Episode 59 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 59: Early Ovid. See what you recall about Ovid’s life and his early works by clicking “START” below!
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Ovid wrote a full-length tragedy that’s been lost. The subject of this tragedy was:
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The parted lovers of the Heroides, particularly the abandoned females, at lease have recourse to:
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According to a quote we heard by classicist Philip Hardie several times in the episode, a number of junctures of literary history have been dissatisfied with Ovid’s pervasive:
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This early tragedy befell Ovid, according to what he records in the Tristia.
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This character in the Heroides is the first Greek to die in the Trojan War, to the sorrow of his wife Laodamia.
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In 8 CE, Ovid was exiled to Tomis, a city in the eastern part of modern day:
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Quintilian thought that Ovid was:
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Who or what is being described here in Ovid’s Amores? “Her face beamed love; her form was fine; thin was her dress. / Yet one foot-fault made extra loveliness!”
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This character in the Heroides refuses to kill her husband on their wedding night, contrary to her father’s orders.
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This couple in the Heroides is separated by the Hellespont:
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Early in the Amores, Ovid mocks a standard parallel in Latin poetry between:
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Which of the following Ovidian elegiac couplets did we discuss in contrast to a John Donne poem from the 1630s?
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Ovid was the youngest of the Augustan Age poets. He died in 17 or 18 CE. He was born in:
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Ovid was from:
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A particularly funny episode in the Amores involves a seriocomic lamentation about:
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