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What is the Dramatic Genres

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Comedy, Fabula, Palliata

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What is POMPA

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religious setting

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The theatre of Pompeii opened when

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55 BC

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Style of Cato’s speeches

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Powerful, concise, Technical skill

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What are the five duties of an orator?

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Invention, disposition, elocution, memorization, action

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What are the Four parts of speech

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Exordium, narration, argumentation, peroration

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Three types of speech

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Deliberative, legal, apathetic

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What is the narrative genre

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Epic, poetry, fable, novel, historiography, autobiography

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What is the demonstrative genre

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Didactic, treatise, dialogue

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Is commentary literature

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no

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What was the first theatre made out of

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Stone

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What is Contamination*

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Combination of plots of two or more

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Is Roman territory, surrounded by many different types of people, including different religions, and beliefs?

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yes

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What is Sallust’s narrative techniques? (5)

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Flashback, physical description, digression, moral commitment, fictive, speeches, and letters

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What does didactic mean?

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To teach philosophy

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What does protreptic mean

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to convert to philosophy

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17
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What does general mean?

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Larger audience

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What are the five topics in the narrative genre

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Epic, poetry, fable, novel, historiography, autobiography

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What is the demonstrate genre

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Didactic, treatise, dialogue

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What is in the dramatic genre

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Tragedy, comedy, mime, Pantome, Atellanfource

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What is in the Affective genre

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Lyric, bucolic, Elegiac, satire, epigram

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What is in the Paraliterary forms

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speech, letter, poetic

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23
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Who does Aenead go to visit in the underworld

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Anchies

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What does imitation mean

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Act of reproducing a model, according to the rules

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What does toga mean in Latin?

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Attire of the Roman citizen

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What does Fari mean

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to speak

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What were the style of Catos speeches,

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Powerful, concise, technical skill

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What is an epic tone?

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Images, comparison

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29
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Are Epic’s typically violent

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yes

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30
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What does elegy mean in English

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To say

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31
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How many measures does a Dactylic hexameter have

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6 measures

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32
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How many meausres does a Dactylic pentameter have

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5 measures

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33
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What themes would an author during the satire period have

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Food, mixed, wealth

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34
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Which genre did Cato write about

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speech and eloquence

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35
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What did Titus Livy right about?

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History genre

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what genre does Quintus Ennius write about

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Poetry and epistle

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37
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What genre did Virgil write about

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Epic

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38
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What genre did Horace write about

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Lyric

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39
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is Elegiac poetry also love poetry

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yes

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40
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was Gallius the first elegy poem writer

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yes

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Is novel, poetry, part of the narrative, genre

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yes

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42
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What books theme is food huge in

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satire

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43
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How many books does the epic hold

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10 books

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44
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What does Sublime mean

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Describe something that is awful

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45
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How many known authors with entire or partial works preserved

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144

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46
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How many authors are simply known by name

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276

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47
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How many authors known by citation or other fragments

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352

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48
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How many Latin authors are known by existence

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722

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49
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Rhectoric

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word

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50
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Contio

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at the assembly

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51
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4 Modulus of Prince

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Good, vicious, redeeming qualities, monsters

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52
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What poetry is close to lyric

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Bucolic

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53
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What is Velum

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Fabric Roof

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54
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What is Seruus

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slave

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55
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What does Pathos mean

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emotional state aroused by the speech

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56
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What does Contio mean

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at the assembly

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57
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What is the style of Cicero

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Enargeia

58
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First goal of speaking is to ******* WHAT the audience

A

persuade

59
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What does Annus mean

A

year

60
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When was the Republican (era)

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4th early 3rd century BCE

61
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categories of a biography (9)

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  1. Family line, 2. career and rise to power 3. public life, 4. private life, 5. virtues and vices, 6. physical portrait and health, 7. Habits of life, 8. Culture, 9. death
62
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Is Novel poetry valid

A

yes

63
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what genre was Marcus Porcius Cato
Cato the Elder (2nd BCE)

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SPEECH AND Eloquence

64
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What genre is Marcus Tullius Cicero – (106-44 BCE) Cicero from

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SPEECH AND Eloquence

65
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When was the genre history created?

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3rd-1st c. BCE

66
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Quintus Ennius, (2nd c. BCE)
Annals, what genre?

A

history

67
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Who was the “founder of history”?

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Marcus Porcius Cato

68
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Is a biography for an (one) individual

A

yes

69
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Caesar – Caius Iulius Caesar (100 – 44 BCE) What genre

A

history

70
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What is a apocryph*

A

text whose attribution to an author is erroneous
(traditional or intentional)

71
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Sallust (86 – 35 BCE) What genre

A

History

72
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who was a client of ceasers

A

Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Sallust

73
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Style : ample and balanced what genre?

A

History

74
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Tacitus 55/57– circa 117 What genre?

A

History

75
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Style in Tacitus

A

Dramatized visual descriptions

76
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Cornelius Nepos 109 – circa 27 BC…..Which genre

A

History

77
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Exemplum*
◼ (pl. exempla)

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Narrative telling of a deed motivated by dedication to the state

78
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
diffusion of philosophy in Rome
(106 – 43 ANÈ) What genre

A

poetry and epistle

79
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What’s a genre similar to didactic poetry

A

epic

80
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Influenced by mystic cults Dionysism

A

Metasomatosis

81
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Publius Ovidius Naso – Ovid (43BC–ca18CE)
What genre?

A

poety and epistle

82
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Stoicism* what is the meaning

A

Reference to a philosophical match between Zeno and Epicurus under a portico in Athens

83
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three « founding » figures

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Zeno (332-272 BC) Cleanthes (330-232 BC) Chrysippos (280-202 BC)

84
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ascesis* =

A

exercise, effort

85
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Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca – 4 BC – 65 CE (What genre?)

A

Poetry and epistle

86
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dactylic hexameter*
* = epic meter

A

6 measures

87
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Cnaeus Naevius – 3rd c. BC what genre

A

epic

88
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Catulle – C. Valerius Catullus – 84 – 54 ANÈ de l’invective au poème d’amour WHAT GENRE

A

LYRIC

89
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Horace – Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65 – 8 ANÈ WHAT GENRE

A

LYRIC

90
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Georgics MEANS

A

WORLD

91
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Friendship (epicurean)
 (Political) renewal
 Victory
 epinikion* USING THESE THEMES, WHAT GENRE DO YOU THINK IT IS?

A

Lyric

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Recitation* means

A

Public lecture of literary works

93
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus — Lucan 39 – 65 CE WHAT GENRE

A

Epic

94
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C. Cornelius Gallus
–
65
–
26 BC What genre

A

elegiac poetry

95
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Tibullus what genre

A

elegiac

96
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Recusatio*=

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refusal of the urban and civic life, of ambition and carreer

97
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Marcus Terentius Varro – 116 – 27 BC what genre?

A

satire

98
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Horace — Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65 – 8 BC what genre

A

satire

99
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Style of Satire

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Exageration
* mix of common places and observation of every day life

100
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Literary epigram - characteristics

A

short
* Some count only 2 to 10 lines
* Various themes

101
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What is the main difference between epigram and satire?

A

epigram is short
satire is long

102
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Characteristics of the genre novel

A

prose
– Except Satiricon
* fiction
* first-personnarrative – Except History of
Apollonius
* lenghty
– Except History…

103
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What genre is argued to not be one

A

novel

104
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Petronius – C. Petronius (Arbiter ) ?–65(?)CE WHAT GENRE

A

Novel

105
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Apuleius – L. Apuleius – circa 125–after 170 CE What genre

A

Novel

106
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What is a genre that Satire has in common (think of themes)

A

Novel

107
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Emulation*

A

–Active movement of the soul, triggered
by the admiration of what appears
beautiful

108
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characteristics of the palliata* :

A

topics, plot, characters

109
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origins of the satiric genre

A

In modern times, satirical literature, drama, and media have continued to evolve, with authors and comedians using the genre to address contemporary issues, challenge power structures, and entertain audiences while offering incisive social commentary.

110
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Who was better Plautus or Terence

A

Plautus’s plays therefore had a greater amount of musical accompaniment than Terence’s. Another difference between the playwrights was that polymetric songs (using metres other than iambic and trochaic) are frequent in Plautus (about 14% of the plays), but hardly used at all by Terence.

111
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What are the 3 duties

A

Ethos = charm (delectare)
 Pathos = move (mouere)
 Logos = instruct/prove (docere)

112
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Patronus*

A

member of an influential Roman family, who protects many members of less prominent families ;

113
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Emulation*

A

–Active movement of the soul, triggered

114
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senex, (character type)

A

the old man

115
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nutrix

A

nurse

116
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Atticism*

A

◼ a plain and refined style

117
Q

Asianism*

A

◼ a grand and ornate style

118
Q

Titus Liuius
Livy 64/59BCE–17CE HOW MANY BOOKS BETWEEN THAT TIME

A

 142 books from 753 BCE to 9 CE

119
Q

Pax deorum*

A

Peace of the gods

120
Q

Mos maiorum*
 « habits of the Elders »
◼ virtues considered by the Romans as particularly Roman

A

◼ virtues considered by the Romans as particularly Roman

121
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 Exemplum*

A

part of a narrative

122
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Pythagorism

A

Numbers
Unity of matter
Unity of beings

123
Q

aristeia*

A

Trial of a heroic character

124
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Structure of the poem
(epic)

A
  • Circularity
125
Q

national poem :

A

Roman rite

126
Q

sphragis*=

A

steal

127
Q

Origin of Satire

A

comedy

128
Q

Juvenal — Decimus Iunius Iuuenalis – circa 65 – after 127 CE

A

Satire

129
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logos

A

◼ Logical argumentation in the speech

130
Q

Ethos

A

◼ personality of the speaker, who
appears trustworthy

131
Q

grauitas*

A

 credibility

132
Q

decorum

A

(propriety)

133
Q

Vergil – Publius Vergilius Maro – 70 – 19 BC

A

Lyric

134
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Lucilius — C. Lucilius – 180 – 102 BC

A

satire

135
Q

Persius – Aulus Persius Flaccus – 34 – 62 BC

A

satire

136
Q

M. Valerius Martialis –circa 40 – circa 100 CE

A

Epigram

137
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characteristics of epic poetry

A

The hero is outstanding. …
The setting is large. …
The action is made of deeds of great valor or requiring superhuman courage.
Supernatural forces—gods, angels, demons—insert themselves in the action.
It is written in a very special style (verse as opposed to prose).
The poet tries to remain objective.

138
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characteristics of satire poetry

A

Satire is witty, ironic, and often exaggerated. It uses extremes to bring its audience to a renewed awareness of its ethical and spiritual danger. Sometime if the satirist is in danger for his or her attack, ambiguity, innuendo and understatement can be used to help protect its author.

139
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characteristics of history poetry

A

Historical poetry is a subgenre of poetry that has its roots in history. Its aim is to delineate events of the past by incorporating elements of artful composition and poetic diction.

140
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Characteristics of Lyric poetry

A

Emotional Intensity: Lyric poetry is characterized by its emotional intensity and depth. Poets often use vivid imagery, figurative language, and expressive language to evoke powerful emotions and sensations in the reader. Themes such as love, loss, longing, joy, and despair are common in lyric poetry.

141
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characteristics of Novel poetry

A

A verse novel contains elements of poetry and also has the style and chronological narrative structure of a traditional prose novel. One benefit of verse novels is that they can be thematically and emotionally engaging for readers.D

142
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Characteristics of elegiac poetry

A

It begins with an expression of grief and an invocation to the Muse to aid the poet in expressing his suffering. It usually contains a funeral procession, a description of sympathetic mourning throughout nature, and musings on the unkindness of death

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