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| The Hippolytus take place in | Troezen |
| After Achilles' death, his armor was given to | Odysseus |
| The Philoctetes is set on the island of | Lemnos |
| Phaedra's mother was | Pasiphae |
| Admetus' greatest Homeric virtue was | xenia |
| Inscribed on the lintel of the temple of Apollo at Delphi were "Know thyself" and | Nothing in Excess |
| The belief that what we do and the choices we make in this life are of primary importance is | humanism |
| The mother of Hippolytus was | an amazon |
| He said "Man is the meausure of all things." | Protagoras |
| Which play finally shows a mediation between the noble values of the Homeric warrior and the demand for loyalty and obedience upon fifth century Athenian soldiers? | Ajax |
| The description of the dead Priam as the former lord of Asia, now a mighty trunk lying headless on the beach, a corpse without a name, would remind Vergil’s audience of | Pompey |
| Vergil was born in | 70 |
| In 59, who was recognized as Rome's greatest general? | Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Augustus |
| What was Vergil's deathbed wish? | that the Aeneid be burned |
| We see a clear case of Roman ethnic prejudice in Vergil's depiction of | Sinon |
| A key difference between Greek myth and Roman literary myth is that Roman myth, unlike Greek, | looks forward to Rome's greatness |
| The Twelve Tables were written in | 451-450 |
| The gate of false dreams is made of | ivory |
| Dido's brother is | Pygmalion |
| Clemency is a public relations policy we associate most strongly with | Julius Caesar |
| When things get tough, the Carthaginians sacrifice | their first-born children |
| The most basic question that provides the Romans with a guideline for right and wrong is | What would the ancestors do? |
| In order to descend to the underworld and return again, Aeneas must have | the golden bough |
| In the Roman republic, the two chief esecutive officers elected every year are the | consuls |
| He wrote a history of Rome from the founding to his own time in the age of Augustus | Livy |
| The first general to use elephants against the Romans was | Pyrrhus |
| Who was doomed to roll a large rock up a hill, only to have it slip away inches from the top, and to repeat this process continuously for all eternity? | Sisyphus |
| The most important difference between Aeneas and his Homeric predecessors is that Aeneas is | a grown up |
| Aeneas, in the third book of the Aeneid dedicates a monument at | Actium |
| The ferryman of the dead is | Charon |
| The worst defeat in Roman hisotry happened at | Cannae |
| Aeneas' salient characteristic is that he is | dutiful |
| The person who bankrolled Vergil was | Maecenas |
| Vergil's fourth eclogue, predicting the birth of a child who will bring peace to the earth celebrates the wedding of | Marc Antony and Octavia |
| Ancient historians saw this as the watershed year for the growth of corruption fatal to the republic. | 146 |
| The Trojan prince who married Helen after Paris died was | Deiphobus |
| We associate being sacrosanct and having the power to veto with | tribunes of the plebs |
| How many kings did Rome have between 743 and 509 BCE? | seven |
| According to his ancient biographer, Julius Caesar’s last words were spoken in | Greek |
| Patria potestas is the power that belongs to | fathers |
| The person responsible for removing the property qualification for service in the legions was | Marius |
| After the Sibyl of Cumae refused to become his lover, Apollo punished her with | eternal life |
| Who had the gift of prophecy but was never believed? | Cassandra |
| Who was doomed to be broken on a wheel for eternity? | Ixion |
| Octavian became Caesar Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, in | 27 |
| Aeneas’ love interests in the first half of the poem are Dido and | Creusa |
| Which of these does Vergil NOT give as a reason for Juno's anger against Aeneas and the Trojans? | her love for Dido |
| Whose almost-last words were, "The comedy is over."? | Augustus |
| After the war with Hannibal, most senators made a lot of money legally from | agri-business |
| The member of Aeneas’ crew who dies on the voyage from Sicily to Italy is | Palanurus |
| In the Roman Forum, a landmark with only three columns standing is the: | Temple of Castor |
| Who killed Horatia? | Horatius |
| Nisus’ lover was | Euryalus |
| Tarquinius Priscus was formerly known as | Lucumo |
| He built the Temple of Diana on the Aventine for all the Latins. | Servius Tullius |
| He began construction of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. | Tarquinius Priscus |
| The founder of the college of the Vestal Virgins was | Numa |
| Turnus swimming the Tiber in full armor would remind Vergil’s audience of | Horatius |
| The son of Hippolytus is | Virbius |
| He killed the Gallic chieftain in battle in violation of the law of nations. | Fabius |
