Authors
This author famously converted to Christianity under a pear tree.
Who is Augustine?
This queen was the wife of both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.
What is Hispania?
This writing distinction separates poets from prose authors.
What is meter?
These two gods teamed up to create the chariot.
Who were Neptune and Minerva?
This author died shortly after Mt. Vesuvius erupted.
Who was Pliny the Elder?
This woman was the mother of Augustine and led him to Christ.
Who was Monica?
This city was destroyed upon the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
Where is Pompeii?
This poetic device is the same as alliteration but with vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
This king of Crete was famous for his vicious Minotaur.
Who was Minos?
This poet whose most famous work was inspired by Homer also wrote Eclogues and Georgics.
Who was Vergil?
This diva raised the children of Cleopatra.
Who was Octavia?
These mountains were crossed by Hannibal in the Second Punic War.
What are the Alps?
This term refers to the shortening or contraction of a Latin word.
What is syncopation?
This ship was used by the hero Jason.
What is the Argo?
This female poet inspired Catullus' nickname for Clodia.
Who is Sappho?
This woman was the mother to two famous tribunes.
Who was Cornelia?
This land is now called France.
What is Gaul?
This type of meter consists of repeating "short-long" feet.
What is iambic?
These three goddesses fought over a golden apple.
Who are Minerva, Juno, and Venus?
This author translated Aesop's fables into Latin.
Who is Phaedrus?
This wife of Caesar Augustus was the mother of two latter emperors.
Who was Livia?
The modern land of Turkey contains what was once this ancient city.
What is Troy?
Most epics like the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid are written in dactylic hexameter, which consist of dactyls that look this way.
What is "long-short-short"?
This goddess threw a golden apple into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, setting off the Trojan War.