The Trojan War
Ovid/Latin Poetry
Vocabulary
Ablative Usages, etc
Miscellaneous
100
Who, the daughter of Zeus and Leda, was considered the most beautiful woman in the world, and to whom was she married?
Helen of Sparta, wife of Menelaus of Sparta
100
What meter is standard for epic poetry, how many feet are there in a line of this meter, and what are the two types of feet used in this meter?
dactylic hexameter; six feet; dactyls and spondees
100
Differentiate in meaning between fugo (1) and fugio, -ere.
fugo: to drive away/put to flight fugio: to flee
100
Give the translation and type of ablative used with the correlative conjunction, "quantoque...tanto"
Ablative of Degree of Difference: "By the degree...by the same degree"
100
Differentiate between a chiasmus and synchesis.
ABBA and ABAB word order, respectively
200
At whose wedding did the goddess of Discord throw a golden apple inscribed with "For the Fairest"?
Peleus and Thetis
200
What do you call the omission of a sound in Latin poetry due to consecutive vowels or "-m" plus a vowel?
elision
200
What are two Latin words that can be used for "arrow"?
sagitta and telum
200
What type of ablative is found with "minor est tua gloria nostra" and how else could you express this sentence in Latin?
Ablative of Comparison; Minor est tua gloria quam nostra
200
Differentiate between alliteration and assonance.
Repetition of consonants and the repetition of vowels/internal sounds, respectively
300
Which three GREEK goddesses vied for the golden apple, and who judged the contest?
Hera, Athena, Aphrodite -- judged by Paris
300
What book of erotic love poetry may have been the "carmen" from Ovid's "carmen et error"?
Ars Amatoria
300
What is the Latin word for bow?
arcus
300
Translate the ablative absolute and identify the other ablative usage present: Apolline sagitta traiecto
With Apollo having been pierced by the arrow; ablative of means/instrument
300
Translate the line: "...tanto minor est tua gloria nostra"
By that same degree is your glory less than mine.
400
Give the name of the Greek general (and the city of which he was king) who led the Greek forces at Troy.
Agamemnon of Mycenae
400
What Julio-Claudian emperor renowned for his moral legislation exiled Ovid to the island of Tomi(s) located on the Black Sea?
Augustus
400
What is a Latin synonym for cunctus, -a, -um?
omnis, -e
400
Translate the ablative absolute and identify the other ablative usage present: Apolline a Cupidine traiecto
With Apollo having been pierced by Cupid; ablative of agent
400
Translate the line: quod fugat, obtusum est et habet sub harundine plumbum
That arrow which drives love away is blunt/dull and has lead under its shaft
500
In Book 1 of Homer's Iliad, Agamemnon was forced to relinquish what war-prize? What war-prize of Achilles did he claim as a result?
Chryseis and Briseis
500
What do you call the type of elision seen here: "bonum est"
prodelision
500
Give the Latin words for 1. marrow/innards 2. bone
1. medulla 2. os
500
Identify the speaker and translate into Latin: Carthage must be destroyed
Cato the Elder: Carthago delenda est.
500
Scan the line: cuncta deo tanto minor est tua gloria nostra
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