Cicero
The speech Cicero made against Catiline
What is the 'De Catilina
The guardian of the gates of Hades
What is Cerberus
Juvenal's friend and the protagonist of his Satire 3
Who is Umbricius?
Where Horace's farm was.
What is the Sabina? (Sabine is accepted)
79AD
When did Mt Vesuvius erupt?
Clodia's brother (Full name)
who is Publius Clodius Pulcher?
Pietas
What Roman quality des Aeneas exhibit in his journey into the underworld?
A problem with Rome that Juvenal laments
What is...?
Possible answers can include:
Poverty, immigrants, the rich-poor divide, the poets reciting in the month of August, the constant dangers of the city... subject to evaluation
Fuscus Aristius
Who doesn't save Horace from the Boor?
The third member of the first Triumvirate
Who was Lepidus?
Cicero's descendant, that Quinta Claudia
Who was the vestal virgin who prevented her triumphing father from being dragged from his chariot by a hostile tribune of the plebs?
Dido's first husband
Who is Sychaeus?
It is difficult not to write satire
Horace's most famous works.
What are the Odes?
Caesar's uncle, the architect of the first civil war
Who was Gaius Marius?
The english translation is: 'I am forgetting your injuries now, Clodia, I am putting aside the memory of my grief.'
The Latin is: 'Obliviscor iam inurias tuas, Clodia, depono memoriam doloris mei'
The main antagonist of the Aeneid.
Who is Turnus?
This statement was coined by Juvenal in his Satires X to critique Roman citizens giving up their freedoms for state benefits.
What is 'panem et circenses'?
This 42 BCE battle saw Horace fight on the losing side of Brutus and Cassius before later being spared by Augustus.
What is the Battle of Philipi?
The emperor who made the Senatorial Class restricted to those with 1,000,000 sesterces
Who is Augustus?
Name the things Caecus achieved for Rome, and the ways Clodia misuses those privileges. (100 points for each, up to 500)
Caecus:
Brings water through the Aqua Appia
Builds the Via Appia
Break off the Peace of Pyrrhus
Clodia:
Use water unchastely
Frequent the road in the company of unsuitable men
Form the most disgraceful connections on a daily basis
Name some Mythological figures (not named previously in this quiz) Aeneas meets in his journey through the underworld. (100 points for each, up to 500)
[Yukai's individual judgement + evidence from the Aeneid Book 6]
Name some things in Rome that Juvenal critiques within his Satire 3. (100 points for each thing, to a max of 500)
Could include:
The dangers of collapsing buildings
Danger from fire
Dangers from falling plates
The Immigrants
The Greeks
The Jews
The economic divides/rich people
Cost of living
Legacy hunters
Angry drunk men
+more that can be shown with evidence
What are the three images Horace presents himself as, at the end of each Act of the Satire? (200 points for each image, to a max of 500)
1. As a little donkey of discontented mind, drooping his ears, when he has endured too great a burden.
2. As a defeated soldier marching after a triumphing general, after being conquered
3. As a sacrificial victim, left under the hanging knife of the haruspex
The emperor Nero had a wife who came from the town Pompeii. Name women (that we know lived there) who lived in Pompeii before it's destruction in 79AD. (100 points for each woman, up to 500)
Sabina Poppaea - Nero's Wife
Julia Felix
Eumachia
Metella
Melissa
Mamia
+ any more from the CLC or from history that I missed