1976
What author was born in Mantua?
How many books in his Aeneid?
How many books in his Georgics?
How many books in his Eclogues?
Vergil
12
4
10
Who is Aeneas referring to: O terque quaterque beati?
Who says, Tuus, o regina, quid optes explorare labor; mihi iussa capessere fas est? To whom?
Who says, Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem?
Those who died in defense of Troy; Quis ante ora patrum troiae sub moenibus altis contigit oppetere.
Aeolus. To Juno
Aeneas to Dido
What rhetorical device is the repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses?
Device when Cupid is called amor or Ceres frumentum?
Repetition of copulative conjunctions?
Omission of copulative conjunctions?
Anaphora
Metonymy
Polysyndeton
Asyndeton
In the Aeneid who speaks the line: imperium sine fine dedi?
Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento?
Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur?
O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt?
Jupiter
Ghost of Anchises
Dido
Aeneas
What Greek playwright gave us work whose names in Latin include Equites, Vespae, Ranae, Aves, and Nubes?
Wife of Maecenas?
Maecenas was who's patronus?
Marcus Valerius Messalla was who's patronus?
Where was Ovid exiled?
Aristophanes
Terentia
Vergil, Horace, and Propertius
Tibullus and Ovid
Tomi (Dacia)
What people does Vergil refer to as Tyrians?
What place does he call Sidon?
Who does he sometimes refer to as Elissa?
What form of address for Aeneas refers to his status as Venus' son?
Carthaginians
Carthage
Dido
Nate Dea
Who wrote an epic titled De Rerum Natura?
What Greek philosopher's theories did he espouse?
How many books in De Rerum Natura?
What genre does his epic belong?
Lucretius
Epicurus
Six
Didactic poetry
Who wrote an epic poem on the Roman civil war?
What was it called?
What was its political slant?
What other writer was the author's uncle?
Lucan
The Pharsalia
Pro-Republican and Anti-Caesar
Seneca the Younger
What Roman writer is famous for his epigrams?
Full name?
Another name for Vergil's Eclogues?
Where did Vergil die?
Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis
The Bucolics
Brundisium
Where was Horace's beloved farm?
Who wrote Mens sana in corpore sano?
What Roman poet wrote one of his most touching poems to his dead brother?
What Roman woman writer of the Augustan age wrote love letter to a beau named Cerinthus?
The Sabine Hills
Juvenal
Catullus
Sulpicia
To whom did Cicero address De Officiis?
What is the earliest surviving complete oration of Cicero?
Titus Pomponius' Nickname?
In what year did Cicero compose many of his philosophical works, including De Consolatione, De Finibus, De Natura Deorum, and the Tusculan Disputations?
His son Marcus
Pro Roscio
Atticus
45 BC
Whom did Plato call the tenth Muse?
Who wrote The Peloponnesian War?
What Greek historian tells the story of King Croesus?
Who wrote the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics?
Sappho
Thucydides
Herodotus
Aristotle
What title refers to works by both Plato and Cicero?
Who was Plato's mentor?
What work of Plato's reproduced his mentor's legal defense?
Which of Plato's works translates literally as the "drinking party"
The Republic
Socrates
The Apology
The Symposium
Who wrote works on the Catilinarian conspiracy and the war with Jugurtha?
Lives of the Twelve Caesars?
Vergil's fourth century biographer?
Vergil's fourth century commentator?
Sallust
Suetonius
Donatus
Servius
To what early Roman poet is a Saturnian metre epic, surviving only in fragments, on the Punic War attributed?
Give an English translation of these Latin comedy titles: Mostellaria, Aulularia, Adelphi.
What Roman poet wrote a satire in which his slave upbraids him?
What did he calls his satires?
GNAEUS NAEVIUS
- THE HAUNTED HOUSE - THE POT OF GOLD - THE BROTHERS
Horace
Sermones
Which of Cicero's orations was in defense of a mans claim to citizenship?
Against whom did Cicero address his Philippics?
From what Greek orator did he borrow the title "Philippics"?
Against whom had that Greek orator addressed his Philippics?
Pro Archia
Marc Antony
Demosthenes
Phillip of Macedon
Who wrote the Satyricon?
What was his title in Nero's court?
As a part of what conspiracy was he forced to commit suicide?
What method did he use?
Petronius
Arbiter Elegantiae
Pisonian Conspiracy
Opened his veins and bled to death
Four-word phrase in the first few lines of the Aeneid expressing Vergil's incredulity at the vindictiveness of the gods?
What case is animis?
What case is irae?
Line 33 of Book 1 containing the Vergilian word "molis"
Tantaene animus caelestibus irae
dative of poss
nom pl
Tantae erat molis Romanam condere gentem
Who was the Roman Aesop?
Author of Vulgate?
Who wrote the City of God and the Confessions?
Who wrote the satire on urban life with the city mouse and his country cousin?
Phaedrus, first century AD Fabulist
St Jerome
St Augustine
Horace
What Roman playwright told the story of the house of Atreus in his tragedy Thyestes?
Who wrote Oedipus at Colonus?
Of the three great Greek tragedians, who was the earliest?
Who wrote the Trojan Women?
Seneca the Younger
Sophocles
Aesychlus
Euripides
Where did Cicero deliver his second and third orations?
Where was the first?
The fourth?
When was Cicero assassinated?
At the rostrum in the forum
Temple of Jupiter Stator
Temple of Concord
43 BC
In the Aeneid, to whom does Jupiter address the line, Parce metu, Cytherea?
To whom is spoken the line: Italiam non sponte sequor?
What is distinctive about this line in the poem?
T or F: The scansion of the three complete feet in that line is dactyl spondee dactyl.
Venus
Dido
It is incomplete
True
Who was the heroine of Catullus' poetry?
What was her real name?
To whom did Catullus dedicate his novum libellum?
Where was Catullus from?
Lesbia
Clodia
Cornelius Nepos
Verona
On the works of what Greek poet were Vergil's Eclogues based?
What sort of men did Pindar glorify in his verses?
To what Greek historian do we owe much of our knowledge of the Persian Empire?
What Alexandrian Greek wrote a work of 13 books on geometry, naming it the Elements?
Theocritus
Athletes and Warriors
Xenophon
Euclid
What poet called his beloved "Cynthia?"
Though much different from Vergil in his attitude toward the Empire, what did Propertius write about Vergil's epic as it was being written?
In what other Augustan age epic is Aeneas a character?
What metamorphosis of lifeless objects to living beings was borrowed from Vergil by Ovid?
Propertius
Nescio quid maius nascitur iliade - something greater than the Iliad is being born.
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Aeneas' ships into Nymphs - Aeneid IX, Metamorphoses XIV