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What Silver Age Roman historian wrote about the emperors and corresponded with Pliny, among others?

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Tacitus

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What sponsor of the arts in the Augustan Age was so famous that his name is still used to describe modern patrons?

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Maecenas

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What Roman poet, author of the Metamorphoses, was exiled by Augustus for “carmen et error”?

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Ovid

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What statesman, lawyer, and philosopher was considered Rome’s greatest orator in the first century BC?

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Cicero

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Martial, Juvenal, and Petronius are all Roman authors from the _____ Age of Latin literature.

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Silver

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After writing about his conquest of Gaul, what other work did Caesar write about his struggle to assert his power back in Rome?

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Commentāriī Dē Bellō Cīvīlī

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What Greek poet from Lesbos influenced Catullus’ poetry?

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Sappho

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To which Roman emperor did Pliny the Younger write letters concerning the Christians in AD 112? Options: Augustus, Claudius, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius

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Trajan

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Who has given us much information about Roman life toward the end of the Republic through his letters and philosophical essays?

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Cicero

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Seneca’s advice, sī vīs amārī, amā, generally means

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love is a two-way street