part 3 Flashcards
1
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Geographical work proceeding counterclockwise from the Straits of Gibraltar and returning there
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Pomponius Mela
2
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First “pure geographer”
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Pomponius Mela
3
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Pomponius Mela’s complaint
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geography can’t be elegant
4
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Apicius’ work (a pseud-epigraph, since he likely did not write it)
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De Re Coquinaria
5
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Collection of Recipes
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Apicius’ De Re Coquinaria
6
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Derivation of the name Apicius
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famous gourmet dish
7
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First plebeian Pontifex Maximus
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Coruncianus
8
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Freedman and secretary of Appius Claudius Caecus
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Gnaeus Flavius
9
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Work of Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus, a renowned commentary on the Twleve Tables
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Triperita
10
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The two Scaevolas
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Scaevola the Augur, teacher of Cicero, and Scaevola the Pontiff, author of a systematic treatment of civil law.
11
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Author of a consolation letter on the death of Tullia to Cicero and a famous letter on the murder of Marcus Marcellus
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Sulpicius Rufus
12
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Heads of legal schools in the Augustan Age
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Labeo and Capito
13
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Political careers of Labeo and Capito
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Capito was consul, while Labeo refused Augustus’ offcer of a consulship
14
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Works of Claudius
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histories of the Etruscans and Carthagnians, a Roman history focused on Augustus’ principate, a defense of Cicero against Asinius Gallus, and a grammatical work which proposed three new letters to the Roman alphabet
15
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Quinquennial contest of song, music, poetry, and oratory
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Neronia
16
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Institutor of the first state-supported chairs of rhetoric
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Vespasian
17
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Libretto
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Fabula Saltica
18
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Mime writer who lived under Caligula
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Catullus
19
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Major works of the mime writer Catullus
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Laureolus (involved vomiting blood and a crucifixion on stage), Phasma
20
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Seneca the Elder Nickname
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The Rhetorician
21
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Work of Seneca the Elder
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Oratorum et Rhetorium Sententiae Divisones Colores
22
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Three sons of Seneca the Elder
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Novatus (took the name of Gallio), Seneca the Younger, Mela (father of Lucan)
23
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Two parts of Seneca the Elder’s Oratorum et Rhetorium Sententiae Divisiones Colores
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Controversiae, Suasoriae
24
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Seneca the Elder’s trial of fictitious cases of Greek/Roman Law
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Controversiae
25
Seneca the Elder's "guiding" the action of a famous person facing a difficult decision
Suasoriae
26
Inventor of the recitatio
Asinius Pollio
27
Author reads passages of literature to an invited audience
recitatio
28
Exiled to death by Caligula, but saved by Caligula's lover
Seneca the Younger
29
Reason for Seneca's exile
adultery with Julia Livilla
30
Exiler of Seneca
Claudius
31
How Seneca was able to return
Agrippina the Younger persuaded Claudius to recall Seneca, so he could tutor her son Nero
32
Reason and manner of Seneca's death
implication in the Pisonian conspiracy, committed suicide
33
Wife of Seneca the Younger
Paulina
34
Mother of Seneca the Younger
Helvia
35
Author of funeral oration for Claudius
Seneca the Younger
36
Seneca's style
stichomythia (brisk interchange, line for line, of repartee between interlocutors)
37
Number of Seneca's fabulae cothurnatae
9
38
Seneca's fabulae cothurnatae
Hercules Furens, Hercules Oetatus, Troades, Phoenissae, Medea, Phaedra, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Phaedon
39
Seneca's only surviving tragedy
Octavia
40
Only completely extant Roman tragedy
Seneca the Younger's Octavia
41
Seneca's treatises on ethical and philosophical questions
Dialogi
42
Length of Seneca's Dialogi
12 books
43
Seneca questions why good men suffer misfortune when providence exists
Ad Lucilium de Providentia
44
Addresee of Seneca's De Constantia Sapientis
Anaeus Serenus, an officer of Nero's nightwatchman
45
Seneca argues that anger can be controlled, discussed the cruelty of Caligula
Ad Novatum de Ira
46
On the firmness of the wise
Ad Serenum de Constantia Sapientis
47
Seneca's consolation to the daughter of Cremutus Cordus on her son's death
Ad Marciam de Consolatione
48
Seneca poses the question "in what does happiness consist?"
Ad Novatum de Vita Beata
49
Seneca's defense of leisure and relaxation
Ad Serenum de Otio
50
Seneca's pursuit of peace of mind amidst the troubles of his life
Ad Serenum de Tranquilitate Animi
51
Seneca argues the value of time and the need to use it wisely
Ad Paulinum de Brevitate Vitae
52
Seneca consoles a powerful freedman of Claudius on the loss of his brother, really Seneca's attempt to flatter Claudius and get him to recall Seneca from exile
Ad Polybium de Consolatione
53
Main purpose of Seneca's Ad Polybium de Consolatione
to flatter Claudius and get him to recall Seneca from exile
54
Seneca, to his own mother concerning his exile
Ad Helviam Matrem de Consolatione
55
Seneca's appeal on the duties of philanthropy, addressed to the upper class
De Beneficiis
56
Addressee of Seneca's De Beneficiis
Aebutius Liberalis
57
Length of Seneca's De Beneficiis
7 books
58
Addresee and Dedicatee of Seneca's De Clementia
Nero
59
Seneca's work designed to mollify the young emperor Nero
De Clementia
60
Length of Seneca's De Clementia
3 books
61
Seneca's letters addressed to his friend Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
62
Seneca's new genre of Latin literature and its corresponding work
philosophical letter, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
63
Length of Seneca's Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
20 books containing 124 letters
64
Often used as evidence to support that Seneca was a Christian
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
65
Seneca's only work on science
Quaestiones Naturales
66
Dedicatee of Seneca's Quaestiones Naturales
Lucilius
67
Seneca's work treating questions of physics and natural phenomena
Quaestiones Naturales
68
Length of Seneca's Quaestiones Naturales
7 books
69
Seneca's work on moral precepts, composed on his deathbed
Quaestiones Morales
70
Composed on Seneca's deathbed
Quaestiones Morales
71
Length of Seneca's Quaestiones Morales
12 dialogues/books
72
Seneca's Menippean Satire on the apotheosis of Claudius
Apocolocyntosis
73
Alternate names for Seneca's Apocolocyntosis
Ludus de More Claudii/Divi Claudii Apotheosis per Saturam
74
Took his life because Tiberius found critical allusions in his tragedy Atreus. Also an orator
Mamercus Scaurus
75
Author of an Aeneas, his biography was written by Pliny the Younger
Pomponius Secundus
76
Major work of Pomponius Secundus
Aeneas
77
Interloctuor in Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus, wrote two fabulae praetextae, Cato and Domitius
Curiatus Maternus
78
Works of Curiatius Maternus
Cato and Domitius
79
Author of a famous epigram on the death of Tibullus
Domitius Marsus
80
Famous elegist, consul in 12 BC
Valgius Rufus
81
Author of Cynegetica, a short didactic poem on hunting
Grattius Faliscus
82
Author of Hellenistic didactic poetry, including De Herbis, Theriaca, and Ornithographia
Aemilius Macer
83
Work of Grattius Faliscus
Cynegetica
84
Works of Germanicus
Aratea and Prognostica
85
Germanicus' translation of Aratus' Phaenomena
Aratea
86
Dedicatee of Germanicus' Aratea
Tiberius
87
Author of the five book didactic hexameter poem Astronomica
Manilius
88
Manilius' major work
Astronomica
89
Author of the Astronomica, on astronomy, the zodiac, horosocpes, etc.
Manilius
90
Friend of Vergil and Horace, member of Maecenas' circle
Varius Rufus
91
Works of Varius Rufus
Thyestes, de Morte, and Panegyric of Augustus
92
Author of Thyestes, de Morte, and Panegyric of Augustus
Varius Rufus
93
Rival of Ovid and Vergil, wrote a poem on Germanicus' expedition
Albinovanus Pedo
94
Author of the Bellum Actiacum
Rabirius
95
Author of the Res Romanae
Cornelius Severus
96
Collection of poems traditionally ascribed to Vergil, although it is likely that all of the works are imitations
Appendix Vergiliana
97
Works in the Appenix Vergiliana
Dirae, Lydia, Catalepton, Culex, Ciris, Copa, Moretum, Priapea, Elegiae in Maecenatem, Aetna
98
A poem of invective on the land confiscations (AV)
Dirae
99
A pastoral lament to a woman named Lydia (AV)
Lydia
100
Two joined works of the Appendix Vergiliana
Dirae and Lydia
101
Collection of 15 short poems, a "container" of small texts, panegyric on Messalla (AV)
Catalepton
102
Epyllion on a shepherd who kills a kindly mosquito, the mosquito visits the shepherd in a dream and tells him about his descent to the Undeworld (AV)
Culex
103
Epyllion on the love of Scylla for Minos (AV)
Ciris
104
A lady innkeeper draws tenants to her inn by dancing (AV)
Copa
105
The morning rising of a pesant and the making of his meal, a salad (AV)
Moretum
106
Poems on the god Priapus (AV)
Priapea
107
Elegy for Maecenas (AV)
Elegiae in Maecenam
108
Scientific poem on the phenomena of volcanoes (AV)
Aetna
109
First author in Greece or Rome to create a collection of fables
Phaedrus
110
Freedman from Thrace
Phaedrus
111
Length of Phaedrus' fables
5 books
112
Major inspiration for Phaedrus' fables
Aesop
113
Meter of Phaedrus' fables
iambic senarii
114
Work expressing the attitude of the oppressed under Tiberius and Caligula
Phaedrus' fables
115
Dedicatee of one book of Phaedrus' fables
Eutycus, a celebrated chariot driver of the Greens during Caligula's reigns
116
Persecutor of Phaedrus
Sejanus
117
Author of Eclogues in the style of Vergil
Calpurnius Siculus
118
Long Panegyric on Piso in hexameters, attributed by some to Calpurnius siculus
Laus Pisonis
119
Major work of Nero on the war at Troy, with Paris as its hero
Troica
120
Author of the Troica, on the war at Troy with Paris as its hero
Nero
121
Poetic abridgement of the Iliad
Ilias Latina
122
Wrote to her husband Calenus, praised by Martial and compared to Sappho
Sulpicia
123
Nephew of Seneca the Younger
Lucan
124
Teacher of Lucan
Cornutus
125
Pupils of Cornutus
Lucan and Persius
126
Earliest friend of Lucan
Persius
127
Intimate friend of Lucan, at least for a while
Nero
128
Lucan's work, recited at the Neronia in 60 AD
Laudes Neronis
129
Reason for Lucan's break with Nero
Nero was jealous of Lucan's literary talent
130
Reason for Lucan's death
when Nero discovered Lucan's involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy, he forced him to commit suicide
131
Lucan's magnum opus
Pharsalia
132
Alternate name for Lucan's Pharsalia
Bellum Civile
133
Subject of Lucan's Pharsalia
Civil war between Caesar and Pompey
134
Termed the "Anti-Vergil"
Lucan
135
The "Anti-Aeneid"
Pharsalia
136
Unfinished in book 10 due to the author's death
Lucan's Pharsalia
137
Reason for the unfinished nature of Lucan's Pharsalia
Lucan died
138
Lost works of Lucan
Iliacon, Catachthonion, De Incendio Urbis, Medea, Saturnalia, Silvae, Laudes Neronis
139
Lucan's work on the Trojan War
Iliacon
140
Lucan's work on descent to the underworld
Catachthonion
141
Authors of libretti for pantomimes
Juvenal and Lucan
142
More historical than epic, because there is no divine intervention
Pharsalia
143
Petronius' political career
consul in 62 AD, governor of Bithynia
144
Reason for Petronius' suicide
committed suicide by Nero's command
145
Falsely accused by Tigellinus to Nero for involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy
Petronius
146
Arbiter elegantiae in Nero's court
Petronius
147
Petronius' position in Nero's court
arbiter elegantiae
148
How Petronius died
opened his veins and spent his last hours at a banquet
149
Petronius' final acts before his death
openly denounced the emperor's crimes in his letter, destroyed his signet ring.
150
Contains the famous Cena Trimalchionis
Petronius' Satyricon
151
Protagonist of Petronius' Satyricon
Encolpius
152
Satirical novel on the adventures of Encolpius, Giton, Ascyltus, and Eumolpus
Petronius' Satyricon
153
Only characters which appear in all episodes of the Satyricon
Encolpius and Giton
154
Teacher of Encolpus in the Satyricon
Agamemnon
155
Woman who involves Encolpius, Giton, and Ascyltus in a rite of Priapus
Quartilla
156
Encolpius meets whom, loses his sexual ability
Circe
157
How to gain Eumolpus' estate
eat his corpse
158
How Encolpius gains his virility back
Humiliating magical practices with Priapus
159
80 poems with thematic links to the Satyricon, 68th is a reimagining of the Odyssey
Priapea (different from AV)
160
Father died when he was six years old
Persius
161
Full name of Persius
Aules Persius Flaccus
162
Author of a biography of Cato Uticensis that would become a model for Plutarch, committed suicide when ordered by Nero
Thrasea Paetus
163
Persius Flaccus' age at death
27
164
First commentator on Persius
Valerius Probus
165
Reviser and publisher of Persius' works
Cornutus and Caesius Bassus
166
Persius' work
Satires
167
Length of Persius' Satires
6 poems
168
Lucan's reaction to a recitation of Persius
Lucan got so excited that he exclaimed that Persius' works were real poetry, and his only trivialities.
169
Depended on patronage although he was from a wealthy family
Juvenal
170
Length of Juvenal's Satires
16 satires, 5 books
171
Juvenal's name for the Satires
Farragones
172
Teacher of Juvenal
Quintilian
173
Juvenal's banisher
either Domitian or Trajan
174
Juvenal's hated enemy in his Satires
Domitian
175
Oldest friend of Juvenal
Martial
176
Martial's description of Juvenal
facundus
177
Patron of Juvenal, allowed him to achieve financial security
Hadrian
178
Sent to Egypt at eighty years old, likely because his verses gave offense to the emperor
Juvenal
179
Satire 1
Juvenal's prefatory satire, in which he rails against fashionable declamations
180
Satire 2
Juvenal rants against homosexuals
181
Satire 3
Juvenal's friend Umbricius is leaving Rome, because the city has become dangerous for honest man
182
Satire 4
Domitian calls a council to deliberate how to cook a gigantic turbot given to him as a gift
183
Satire 5
the rich Virro gives a dinner and his guests are humiliated
184
Satire 6
Juvenal's longest satire, rails against the immorality and vices of women (contains qui custodiet ipsos custos)
185
Satire 7
Juvneal remembers fondly the patronage of Augustan age literature, lamenting the decline of study
186
Satire 8
Juvenal attacks the false nobility of birth
187
Satire 9
A dialogue where the homosexual Naevolus protests for being "ill-rewarded for his difficult services"
188
Satire 10
The folly of human desires (includes panem et circenses)
189
Satire 11
Juvenal's friend gives him a modest dinner, which he compares with the ostentatious banquets of rich men
190
Satire 12
Juvenal attacks legacy hunter
191
Satire 13
Juvenal attacks cheats and swindlers
192
Satire 14
Juvenal discussed the upbringing of children
193
Satire 15
Juvenal recounts an episode of cannibalism in Egypt
194
Satire 16
Juvenal lists the advantages of military life
195
Believes that man is irredeemably susceptible to corruption
Juvenal
196
Breaks satire's "traditional link with comedy" and brings satire "near to tragedy"
Juvenal
197
Statius' father's profession
schoolmaster
198
Statius' wife
Claudia
199
Children of Statius
none of his own, but had a stepdaughter and a slave boy
200
Author of the Silvae
Statius
201
Statius' work in 5 books of 32 short poems
Silvae
202
Length of Statius' Silvae
5 books of 32 short poems
203
Emperor fawned over in Statius' Silvae
Domitian
204
Contains a famous poem about him not getting any sleep
Statius' Silvae
205
Only surviving epic which was completed and published by the author
Statius' Thebaid
206
How long Statius spent on his Thebaid
12 years
207
Relationship between the Thebaid and the Aeneid
Statius wants the Thebaid to follow the Aeneid's model "at a distance"
208
Two halves of the Thebaid
one half (six books) on the journey, one half (6 books) on the war (recalls the Aeneid)
209
Work of Gordian I based on the Thebaid
Antoninias
210
Author of the Antoninias based on the Thebaid
Gordian I
211
Unfinished epic poem by Statius
The Achilleid
212
Statius' historical poem on the deeds of Domitian
De Bello Germanico
213
Statius' successful pantomime libretto
Agave
214
Full name of Valerius Flaccus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus Balbus Setinus
215
Dedicatee of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica
Vespasian
216
Length of Valerius Flaccus' Argonatuica
8 books
217
Unfinished epic poem of Valerius Flaccus
Argonautica
218
Silius Italicus' political career
novus homo, consul in 68 A.D., governor in Asia
219
Bought a villa of Cicero's
Silius Italicus
220
Silius Italicus' opinion on Martial
Vergil's heir
221
Silius Italicus' profession
lawyer and informer for Nero
222
How Silius Italicus died
got an incurable disease and starved himself to death
223
Bough the tomb of Vergil and collected relics of him
Silius Italicus
224
Silius Italicus' epic on the Second Punic War
Punica
225
Longest epic in Latin
Punica
226
Worst epic in Latin
Punica
227
Subject matter of Silius Italicus' Punica
Second Punic War
228
Pliny the Elder's military and political career
military service in Germany between 46 and 58, procurator under Vespasian in Gaul, Africa, and Spain
229
Emperor, was a close friend of Pliny the Elder
Vespasian
230
Summation of the entirety of the existing state of practical and scientic knowledge
Naturalis Historia
231
Where Pliny was commander of the naval fleet
Misenum
232
How Pliny the Elder died
rescuing people from the eruption of Vesuvius
233
Pliny the Elder's work on the technique of fighting from horseback
De Iaculatione Equestri
234
Pliny the Elder's biography of his friend Pomponius Secundus
De Vita Pomponii Secundi
235
Pliny the Elder's work on the German wars
Bella Germaniae
236
Pliny the Elder's handbook for students of rhetoric, includes how an orator should arrange his hair
Studiosus
237
Pliny the Elder's handbook concerned with problems and variations of linguistic usage
Dubius Sermo
238
Pliny the Elder's historical work, attaching itself to an earlier author, covering from the end of Claudius' reign to the accession of Vespasian
A Fine Aufidi Bassi
239
Length of Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia
37 books
240
Pliny the Elder's massive encyclopedia
Naturalis Historia
241
Dedicatee of the Naturalis Historia
Titus
242
Most famous author of mirabilia, chief military leader and politican in the early days of Vespasian's reign, and a decisive supporter of him
Licinius Mucianus
243
Work of Julius Solinus, ¾ of which was taken from Pliny the Elder
Collectanea rerum memorabilium
244
Frontinus' jobs and political career
curator aquarum (director of aqueducts) under Nerva, consul in 73/74, 98, and 100, and governor of Britain, where he preceded Agricola
245
Two works of Frontinus
De Aquis Urbis Romae, Strategemata
246
Length of Frontinus' De Aquis Urbis Romae
4 books
247
Length of Frontinus' Strategemata
4 books
248
Frontinus' collection of military anecdotes
Strategemata
249
Alternate name for Frotinus' De Aquis Urbis Romae
De Aquae Ductu Urbis Romae
250
Frontinus' treatment of the problems of Rome's water supply
De Aquis Urbis Romae
251
Introduced by the family of Seneca to high society
Martial
252
Said to have lived in poor lodgings up three flights of stairs
Martial
253
Owned a farm at Nomentum
Martial
254
Literary friends of Martial
Quintilian, Lucan, Seneca the Younger, Juvenal, Pliny the Younger, Silius Italicus
255
Work which won Martial the appreciation and money of Titus
Liber Spectacolorum
256
Martial's work performed at the opening of the Colosseum
Liber Spectacolorum
257
Length of Martial's Epigrams
12 books
258
Martial's opinion on the epigram
humblest of all genres
259
Martial's major work
Epigrams
260
Martial's depiction of humans
reduces people to recurrying types with grotesque figures (e.g. parasites, plagiarists, etc.)
261
Social satire aims not to be harsh
Martial
262
Uses the technique of closing quip
Martial
263
Flattered by Martial's epigrams
Domitian
264
Became book XIII of the Epigrams
Xenia
265
Became Book XIV of the Epigrams
Apophoreta
266
Job of Quintilian's father
teacher of rhetoric
267
Teachers of Quintilian
Remmius Palaemon and Domitius Afer
268
Quintilian's profession
lawyer
269
Summoned Quintilian to Rome
Galba
270
Students of Quintilian
Pliny the Younger, Tacitus
271
First salaried state professor
Quintilian
272
Appointed Quintilian the first salaried state professor
Vespasian
273
In charge of educating Domitian's nephews
Quintilian
274
Quintilian educated his nephews
Domitian
275
Quintilian discusses remedies for the corruption of eloquence
De Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae
276
Set of notes published by Quintilian's students against his will
Artis Rhetoricae
277
Length of the Artis Rhetoricae
2 books
278
Quintilian's principal work
Institutio Oratoria
279
Dedicatee of Quintilian's Instutio Oratoria
Victorius Marcellus
280
Publisher and circulator of the Institutio Oratoria
Tryphon
281
Sketches a comprehensive program of cultural and moral training for the orator
Quintilian's Instutio Oratoria
282
Quintilian's goal
to take up and adapt Cicero's legacy for his own time
283
Contained the biggest library in Rome
Trajan's Basilica Ulpia
284
Rhetoricians in the Second Sophistic School
Aelius Aristides, Herodes and Atticus, and Fronto (not the aqueduct dude)
285
Dedicatee of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
286
Wrote a poem to his dying soul (animula vagula blanda)
Hadrian
287
Established a rhetorical and intellectual academy called the Athenaeum
Hadrian
288
First Christian work in Latin, produced by the communities
Acta Martyorum
289
Narrative works, developed out of larger or smaller autobiographical cores, which tell the story of martyrs throughout history
Passiones
290
Masterpiece of the genre of Passiones
Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis
291
Relationship of Pliny the Younger to Pliny the Elder
Nephew
292
Teachers of Pliny the Younger
Quintilian, Nicetes, and Musonius
293
Number of wives of Pliny the Younger
3
294
Third wife of Pliny the Younger
Calpurnia
295
Pliny the Younger's political career
quaestor, tribune of the plebs, praetor, praefectus aerarii Saturni in 98 AD, curator alvei Tiberis (curator of the Tiber and its banks), consul suffectus in 100 AD, governor of Bithynia
296
Pliny the Younger's friend
Tacitus
297
Proconsul of Africa, accused by Pliny and Tacitus of corruption
Marius Priscus
298
Pliny the Younger lists the virtues of Trajan, attacks Domitian
Panegyricus
299
Pliny's speech of the thanks delivered to Trajan in the Senate
Panegyricus
300
Pliny the Younger's letters, tenth book contains private and official letters from Pliny to Trajan
Epistulae
301
Length of Pliny the Younger's Epistulae
10 books
302
Tenth book of Pliny's Epistulae
private letters to Trajan
303
Addresee of the prefatory letter of Pliny's Epistulae
Septicius CLarus
304
Mistaken for Tacitus in the Circus Maximus
Pliny the Younger
305
Urges Suetonius to publish the De Viris Illustribus
Pliny the Younger
306
Married the daughter of Agricola, later governor of Britain
Tacitus
307
Started his political career under Vespasian, continued it under Titus and Domitian
Tacitus
308
Tacitus' political career
Quaestor (under Titus), Praetor (under Domitian), consul suffectus in 97 AD (under Nerva), governor of Asia
309
Consul of 97 AD, subject of a famous funeral elegy by Tacitus (who was the consul suffectus)
Virginius Rufus
310
Accused Marius Priscus, proconsul of Africa, of corruption
Pliny the Younger and Tacitus
311
Tacitus' biography of his father-in-law
Agricola
312
Tacitu's short ethnographic treatise
Germania
313
Tacitus' two works published together
Germania and Agricola
314
Alternate title for Tacitus' Germania
De Origine et Situ Germanorum
315
Used by Hitler for propagandistic purposes (due to the way it extols the virtues of the Germans)
Germania
316
In some ways extols the virtues of the barbarians and reveals the vice and corruption that underscores Roman rule
Tacitus' Germania
317
Dedicatee of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus
Fabius Justus
318
May not have been written by Tacitus
Dialogus de Oratoribus
319
Tacitus reports an imaginary discussion at the house of Curius Maternus between Maternus, Marius Aper, Vipstanus Messalla, and Julius Secundus
Dialogus de Oratororibus
320
Interlocutors of Tacitus' De Oratoribus
Curius Maternus, Marius Aper, Vipstanus Messalla, and Julius Secundus
321
Discussion of the decline of oratory, eloquence, and poetry, author may have been present at the discussion in his youth
Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus
322
Period covered by Tacitus' Historiae
year of the four emperors (69 AD) to the death of Domitian (96 AD)
323
Length of Tacitus' Historiae
12/14 books
324
Tacitus' work, covering from 69 AD to 96 AD
Historiae
325
Length of Tacitus' Annales
16/18 books
326
Tacitus' work possibly left incomplete by his death
Annales
327
Period covered by Tacitus' Annales
death of Augustus to death of Nero
328
Convinced that the principate is the only solution to ensure peace, the loyalty of the armies, but does not like despotic emperors
Tacitus
329
Literary genre of pamphlets originating with the senatorial opposition recounting the sacrifice of martyrs of freedom
Exitus illustrium virorum
330
Pliny the Younger's opinion on Tacitus' Historiae
it would win eternal fame
331
Father of Suetonius and his career
Suetonius Laetus, tribune in the 13th legion
332
Patrons of Suetonius, allowed him to enter the court
Pliny the Younger and Septicius Clarus
333
Suetonius' job under Trajan
in charge of public libraries
334
Granted to Suetonius for his work under Trajan
ius trium liberorum
335
Suetonius' job under Hadrian
personal secretary of the emperor
336
Job of Suetonius' patron Septicius Clarus
praetorian prefect
337
Suetonius' encyclopedic work or else a title for his entire corpus
Pratu.Prata
338
Suetonius' collection of biographies of writers subdivided by genre
De Viris Illustribus
339
Extant section of Suetonius' De Viris Illustribus
De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus
340
Other section of Suetonius' De Viris Illustribus
De Poetis
341
Suetonius' collection of biographies of the emperors
De Vita Caesarum
342
Dedicatee of Suetonius' De Vita Caesarum
Septicius Clarus
343
Author of a concise Epitoma of Roman military history in 2 or 4 books
Lucius Annaeus Florus
344
Lived in the time of Hadrian, wrote an encyclopedic work Cenae Suae
Granius Licinianus
345
Author of the Liber Memorabilis, which covers geography and mythology
Lucius Ampelius
346
Author of an epitome of Pompetius Trogus' 44 book Phillippicae Historiae
Justin
347
Where Apuleius studied
Carthage, Athens, and Rome
348
Where Apuleius stopped on a journey to Alexandria and married Pudentilla
Oea
349
Son of the wealthy widow, Pudentilla, whom Apuleius married; friend of Apuleius
Pontianus
350
Wealthy widow, married by Apuleius
Pudentilla
351
Self-defense of Apuleius on charges of witchcraft brought against him by Pudentilla's parents
Apologia
352
Length of Apuleius' Metamorphoses/Asinus Aureus
11 books
353
Famous digression in Book 4 of Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Cupid and Psyche
354
Apuleius' novel on the metamorphoses of Lucius
Asinus Aureus
355
Main character of Apuleius' Asinus Aureus
Lucius
356
Pamphilia's slave who accidentally turns Lucius into an ass
Fotius
357
How Lucius regains his human form in the Asinus Aureus
eats roses
358
Cult to which Lucius converts in the Asinus Aureus
Isis
359
Conclusion of the Asinus Aureus
Lucius, at Osiris' behest, becomes a lawyer in the Roman Forum
360
Characters of the Apuleius' Asinus Aureus
Lucius, Aristomenes, Pythias, Milo, and Pamphilia
361
Apuleius defends himself against charges of witchcraft and in the process reveals the names of poets' mistresses
Apologia
362
Inherited a considerable fortune but wasted it
Apuleius
363
23 of Apuleius' oratorical passages
Florida
364
Alternate name of Apuleius' Florida
Anthera
365
Length of Apuleius' Florida
23 passages
366
Apuleius' synthesis of Plato's physics and ethics
De Platone et Eius Dogmate
367
Apuleius' systematic treatment of the doctrine of demons
De Deo Socratis
368
Apuleius' reworking of the pseudo-Aristotelian Peri Kosmou
De Mundo
369
Basis for Apuleius' De Mundo
Peri Kosmou
370
Dubious works of Apuleius
Peri Hermeneias, Asclepius, Hemagoras, translations of Plato, etc.
371
Major work of the jurist Gaius, an introduction to Roman jurisprudence
Institutiones
372
Author of the Institutiones, an introduction to Roman jurisprudence, and a famous jurist of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius
Gaius
373
Lost works of Gaius
Edictum Provinciale and Libri rerum cotidianarum
374
Famous jurist under Marcus Aurelius and Septimius Severus, accompanied Severus to Britain
Papinian
375
Put to death by Caracalla for refusing to defend him against the charge of murdering his brother Geta
Papinian
376
Works of Papinian
37 books of Quaestiones, 19 books of Responsa
377
Famous Roman jurist under Carcalla, student of Papinian, guardian and Praetorian prefect of Alexander Severus
Ulpian
378
Author of Differentiarum Libri IX, on the subtle differences between cases that seem similar
Modestinus
379
Author of Collectanea rerum memorabilium, notes of all the unusual things he came across while reading various authors, primarily Pliny the Elder. Opens with a full Roman history from the kings to Augustus
Julius Solinus
380
Greatest grammarian and philologist of the 2nd century BC, taught Cicero and Varro
Aelius Stilo
381
Pupils of Aelius Stilo
Varro and Cicero
382
First librarian, wrote fiven books of commentaries on Vergil
Hyginus
383
Most eminent Grammaticus of the early empire, supposedly learned to read while accompanying his master's son to school
Remmius Palaemon
384
Remmius Palaemon's major work
Ars Grammatica
385
Contemporary of Remmius Palaemon, wrote commentaries on five speeches of Cicero
Asconius Pedianus
386
Revised the works of Lucretius, Vergil, and Horace
Valerius Probus
387
Tutor of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
Fronto
388
Fronto's political career
Consul in 143 A.D. with Herodes Atticus
389
Rhetorician from Africa, native of Cirta, educated the adoptive sons of Antoninus Pius
Fronto
390
Anti-Christian speech of Fronto
Arion
391
Work of Aulus Gellius
Atticae Noctes
392
Author of the Atticae Noctes
Aulus Gellius
393
COlelction of notes taken on evenings during his winter spent near Athens
Aulus Gellius' Atticae Noctes
394
Teachers of Aulus Gellius
Fronto, Herodes Atticus, and Sulpicius Apollinaris
395
Profession of Aulus Gellius
lawyer
396
Written around 395, contains biographies of the emperors from Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius and those of two non-emperors
Historia Augusta
397
Non-emperors covered in the Historia Augusta
Avidius Cassius and Lucius Verus
398
Authors to whom the Historia Augusta is attributed
Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Volcatius Gallatinus, Aelius Lampridius, Trebellius Pollio, and Flavius Vopiscus
399
Author of twelve lives from Nerva to Elegabalus, continuing Suetonius
Marius Maximus
400
How Nemesianus justifies his subject matter in the prologue to his Cynegetica
Says that all the mythological topics have been exhausted
401
Works of Nemesianus
Halieutica, Cynegetica, Nautica
402
Nemesianus' didactic poem on fishing
Halieutica
403
Nemesianus' didactic poem on hunting
Cynegetica
404
Nemesianus' didactic poem perhaps on fowling
Nautica
405
Wrote four Eclogues based on Vergil
Nemesianus
406
Dedicatees of Nemesianus' main works
Carinus and Numerian
407
Called vir clarissimus et illustris
Macrobius
408
Neoplatonist who belonged to the cult of the Sun
Macrobius
409
Macrobius' Major work
Saturnalia
410
A dinner conversation, containing a medley of writers from all ages, during a festival
Macrobius' Saturnalia
411
Dedicatee of Macrobius' Saturnalia
his son Eustathius
412
Length of Macrobius' Saturnalia
7 books
413
Dedicatee of Macrobius' commentary on the Somnium Scipionis
his son Eustathius
414
Author of a commentary on the Somnium Scipionis which applies the new doctrines of Neoplatonism
Macrobius
415
Dedicatee of Macrobius' De Differentiis et Societatibus Graeci Latinique Verbi
Symmachus
416
Macrobius' treatise on Latin and Greek words
De Differentiis et Societatibus Graeci Latini Verbi
417
Author of the De Dei Natali
Censorinus
418
Dedicatee of Censorinus' De Dei Natali
Cerellius
419
Censorinus' work
De Dei Natali
420
4th century historian who continued the histories of Tacitus
Ammianus Marcellinus
421
The last great Roman historian
Ammianus Marcellinus
422
Major work of Ammianus Marcellinus
Res Gestae a fine Corneli Taciti
423
Admirer of Julian, served under him against the Persians
Ammianus Marcellinus
424
Topics covered by Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae a fine Corneli Taicti
Nerva to the death of Valens I
425
Length of Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae a fine Corneli Taciti
31 books
426
Work of Ammianus Marcellinus, picks up from where Tacitus left off
Res Gestae a Fine Corneli Taciti
427
Works of Aurelius Victor
Epitome de Caesaribus, Historia Tripertita
428
Author of the Epitome de Caesaribus and the Historia Tripertita
Aurelius Victor
429
Topics covered in Aurelius Victor's Historia Tripertita
Aeneas, and from Augustus to Constantius
430
4th century grammarian, had a statue placed in the forum in his honor
Victorinus
431
Author of Ars Grammatica, commentaries on Cicero, De Definitonibus, and after converting at a very late age, Ad Candidum Arianum
Victorinus
432
Works of Victorinus
Ars Grammatica, commentaries on Cicero's De Inventione, De Definitionibus, Ad Candidum Arianum
433
Converted from Neo-platonism to Christianity late in his life before writing the Ad Candidum Arianum
Victorinus
434
Exiled in 356 because of his explicitly anti-Arian position. Wrote De Trinitatis, De Synodis, and the Hymns
Hilary of Poitiers
435
Works of Hilary of Poitiers
De Trinitatis, De Synodis, and the Hymns
436
Author of the 10 book Breviarum ab urbe condita at the request of Valens, covered Romulus to Jovian
Eutropius
437
Eutropius' position under Valens
magister memoriae
438
Topics covered by Eutropius' Breviarum Ab Urbe Condita
Romulus to Jovian
439
Work of Eutropius
Breviarum ab urbe condita
440
Author of the Mathesis and De Errore Profanarum Religionum
Firmicus Maternus
441
Firmicus Maternus' work on astrology
Mathesis
442
Converted to Christianity after writing the Mathesis, later wrote the De Errore Profanarum Religionum
Firmicus Maternus
443
Dedicatees of Firmicus Maternus' De Errore Profanarum Religionum
Constantius and Constantine
444
Zealously anti-pagan work of Firmicus Maternus
De Errore Profanarum Religionum
445
Called the greatest living orator by Prudentius
Symmachus
446
Pagan, mounted a virogorous defense of the traditional religion against Christianity
Symmachus
447
Petitioned Valentinian II to restore the Altar of Victory in 384
Symmachus
448
What Symmachus petitioned Valentinian II to restore
Altar of Victory
449
Nickname of Symmachus
Eusebius
450
Wife of Symmachus
Rusticiana
451
Tenth book of Symmachus' letters, contains corresponse to various emperors
Relationes
452
Stopped Symmachus from restoring the Altar of Victory
St. Ambrose
453
Length of Symmachus' Relationes
fifty letters
454
Teacher of Jerome, wrote commentaries on Terence and Vergil
Aelius Donatus
455
Aelius Donatus' commentaries on Vergil
Vita Vergilii
456
Grammatical treatises of Aelius Donatus
Arsm minor and ars maior, under the distinction of the Ars Grammatica
457
Wrote fables, cited Phaedrus as a source
Avianus
458
Wrote Orbis Terrae, Ora maritime, and a translation of Aratus
Festus Avienus
459
Wrote a Historia de excidio Troiae
Dares Phrygius
460
Tutor to both Crispus and Gratian
Ausonius
461
Students of Ausonius
Gratian and Crispus
462
First Chrstian poet to write on themes other than Christianity
Ausonius
463
Teacher of Ausonius
his uncle Aemilius Magnus Arborius
464
Author of three Praefatiunculae in elegiac couplet
Ausonius
465
Ausonius' umbrella work for many works
Opuscula
466
Most famous of Ausonius' works
Parentalia, Bissula, Mosella, and Ephemeris
467
Ausonius' catalogue of his relatives and ancestors
Parentalia
468
Ausonius' poem to a cultured German slave girl
Bissula
469
Ausonius' epyllion to the namesake river
Mosella
470
Ausonius' description of a normal day in his life
Ephemeris
471
Ausonius' thanksgiving to Gratian
Gratiarum actio
472
Author of a prayer in 42 rhopalic hexameters (each word has one more syllable than the last)
Ausonius
473
Last poet of classical Rome
Claudian
474
Court poet under Honorius and Stilicho
Claudian
475
Claudian's position in the court
court poet under Honorius and Stilicho
476
Patron of Claudian, Claudian wrote a panegyricus for him
Stilicho
477
Major poetic works of Claudian
De Raptu Proserpinae and the Gigantomachy
478
Author of the De Raptu Proserpinae
Claudian
479
Author of the Gigantomachy
Claudian
480
Attacked the enemies of Honorius, Rufinus and Eutropius, in the In Rufinum and in Eutropium
Claudian
481
Claudian's historical works
De Bello Gothico and De Bello Gildonico
482
Poet from Spain, court poet unde Aetius, had a statue erected to him in the Forum of Trajan
Merobaudes
483
Major work of Merobaudes
Laus Christi
484
Court poet under Aetius
Merobaudes
485
Treated his return from Rome to Gaul by sea after the sack of Rome in his De Reditu Suo
Rutilius Namatianus
486
Chief literary figure of the fifth century, bishop of Auvergne, panegyrics for Avitus, Majorian, and Anthemias
Sidonius Apollinaris
487
Wrote an account of the Visigoths, who held him captive at one time
Sidonius Apollinaris
488
Descendant of Symmachus, esteemed by Theodoric until he was charged with high treason
Boethius
489
Wrote his De Consolatione Philosophiae while in prison for charges of treason
Boethius
490
Style of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae
Menippean Satire
491
Length of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae
39 poems
492
Deals with the problem of a good and evil God, written while the author was in prison
Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae
493
First major Christian Latin writer
Tertullian
494
Position of Tertullian
Bishop of Carthage
495
The "Christian Juvenal"
Tertullian
496
A "Barbarizing Tacitus"
Tertullian
497
The "Father of Latin Theology"
Tertullian
498
Born a pagan at Carthage and was educated in the same school of rhetoric as Apuleius
Tertullian
499
Profession of Tertullian's father
centurion
500
Heresy Tertullian adopted at the end of his life
Montanism
