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| When was all apposition quashed? |
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| Who took over rule of Rome? |
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| What started after 100 years of civil war? |
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| What did this do for Rome? |
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| Funded an ambitious building program and supported the arts |
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| Virgil's monumental epic... |
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| was the most last document |
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| Why did Augustus want an epic? |
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| He wanted a legendary history of Rome as venerable (honorable) as that of their conquered peoples like the Greeks and Egyptians |
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| What did the Romans not have that the Greeks did? |
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| The Romans did not have a rich oral tradition like the Greeks did that generated the epics of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
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| What oral tradition did they have? |
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| Romulus and Rhemus-founding of Rome 750 BC |
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| When did the Trojan War occur? |
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| When was the Founding of Carthage? |
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| What is Virgil's life timeframe? |
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| When did Virgil write the Aeneid? |
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| Did Virgil think the Aeneid was done? |
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| No, but Augustus published it anyway |
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| What did Romans pride themselves on? |
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1. Loyalty to family and state
2. Self-denial and endurance
3. Ability to manage an operation well |
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| What did Augustus want Virgil to exemplify in his epic? |
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1. For Virgil to use the same meter as Homer
2. Situates story about the same time as the fall of Troy (1250 B.C.)
3. One of the plaves that Aeneas travels to is Carthage.
4. Invokes the muses
5. Begins in media res
6. Virgil recombines and transforms all the major works of the Greek and Roman tradition to make a new, original, and fundamentally Roman work
7. Creates a myth explaining Rome's founding/legitimizing Augustus empire
8. Establishes Rome's right to rule the world forever
9. Goal was to rival Homer and create a new era for Rome with superior values |
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| What is the definition of an epic poem? |
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1. Long, narrative poem
2. About the exploits of kings and heros
3. Through it we learn about the culture that produced it |
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| What is wrong with Aeneas traveling to Carthage? |
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| Anaphorism: Carnage was not founded until about 800 B.C. |
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| What are the differences between a folk epic and a literary epic? Give an example of each. |
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Folk epic: Took stories out of oral tradition and wrote them down into epic poetry (Iliad)
Literary epic: Deliverately wrote fictionalized stories into a national epic poem (Aeneid) |
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| What was the official language of the Roman empire and who spoke it? |
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| Latin; Government and Church |
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| What was the language of the people? |
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| What countries spoke the romance language? |
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| Portugal, Italy, Rome, France, and Spain |
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| When was the Iliad written? |
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| What nationality was the Iliad and what type of hero was depicted? |
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| When was the Aeneid written? |
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| What type of nationality was the Aeneid and what type of hero was depicted? |
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| When was Oedipus written? |
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| What type of nationality was Oedipus and what type of hero was depicted/ |
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| When was Julius Caesar written? |
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| What type of nationality was Julius Caesar and what type of hero was depicted? |
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| What do all the heros have in common? |
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DOMINUS
domain
domineer
dominion |
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| HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD, LORD, MASTER |
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SOMNUS
somnambulate
somnolent |
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LOVO, LAVARE, LAVI, LAUTUM
ablution
deluge |
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VESTIS
divest
investiture
travesty
vestment
vested |
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COQUO, COQUERI, COXI, COCTUM
concoct
cuisine
precocious |
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| VORO, VORARE, VORAVI, VORATUM carnivorous herbivorous voracious |
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BIBO, BIBERE, BIBI, BIBITUM
imbibe |
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POTO, POTARE, POTAVI, POTUM
potable
potion |
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LUDO, LUDERE, LUSI, LUSUM
allude
collusion
delusion
elude |
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CAPUT, CAPITIS
capitalist
capitulation
decapitate
precipice
precipitate
recapitulation |
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CEREBRUM
cerebral
cerebration |
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FACIES
deface
efface
facade
facet |
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FRONS, FRONTIS
affront
confront
effrontery |
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OS, ORIS
inexorable
oracle
oration
orifice
osculate |
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ORO, ORARE, ORAVI, ORATUM
inexorable
oracle
oration
orifice
osculate |
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DENS, DENTIS
indentation
indenture
trident |
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GURGES, GURGITIS
gorge
disgorge
gargantuan
gargoyle
regurgitate |
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ODON, ODONTOS
orthodontist |
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CARO, CARNIS
carnage
carrion
incarnate |
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COLLUM
accolade
decolletage |
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CORPUS, CORPORIS
corporal
corporeal
corps
corpulent
corpus |
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COR, CORDIS
accord
cordial
concordance |
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MANUS
emancipate
manacle
mandate
manifest
manipulate |
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DEXTRA
ambidextrous
dexterity |
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FLECTO, FLECTERE, FLEXI, FLEXUM
deflect
genuflect
inflection
reflection |
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RAPIO, RAPERE, RAPUI, RAPTUM
rapacious
rapt
surreptitious |
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PLICO, PLICARE, PLICAVI, PLICATUM
complicity
duplicity
explicate
explicit
exploit
imply
ploy
ply
supplicate |
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PREHENDO, PREHENDERE, PREHENDI, PREHENSUM
apprehend
comprise
entrepreneur
impregnable
reprehend
reprisal |
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| to catch, to seize, to grasp |
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| When was the Iliad written? |
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| When was the Aeneid written? |
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| When was Oedipus written? |
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| When was Julius Caesar written? |
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| Which pieces of literature were Greek? |
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| Which pieces of literature were Roman/Trojan? |
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| Goes into battle with honor and dies with honor. Larger than life. High or noble birth |
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| Loyalty to family and state. Larger than Life. High or Noble birth |
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| Separated from society. Neither Victim nor Villain. Causally related events |
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| Does it for the glory of God. Stuggles to overcome obstacles. Nobel and inspiring actions |
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| Struggles to overcome obstacles. Noble or inspiring actions |
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| What did Homeric epics center on? |
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| Heroes who embody the values of greek culture |
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| Who were the two philosophers that most influenced western thought? |
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| What were greek tragedies first performed in conjunction with? |
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| How is Homer described in the legend? |
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| What year was the Trojan War historically? |
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| Why was the Iliad so influential? |
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| It was written by poets and philosophers |
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| Who unearthed Troy and when? |
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| Heinrich Schliemann, 1870 |
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| Why was the discovery of Troy so significant? |
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| Before it was discovered in 1870, they thought it was just a myth |
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| Who continued the work of Schliemann after he died? |
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| How does Pathos persuade? |
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| Appealing to the emotions |
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| Appealing to the creditability of the person |
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| What was the prequel for the story of the battle of Troy? |
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| The story of Romulus and Remus |
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| Why was Aeneas so enraptured by Dido? |
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| Her beauty and her intelligence |
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| What did Venus do to Dido to stop Juno from turning the trojan against the queen? |
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| Made Dido and Aeneas fall in love |
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| What three things did the goddesses bribe Paris with? |
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| Who did Paris steal Helen from? |
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