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- This quiz has been taken 356 times
- The average score is 9 of 18
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| First-century BC poet, wrote Aeneid, Georgics, Eclogues | Virgil | 86%
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| First-century BC and first-century AD poet, wrote Metamorphoses, Art of Love, Tristia | Ovid | 81%
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| Third-century AD Stoic philosopher and emperor, wrote Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 78%
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| First-century BC politician, wrote Commentaries on the Gallic War, Commentaries on the Civil War | Julius Caesar | 73%
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| Prolific first-century BC author of philosophical treatises, letters, and speeches, including On the Republic, On the Laws, Against Verres, and Against Catiline | Cicero | 70%
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| First and second-century AD historian, wrote Annals of Imperial Rome, Histories, Agricola, Germania | Tacitus | 61%
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| First-century AD philosopher, wrote Moral Epistles, tragedies, assorted Stoic dialogues and letters | Seneca | 52%
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| First-century BC historian, wrote comprehensive history of Rome from the legendary founding of Latium to Augustus, only a fraction of the complete work has survived | Livy | 50%
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| First and second-century AD historian, wrote The Twelve Caesars | Suetonius | 50%
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| First-century BC author of short poems, especially those of yearning for his mistress, Lesbia | Catullus | 48%
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| First-century BC lyric poet and satirist, wrote Odes | Horace | 42%
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| Third and second-century BC playwright, wrote The Pot of Gold, The Swaggering Soldier, other comedies | Plautus | 36%
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| Second-century AD poet, wrote especially caustic Satires | Juvenal | 32%
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| First-century BC Epicurean philosopher, wrote long, atheistic poem On the Nature of Things | Lucretius | 32%
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| Fifth and sixth-century AD philosopher and political advisor, wrote The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | 28%
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| First-century BC historian, wrote Catiline's War and the Jugurthine War | Sallust | 27%
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| First-century AD rhetoritician who wrote textbook on oratory | Quintilian | 16%
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| Fourth-century AD historian, wrote history of the late Empire, only accounts of 353-378 AD survive | Ammianus Marcellinus | 11%
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