Transformations
Who, in his loneliness, asked his father Zeus to give him companions, only to find that the ants on his island were transformed into people?
Aecus
Who was the daughter of King Creon of Corinth whom Jason wanted to marry thereby incurring the wrath of Medea?
Glauke/Creusa
The loyalty and vigilance of the Praetorian Prefect Marcius Turbo helped what emperor spend more than half of his nearly twenty-one year reign traveling the provinces?
Hadrian
What is the Roman numeral which represents the number 67?
VXVII
At what type of event in Rome would one have seen a camillus and a pronuba?
WEDDING
The term "Camillus" in a Roman wedding does not refer to a specific event, but to a role played by a boy in the ceremony, specifically one whose parents were both living. This boy carried the bride's utensils in a covered basket called a cumera or camillum.
In a Roman wedding, the PRONUBA was a matron of honor, typically the bride's mother or a female relative, who had been married only once and was still living with her husband. The pronuba performed a key ritual by joining the bride and groom's hands to signify the legal marriage and offer them parting advice.
What two types of trees were said to have grown with intertwining trunks or branches in the place where Baucis and Philemon had stood?
Linden & Oak
According to Euripides, Jason threatened Medea with divorce. What role did Mermerus and Pheres play in her revenge?
The brought poisoned garments to Glauke
She killed them
Alfenus Senecio and Ulpius Marcellus are closely associated with what structure that was built by Platorius Nepos between the Solway Firth and the River Tyne in Britain by order of Hadrian?
Hadrian's Wall
In 67 AD a Roman emperor won fake victories in the Olympic games since he bribed the judges to let him win. Which emperor did this?
Nero
What was far, found at the root of the word confarreatio?
TYPE OF GRAIN / MEAL USED FOR THE WEDDING CAKE
Confarreatio was a solemn and traditional Roman wedding ceremony, reserved for patricians, that involved sharing a spelt cake (\(panis~farreus\)). Key elements included the presence of ten witnesses and high-ranking priests, a sacrifice, and the transfer of the bride's legal control (\(manus\)) from her father to her husband.
What pair lived as two snakes in Elysium after they were transformed by Ares?
Cadmus and Harmonia
What body part protected both the kingdoms of Pterelaus and Nisus until they were cut by their respective daughters?
Purple lock of hair
Whom did Hadrian appoint proconsul of Asia in 135 AD, a position in which he showed such administrative acumen that Hadrian subsequently put him on the imperial council?
Antoninus Pius
What law of 67 B.C. granted Pompey command over the Mediterranean Sea?
LEX GABINA
What at the wedding was the dextrarum iunctio?
CEREMONIAL JOINING OF THE RIGHT HANDS OF THE BRIDE AND GROOM
The dextrarum iunctio was the central Roman wedding ceremony of joining the couple's right hands, symbolizing their union and commitment. This ritual was performed by the pronuba, or matron of honor, and signified concord and a binding of their hearts. It was a key part of the broader Roman wedding process, which also included dowry agreements, symbolic gestures like the exchange of rings, and a procession to the groom's house.
The promising career of Perdix, the nephew of Daedalus, was cut short when Daedalus flung him off the Acropolis and he transformed into what creature?
Partridge
What two requests did Baucis and Philemon make of Zeus and Hermes, once their divinity was revealed?
1) GROW OLD TOGETHER AS PRIESTS OF THE TEMPLE THAT WAS THEIR HOME 2) DIE AT THE SAME TIME
What Roman emperor was tutored by Volusius Maecianus and Herodes Atticus in law and rhetoric, as well as by Junius Rusticus, who lent him a copy of the Discourses of Epictetus, from which he internalized the principles of Stoic philosophy and authored the Meditations?
Marcus Aurelius
Which work of Sallust covered the events of 78-67 BC but remained unfinished due to Sallust’s death?
HISTORIAE
Distinguish in meaning between "cognati" and "adfines."
BLOOD RELATIVES & INLAWS
After the Calydonian boar hunt, a dispute over the boar's hide led Meleager to kill his maternal uncles. In revenge for her brothers' deaths, his mother, Althaea, threw the fated log onto a fire, causing Meleager's death. What were his grieving sisters transformed into?
Guinea Fowl
Who angered Demeter by cutting down a tree sacred to her?
ERYSICHTHON
What emperor died at Vindobona (modern Vienna), having been emperor since the year 161?
Marcus Aurelius
Catullus 67 is narrated by what sort of object, which forms the center of an important motif in elegy, the so-called paraklausithyron?
Door
Distinguish in meaning between "socer" and "noverca."
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