Latin Literature

When was Livius Andronicus born?

284 BCE

Where was Livius Andronicus from?

Tarentum

How did Livius Andronicus come to Rome?

as a slave

What did Livius Andronicus translate into Latin?

the Odyssey

What meter did Livius Andronicus translate the Odyssey into?

Saturnian

Latin comedies derived from Greek originals

fabula palliatae

Founder of Latin literature

Livius Andronicus

Livius Andronicus's ethnicity

Greek

first native Roman writer of note

Gnaeus Naevius

When was Gnaeus Naevius born?

270 BCE

Bellum Punicum meter

Saturnian

Bellum Punicum author

Gnaeus Naevius

Bellum Punicum subject

First Punic War

Who invented fabula praetextae?

Gnaeus Naevius

fabula praetextae

dramas based on Roman subjects

Where was Quintus Ennius born?

Rudiae

When was Quintus Ennius born?

239 BCE

Which three languages did Quintus Ennius know?

Latin, Greek, Oscan

Why did people say Ennius had 3 hearts?

He spoke 3 languages

Who wrote Annales?

Ennius

What meter is Ennius's Annales in?

dactylic hexameter

First writer to adapt Greek hexameter into Latin

Quintus Ennius

When was Plautus born?

255 BCE

How many Plautus plays have survived?

20

Which sole Plautus play do we have a large fragment of?

Vidularia

Plautus's only play about the gods that concerns Jupiter's love for Alcmena

Amphitryon

Play by Plautus that translates as "Pot of Gold"

Aulularia

Plautus play with no female characters

Captivi

Plautus play about Hegio searching for his sons

Captivi

Plautus's favorite play

Epidicus

Plautus play A Comedy of Errors was based on

Menaechmi

Plautus play in which separated twins discover each other in Syracuse

Menaechmi

Plautus play "The Braggart Soldier"

Miles Gloriosus

Plautus play "The Haunted House"

Mostellaria

What play by whom has the only extant passages of Carthaginian?

Poenulus by Plautus

Plautus play in which Hanno keeps his daughters from being sold into prostitution

Poenulus

Plautus play named for main character

Pseudolus

play in which the title character helps his master obtain enough money to free a courtesan named Phoenicium from Simo the procurer and a Macedonian officer who almost buys her

Pseudolus by Plautus

Plautus play "Rope"

Rudens

What author was a censor

Cato the elder

Where was Cato the Elder born?

Tusculum

When was Cato the Elder born?

234 BCE

Which author fought in the second punic war?

Cato the Elder

"Carthago Delenda Est"

Cato the Elder

When did Cato the Elder die?

149 BCE

Rome's first prose author

Cato the Elder

First to write Roman history in Latin

Cato the Elder

How many books in Cato the Elder's Origines?

7

Who wrote Origines?

Cato the Elder

Other name for De Agri Cultura?

De Re Rustica

What crop is promoted in De Agri Cultura?

Cabbage

First Latin prose work

De Agri Cultura

Plautus's full name

Titus Maccius Plautus

Cato the Elder's full name

Marcus Porcius Cato

Terence's full name

Publius Terentius Afer

Who enslaved Terence?

Terentius Lucanus

Who was Terence's friend?

Scipio Aemilianus

How many plays did Terence write?

6

When and where did Terence die?

159 BC in Greece

Where was Terence born?

Carthage

Where are Terence's plays set?

Athens

What are Terence's plays?

Andria, Hecyra, Heauton Timorumenos, Eunuchus, Phormio, Adelphi

Lucretius's full name

Titus Lucretius Carus

Where was Lucretius born?

Rome

When was Lucretius born?

99 BCE

What philosophy did Lucretius follow?

Epicureanism

Who went insane after taking a love potion and committed suicide?

Lucretius

Who wrote De Rerum Natura?

Lucretius

Who is De Rerum Natura addressed to?

Gaius Memmius

How many books are in De Rerum Natura?

6

Cicero's full name

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Greatest Latin orator

Cicero

Where was Cicero born?

Arpinum

When was Cicero born?

106 BCE

How many extant orations of Cicero do we have?

58

What does Cicero mean?

chickpea

Cicero's earliest extant speech

Pro Quinctio

Who did Cicero argue Pro Quinctio against?

Hortensius

Cicero's first political speech

Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino

What was Sexto Roscius accused of?

patricide

When did Cicero serve as consul?

63 BCE

How many In Catilinam were there?

4

Who called Cicero the father of his country?

Cato the Younger

When did Cicero's daughter Tullia die?

45 BCE

Who did Cicero write the Phillipics against?

Mark Antony

How many Phillipics were there?

14

Where was Cicero executed?

Formiae

When was Cicero executed?

43 BCE

Who wrote De Re Publica?

Cicero

How many books are in De Re Publica?

6

What is the sixth book of De Re Publica?

Somnium Scipionis

What was De Re Publica about?

political philosophy

When was De Re Publica begun?

54 BCE

Who wrote De Natura Deorum?

Cicero

Name a sequel to De Natura Deorum

De Divinatione, De Fato

Who wrote De Senectute?

Cicero

Another name for De Senectute

Cato Major

Sallust's full name

Gaius Sallustius Crispus

When was Sallust born?

86 BCE

Who wrote Bellum Catilinae?

Sallust