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Ovid Flashcards

1
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How many elegies are in the Amores in total?

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49

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2
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What meter are the Amores written?

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elegiac couplet

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3
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Who is the main female figure in the Amores?

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Corinna

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4
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What authors helped to inspire the Amores?

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Tibullus and Propertius

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5
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What is another name for the Heroides?

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Epistulae Heroidum

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6
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When were the Heroides published?

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letters 1-15: 15 B.C.

letters 16-21: sometime between 4 and 8 A.D. (before his exile)

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7
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In what meter are the Amores?

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elegiac couplet

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8
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What is the subject of letters 1-15 of the Heroides?

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Greek mythological women writing to their husbands (with the exception of Dido and Sappho)

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9
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What inspired the Heroides?

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an elegy of Propertius

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10
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In which letter of the Heroides does Dido address Aeneas?

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the 7th

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11
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In what letter of the Heroides does Sappho address Phaeon?

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the 15th

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12
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What is the subject of letters 16-21 of the Heroides?

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letters from lovers and replies from their women

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13
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What three pairs make up letters 16-21 of the Heroides?

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Paris and Helen
Hero and Leander
Acontius and Cydippe

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14
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Who suggested the format of letters 16-21 of the Heroides?

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Ovid’s friend Sabinus

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15
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How many books are in the Ars Amatoria?

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three (the third was added later)

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16
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What is the subject of the first book of the Ars Amatoria?

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advice to men on how to conquer women

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17
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What is the subject if the second book of the Ars Amatoria?

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telling men how to retain a woman’s love

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18
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What is the subject of the third book of the Ars Amatoria?

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instructing women on how to seduce men

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19
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From whom did Ovid most likely get the idea for the Ars Amatoria?

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Tibullus

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20
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On what works did Ovid model his Ars Amatoria?

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Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura and Vergil’s Georgics (both were didactic)

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21
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Where can quotations from the Ars Amatoria be found?

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on the wall of Pompeii

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22
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What is the meter of the Remedia Amoris?

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elegiac couplet

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23
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Which work completes the didactic cycle started by the Ars Amatoria?

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Remedia Amoris

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24
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What is the subject of the Remedia Amoris?

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how to free oneself from love

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25
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Which work inspired the Remedia Amoris?

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Lucretius’s fourth work (both condemn love as a sickness)

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26
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What is the meaning of Medicamina Faciei Feminae?

A

The Cosmetics of a Woman

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27
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What is the meter of Medicamina Faciei Feminae?

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elegiac couplet

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28
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What is the subject of Medicamina Faciei Feminae?

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cosmetics and the technique of application

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29
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When did Ovid write the Metamorphoses?

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from 2-8 A.D.

30
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How many books are in the Metamorphoses?

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fifteen

31
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On what work is the Metamorphoses based?

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the works of Hesiod (Theogony and Catalogue)

32
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In what meter is the Metamorphoses?

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dactylic hexameter

33
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What is the latin title of the Metamorphoses?

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Metamorphoseon Libri

34
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What are some of the stories in book 1 of the Metamorphoses?

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Apollo and Daphne
creation of the world
Io and Jupiter
Deucalion and Pyrrha

35
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What are some of the stories in book 2 of the Metamorphoses?

A

Phaeton

36
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What are some of the subjects in book 3 of the Metamorphoses?

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Narcissus and Echo
Actaeon and Diana
Pentheus and Bacchus

37
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What are some of the subjects in book 4 of the Metamorphoses?

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Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
Pyramus and Thisbe
Andromedus and Perseus

38
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What are some of the subjects in book 5 of the Metamorphoses?

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Cyane and Arethusa

Proserpina

39
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What are some of the subjects in book 6 of the Metamorphoses?

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Procne, Tereus, and Philomela
Athena and Arachne
Niobe
(overall jealousy of the gods)

40
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What are some of the subjects in book 7 of the Metamorphoses?

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Procris and Cephalus

Medea

41
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What are some if the subjects in book 8 of the Metamorphoses?

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Meleager and the Calydonian boar hunt
Icarus and Daedalus
Baucis and Philemon
Erysicthon

42
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What are some of the subjects in book 9 of the Metamorphoses?

A

Byblis

labors of Hercules

43
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What are some of the subjects in book 10 of the Metamorphoses?

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Hyacinthus
Eurydice and Orpheus
Myrrha
Pygmalion

44
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What are some of the subjects in book 11 of the Metamorphoses?

A

Peleus and Theris

Ceyx and Alcyone

45
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What are some of the subjects in book 12 of the Metamorphoses?

A

Lapiths vs. Centaurs

Achilles

46
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What are some of the subjects in book 13 of the Metamorphoses?

A

Ajax vs. Ulysses for the armor of Achilles

Polyphemus and Galatea

47
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What are some of the subjects of book 14 of the Metamorphoses?

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Rome and the kings
the Odyssey
Aeneas
stories of Latium and their gods, Pomona and Vertumnus

48
Q

What are some of the subjects in book 15 of the Metamorphoses?

A

Caesar
Augustus
Pythagoras

49
Q

What marks the transition from mythological stories to history in the Metamorphoses?

A

the introduction of Trojan War characters

50
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What does Ovid proclaim in the last verses of the Metamorphoses?

A

his certainty that he has achieved immortal fame

51
Q

What was the Fasti?

A

a poetic calendar

52
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What is the meter of the Fasti?

A

elegiac couplet

53
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How many books are in Fasti?

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6 books, one for each month from January to July (intended for there to be 12, interrupted by his exile)

54
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On what is the Fast modeled?

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Propertius’s works and Callimachus’s Aitia

55
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From whose works does Ovid draw information for the Fasti?

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Verrius Flaccus, Varro, Livy, et al

56
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Who does Ovid criticize in the Fasti?

A

Augustus and Romulus

57
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How many books are in the Tristia?

A

5 books

58
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What was Ovid’s first work in exile?

A

the Tristia

59
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What is the subject of the Tristia?

A

Ovid hates his exile and wants to come back to Rome

60
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How many books are in the Epistulae ex Ponto?

A

4 books

61
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When were the Epistulae ex Ponto published?

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the first three books in 13 B.C., the fourth posthumously

62
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What is the meter of the Epistulae ex Ponto?

A

elegiac couplet

63
Q

From what does Ibis get its name?

A

a bird

64
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What is the meter of Ibis?

A

elegiac couplet

65
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When was Ibis published?

A

11-12 A.D.

66
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On what work is Ibis modeled?

A

a lost poem of Callimachus, probably written against Apollonius of Rhodes

67
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What is the subject of Ibis?

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it is a long series of invectives against a detractor of Ovid’s

68
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What is the meter of Halieutica?

A

hexameters

69
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What is the subject of Halieutica?

A

fishing on the Black Sea (didactic)

70
Q

How much of Medea survives?

A

only 2 lines (it was a tragedy)

71
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How many books are in the first edition of the Amores, and how many are in the second edition?

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5 books, revised in 1 A.D. to contain 3 books

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