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1
Q

Virgil’s Aeneid is the ________ epic poem from ancient Rome

A

greatest

2
Q

What is Virgil’s full name?

A

Publius Vergilius Maro

3
Q

Whether the setting is an empire (the Aeneid) or a village garden (the Georgics), Virgil is interested in the value and pathos of the human struggle to build a _____, even in a hostile or near-impossible conditions.

A

home

4
Q

How old was Virgil when Julius Cesar was assassinated?

A

26

5
Q

What seems to be Augustus’s motive in asking Virgil to provide him with a great national epic?

A

to justify, glorify and immortalize his rule and power.

6
Q

How old was Virgil when he died?

A

51

7
Q

Since the Aeneid was still incomplete when Virgil died, he gave orders from his deathbed for it to be _________

A

burned

8
Q

What themes of the Iliad and Odyssey are combined in the Aeneid?

A

Virgil incorporates the themes of a wanderer in search of a home from the Odyssey, and the hero in battle from the Iliad.

9
Q

Who tells the full story of the Trojan horse? Virgil or Homer?

A

Virgil

10
Q

What does the word pietas mean?

A

Duty, devotion to a particular people and entities

11
Q

What is Ovid’s full name?

A

Publius Ovidius Naso

12
Q

Name three poets that Ovid knew from the literary circles of Rome:

A

Properius, Horace, and Virgil

13
Q

Who wrote “my muse is slutty but my life is chaste”?

A

Ovid

14
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Who exiled Ovid from Rome to Tomis, a remote town on the Black Sea?

A

The Empreor Augustus

15
Q

What does the word metamorphoses mean?

A

Changes