Latin League Golden Age Authors

Please match each prose author to his genre/works.

Groups:

(a) Cicero

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(b) Caesar

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(c) Sallust

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(d) Livy

• Wrote about the Jugurthan War

• Master Orator

• Prosecuted Cataline

• Lawyer & Politician

• Bellum Civile

• Wrote about the Catalinian Conspiracy

• De Republica

• Killed by

• Monumental History of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita

• De Bello Gallico

• Earliest known Latin language historian with surviving works

• General & Dictator

Please match the characteristics & works to each poet.

Groups:

(a) Catullus

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(b) Propertius

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(c) Horace

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(d) Tibullus

• Coined the term "Carpe Diem"

• Odes & Epodes

• Moral Reflections on life and Rome

• Addressed many of his poems to "Lesbia"

• Satires & Epistles

• Influenced by Greek & Hellenistic Models.

• The Greek poet, Sappho, influenced him.

• Four Books of Elegiac Poems

• Final Book might have been published posthumously

• Had an affair with Clodia, an upperclass member of society.

• Love Poems addressed to Delia

• Corpus includes 166 "Carmina"

• Addressed many of his poems to Cynthia

• Three poems professing love to a young man named Marathus.

• A member of the "neoteric" poets

• Two suriving works of Elegies

Which work was NOT written by Vergil?

• Aeneid

• Georgics

• Eclogues

• Carmina Burana

Which poet was exiled by Augustus?

• Ovid

• Vergil

• Horace

• Catullus

Who wrote the Metamorphoses?

• Ovid

• Vergil

• Tibullus

• Livy

Match each work of Ovid's to its description

• Letters of heroines to their lovers

• Heroides

• Erotic poems addressed to Corinna

• Ars Amatoria

• Didactic poems about seduction & love

• Amores

• Epic poem with mythological stories

• Metamorphoses

• Calendar of events in Rome

• Fasti

Match each poet to the name of his love interest

• Lesbia

• Propertius

• Corinna

• Catullus

• Cynthia

• Ovid

• Delia

• Horace

Match each work of Vergil's to its description

• Pastoral poems w/ Hellenistic influences

• Georgics

• Epic about Trojan hero's trip to Italy

• Eclogues

• Epic about farming & agrarian themes

• Aeneid