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Which play of Plautus deals with the confusion over Hercules' birth?
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Amphitruo
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What genre was Lucilius the first to focus exclusively on?
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satire
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In Plautus' Aulularia, what miser tries to hide his fortune?
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Euclio
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What author did Horace call his lantern for his influence in Satire?
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Lucilius
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Which play of Plautus has no female characters?
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Captivi
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Who wrote a fabula praetexta entitled Clastidium?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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Which Broadway play is based on a compilation of Plautus' plays?
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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Which author remarked "Fato Metelli fiunt Romae consules"?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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Which play of Plautus is the only one with a mythological subject?
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Amphitruo
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What style of Greek comedy did Plautus and Terence employ?
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New Comedy
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What is the alternate title of Lucilius' Sermones?
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Ludus ac Sermones
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In what year was Lucilius born?
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180 BC
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Where did Gnaeus Naevius die in exile in 201 BC?
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Utica
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Which play of Terence was his biggest commercial success?
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Eunuchus
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Where was Cato the Elder born in 234 BC?
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Tusculum
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What is the translation of "Heauton Timorumenos"?
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The Self-Tormentor
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Which work of Quintus Ennius is an 18-book epic poem on Roman history?
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Annales
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What author, known for his old-fashioned and puritanical style, was called the "father of Latin prose"?
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Cato the Elder
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In what year did Terence die?
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159 BC
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For what event in 240 BC did Livius Andronicus compose the first Roman comedy and tragedy?
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Ludi Romani
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Which play of Plautus deals with the misfortunes of a miser named Euclio who tries to hide his fortune?
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Aulularia
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What three languages made up Ennius' three hearts?
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Greek, Oscan, Latin
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Which play of Terence did the audience leave in preference for a show of tightrope walkers during the first and second attempts?
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Hecyra
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What author pioneered "fabulae praetextae", tragedies written on Roman historical material?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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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?
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Captivi
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Who wrote the tragedies Dulorestes and Niptra?
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Pacuvius
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Who wrote the Bellum Punicum, the first epic on an Italian subject?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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What was the purpose of Livius Andronicus' Odussia?
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textbook
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Which play of Terence was only produced after two failed attempts?
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Hecyra
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In what year was Pacuvius born in Brundisium?
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220 BC
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Which work of Cato the Elder was the earliest Latin prose work to come down to us in its entirety?
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De Agri Cultura
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Which author was born at Sarsina c. 254 BC?
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Plautus
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What author came to Rome as a slave in 272 BC?
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Livius Andronicus
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How many books did Cato's Origines contain?
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7
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Where was Plautus born c. 254 BC?
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Sarsina
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Who wrote the first Roman comedy and Roman tragedy for the Ludi Romani of 240 BC?
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Livius Andronicus
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In what year did Cato the Elder die?
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149 BC
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Where was Terence born in 195 or 185 BC?
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Carthage
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What was the title of Lucilius' collection of Satires?
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Sermones
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In what year was Gnaeus Naevius born near Capua?
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270 BC
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What was Pacuvius' full name?
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Marcus Pacuvius
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What was the title of Naevius' epic on the First Punic War?
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Bellum Punicum
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What grammarian arranged Naevius' Bellum Punicum into 7 Books?
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Lampadio
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Where was Pacuvius in 220 BC?
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Brundisium
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How many books did Naevius' Bellum Punic contain?
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7
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What author first adapted dactylic hexameter from Greek poetry into Latin?
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Quintus Ennius
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The Broadway play "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is based on a compilation of which author's plays?
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Plautus
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What meter did Lucilius establish as the meter of Roman satire?
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Dactylic Hexameter
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Which play of Plautus mentions the imprisonment of Naevius?
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Captivi
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Which play of Plautus deals with twins seperated at birth?
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Menaechmi
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In what year did Terence make his theatrical debut?
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166 BC
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What was Plautus' full name?
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Titus Maccius Plautus
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Whose satires on a trip to Brundisium and an ancounter with a bore were models for Horace?
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Lucilius
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Who wrote a 30 book collection of Satires called Sermones?
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Lucilius
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Where was Lucilius born in 180 BC?
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Suessa Aurunca
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What author was born in 234 BC at Tusculum?
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Cato the Elder
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What author regarded Livius Andronicus' work as antiquated and not worth reading?
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Cicero
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What author wrote an 18-book epic on Roman history entitled Annales?
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Quintus Ennius
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In what year did Gnaeus Naevius die in exile at Utica?
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201 BC
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Who acted in all of Terence's plays?
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Ambivius Turpio
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Translate Naevius' remark "fato Metelli fiunt Romae consules".
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It's fate that makes the Metelli consules at Rome
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Who wrote the first Latin translation of Homer's Odyssey?
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Livius Andronicus
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What is Lucilius' full name?
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Gaius Lucilius
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With what family did Gnaeus Naevius have a fued which got him exiled to Utica?
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Metelli
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Who wrote a fabula praetexta entitled Romulus?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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Which author was exiled to Utica because of his fued with the Metelli family?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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Which play of Plautus deals with the slave Tranio who convinces his master's father that his house is haunted?
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Mostellaria
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What is the translation of "Hecyra"?
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The Mother-in-Law
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In Plautus' Pseudolus, what pimp is swindled out of one of his girls?
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Ballio
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What author made dactylic hexameter the official meter of Latin epic poetry?
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Quintus Ennius
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Where was Quintus Ennius born in 239 BC?
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Rudiae (in Calabria)
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Which play of Terence is a comedy about twins, one born in the country and one born in the city?
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Adelphi
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Who was the literary patron of Terence?
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Scipio Aemilianus
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In what year was Cato the Elder born at Tusculum?
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234 BC
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In what early Italian meter was the Odussia written?
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Saturnian
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Which play of Plautus deals with a parasit of a young man who is in love with a courtesan?
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Curculio
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What was the earliest extant work of Latin literature?
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Odussia
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How many books of Satires made up Lucilius' Sermones?
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30
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What is the translation of "Miles Gloriosus"?
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The Braggart Soldier
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In what year did Livius Andronicus come to Rome as a slave?
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272 BC
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Which play of Terence deals with Clinia who is about to be separated from his wife?
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Heauton Timorumenos
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Which play of Terence was his earliest work?
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Andria
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Which work of Cato the Elder begins with a line of hexameter?
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Origines
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Whose Bellum Punicum details the events from Aeneas' arrival in Latium down to the First Punic War?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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What author was the first to produce plays in Rome?
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Livius Andronicus
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In Plautus' Miles Gloriosus, what boastful soldier is swindled out of his girl?
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Pyrgopolyneices
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What author established hexameter as the meter of Roman satire?
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Lucilius
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Which play of Plautus was his shortest?
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Curculio
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Which work of Cato the Elder was a 7-book history of Rome?
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Origines
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In what city were all of Terence's plays set?
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Athens
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In what year did Pacuvius die?
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130 BC
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What is the translation of "Adelphi"?
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The Brothers
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What are fabulae praetextae?
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tragedies written on Roman historical material
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What is the translation of "Mostellaria"?
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The Haunted House
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What type of poem did Livius Andronicus compose in honor of Juno in 207 BC?
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parthenion
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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?
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Miles Gloriosus
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In what year was Livius Andronicus born at Tarentum?
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284 BC
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Which play of Plautus deals with a clever slave who tricks the pimp Ballio out of a girl his young master loves?
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Pseudolus
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Who was the first Latin writer to compose Satire?
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Quintus Ennius
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What poet claimed that he had three hearts because he spoke Latin, Greek, and Oscan?
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Quintus Ennius
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Which play of Plautus was his longest?
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Miles Gloriosus
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In what year did Livius Andronicus die?
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204 BC
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What is the translation of "Aulularia"?
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The Pot of Gold
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Which work of Cato the Elder was the first prose historical text in Latin?
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Origines
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In Plautus' Mostellaria, what clever slave convinces his master's father that his house is haunted?
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Tranio
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What comic playwright was born in Carthage in 195 BC?
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Terence
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What author was called the "Father of Latin Literature"?
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Livius Andronicus
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What are the titles of Naevius' two fabulae praetextae?
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Clastidium & Romulus
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What nephew of Ennius was a famous tragedian?
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Pacuvius
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What author was called the "Father of Latin Prose"?
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Cato the Elder
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What is the translation of Niptra?
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The Bath
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What poet was the famous uncle of Pacuvius?
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Quintus Ennius
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Who brought Quintus Ennius to Rome?
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Cato the Elder
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What is Livius Andronicus' full name?
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Lucius Livius Andronicus
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What was Terence's full name?
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Publius Terentius Afer
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Who was the first Latin write to focus exclusively on Satire?
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Lucilius
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What is Cato the Elder's full name?
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Marcus Porcius Cato
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Which work of Livius Andronicus is a Latin translation of Homer's Odyssey?
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Odussia
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How many books did Ennius' Annales contain?
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18
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Varro said that if the Muses had spoken Latin they would have spoken the type that appeared in which author's plays?
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Plautus
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What author was the great-uncle of Pompey the Great?
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Lucilius
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What author was born in 239 BC at Rudiae in Calabria?
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Quintus Ennius
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Which work of Cato the Elder was a treatise on farming?
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De Agri Cultura
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In which play of Terence does the title character remark "homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto"?
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Heauton Timorumenos
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In what year did Plautus die?
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184 BC
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In what year did Quintus Ennius die?
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169 BC
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What author did Cicero consider the "greatest of Latin tragic poets"?
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Pacuvius
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What is the alternate title of Cato's De Agri Cultura?
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De Re Rustica
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What comic playwright was born at Sarsina c. 254 BC?
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Plautus
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Where was Livius Andronicus born in 284 B.C.?
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Tarentum
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Which play of Plautus is the primary model for Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors?
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Menaechmi
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What is contaminatio?
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combination of elements of multiple Greek plays into on Latin play
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Which author died at Utica in 201 BC?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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What dramatist was the first native Italian to write Latin literature?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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What author was born ca. 195 BC in Carthage?
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Terence
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What comic playwright was brought to Rome from Carthage as a slave?
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Terence
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What author called Lucilius his lantern for his influence in Satire?
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Horace
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What Latin term did Livius Andronicus use to translate "Muse"?
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Camena
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In what year did Livius Andronicus compose a parthenion in honor of Juno?
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207 BC
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What author was born in 180 BC at Suessa Aurunca?
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Lucilius
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Who was the first to write an epic on an entirely Italian subject?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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What honorific title was given to Livius Andronicus?
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Father of Latin Literature
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What is the translation of "Andria"?
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The Woman of Andros
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What author was born in 270 BC at Capua?
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Gnaeus Naevius
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To what African city was Naevius exiled because of his fued with the Metelli family?
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Utica
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What political office did Cato the Elder hold in 184 BC?
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censor
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What is the translation of Dulorestes?
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Orestes the Slave
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In the prologue of which of Terence's plays does he defend his use of contaminatio?
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Andria
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What author brought Quintius Ennius to Rome?
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Cato the Elder
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What author composed a parthenion in honor of Juno in 207 BC?
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Livius Andronicus
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Which work of Pacuvius depicts Ulysses' death at the hands of Telegonus?
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Niptra
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Who was the first to write history in Latin?
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Cato the Elder
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What author was born in 284 B.C. at Tarentum?
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Livius Andronicus
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In what year did Lucilius die?
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102 BC
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Which work of Pacuvius depicts Orestes driven mad by the Furies?
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Dulorestes
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Which work of Gnaeus Naevius is an epic poem about the First Punic War, written in Saturnian verse?
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Bellum Punicum
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For whose children did Livius Andronicus compose the Odussia as a textbook?
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Livius Salinator
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Who considered Pacuvius the greatest of Latin tragic poets?
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Cicero
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