Literature

Question 0

The profession of who’s father was helpful in their descriptions of bees?

Answer 0

Vergil.

Question 1

Ovid’s Metamorphoses consisted of how many books?

Answer 1

15 books

Ovid’s Metamorphoses was the longest book collection of its time.

Question 2

Which Roman writer combined in his work the philosophy of Epicurus and the atomic theory of Leucippus and Democritus?

Answer 2

Lucretius

Question 3

The work of Plautus most closely resemble modern ________.

Answer 3

Musical Comedies.

Question 4

Which Greek work did Livius Andronicus translate into Latin?

Answer 4

Odysseus

Question 5

Who was the first professor of rhetoric at Rome?

Answer 5

Quintilian

Question 6

Who is the famous schoolmaster of Horace?

Answer 6

Orbilius, a grammarian from Beneventum

Question 7

Which author left us sixteen satires in hexameter verse (the bastard)?

Answer 7

Juvenal

Question 8

Who is the leading character in Miles Gloriosus?

Answer 8

Pyrogopolynices

Question 9

Which Poet was born in the village of Andes?

Answer 9

Vergil.

Question 10

Who wrote over a hundred letters to his friend Lucilius, in form correspondence but in effect moral essays on happiness, wealth, death, and the like?

Answer 10

Seneca

Question 11

The story of Caesar’s encounter with pirates can be found in the writings of which Roman?

Answer 11

Suetonius

Question 12

Pliny the Younger has left us one extant oration. Whom does he praise in it?

Answer 12

Trajan

Question 13

Who wrote a poem about his own conculship?

Answer 13

Cicero

Question 14

Catullus dedicated a book of poems to who?

Answer 14

Cornelius Nepos

Question 15

According to Suetonius, how many conspirators were involved in the assassination of Caesar?

Answer 15

60

Question 16

The subject of Plautus’ Mostellaria:

Answer 16

A spend-thrift son

Question 17

How many tragedies by Seneca are extant?

Answer 17

9

Question 18

“Eclecticism” best describes the philosophy of whom?

Answer 18

Cicero

Question 19

Which Stoic author had considerable influence on Christian ethics?

Answer 19

Seneca the Younger

Question 20

Cicero wrote the Consolatio to help assuage his grief over the death of whom?

Answer 20

Tullia

Question 21

What famous case established Cicero’s reputation as a lawyer?

Answer 21

Pro Roscio Amerino

Question 22

______ called _______ “the supreme guide of wayward youth.”

Answer 22

Martial; Quintilian

Question 23

The foundation of Rome was told in all of the following EXCEPT:
Cato the Elder, Livy, Fabius Pictor, Tacitus.

Answer 23

Tacitus.

Question 24

Which writer wrote secret satires about Nero?

Answer 24

Lucan

Question 25

In the work _______, _______ describes his trip to _______ with vergil.

Answer 25

Sermones; Horace; Brundisium

Question 26

What twelve book epic by ______ details the conflict between Eteocles and Polyneices?

Answer 26

Statius; Thebaid

Question 27

According to Quintilian, what genre is entirely Rome?

Answer 27

Satire

Question 28

Born in Comum, _______ was raises by his maternal uncle.

Answer 28

Pliny the Younger

Question 29

Which of Cicero's surviving speeches was given last?

Answer 29

Fourteenth Philippic

Question 30

Who lost imperial favor because he was supposedly too sympathetic to the Empress Sabina?

Answer 30

Suetonius

Question 31

It is said that Shakespeare based his Comedy of Errors on ______.

Answer 31

Menaechmi

Question 32

Both _________ and _________ went to Rhodes to study with the Stoic philosopher ___________.

Answer 32

Pompey; Cicero; Posidonius

Question 33

Rome's initial reaction to Greek philosophy

Answer 33

Led to the temporary expulsion of Greek philosophers.

Question 34

How did Tacitus portray Tiberius?

Answer 34

Vicious and cunning.

Question 35

According to Cicero, friendship must be founded on, and preserved by:

Answer 35

Virtue

Question 36

In the first six odes of Book III, Horace writes about what?

Answer 36

Rome

Question 37

Who wrote his own Epitaph which included the words, "I fly, still living, through the mouths of men"?

Answer 37

Ennius

Question 38

Who was known as "doctus"?

Answer 38

Pacuvius

Question 39

The phrase often quoted by Caligula, "Oderint dum metuant" was contained in whose work?

Answer 39

Accius

Question 40

Which work of Cicero was modeled largely on _______'s "Myth of Er"?

Answer 40

Cicero; Somnium Scipionis

Question 41

Who was much admired by later rhetoricians and admired by Cicero and Vergil?

Answer 41

Accius

Question 42

Which author is said to have translated 108 comedies of Menander into Latin?

Answer 42

Terence

Question 43

Lucius Varius Rufus helped to translate what after Vergil's death?

Answer 43

Aeneid

Question 44

Who wrote the tragedy Thyestes which was performed at the games celebrating Octavian's victory at Actium?

Answer 44

Lucius Varius Rufus

Question 45

What work on rhetoric did _________ write to replace his earlier work De inventione on the same subject?

Answer 45

Cicero; De Oratore.

Question 46

In which book of the De Bello Gallico is the revolt of the Gauls begun by the Carnutes described?

Answer 46

VII

Question 47

Who did Cicero describe as the most elegant of the Romans?

Answer 47

Caesar

Question 48

Where was Sextus Propertius born?

Answer 48

Assisi

Question 49

Which author writes about the "neighborhorliness" of apartment dwellers?

Answer 49

Martial

Question 50

All of the following statements about Apuleius are true EXCEPT I. He was born in Africa. II. He was greatly interested in magic. III. The Florida contains his defence against in-laws who take him to court. IV. Metamorphoses is written in the Asianic style of oratory.

Answer 50

III.

Question 51

The term "Vitruvian man" refers to

Answer 51

a theory on human proportians.

Question 52

Who was the Nephew of Ennius?

Answer 52

Pacuvius

Question 53

Plautus was a contemporary in whose work?

Answer 53

Accius

Question 54

Who's popularity was attested by Cicero in the De amicitia?

Answer 54

Pacuvius

Question 55

In what year was poet Vergil born?

Answer 55

70 BC

Question 56

Which of Caesar's works was completed by his aide, Aulus Hirtius?

Answer 56

Comentarii de Bello Gallico

Question 57

Who is considered the father of Latin Literature?

Answer 57

Livius Andronicus

Question 58

Which three languages gave Quintus Ennius his "three hearts"?

Answer 58

Umbrian, Greek, and Latin

Question 59

Which poet dedicated his work to the historian and biographer Cornelius Nepos.

Answer 59

Catullus

Question 60

How many books comprise the Aeneid?

Answer 60

12

Question 61

Where was the playwright Terence born?

Answer 61

Carthage

Question 62

What is the main purpose of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura?

Answer 62

To explain nature through Physics.

Question 63

In which book of the Aeneid will you found the God Aeolus?

Answer 63

1

Question 64

Who was the poet Tibullus' Mistress?

Answer 64

Delia

Question 65

Who is the Latin author of the Cena Trimalchionis?

Answer 65

Petronius

Question 66

In which of Horace's works can you find the accounts of "The Bore" and "Journey to Brundisium"?

Answer 66

Sermones

Question 67

The story of Cupid and Psyche is contained in which of Apuleius' works?

Answer 67

Metamorphoses

Question 68

On which of Plautus' plays did Shakespeare base his Comedy of Errors?

Answer 68

Menaechmi

Question 69

What author, who wrote in Greek hexameter, was called the father of Latin poetry?

Answer 69

Ennius

Question 70

Which meter is often called "limping" because of the position of a long syllable?

Answer 70

Choliambic

Question 71

Who wrote Andria, Adelphi, and Phormio?

Answer 71

Terence

Question 72

During which stretch of years did Vergil compose the Aeneid?

Answer 72

29-19 BC

Question 73

In which city did Vergil die?

Answer 73

Brundisium

Question 74

In which speech did Cicero attack Sulla's freedman Chrysogonus?

Answer 74

Pro Roscio

Question 75

Lucan, Seneca the Younger, and Petronius met what similar fate?

Answer 75

Death as a result of Emperor Nero's displeasure.

Question 76

Which author is the closest Roman equivalent to Aesop?

Answer 76

Phaedrud

Question 77

Which author wrote, "There is nothing so ridiculous that some philosopher won't say it"?

Answer 77

Cicero

Question 78

Lucius Afranius was a popular writer of which type of play?

Answer 78

Fabulae togatae

Question 79

Which of the following authors wrote the oldest extant prose work in Latin, the De re rustica?

Answer 79

Cato the Elder

Question 80

Catullus' line "Ille mi par esse deo videtur" is based on an earlier poem by whom?

Answer 80

Sappho

Question 81

The work known as "Laelius" is better known by what name?

Answer 81

De Amicitia

Question 82

Horace wrote that his childhood paedagogus was also which of his relatives?

Answer 82

Father

Question 83

Which of the following writers did not writers did NOT write a work on agricultural themes? Vergil, Cato the Elder, Columella, Seneca.

Answer 83

Seneca

Question 84

What gift from Maecenas to Horace was immortalized in one of Horace's poems?

Answer 84

A farm

Question 85

The so-called "Scipionic Circle" included Laelius, Lucilius, and whom?

Answer 85

Terence

Question 86

The Odissia of Livius Andronicus translated Homer's work into Latin using which early meter?

Answer 86

Saturnian

Question 87

What were Cicero's four famous orations against his greatest opponent for conculship?

Answer 87

Against Catiline (In Catilinam)

Question 88

Which Roman author was banished by the Metelli family to Utica?

Answer 88

Gnaeus Naevius

Question 89

Which of Plautus' works has a double plot?

Answer 89

Bacchidus

Question 90

To which of his contemporaries did Varro dedicate his De Lingua Latina?

Answer 90

Cicero

Question 91

Catullus' work known as "Attis" concerns the cult of what deity?

Answer 91

Cybele

Question 92

Which book of Vergil's Georgics deals with beekeeping?

Answer 92

Fourth

Question 93

Which author was known or his history of Alexander the Great?

Answer 93

Q. Curtius

Question 94

S. Julius Frontinus is remembered only for his works on what topic?

Answer 94

Aqueducts

Question 95

The emperor Marcus Aurelius was tutored by which of these sholars?

Answer 95

Cornelius Fronto

Question 96

The work Civitas Dei was a work written by what later Latin author?

Answer 96

Augustine

Question 97

In what year do the first two books of Caesar's Bellum Civile take place?

Answer 97

49 BC

Question 98

Which of these can be found in book four of Caesar's Gallic Wars?

Answer 98

Caesar's crossing of the Rhine.

Question 99

Which two of the Catilinarian orations were delivered before the Senate, and not the general public?

Answer 99

1 and 4

Question 100

Which of these men was NOT successfully defended by Cicero: | Archias, Balbus, Plancius, Grabinius?

Answer 100

Grabinius

Question 101

In book 3 of the Aeneid, which kinsman of Aeneas speaks to him from the grave?

Answer 101

Polydorus

Question 102

What was the subject of the works known as "fabulae praetextae"?

Answer 102

Roman history

Question 103

In which type of dramatic performance could you see the characters Maccus, Dossennus, Mandacus, and Pappus?

Answer 103

Atellan farce

Question 104

Which poet wrote an epicedium for Cornelia, the wife of Octavian?

Answer 104

Propertius

Question 105

By which Roman emperor was Quintilian appointed a professor of rhetoric?

Answer 105

Vespasian