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Who introduced the first play with a plot?
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Livius Andronicus
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Born in Tarentum in 284 BC.
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Where and when did Livius Andronicus debut the first Latin comedy and the first Latin tragedy?
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Ludi Romani, 240 BC
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How many tragedies did Livius Andronicus write?
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8 tragedies, molded on Greek originals.
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What Roman author was exiled to Utica because of a quarrell with the Metelli?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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Who wrote the Bellum Punicum?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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What was a Fabula Palliata?
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A comedy in Greek dress
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What was a Fabula Praetexta?
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A play on a historical Roman subject
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How many Fabulae Praetextae did Gnaeus Naevius write?
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seven
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How many Fabulae Palliatae did Gnaeus Naevius write?
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six
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Who was the father of Latin Poetry?
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Quintus Ennius
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What Latin poet was born in Rudiae in Calabria?
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Quintus Ennius
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Who was said to have had "three hearts"? Why?
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Quintus Ennius
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How many books were in the Annales?
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18 books
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How many books of satire did Quintus Ennius write? How many comedies?
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Four
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Who wrote the "Rape of the Sabines"?
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Quintus Ennius
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How many tragedies did Ennius write?
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twenty
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Who wrote the Scipio, a poem about Scipio Africanus?
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Quintus Ennius
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Who was the nephew of Ennius?
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Marcus Pacuvius
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What respected painter was also a tragedian?
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Marcus Pacuvius
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About how many tragedies did Pacuvius write?
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twelve
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What Roman tragedian was born at Pisaurum?
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Lucius Accius
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Name two Roman authors whose parents were freedmen
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Lucius Accius and Horace
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Around how many tragedies did Lucius Accius write?
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40 or 50, from Greek models
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Who wrote the Decius, about the self-immolation (devotio) of Decius Mus at the battle of Sentinum in 295 BC?
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Lucius Accius
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Who wrote the Brutus, whose subject is the downfall of the Tarquins?
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Lucius Accius
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Who wrote the Atreus?
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Lucius Accius
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In what work of Latin Literature do we find the line "Oderint dum metuant"?
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Atreus, by Lucius Accius
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What Roman author was born in Sarsina in Umbria?
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Plautus
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What type of Greek comedy did Plautus adapt his works from?
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New Comedy
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What author greatly influenced Plautus?
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Menander
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How many comedies did Plautus probably write?
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21
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Which comedy of Plautus could be translated as "The Ass Comedy"?
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Asinaria
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Which comedy of Plautus involves a double plot, with two Bacchises?
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Bacchides
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Which is the only play of Plautus that has no women involved?
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Captivi
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What is the most obscene of Plautus' plays?
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Casina
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What play of Plautus is probably his latest?
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Casina
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What play of Plautus is called in English "The Casket"?
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Cistellaria
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Who wrote the Circulio?
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Plautus
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What play of Plautus was the basis of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors
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Menaechmi
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What play of Plautus is called "The Merchant"?
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Mercator
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Which play of Plautus involves a swaggering soldier?
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Miles Gloriosus
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Which play of Plautus involves a haunted house
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Mostellaria
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Which play of Plautus is called "The Girl from Persia"?
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Persa
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Which play of Plautus is exceedingly long and boring?
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Poenulus
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Which play of Plautus deals with a Carthaginian?
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Poenulus
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Who wrote the Epidicus?
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Plautus
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What was (one of) Plautus' favorite play in old age?
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Pseudolus
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What Plautine play's title is translated as "Rope"?
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Rudens
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What play of Plautus premiered at the Plebeian games in 200 BC?
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Stichus
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What play of Plautus is different from his other works in that it has no plot?
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Stichus
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What play of Plautus is called "Threepenny day"?
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Trinummus
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Which play of Plautus, a favorite of his, is rather unfunny and very grim?
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Truculentus
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What play of Plautus is called "The Chest"?
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Vidularia
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What Roman author, born around 220 BC, was an Insubrian Gaul?
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Caecilius Statius
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How many comedies did Caecilius Statius write in both Latin and Greek?
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around 40
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What Roman comedian was born as a slave in Carthage?
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Terence
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What circle was Terence a member of?
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The Scipionic Circle (Scipio Africanus the Younger).
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Which literary circle included Laelius and the satirist Lucilius?
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The Scipionic Circle (Scipio Africanus the Younger)
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What Roman author died on a journey to Greece?
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Terence
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Give the author and meaning of the phrase:
Dictum sapienti sat est |
A word to the wise is enough
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Author and meaning:
Fortis fortuna iuvat |
Fortune helps the brave; Terence
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Quot homines tot sententiae
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As many opinions as men; Terence
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Tacent, satis laudant
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They are silent, they praise enough (their silence is praise enough); Terence
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Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto
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I am a man, I think nothing human alien to me; Terence
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What was the earliest of Terence's plays?
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Andria
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Which of Terence's plays is called the "Self tormentor"?
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Hauton Timorumenos
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Which play was Terence's greatest financial success?
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Eunuchus
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Which was the poorest of Terence's plays?
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Hecyra
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What play is considered Terence's masterpiece
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Adelphi
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Who wroe the Phormio?
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Terence
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What Roman author's mistress was Collyra?
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Gaius Lucilius
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Who is considered the inventor of satire?
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Gaius Lucilius
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What Roman author's sister was the grandmother of Pompey the Great?
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Gaius Lucilius
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How many books of satire did Lucilius write?
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30 books
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What Roman author died at Naples between 103 and 101 BC?
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Gaius Lucilius
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Give the name for plays with Roman backgrounds
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Fabulae Togatae
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What kind of plays did Titinius write?
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Fabulae Togatae
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What kind of plays did Titus Quinctius Atta write?
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Fabulae Togatae
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What kind of plays did Lucius Afranius write?
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Fabulae Togatae
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Name three writers of Fabulae Togatae
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Lucius Afranius,
Titinius, Titus Quinctius Atta |
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In what kind of Roman literary form would we find the clown Maccis, Pappus the simpleton, Bucco the fat boy, Dossennus the hunchback, and Manducos the Glutton?
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Attellan Farce
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Name two writers of Fabulae Atellanae
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Novius
Lucius Pomponius |
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Give the Latin term fro mimes where performers wore no masks
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Fabula Riciniata
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Name the two prominent writers of mimes
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Decimus Laberius
Publilius Syrus |
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Who ordered the contest between Decimus Laberius and Publilius Syrus? Who was the elder of the two? Who lost?
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Julius Caesar
Decimus Laberius Publilius Syrus |
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Who wrote:
Satura tota nostra est? |
Quintilian
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Who was the father of Latin Prose?
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Cato the Elder
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What Roman author was born in Tusculum?
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Cato the Elder
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What Roman author fought in the Second Punic War, and was the leader of the "popular" movement against the aristocratic group headed by the Scipios?
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Cato the Elder
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What Roman author supposedly learned Greek when he was 80 years old?
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Cato the Elder
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Give the full name of Cato the Elder
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Marcus Porcius Cato
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How many speeches did Cato write?
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150, around
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Who wrote an an encyclopedia on medicine, rhetoric, agriculture, military science, and law for his son Marcus?
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Cato the Elder
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What is the name of Cato's encyclopedia on medicine, rhetoric, law, agriculture, and military science?
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Ad Filium
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How many books are in the Origines?
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7
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Who wrote the Origines?
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Cato the Elder
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What Roman historian wrote seven books on the Punic Wars?
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Lucius Coelius Antipater
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What Roman historian wrote 23 books of Annals starting with the sack of Rome by the Gauls?
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Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius
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Describe Valerius Antius.
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Unreliable historian who makes up numbers and stories.
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Who was the most highly regarded Roman historian of early historical writing?
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Lucius Cornelius Sisenna
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Who was the first Roman philologer?
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Lucius Aelius STILO Praeconinus
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Who taught Cicero and Varro about philology?
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Lucius Aelius STILO Praeconinus
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What Roman author wrote about astronomy and foretold a lunar eclipse at Pydna in 168 BC?
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Gaius Sulpicius Gallus
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Who taught Cicero law?
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Quintus Mucius Scaevola
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How many books of law did Quintus Mucius Scaevola write?
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18
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Who was the first person to write a universal history?
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Cornelius Nepos
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What was the title of Cornelius Nepos' 3 volume universal history?
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Chronica
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What collection of odd facts and tidbits, written by Cornelius Nepos, did Pliny the Elder use a lot?
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Exempla
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How many books are in Nepos' De Viris Illustribus?
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16
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How many pairs are the books of Nepos' De Viris Illustribus divided into?
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8 of 2 books each
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Who chronicled the lives of Hamilcar, Hannibal, Datames, and Atticus in his De Viris Illustribus?
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Cornelius Nepos
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What is the most important biography in Cornelius Nepos' De Viris Illustribus?
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Atticus
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What Roman scholar was born in Reate?
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Marcus Terrentius VARRO Reatinus
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Whose wife was Fundiana?
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Varro
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What Roman author was proscribed by Antony but saved?
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Varro
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Who wrote the Antiquitates Divinarum et Humanarum?
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Varro
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Who wrote the De ora maritima, a work on geography?
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Varro
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Who wrote the Hebdomades vel de imaginibus? How many biographies of famous Romans and greeks does it contain?
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Varro
700 biographies |
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Who write the Res Rustica, a work on agriculture, cattle, and poultry, in an attempt to reawaken interest in country life?
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Varro
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Who wrote a 25 book treatise on the Latin Language called De Lingua Latina
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Varro
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Who wrote a series of philosophical and historical essays in dialogue form, called the Logistorica
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Varro
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Who wrote an encyclopedia of the liberal arts (grammar, astrology, medicine, music architecture, etc.) called the Disciplinae?
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Varro
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Who wrote the Menippean Satires (Saturae Menippeae), where verse intermingles with prose?
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Varro
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For whom were the Menippean Satires named for?
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Menippus of Gadara
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What scholar wrote about grammar, theology, and natural science? He was superseded by Varro
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Nigidius Figulus
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What great jurist wrote 180 books about law?
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Servius Sulpicius Rufus
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Name the three most competent treatises on oratory.
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Tacitus: Dialogus de Oratoribus
Quintilian: Institutio Oratoria Cicero: Brutus |
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What was the only work Rome preserved from the fall of Carthage?
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Mago's 28 book work on agriculture.
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What is the oldest book on Latin rhetoric and style?
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Rhetorica ad Herennium -- 85 BC, 4 books, unknown author
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Who edited Lucretius' works?
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Cicero
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Who was Lucretius' patron?
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Gaius Memmius
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How many books are in the De Rerum Natura?
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6
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Whose atomic theories formed the basis of the De Rerum Nature?
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Leucippus and Democritus
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Who was born in Verona (Cisalpine Gaul) and called his poems nugae?
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Catullus
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Whose wife was Clodia?
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus
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What meter is also known as Phalaecian?
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Hendecasyllabic
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What was Catullus' favorite meter?
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Hendecasyllabic
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How many syllables per line are in Hendecasyllabic meter?
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11 syllables per line
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Who traveled with Memmius to Bithynia where he visited his brother's tomb?
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Catullus
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What roman author had an estate at Sirmio?
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Catullus
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How many poems did Catullus write?
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116
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Who wrote a poem which (sarcastically, perhaps) praised Cicero as the most eloquent of the Romans?
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Catullus
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Odi et Amo
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I hate and I love
Catullus |
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Frater, ave atque vale
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Brother, hail and farewell
Catullus |
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Ille mi par esse deo videtur
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He seems to me equal to a god
Catullus |
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Which poem of Catullus is a miniature epic (epyllion) involving the marriage of Peleus and Thetis?
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Poem 64
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What lengthy ecphrasis do we find in Catullus' Poem 64?
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The story of Theseus and Ariadne
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What work of Catullus deals with the followers of the cult of Cybele?
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Attis
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What Roman author and general was the nephew of Marius' wife?
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Caesar
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In what year was Caesar pontifex maximus?
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63 BC
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In what year did Caesar become praetor?
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62 BC
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Give the year of the first triumvirate
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60 BC
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Give the year of Caesar's consulship with Bibulus
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59 BC
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Where was the first triumvirate renewed? When?
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Luca, 56 BC
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Where and when was Crassus killed?
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53 BC, the battle of Carrhae
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Where and when did Caesar say "Alea Iacta Est?"
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Rubicon River, 49 BC
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Where and when did Caesar destroy Pompey's forces?
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Pharsalus, 48 BC
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What king did Caesar defeat at Zela? What did he say?
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Pharnaces II
Veni, Vidi, Vici 47 BC |
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Where/when did Caesar defeat the remains of the senatorial army under Cato?
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Thapsus, 46 BC
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Where and when did Caesar defeat the sons of Pompey in Spain?
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Munda, 45 BC
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What did Caesar say upon his victory at Munda?
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Hoc voluerunt
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How many books of the Comentarii de bello Gallico did Caesar write?
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7
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Who was Caesar's most trusted lieutenant in Gaul?
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Titus Labienus
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Who wrote the eighth book of the Gallic War?
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Aulus Hirtius
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Who wrote the Bellum Civile, an unfinished and unrevised work?
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Caesar
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Who wrote the De Analogia, a work about Grammar and word choice?
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Caesar
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How many books were in the De Analogia?
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2 books
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Who wrote two political pamphlets directed toward Cicero intended to counteract Cato's influenced, entitled the Anticatones?
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Caesar
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Who wrote the Iter, a poem about his journey to Spain before the battle of Munda?
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Caesar
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Who wrote the De Astris, a work about astronomy?
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Caesar
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What town were Cicero and Marius born in?
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Arpinum
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What Roman historian wrote monographs, and served Caesar in many campaigns?
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Sallust
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What Roman historian was born in Amiternum?
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Sallust
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Who wrote the Bellum Catilinarium, a monograph about the Catilinarian conspiracy of 63 BC (Cicero consul)
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Sallust
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Who wrote the Jugurtha, a monograph about the Jugurthine war?
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Sallust
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Who wrote the Historiae, a masterpiece covering 78-76 BC?
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Sallust
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How many books of the Historiae remain?
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5 books
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Who probably wrote an invective against Cicero and two pamphlets addressed to Caesar called the Suasoriae?
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Sallust
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What Roman historian was indicted for corruption?
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Sallust
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What is the meaning of Virga?
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Wand, staff
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What Roman author is said to have assumed the toga virilis the same day that Lucretius died?
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Vergil
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Give the date and place of Vergil's birth
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October 15 70 BC
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Who introduced Horace to Maecenas?
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Vergil
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Who was the patron of Propertius, Horace, and Vergil?
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Maecenas
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Where did Vergil die?
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Brundisium
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Where was Vergil buried?
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Parthenope (Naples)
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How many Eclogues are there?
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10
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Whose works (and what specific work) are the basis of the Eclogues
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Theocritus; Idylls
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Which eclogue is the "messianic" eclogue?
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4th
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Who was the first patron of Vergil?
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Gaius Asinius Pollio
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Whom did Virgil dedicate the Eclogues to?
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Octavian
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What is the model for the Georgics?
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Hesiod's Works and Days
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How many books are in the Georgics?
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4 books
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How many books are in the Aeneid?
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12
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What two men broke an oath to Vergil by publishing his Aeneid, as ordered to by Augustus?
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Plotius Tucca and Varius Rufus
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What group of poems is sometimes attributed to Vergil?
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Appendix Vergiliana
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Which Appendix poem is called the Gnat?
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Cules
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Which Appendix poem is about a farmer making a salad, and called "salad"?
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Murentum
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Which appendix poem is called "curses"?
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Dirae
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Which appendix poem is the story of Minos and Scylla and Nisus, and the purple lock of hair?
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Ciris
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Which Appendix poem is called "The Cabaret Girl"?
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Copa
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In what body of poems do we find the Lydia?
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Appendix Vergiliana
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In which poem of the Appendix does Priapus speak?
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Priapea
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In what body of poems do we find the Catalepton?
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Appendix Vergiliana
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What work in the Appendix is called "Trifles"?
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Catalepton
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How many short poems are there in the Catalepton, most likely of all the Appendix Vergiliana to be a work of Vergil's?
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15 short poems
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What Roman author was born in Venusia in Apulia?
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Horace
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Who thanks his father for raising him correctly in his Satires?
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Horace
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What Roman author fought for Brutus and Cassius in the battle of Philippi in 42 BC?
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Horace
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What Roman author was a secretary (scriba) in the treasurary?
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Horace
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What was Maecenas' gift to Horace?
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A Sabine farm
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What was Horace's name for his Epodes?
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The "iambi"
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How many poems are in the Epodes?
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17 poems
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How many books are in Horace's Sermones (Saturae)?
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2 books
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What are the two best known poems in Horace's Sermones?
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The Bore and Journey to Brundisium
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Whose works did Horace model his Journey to Brundisium on?
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Lucilius
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What meter are the Sermones (Saturae) written in?
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Dactylic Hexameter
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Who wrote a 4 book collection of lyric poems on various subjects called the Odes?
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Horace
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In what work do we find poems on the fountain of Bandusia, the golden mean, carpe diem, ship of state, the victory over Cleopatra, patriotism, and a monument more lasting than bronze?
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Odes by Horace
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In what year did Horace write the Carmen Saeculare to celebrate the new century?
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17 BC
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What work of Horace is two books of informal verse letters to 20 different people?
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Epistles
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What is the longest work of Horace?
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Ars Poetica (Epistulae ad Pisones)
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What work of Horace is a central document in ancient literary criticism
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Ars Poetica (Epistulae ad Pisones)
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Who was born in 55 BC to an equestrian family, and had his patron as Messala?
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Albius Tibullus
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What is the literary term for a serenade before the locked doors of a mistress?
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paraklausithyron
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How many books of love elegies did Tibullus write?
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3 books
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What Roman author wrote to Delia and Nemesis?
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Tibullus
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Who wrote to Neaera?
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Lygdamus
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Whom did Sulpicia write to?
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Cerinthus
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Whose niece was Sulpicia?
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Messala
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What two other authors do we find in Tibullus' three books of elegiac poetry?
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Lygdamus and Sulpicia
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How many elegies did Lygdamus write in Tibullus' work?
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6 elegies
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What Roman author loved Lycinna in his youth?
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Sextus Propertius
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What Roman author was born in Umbria around 50 BC?
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Propertius
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Who was Propertius' patron?
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Maecenas
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What Roman author wrote an elegy for the death of Corenlia, the daughter of Augustus' wife Scribonia?
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Propertius
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Who wrote love elegies to Cynthia?
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Propertius
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What was Cynthia's real name?
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Hostia
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What was Cynthia's stage name
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Lycoris
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What Roman author said about the Aeneid: "Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth!"
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Propertius
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What was the title of Propertius' first group of poems?
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Monobiblios
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What Roman author was said to have been made insane by a love potion?
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Lucretius
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What late author says that Cicero edited Lucretius' works?
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Jerome
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What is the meaning of Ovid's cognomen?
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Sheep herder
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What Roman author was born in Sulmo?
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Ovid
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What Roman author wrote to the possibly imaginary mistress Corinna?
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Ovid
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Where was Ovid banished?
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Tomis, on the Black Sea
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When and why was Ovid banished?
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8 AD, carmen and error
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How many books and short poems are in the Amores by Ovid?
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3 books, 49 short poems
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Who wrote the Heroides, a series of imaginary letters from mythological heroines to their lovers?
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Ovid
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Who wrote a 3 book treatise on seducing women called the Ars Amatoria?
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Ovid
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How many books were in the Ars Amatoria?
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3 books
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What was the title of Ovid's apology for the Ars Amatoria?
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Remedium Amoris
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Who wrote the Medicina Faciei?
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Ovid
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How many books are there in the Metamorphoses?
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15 books
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Who wrote an unfinished poetical calendar of religious festivals in elegiac verse called the Fasti?
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Ovid
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How many books are in the Fasti?
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6 books
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How wrote the Tristia, a series of elegiac letters lamenting exile and asking for forgiveness for his carmen et error?
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Ovid
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How many books are in the Tristia?
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5 books
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Who wrote a catalogue of poets in the Augustan age, and letters writtend during exile called the Epistulae ex Ponto?
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Ovid
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What was the title of Ovid's treatise on fishing in the Black Sea?
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Halieuticon
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Who wrote a curse against some enemy in Rome while he was in exile? What was it called?
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Ibis, Ovid
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Who wrote a lost tragedy called Medea while he was in exile?
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Ovid
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What meter are almost all of Ovid's works written in?
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Elegiac couplet
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What is the makeup of elegiac couplet
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One line of dactylic hexameter/one line of dactylic pentameter
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What nationalistic Roman historian was born in Patavium (Padua)?
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Livy (Titus Livius)
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How many books were there in the Ab Urbe Condita?
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142
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How many books of Ab Urbe Condita are extant?
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35
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What author, born in Cordova, wrote the Controversiae and the Suasoriae?
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Seneca the Elder (Annaeus Seneca)
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Who wrote a ten book treatise on architecture known as the De Architectura?
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Vitruvius
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Who wrote a two book history under Tiberius which provides the only continuous account for which we have no Livy?
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Gaius Velleius Paterculus
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Who wrote 9 books of Memorable Deeds and Sayings under Tiberius?
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Valerius Maximus
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Who wrote a history of Alexander the Great?
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Quintus Curtius
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Who wrote the earliest extant Latin work on georgraphy, the De Chorographia?
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Pomponius Mela
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Who wrote a treatise about medicine under Tiberius called the De Medicina?
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Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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Who wrote a ten book treatise on agriculture called the De Re Rustica?
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Lucius Junius Columella
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Who wrote a five book work on astronomy called the Astronomica?
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Marcus Manilius
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How many books are in Manilius' Astronomica?
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5 books
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What Roman author was the uncle of Lucan?
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Seneca the Younger
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What Roman author was born in Cordova, Spain?
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Seneca the Younger
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Where and why was Seneca the Younger Banished?
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Corsica; adultery with Julia Livilla, sister of Caligula
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Who recalled Seneca the Younger to Rome?
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Agrippina the Younger
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How did Seneca the Younger die?
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Pisonian conspiracy; forced to commit suicide
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Whose wife Paulina was saved though her husband was implicated in the Pisonian conspiracy?
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Seneca the Younger
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How many books of correspondence did Seneca the Younger write?
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20 books
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While in exile, who wrote the Consolatio for his mother Helvia?
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Seneca the Younger
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What work of Seneca the Younger is a satire depicting the deifications of emperors, especially Claudius?
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Apocolocyntosis--"Pumpkinification"
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Who wrote seven books on physics known as the Quaestiones Naturales?
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Seneca the Younger
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Who wrote 12 dialogues on moral precepts while on his deathbed, known as the Quaestiones Morales?
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Seneca the Younger
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How many books were in the De Clementia? Who were they written by?
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three by Seneca the Younger
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What tragedy of Seneca the Younger was modeled on Euripides?
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Hercules Furens
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What Roman tragedian wrote the Trojan Women?
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Seneca the Younger
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What work of Seneca the Younger deals with Hippolytus?
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Phaedon
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Who wrote the Medea, a work which sympathizes with Jason?
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Seneca the Younger
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What is the only surviving tragedy of Seneca the Younger?
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Octavia
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What Roman author was the teacher of the stoic Cornutus?
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Lucan
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Who wrote a ten book poem on the civil war known as the Bellum Civile or the Pharsalia?
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Lucan
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How many books were in the Pharsalia?
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10 books
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Whose nephew was Lucan?
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Seneca the Younger
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Who wrote a poem based on Apollonius of Rhodes, describing the adventure of Jason and the Argonauts? What was it called?
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Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica
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