Roman Literature - Poetry

When did Livius Andronicus translate the first poem from Greek into Latin? 

• 753 BC
• 240 BC
• 100 BC
• 44 BC

What poem did Livius Andronicus first translate from Greek into Latin? 

• The Iliad
• The Aeneid
• The Odyssey
• Jason and the Argonauts

When was Vergil born?

• 70 BCE
• 50 BCE
• 30 CE
• 44 BCE

Where was Vergil born?

• Mantua
• Sulmo
• Verona
• Roma

In what meter were all three of Vergil's poems composed?

• alcaic strophe
• Sapphic strophe
• hendecasyllabic
• dactylic hexameter

What word, derived from Greek, is used to describe writing, like Vergil's in the Georgics, whose purpose is to teach the reader?

• dogmatic
• didactic
• dactylic
• despotic

To what creatures does Vergil devote an entire book of the Georgics?

• bees
• birds
• cats
• fish

Where was Catullus born?

• Mantua
• Sulmo
• Verona
• Roma

Which Roman poet, was a part of the 'neoteric' literary circle in Rome?

• Catullus
• Ovid
• Horace
• Propertius

Where was Ovid born?

• Mantua
• Sulmo
• Verona
• Roma