacitus' Historiae started with what year and ended with what year and the death of what emperor?
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AD 69-AD 96 (Death of Domitian)
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The Historiae was published during whose reign?
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Trajan's reign
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Tacitus' work the Annales covers from what year to what year? Death of what emperor to death of what emperor?
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14 AD death of Augustus to 68 AD death of Nero
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Tacitus's Annales covers which emperors?
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Tiberius, Claudius, Nero
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who thought history's highest function was to let no worthy action be uncommemorated and to hold wrong people to the light of posterity?
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Tacitus
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in which work of Tacitus does a british chieftain deliver a speech....
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Agricola
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historian highly esteemed by Pliny the Younger
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Suetonius
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this man sought from Trajan the ius trium liberorum for Suetonius
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Pliny the Younger
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a) secretary to Hadrian
b) who helped get him there? c) why did he lose Hadrian's favor? |
a) Suetonius
b) Pliny the Younger did c) indiscretion with Hadrian's wife |
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what historian mentions that his father participated in the Battle of Bedriacum in 69 AD?
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Suetonius
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Who wrote: On Famous Courtesans, on Kings, On Cicero's De Republica, on Public Offices, Roma, Pratum, the Games of the Greeks, On Terms of Abuse in Greek, On Critical Marks in Books, and Historia?
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Suetonius
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work published from 106 to 113 AD
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De Viris Illustribus
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Who wrote De Viris et Rhetoribus?
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Suetonius
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Who wrote about Terence, Horace and Lucan in his De Poetis?
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Suetonius
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who wrote an epitome of Roman history in two books from the beginnings to the deification of Augustus?
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L. Annaeus FLORUS
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Whose works were discovered in 1815 in Vatican and Ambrosian palimpsests?
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Fronto
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author born in Cirta (now Constantine), in Numidia
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Fronto
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taught by Athenodotus and Dionysius
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Varro
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What author was raised to consular rank in 143 by Antoninus Pius?
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Fronto
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These two men were made tutors to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
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Herodes Atticus and Marcus Cornelius FRONTO
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The bulk of his literary remains is a bunch of letters between him, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
|
Fronto
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Whom did Marcus Aurelius set the statue of in the senate, and keep his bust among his household gods?
|
Fronto
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What author was deeply dismayed by Marcus Aurelius' turn to philosophy instead of rhetoric?
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Fronto
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He delivered in the senate an attack on Christianity, to which the Octavius may be a response
|
Fronto
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Who wrote an Arion, from Herodotus
|
Fronto
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He attacks Plato in his Eroticus
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Fronto
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Cupid and Psyche is in his work
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Metamorphoses by Apuleius
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born in Madaura in Africa
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Apuleius
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born AD 124 or 125
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Apuleius
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He lived for a while in Oea, having married someone there
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Apuleius
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He came into contact with the student Pontianus
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Apuleius
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He was accused of murdering his step-son Pontianus and using witchcraft to win his rich wife Pudentilla
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Apuleius
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He delivered the Apology against charges of witchcraft
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Apuleius
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author initiated into the mysteries of Isis and Cenchreae
|
Apuleius
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he went to live in his future wife's house because her son was afraid of fortune hunters
|
Apuleius
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he delivered many fanciful declarations in Carthage, becoming its most popular literary figure
|
Apuleius
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statues were erected to him in Carthage and by Aemilianus Strabo
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Apuleius
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what highest honor in Carthage was Apuelius appointed to
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chief priesthood
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he was called a philosophum formosum by his opponents
|
Apuleius
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he wrote De Dogmate Platonis
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Apuleius
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name of Apuleius' Apologia in transcripts
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Pro se de magia liber
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of African origin, renaissance scholars said he had a tumor Africus
|
Apuleius
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excerpts from Apuleius' epideitic declamations
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Florida
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how many books in the Florida
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four
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who wrote: aut floribus redimita
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Apuleius in Florida
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Which work and author contains a description of the flight of an eagle, Apollo and Marsyas, the flutist Antigenidas, India, the sophist Hippias, the parrot, the Cynic Crates, and the comic poet Philemon, and the dispute of the stoic Protagoras and his disciple Euathlos on tuition charges?
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Apuleius, Florida
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Who contends that there are spirits intermediary between God and man, such as the daimonion of Socrates in Plato's Apology?
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Apuleius, On the God of Socrates
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Who was praised as Platonicus....for his De Platone et eius dogmate?
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Apuleius
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Who addressed the second book of one of his works ot Faustine fili?
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Apuleius
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In which work is the Peri hermeneias?
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De Platone et eius dogmate by Apuleius
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Who wrote a free translation of the Greek treastise Peri kosmou, and what was it called?
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Apuleius, De Mundo
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His work is based on the "Lucius; or Ass" of Lucius of Patras
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Apuelius
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who gives birth to Voluptas...in Apuleius' Metamorphoses?
|
Psyche
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He has sex with the maid Photis, sees the witch Pamphile, is carried off by bandits
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Lucius in Metamorphoses
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Who wrote the Ludicra, a volume of light verse?
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Apuleius
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Who wrote the De virtutibus Orfiti, a translation of Anekhomenos from Menander, and a second novel Hermagoras?
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Apuleius
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what author mentions no fewer than 275 authors in his work?
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Aulus Gellius, Atticae Noctes
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Who studied philosophy with Herodes Atticus...... in Athens?
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Aulus Gellius
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how many books is the Atticae Noctes?
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twenty books
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what anthologizer collects information on litearture, grammar, law, religion, history, and other stuff in his Atticae Noctes?
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Aulus Gellius
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sun of Zeus and Niobe, he was the father of Lycaon, king of the Arcadians
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Pelasgus
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eldest son of Lycaon, he instigated his brothers to kill a child for Zeus
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Mainalos
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youngest son of Lycaon; who interceded for him with Zeus?
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Nyctimos; Gaia grasped his right hand and interceded for him
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father of Callisto
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Lycaon; or, Nycteus; or, Ceteus
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Zeus had intercourse with Callisto taking whose form?
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Artemis, or Apollo
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who transformed Callisto into a bear?
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Artemis, or Hera
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whom did Zeus give Arcas to raise?
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Maia
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Arcadia was formerly named what?
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Pelasgia
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sons of Arcas and Leaneira, they divided the land of Arcadia betweent themselves. Who held the real power?
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sons = Elatos and Apheidas
Elatos held the real power |
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wife of Proetus, she was the daughter of Apheidas and sister of Aleos
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Stheneboia
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children of Aleos and Neaira (Daughter of Perseus)
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Auge; Lycourgos and Cepheus
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priest of Athene, she hid her baby in Athene's sanctuary
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Auge
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Aleos gave Auge to this man, and he gave Auge to whom?
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Aleos gave Auge to Nauplius, and Nauplius gave Auge to Tethras
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who married Auge?
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Teuthras
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Who went to mysia, following an oracle's advice..... and succeeded Teuthras as the king of Mysia?
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Telephos
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son of Amphidamas, he vied for the hand of Atalanta
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Milanion
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she was suckled by she-bears. who was her mother?
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Atalanta, daughter of Clymene and Iasus
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What centaurs tried to rape Atalanta?
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Rhoecus and Hylaeus
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who was defeated by Atalanta at the games Acastus held in honor of Pelias?
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Peleus
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whose sanctuary did Melanion and Atalanta have sex in?
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sanctuary of Zeus, turned into lions
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father of Atalanta, according to: Hesiod; Euripides
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according to Hesiod, Schoineus
according to Euripides, Maenalus |
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son of Milanion and Atalanta. Real father?
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Parthenopaeus
real father = Ares |
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seven daughters born at Cyllene in Arcadia to Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Oceanus
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Pleiades
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wife of Oenomaus
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Sterope daughter of Atlas and Pleione
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mother of Lycus, she had sex with Poseidon
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Celaino
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sons of Hyrieus and the nymph Clione
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Nycteus and Lycus
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daughter of Nycteus and Polyxo
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Antiope
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daughter of Atlas and Pleione, eldest
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Maia
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Hermes was born in a cave on what mountain?
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Mount Cyllene in Arcadia
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what did Apollo give Hermes for his shepherd's pipe
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a golden staff, and the art of divination
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herald of Zeus and herald to the Underworld
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Hermes
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son of Zeus and Taygete
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Laecedaimon
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daughter of Eurotas, she had Amyclas and Eurydice by Laecedaimon
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Sparta
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wife of Laicedaimon
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Sparta
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son of Amyclas and Diomede, or Clio and Pierus
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Hyacinthos
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parents of Tyndareus, Icarios, Aphareus, and Leucippos
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Perieres and Gorgophone
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mother of Asclepius by Apollo
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Arsinoe (or Coronis)
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daughter of Phlegyas, a mother of Asclepius by Apollo
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Coronis
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brother of Caineus, Coronis preferred him to Apollo
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Ischys
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a surgeon, Athena gave him blood that flowed from the veins of a Gorgon
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Asclepius
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he had a cult at Epidaurus, a healing god
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Asclepius
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Hades complained that he was raising men from the dead; or, he raised a single man for a bribe
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Asclepius
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he was going to be hurled down to Tartarus, but his mother interceded o his behalf
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Apollo
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he was Admetus' herdsman, causing all cows to deliver twins at every birth
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Apollo
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they took away Theseus' mother Aethra as captive
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Castor and Polydeuces
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he expelled Icarius and Tyndareus from Laicedaimon
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Hippocoon
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when this king died, Hipocoon and Tyndareus/Icarios disputed the throne
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Oibalos king of Sparta
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according to some sources, he helped Hippocoon expel Tyndareus from Sparta
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Icarios
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he gave Tyndareus (and Icarios) refuge when they were expelled from Sparta by Hippocoon
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Thestius
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his sons killed the son of Licymnios
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Hippocoon
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daughter of Thestius, raped by Zeus
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Leda
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he succeeded Hippocoon to the throne of Sparta
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Tyndareus
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parents of PEnelope, Thoas, Damasippos, Aletes, Perileos, Imeusimos
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Icarios and the naid nymph Periboia
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daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, Artemis made her immortal
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Phylonoe daughter of Tyndareus and Leda
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tuaghter of Tyndareus and Leda, she became the wife of Echemos
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Timandra
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she tried to avoid intercourse with Zeus by changing herself into a goose
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Nemesis
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he abducted Helen and took her to Aphidnai
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Theseus
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sons of Asclepius
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Podaleirus and Machaon
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father of Patroclus
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Menoitios
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he helped gain Odysseus the hand of Penelope
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Tyndareus
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he asked Icarios to give Penelope to Odysseus in marriage
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Tyndareus
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children of Helen and Menelaos
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Hermione (and Nicostratus, though perhaps illegit)
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son of Menelaus and the slave woman Pieris
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Megapenthes
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son of Menelaos and the nymph Cnosia
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Xenodamas
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Dioscuri devoted to arts of war, vs. boxing
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Castor - arts of war; Polydeuces - boxing
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son of Zeus and Leda
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Polydeuces
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they abducted the daughters of Leucippos, who were betrothed to Aphareus's sons
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Polydeuces
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sons of this guy quarreled with Castor and Polydeuces. who were the sons?
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Aphareus;
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they marched against Messene when cheated out of their cattle
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Castor and Polydeuces, marching against Idas and Lynceus
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he killed Castor
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Idas
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he killed Lynceus with a Javelin throw
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Polydeuces
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he threw a stone at Polydeuces, knocking him unconscious
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Idas
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Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt after he knocked Polydeuces unconscious
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Idas
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daughter of Atlas, mother of Iasion and Dardanus by Zeus
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Electra
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struck by Zeus for lying with Demeter in a thrice-plowed field
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Iasion
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he left Samothrace because of grief at the death of his brother Iasion
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Dardanus
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son of the River Scamander and the nymph Idaia
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Teucros
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he married Bateia and named the land after himself after Teucer died
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Dardanos
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two sons of Dardanos and Bateia
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Ilos and Erichthonius
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father of Tros by Astyoche
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Erichthonius
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a daughter of Scamander, she married Tros
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Callirrhoe
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parents of Cleopatra, Ilos, Assaracos, Ganymede
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Tros and Callirrhoe daughter of Scamander
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carried off by an eagle to Zeus
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Ganymede
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son of Capys and Themiste, daughter of Ilos
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Anchises
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brother of Aeneas, he was son of ANchises and Aphrodite
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Lyros
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he was given fifty boys and fifty girls and a dappled cow by the king of Phrygia, who told him to found a city where it sat down
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Ilos
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what hill did the cow of Ilos sit down at?
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The Hill of Phyrgian ATe
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who founded Ilion?
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Ilos
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he prayed to Zeus to reveal a sign to him and saw the Palladium lying outside his tent
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Ilos
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the Palladium was made by whom, after who interceded in her battle?
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Athena, after Zeus interceded in her fight with Pallas
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she took refuge at the Palladium when she was raped by Zeus
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Electra
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personification of delusion, this golden haired daughter of Zeus was thrown down to earth by him along with the Palladium
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Ate
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daughter of Adrastus, she married Ilos
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Eurydice
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son of Laomedon, he was carried off to Ethiopia
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Tithonus, lover of Dawn
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sons of Eos and Tithonus
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Emathion and Memnon
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first wife of Priam, she gave birth to Aisacos
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Arisbe
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she was bitter by a viper while Aisacos pursued her
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Hesperia
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Tethys transformed him into a bird after he threw himself into the sea in grief over Hesperia's death by viper
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Aisacos
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giving Arisbe to Hyrtacos, Priam married Hecuba, the daughter of whom?
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Dymas, Cisseus, or River Sangarios
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What daughter of the River Sangarios....
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Hecuba
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who had a dream that she gave birth to a firebrand and the fire spread throughout the whole city?
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Hecuba
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son of Priam, he had been taught to interpret dreams by his maternal grandfather Merops, and he interpreted the birth of Paris
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Aesacus
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servant Priam gave Paris to
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Agelaos
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after being suckled for five days by a bear, Agelaos found this baby and raised him as his own
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Paris
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for protecting flocks and warding off robbers, he got the name Alexander
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Paris
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son of Apollo and Hecuba
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Troilos
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daughter of the river Cebren, she married Paris
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Oenone
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a) she warned Paris not to sail for Troy
b) who taught her the art of prophecy |
Oinone, taught prophecy by Rhea
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she told Paris to come to him if wounded, cause only she could heal him
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Oenone
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who shot Paris in the Trojan war/
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Philoctetes
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son of Oceanus and Tethys, the father of Ismenos, Pelagon, and Aegina by Metope daughter of the River Ladon
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Asopus
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parents of Aegina
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Asopos and Metope daughter of the River Ladon
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the name of Aegina before Zeus and Aegina came there
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Oinone
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son of Zeus and Aegina
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Aeacus
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He married Endeis, daughter of Sciron
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Aeacus
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sons of Aeacus
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Peleus and Telamon; illegitimate Phocus
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Who turned herself into a seal to try and escape Aeacus?
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Psamathe daughter of Nereus
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parents of Phocus
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Aeacus and Psamathe daughter of Nereus
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according to an Oracle, the land would be delivered of the barrenness from Pelops if he offered prayers
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Aeacus
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he guards Hades' keys
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Aeacus
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he sits beside Pluto and Kore in the underworld, enjoying highest honors
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Aeacus
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he killed Phocus
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Telamon, with a discus; or Phocus
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they killed their illegitimate brother to please their mom
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Telamon and Peleus
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son of Poseidon and Salamis, he gained the kingdom of Salamis by killing a snake ravaging it
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Cychreus
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he took in Telamon following Telamon's expulsion
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Cychreus
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Heracles prayed that he would have a male child, after which an eagle appeared
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Telamon
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He married Periboia daughter of Alcathous, son of Pelops
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Telamon
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son of Actor, he purified Peleus and gave him his daughter Antigone
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Eurytion
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he killed Eurytion with a javelin throw
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Peleus
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who purified Peleus for the murder of Eurytion
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Acastos of Iolcus
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she fell in love with Peleus and sent him a letter, but was rebuked
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Astydameia wife of Acastus
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he fell asleep on Mount Pelion while Acastus hid his sword
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Peleus
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She hanged herself when Astydameia sent her word that her husband was planning to marry Sterope daughter of Acastus
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Antigone wife of Peleus
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first, second, and third wives of Peleus
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First - Antigone daughter of Eurytion; Second - Polydora daughter of Perieres; Third - Thetis
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She bore a son Menesthios, nominally to Peleus, but really to the river Spercheios; OR, she was the daughter of Peleus
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Polydora daughter of Perieres
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where did Peleus marry Thetis
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Mount Pelion
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he gave Peleus an ashwood spear for his marriage to Thetis
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Cheiron
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she buried her child in fire by night and rubbed it with ambrosia in the day
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Thetis
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former name of Achilles
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Ligyron
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He attacked Iolcus and quartered Astydameia. With whose help?
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Peleus, with the help of Jason and the Dioscuri
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he declared that Troy could not be taken without Achilles
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Calchas
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ruler of Scyros off Euboea, he took in Achilles
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Lycomedes
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son of Amyntor, he was blinded when Phthia, his father's concubine, falsely accused him of seducing her
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Phoenix son of Amyntor
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Achilles' blind tutor, son of Amyntor
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Phoenix
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he cured the eyes of Phoenix and made him king of the Dolopians
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Cheiron
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son of Menoitios and Sthenele/Periopis/Polymele
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Patroclus
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What boy did Patroclus kill in an argument?
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Cleitonymos
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son of Cycnos and Procleia, or son of Apollo
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Tenes
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Who wrote De Historis?
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Suetonius
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Work of Suetonius published AD 121
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De vita Caesarum
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first Roman emperor to wear a beard
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Hadrian
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emperor who wrote poem about his fleeting soul
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Hadrian
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poem some believe was written by Tiberianus
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Pergilium Veneris
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this emperor revived the worship of Venus on a great scale, as demonstrated by the Pervigilium Veneris
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Hadrian
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what work depicts the spring tide of the goddess of love in Sicily, Ceres, Bacchus, graces and nymphs, Cupid without bows and Arrows? Composed on the occassion of the trinoctium Veneris
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Pervigilium Veneris
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poet who wrote on Carinus and Numerian, saying that all mythological subjects were worn out. Which work?
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Nemesianus, Cynegetica
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Wrote a continuation of Suetonius. up to what emperor?
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Marius Maximus, up to Elagabalus
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Suetonius stopped with what emperor?
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Nerva
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Who wrote the commentary on the Somnium Scipionis of the De Republica?
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Macrobius
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how many authors in Scriptores Historiae Augustae?
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six
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who wrote the Saturnalia?
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Macrobius
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wrote a continuation of Marius Maximus
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Aelius Junius Cordus
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Work also called Vitae diversorumm principium....
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Historiae Augustae
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principal sources for Historiae Augustae
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Marius Maximus and Aelius Junius Cordus
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only poet of third century we know
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Nemesianus
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wrote Halieutica, Eclogues, Nautica
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Nemesianus
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third century collection of apophthegms
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Dicta Catonis
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who wrote: vetustas quidem nobis semper, si sapimus, adoranda est?
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Macrobius
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who dedicates his work to his son Eustachius?
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Macrobius, Saturnalia
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Macrobius' Neoplatonist faith is set forward in what work?
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Commentary on Somnium Scipionis
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year of the battle of Adrianople
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378 AD
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what historian, born in the first quarter of the fourth century....
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Ammianus Marcellinus
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teacher of St. Jerome
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Aelius Donatus
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