Transformations
Deer
Acteon
Name the 3 Greek Tragedians
AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES
Which Roman author wrote a poem of 644 lines in which he references mythological tortures and punishments as ideas for what he wishes would happen to his enemy? The author wrote this poem while in exile in Tomi.
Ovid
Whom did Caligula propose should be made a consul?
His horse
What son of a money-dealer of equestrian rank gained the support of the governors Licinius Mucianus and Tiberius Alexander as he prepared to starve Rome into submission and become the ultimate victor of the “Year of the Four Emperors?”
VESPASIAN
Daffodil
Narcissus
Note: His step father was Tiresias
Gotta love it when your blind step father tells you as long as you never know yourself, you'll live a long life
The Persians is the earliest surviving play in the history of European drama. What historical battle, in which Aeschylus himself fought, does the play vividly describe?
The Battle of Salamis
What is the name of this poem?
IBIS
Ibis is a curse poem by the Roman poet Ovid, written during his years in exile at the port of Tomis on the Black Sea (AD 8–14). It is "a stream of violent but extremely learned abuse", modeled on a lost poem of the same title by the Greek Alexandrian poet Callimachus.
What was the horse's name?
INCITATUS
To whom did Pliny the Younger address his letter regarding the eruption at Vesuvius?
TITUS
Bull
Juppiter
In a Greek tragedy, who criticizes “the one who considers a friend more important than their own country” when he bans the burial of Polynices and condemns Antigone to death?
CREON
What work of Ovid includes letters in elegiac couplets from mythological women such as Dido, Hermione, and Penelope to their lovers?
Heroides
What successor of Caligula's was supposedly found hiding behind a curtain after Caligula's death and was then declared emperor by the Praetorian Guard?
Claudius
Which Roman emperor was born on November 17 of 9 AD near Reate in the Sabine country near Rome? He was the first Roman emperor not to have been born a patrician.
VESPASIAN
The Dragon or the huge serpent the Cadmus killed
Draco Constellation
Note: It's between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor
What son of Creon and fiance of Antigone tries to convince his father to spare her, fails, and commits suicide in front of his father in protest?
HAEMON
What mythological play did Ovid write, although no longer extant, which shares its title with plays written by both Quintus Ennius and the younger Seneca?
MEDEA
The Lūdus dē Morte Claudiī is an alternate name for what work of Seneca the Younger describing the “pumpkinification” of the emperor Claudius?
APOCOLOCYNTŌSIS
Shortly after the death of Vespasian’s wife, he resumed a relationship with a former lover, who had been the secretary of Antony. Who was she?
CAENIS
Man to woman to man
Tiresias
Note: He stepped on magic snakes that apparently changes one’s gender, and then pissed off Juno for not agreeing with her so she blinds him, and then Jupiter gave his foresight and a wife.
In Sophocles’s Antigone, after Teiresias tells Creon that the gods are not accepting sacrifices because of the death of Antigone, what group reminds Creon that Teiresias has never been wrong and he needs to heed the warning?
THE CHORUS
Based on the Catalogue and Theogony of Hesiod, what work begins with the line “In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora” and ends in its 15th book with Julius Caesar being taken into the heavens in the form of a comet?
Metamorphoses
Name the emperors of 69 A.D
GALBA, OTHO, VITELLIUS, VESPASIAN
What emperor placed an unpopular tax on public urinals?
VESPASIAN
In his honor they were called "Vespasiani"