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Published	01/20/2025	What was the name of Greek comedy and tragedy?
Published	01/20/2025	What was the name of Roman comedy and tragedy?
Published	01/20/2025	Tarentum
Published	01/20/2025	Livius Salinator
Published	01/20/2025	"Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum"
Published	01/20/2025	Whose fabulae palliatae includes Gladiolus and Ludius?
Published	01/20/2025	Who was admitted into the Collegium Scribarum Histrionumque for his Partheneion which praised Juno?
Published	01/20/2025	What Campaignian author...
Published	01/20/2025	What author from Capua...
Published	01/20/2025	Where was Gnaeus Naevius exiled?
Published	01/20/2025	How many books were in the Bellum Punicum? In what meter was it written? Who wrote it?
Published	01/20/2025	Who invented Fabulae Praetextae? (Roman tragedy)
Published	01/20/2025	Who wrote the first Roman epic?
Published	01/20/2025	What were two fabulae praetextae written by Naevius?
Published	01/20/2025	What author's work contains the lines "alii adnutat... adnictat... alium amat... tenet?"
Published	01/20/2025	Whose tombstone says that Romans forgot how to speak Latin when he died?
Published	01/20/2025	Sarsina in Umbria
Published	01/20/2025	Who wrote Amphitruo, and how is it unique?
Published	01/20/2025	Who wrote Captivi, and why is it unique?
Published	01/20/2025	What play (by what author) contains the only extant passages of Carthaginian language? Who were these lines spoken by?
Published	01/20/2025	Who wrote Epidicus, and why is it unique?
Published	01/20/2025	Whose name means "flat-footed" or "big-eared?"
Published	01/20/2025	Who wrote Stichus, and why is it unique?
Published	01/20/2025	"Euclio"
Published	01/20/2025	Hegio
Published	01/20/2025	In Menaechmi, where do the brothers reunite?
Published	01/20/2025	"Ballio the pimp" gets cheated by the title character
Published	01/20/2025	prologue is spoken by Arcturus, who fortells the shipwreck of the pimp Labrax
Published	01/20/2025	Who wrote Bacchides, and what is it about?
Published	01/20/2025	What play of Plautus concerns a girl named Phronesium tricking three lovers?
Published	01/20/2025	Gaul from Milan
Published	01/20/2025	After what battle was Caecilius Statius brought to Rome?
Published	01/20/2025	Whose fabulae palliatae included Plocium (based on Menander) and Synephebi?
Published	01/20/2025	Although highly ranked by Volcatius Sedigitus...
Published	01/20/2025	Rudiae, Calabria
Published	01/20/2025	What were Ennius' three languages? (his tria corda)
Published	01/20/2025	Who claimed to be Homer incarnated?
Published	01/20/2025	What two literary devices did Ennius love?
Published	01/20/2025	Annales: how many books, what meter, what event marked its beginning?
Published	01/20/2025	Who invented satire?
Published	01/20/2025	What did Ambracia celebrate?
Published	01/20/2025	"Father of Latin Literature"
Published	01/20/2025	"Father of Roman Poetry"
Published	01/20/2025	Tusculum
Published	01/20/2025	What political office did Cato hold?
Published	01/20/2025	What vegetable did Cato really like?
Published	01/20/2025	"Father of Roman Prose" - who was the first to write Latin prose?
Published	01/20/2025	Although its first line is in hexameter, what is the oldest fully extant Latin prose work?
Published	01/20/2025	Origines: how many books, what was the only name mentioned?
Published	01/20/2025	Carthage
Published	01/20/2025	Who brought Ennius to Rome?
Published	01/20/2025	Who brought Terence to Rome?
Published	01/20/2025	With what Roman general was Terence good friends?
Published	01/20/2025	Where were all of Terence's plays set?
Published	01/20/2025	Who wrote Andria, and what was he accused of?
Published	01/20/2025	What literary circle was Terence part of?
Published	01/20/2025	What play of Terence includes "homo sum, humani nihiil a me alienum puto"
Published	01/20/2025	What was Terence's greatest hit?
Published	01/20/2025	Includes the character "Sostrata." Three production attempts before it was successful. Why?
Published	01/20/2025	Brundisium
Published	01/20/2025	What nephew of Ennius was the greatest tragedian according to Cicero?
Published	01/20/2025	Dulorestes
Published	01/20/2025	Niptra
Published	01/20/2025	Also a painter, what tragedian...
Published	01/20/2025	Suessa Arunca
Published	01/20/2025	Sermones: who wrote it, how many books?
Published	01/20/2025	On which work of Lucilius did Horace base his Iter Brundiseum?
Published	01/20/2025	Who was the great uncle of Pompey the Great?
Published	01/20/2025	What literary circle were Terence and Lucilius part of?
Published	01/20/2025	Arpinum
Published	01/20/2025	How many Philippics did Cicero write?
Published	01/20/2025	Which Philippic was not publicly delivered?
Published	01/20/2025	After whose speeches were the Philippics named?
Published	01/20/2025	When and where was Cicero executed
Published	01/20/2025	Caesar's {{c1::Comentarii De Bello Civili}} is 3 books and unfinished.
Published	01/20/2025	{{c1::de Analogia}} was Caesar's two-book grammatical treatise
Published	01/20/2025	In the first book of his DBG, what Celtic tribe did Caesar fight?
Published	01/20/2025	Who was the German king whom Caesar fought in Book 1 of the DBG?
Published	01/20/2025	Who were the rebel leaders in Book 4 of Caesar's DBG?
Published	01/20/2025	Amiternum
Published	01/20/2025	Who was expelled from the Senate for moral degeneracy after having an affair with Milo's wife?
Published	01/20/2025	After fighting for Caesar and receiving governorship of Africa Nova, Sallust was accused of {{c1::provincial embezzlement}}
Published	01/20/2025	"Roman Thucydides"
Published	01/20/2025	Verona
Published	01/20/2025	Clodia is her real name
Published	01/20/2025	And elegaic couplet is made up of one line of {{c1::dactilyc hexameter}} followed by a line of {{c1::dactylic pentameter}}
Published	01/20/2025	Mantuan author
Published	01/20/2025	"Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" is a reference to {{c1::Lucretius}} made by Vergil.
Published	01/20/2025	The Aeneid was saved by {{c1::Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca.}}
Published	01/20/2025	What trumpeter of Aeneas was killed by Triton in Book 6 of the Aeneid?
Published	01/20/2025	Who was the king of the Arcadians in the Aeneid?
Published	01/20/2025	Who was the tyrant of Caere in the Aeneid?
Published	01/20/2025	What was the name of the city that Diomedes founded in Italy?
Published	01/20/2025	What nymph, outstanding in beauty, does Juno offer to Aeolus?
Published	01/20/2025	Venusia
Published	01/20/2025	Sabine farm
Published	01/20/2025	Roman Alcaeus
Published	01/20/2025	The {{c2::Epodes/Iambi}}, which were written in {{c2::iambic meter}}, was Horace's first work and borrowed from {{c1::Archilochus}}.
Published	01/20/2025	The {{c2::Ars Poetica}} was written by Horace to the {{c1::Piso family.}}
Published	01/20/2025	The {{c1::Carmen Saeculare}} was written by Horace at the request of Augustus in 17 B.C.
Published	01/20/2025	Plania is her real name
Published	01/20/2025	Quintilian calls {{c2::Tibullus}} {{c1::"tersus atque elegans"}}
Published	01/20/2025	Tibullus wrote 3 books of elegies. The third book, published posthumously, contains six poems from {{c1::Sulpicia}}, the only extant poems by a Roman …
Published	01/20/2025	"Roman Callimachus"
Published	01/20/2025	Assisi
Published	01/20/2025	Sulmo
Published	01/20/2025	"Veniunt visum, veniunt ipsae ut videantur" comes from which work of Ovid?
Published	01/20/2025	What is the only play that Ovid wrote?
Published	01/20/2025	What transformation ends the Metamorphoses?
Published	01/20/2025	"Civil poetry"
Published	01/20/2025	Patavium/Padua
Published	01/20/2025	What events bookend the AUC?
Published	01/20/2025	Whose writing was described by Quintilian as "lactea ubertas?"
Published	01/20/2025	"Rejecting Sallust's monographic form..." (potential question hook)
Published	01/20/2025	Cicero's first case, {{c1::Pro Quinctio}}, was argued against {{c1::Hortensius Hortalus}} about a {{c1::Gallic land dispute}}.
Published	01/20/2025	Cicero's first political speech, {{c1::Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino}}, defended the client from a charge of {{c1::parricide}}.
Published	01/20/2025	Cicero's speech {{c1::Pro Lege Manilla}} was in favor of granting Pompey the command against {{c1::Mithridates}}.
Published	01/20/2025	Cicero was consul in {{c1::63 B.C.}} and gave the {{c1::4}} In Catilinam speeches, earning himself the title {{c1::"pater patriae."}}
Published	01/20/2025	Of the {{c1::142}} books of Livy's AUC, only {{c1::35}} are extant, and {{c1::periochae}} exist for all the books except {{c1::136 and 137.}}
Published	01/20/2025	Livy was called {{c1::"Pompeiianus"}} by Augustus and accused of {{c1::"patavinitas"}} by Asinius Pollio.
Published	01/20/2025	Based on {{c1::Works and Days by Hesiod}}, the {{c1::Georgics}} is a {{c1::4 book}} poem by Vergil
Published	01/20/2025	Based on the {{c1::Idylls of Theocritus}}, the {{c1::Eclogues/Bucolics}} is a {{c1::10-book}} collection of pastoral poems by Vergil.
Published	01/20/2025	{{c1::Messalla Corvinius}} was the patron of {{c2::Ovid}} and {{c2::Tibullus}}
Published	01/20/2025	{{c2::Catullus}} normally wrote in {{c1::hendecasyllabics}} and {{c1::elegaic couplets}}
Published	01/20/2025	In Poem 101, Catullus visits his brother's grave in {{c1::Bithynia}} as a staff member of the governor {{c1::Gaius Memmius}}
Published	01/20/2025	Catullus' Poem 64 is about the marriage of {{c1::Peleus and Thetis}} and contains an {{c1::ekphrasis about Theseus and Ariadne}}
Published	01/20/2025	Catullus' Poem 63 was written in {{c1::Galliambic}} meter to demonstrate the frenzy of {{c1::Cybele}}
Published	01/20/2025	Sallust's {{c1::Historiae}} is the unfinished 5-book work that covers the years 78-67, starting from the {{c1::death of Sulla}} and ending with {…
Published	01/20/2025	Sallust's monograph Bellum Jugurthinum praises {{c1::Marius}} and describes how the Romans won after King {{c1::Bocchus of Mauretania}} betr…
Published	01/20/2025	Sallust's monograph Bellum Catilinae describes how {{c1::Manlius}}, the ally of Catiline, gathered an army at {{c1::Faesulae}} and how Catiline himsel…
Published	01/20/2025	Lacking {{c1::vis comica}}, being an {{c1::emendator sermonis usitati}}, and being a {{c1::dimidiatus Menander}} were all criticisms of Terence
Published	01/20/2025	Julius Caesar's DBG consists of {{c1::7}} books covering the years {{c1::58 to 52 B.C.}}.
Published	01/20/2025	Cicero's {{c1::De Senectute}} speaks on old age. It is also known as {{c1::Cato Maior}}.
Published	01/20/2025	Cicero's {{c1::De Natura Deorum}} examines {{c1::Epicurean, Stoic, and Academic}} ideas about the gods.
Published	01/20/2025	Cicero's {{c1::De Re Publica}} contains {{c1::6}} books. The {{c1::6th}} book contains the {{c1::Somnium Scipionis}}. {{c1::Macrobius}} later wrote a …
Published	01/20/2025	In his {{c1::Amores}}, Ovid mourns {{c1::Tibullus}} and claims that {{c1::Cupid}} turned his hexameters into elegaics.
Published	01/20/2025	Propertius wrote {{c1::4}} books of elegies, the first of which is called {{c1::Cynthia Monobiblos}}. Cynthia's real name is {{c1::Hostia}}.
Published	01/20/2025	Tibullus never wrote about {{c1::Augustus}} because {{c1::his patron Messala Corvinus fought at Philippi.}}
Published	01/20/2025	Cicero lost the case {{c1::Pro Milone}}, after which the client was exiled to {{c1::Massilia}}.
Published	01/20/2025	{{c1::Clodius}} was killed by {{c1::Milo}} on the Via {{c1::Appia}}.
Published	01/20/2025	{{c1::Maecenas}} was the patron of {{c2::Vergil, Horace and Propertius}}
Published	01/20/2025	Hometown of Livius Andronicus
Published	01/20/2025	Patron of Livius Andronicus
Published	01/20/2025	The Opening of Odusia
Published	01/20/2025	Birthplace of Plautus
Published	01/20/2025	Main character in Plautus' play Captivi
Published	01/20/2025	Birthplace of Quintus Ennius
Published	01/20/2025	Birthplace of Cato Maior
Published	01/20/2025	Birthplace of Terence
Published	01/20/2025	Birthplace of Pacuvius
Published	01/20/2025	Birthplace of Lucilius
Published	01/20/2025	Lucilius, 30 books
Published	01/20/2025	Iter Siculum
Published	01/20/2025	Birthplace of Cicero
Published	01/20/2025	Sallust's nickname
Published	01/20/2025	Birthplace of Catullus
Published	01/20/2025	Lesbia is the name Catullus called her
Published	01/20/2025	Massilia was the hometown of the author {{c1::Petronius Niger}}
Published	01/20/2025	{{c1::Petronius}} became the arbiter elegentiae of Nero because of his good taste
Published	01/20/2025	Petronius' Satyricon is a {{c1::30}} book novel that deals with the adventures of {{c1::Encolpius, Ascyoltus}}, and their servant {{c1::Gito…
Published	01/20/2025	The Satyricon's longest extant section is book {{c1::15}}, known as the {{c1::Cena Trimalchionis}}
Published	01/20/2025	Valerius Flaccus wrote the {{c1::Argonautica}}, an unfinished epic poem dedicated to Vespasian.
Published	01/20/2025	Naples was the hometown of the poet {{c1::Papinius Statius}}, who loved flattering Domitian
Published	01/20/2025	Statius' {{c1::Thebaid}} is a 12-book epic poem about the Seven Against Thebes and Polyneices vs Eteocles
Published	01/20/2025	Statius' {{c1::Achilleid}} is an unfinished 2-book epic about Achilles.
Published	01/20/2025	Statius' work {{c1::Agave}} was a pantomime written for the actor Paris
Published	01/20/2025	Like Livy, {{c1::Silius Italicus}} was born at Patavium
Published	01/20/2025	{{c1::Silius Italicus}} bought the villa of Cicero and the tomb of vergil
Published	01/20/2025	Considered the worst Latin work in history, Silius Italicus' {{c1::Punica}} is a 17-book poem about the {{c1::2nd punic war}}.
Published	01/20/2025	{{c1::Silius Italicus}} starved himself to death after gaining an incurable disease
Published	01/20/2025	Aquinium was the hometown of the author {{c1::Juvenal}}
Published	01/20/2025	In Juvenal's {{c1::third}} satire, {{c2::Umbricius}} leaves Rome because it was too dangerous for honest men.
Published	01/20/2025	Juvenal's {{c1::sixth}} satire is the longest and contains the famous tirade against women.
Published	01/20/2025	Juvenal's {{c1::15th}} satire contains the episode of cannabalism in Egypt
Published	01/20/2025	Juvenal claims {{c1::Indignatio}} to be his muse
Published	01/20/2025	Juvenal was called {{c1::facundus}} by {{c1::Martial}}
Published	01/20/2025	Juvenal was banished to {{c2::Egypt}} by {{c1::Domitian}}
Published	01/20/2025	Hadrian eventually gave Juvenal a farm at {{c1::Tibur}}
Published	01/20/2025	Terni is the hometown of the author {{c1::Tacitus}}
Published	01/20/2025	Tacitus' {{c1::Dialogus de Oratoribus}} talks about the decline in oratory
Published	01/20/2025	Tacitus' {{c1::Agricola}} talks about his father-in-law's exploits as Britain's governor
Published	01/20/2025	Tacitus' {{c1::Germania}} considers Germans more virtuous than Romans and was used by Hitler as propaganda
Published	01/20/2025	Tacitus' {{c1::Annales}} is an 18-book history that begins from the death of Augustus and continues until 68 A.D.The {{c1::Historiae}} is a …
Published	01/20/2025	Hippo Regius was the birthplace of the author {{c1::Suetonius}}
Published	01/20/2025	Suetonius' {{c1::de Vita Caesarum}} covers the emperors from {{c2::Caesar}} to {{c2::Domitian}} in 12 books
Published	01/20/2025	Suetonius' de Vita Caesarum is dedicated to {{c1::Septicius Clarus}}
Published	01/20/2025	Comum is the hometown of the author {{c1::Pliny the Younger}}
Published	01/20/2025	Pliny the Younger was the governor of {{c1::Bithynia}} under the emperor Trajan
Published	01/20/2025	Pliny's work {{c1::Panegyricus}} praises Trajan in response to Pliny's appointment as consul suffectus
Published	01/20/2025	Pliny's {{c2::Epistulae}} were mostly writen to {{c1::Tacitus}}
Published	01/20/2025	Calagurris, in Spain, is the hometown of {{c1::Quintilian}}
Published	01/20/2025	Quintilian's {{c1::Institutiio Oratoria}} is his 12-book treatise on how to be the perfect orator
Published	01/20/2025	Martial called {{c1::Quintilian}} the supreme guide of wayward youth
Published	01/20/2025	{{c1::Quintilian}} polemicized Seneca's sententiae and wanted real substance in speeches and writing.
Published	01/20/2025	{{c1::Quintilian}} became the first paid professor when he was hired by Vespasian.
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