Early Latin Literature CSK Week One

Which play of Plautus deals with the confusion over Hercules' birth?

What genre was Lucilius the first to focus exclusively on?

In Plautus' Aulularia, what miser tries to hide his fortune?

What author did Horace call his lantern for his influence in Satire?

Which play of Plautus has no female characters?

Who wrote a fabula praetexta entitled Clastidium?

Which Broadway play is based on a compilation of Plautus' plays?

Which author remarked "Fato Metelli fiunt Romae consules"?

Which play of Plautus is the only one with a mythological subject?

What style of Greek comedy did Plautus and Terence employ?

What is the alternate title of Lucilius' Sermones?

In what year was Lucilius born?

Where did Gnaeus Naevius die in exile in 201 BC?

Which play of Terence was his biggest commercial success?

Where was Cato the Elder born in 234 BC?

What is the translation of "Heauton Timorumenos"?

Which work of Quintus Ennius is an 18-book epic poem on Roman history?

What author, known for his old-fashioned and puritanical style, was called the "father of Latin prose"?

In what year did Terence die?

For what event in 240 BC did Livius Andronicus compose the first Roman comedy and tragedy?

Which play of Plautus deals with the misfortunes of a miser named Euclio who tries to hide his fortune?

What three languages made up Ennius' three hearts?

Which play of Terence did the audience leave in preference for a show of tightrope walkers during the first and second attempts?

What author pioneered "fabulae praetextae", tragedies written on Roman historical material?

Which play of Plautus deals with the efforts of a well-to-do father to ransom his son who has been taken prisoner of war?

Who wrote the tragedies Dulorestes and Niptra?

Who wrote the Bellum Punicum, the first epic on an Italian subject?

What was the purpose of Livius Andronicus' Odussia?

Which play of Terence was only produced after two failed attempts?

In what year was Pacuvius born in Brundisium?

Which work of Cato the Elder was the earliest Latin prose work to come down to us in its entirety?

Which author was born at Sarsina c. 254 BC?

What author came to Rome as a slave in 272 BC?

How many books did Cato's Origines contain?

Where was Plautus born c. 254 BC?

Who wrote the first Roman comedy and Roman tragedy for the Ludi Romani of 240 BC?

In what year did Cato the Elder die?

Where was Terence born in 195 or 185 BC?

What was the title of Lucilius' collection of Satires?

In what year was Gnaeus Naevius born near Capua?

What was Pacuvius' full name?

What was the title of Naevius' epic on the First Punic War?

What grammarian arranged Naevius' Bellum Punicum into 7 Books?

Where was Pacuvius in 220 BC?

How many books did Naevius' Bellum Punic contain?

What author first adapted dactylic hexameter from Greek poetry into Latin?

The Broadway play "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is based on a compilation of which author's plays?

What meter did Lucilius establish as the meter of Roman satire?

Which play of Plautus mentions the imprisonment of Naevius?

Which play of Plautus deals with twins seperated at birth?

In what year did Terence make his theatrical debut?

What was Plautus' full name?

Whose satires on a trip to Brundisium and an ancounter with a bore were models for Horace?

Who wrote a 30 book collection of Satires called Sermones?

Where was Lucilius born in 180 BC?

What author was born in 234 BC at Tusculum?

What author regarded Livius Andronicus' work as antiquated and not worth reading?

What author wrote an 18-book epic on Roman history entitled Annales?

In what year did Gnaeus Naevius die in exile at Utica?

Who acted in all of Terence's plays?

Translate Naevius' remark "fato Metelli fiunt Romae consules".

Who wrote the first Latin translation of Homer's Odyssey?

What is Lucilius' full name?

With what family did Gnaeus Naevius have a fued which got him exiled to Utica?

Who wrote a fabula praetexta entitled Romulus?

Which author was exiled to Utica because of his fued with the Metelli family?

Which play of Plautus deals with the slave Tranio who convinces his master's father that his house is haunted?

What is the translation of "Hecyra"?

In Plautus' Pseudolus, what pimp is swindled out of one of his girls?

What author made dactylic hexameter the official meter of Latin epic poetry?

Where was Quintus Ennius born in 239 BC?

Which play of Terence is a comedy about twins, one born in the country and one born in the city?

Who was the literary patron of Terence?

In what year was Cato the Elder born at Tusculum?

In what early Italian meter was the Odussia written?

Which play of Plautus deals with a parasit of a young man who is in love with a courtesan?

What was the earliest extant work of Latin literature?

How many books of Satires made up Lucilius' Sermones?

What is the translation of "Miles Gloriosus"?

In what year did Livius Andronicus come to Rome as a slave?

Which play of Terence deals with Clinia who is about to be separated from his wife?

Which play of Terence was his earliest work?

Which work of Cato the Elder begins with a line of hexameter?

Whose Bellum Punicum details the events from Aeneas' arrival in Latium down to the First Punic War?

What author was the first to produce plays in Rome?

In Plautus' Miles Gloriosus, what boastful soldier is swindled out of his girl?

What author established hexameter as the meter of Roman satire?

Which play of Plautus was his shortest?

Which work of Cato the Elder was a 7-book history of Rome?

In what city were all of Terence's plays set?

In what year did Pacuvius die?

What is the translation of "Adelphi"?

What are fabulae praetextae?

What is the translation of "Mostellaria"?

What type of poem did Livius Andronicus compose in honor of Juno in 207 BC?

Which play of Plautus deals with a clever slave who manages to steal away from the boastful soldier Pyrgopolyneices the girl loved by his young master?

In what year was Livius Andronicus born at Tarentum?

Which play of Plautus deals with a clever slave who tricks the pimp Ballio out of a girl his young master loves?

Who was the first Latin writer to compose Satire?

What poet claimed that he had three hearts because he spoke Latin, Greek, and Oscan?

Which play of Plautus was his longest?

In what year did Livius Andronicus die?

What is the translation of "Aulularia"?

Which work of Cato the Elder was the first prose historical text in Latin?

In Plautus' Mostellaria, what clever slave convinces his master's father that his house is haunted?

What comic playwright was born in Carthage in 195 BC?

What author was called the "Father of Latin Literature"?

What are the titles of Naevius' two fabulae praetextae?

What nephew of Ennius was a famous tragedian?

What author was called the "Father of Latin Prose"?

What is the translation of Niptra?

What poet was the famous uncle of Pacuvius?

Who brought Quintus Ennius to Rome?

What is Livius Andronicus' full name?

What was Terence's full name?

Who was the first Latin write to focus exclusively on Satire?

What is Cato the Elder's full name?

Which work of Livius Andronicus is a Latin translation of Homer's Odyssey?

How many books did Ennius' Annales contain?

Varro said that if the Muses had spoken Latin they would have spoken the type that appeared in which author's plays?

What author was the great-uncle of Pompey the Great?

What author was born in 239 BC at Rudiae in Calabria?

Which work of Cato the Elder was a treatise on farming?

In which play of Terence does the title character remark "homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto"?

In what year did Plautus die?

In what year did Quintus Ennius die?

What author did Cicero consider the "greatest of Latin tragic poets"?

What is the alternate title of Cato's De Agri Cultura?

What comic playwright was born at Sarsina c. 254 BC?

Where was Livius Andronicus born in 284 B.C.?

Which play of Plautus is the primary model for Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors?

What is contaminatio?

Which author died at Utica in 201 BC?

What dramatist was the first native Italian to write Latin literature?

What author was born ca. 195 BC in Carthage?

What comic playwright was brought to Rome from Carthage as a slave?

What author called Lucilius his lantern for his influence in Satire?

What Latin term did Livius Andronicus use to translate "Muse"?

In what year did Livius Andronicus compose a parthenion in honor of Juno?

What author was born in 180 BC at Suessa Aurunca?

Who was the first to write an epic on an entirely Italian subject?

What honorific title was given to Livius Andronicus?

What is the translation of "Andria"?

What author was born in 270 BC at Capua?

To what African city was Naevius exiled because of his fued with the Metelli family?

What political office did Cato the Elder hold in 184 BC?

What is the translation of Dulorestes?

In the prologue of which of Terence's plays does he defend his use of contaminatio?

What author brought Quintius Ennius to Rome?

What author composed a parthenion in honor of Juno in 207 BC?

Which work of Pacuvius depicts Ulysses' death at the hands of Telegonus?

Who was the first to write history in Latin?

What author was born in 284 B.C. at Tarentum?

In what year did Lucilius die?

Which work of Pacuvius depicts Orestes driven mad by the Furies?

Which work of Gnaeus Naevius is an epic poem about the First Punic War, written in Saturnian verse?

For whose children did Livius Andronicus compose the Odussia as a textbook?

Who considered Pacuvius the greatest of Latin tragic poets?