Episode 60 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 60: How to Make Love to a Roman. See what you remember about Ovid’s <i>Art of Love</i> and <i>Cure for Love</i> by clicking “START” below!
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A recent and compelling theory about Ovid’s didactic love poetry is that its intended audience is:
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In the Ars Amatoria, Ovid brings up King Agamemnon’s fate in order to caution his readers against:
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Ovid particularly recommends pursuing women who:
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The romantic advice toward men in the Ars Amatoria mainly tells men how to act and what to do. The romantic advice toward women, on the other hand, offers more advice on:
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A general piece of advice Ovid offers crestfallen lovers in the Remedia Amoris is:
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The recipes in Ovid’s Medicamina Faciei Femineae (Women’s Facial Cosmetics):
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Ovid tells male readers that if they’re attracted to a mistress and a maid as well, they should:
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What’s Ovid’s lover’s name in the Amores?
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Rome’s scorti were:
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Which 19th century author did we look at who shared Ovid’s sense that artifice was superior to nature?
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A common metaphor for courtship in the Ars Amatoria is:
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In the invocation to the Ars Amatoria, Ovid writes that:
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In a passage in the Art of Love that modern readers find objectionable, Ovid describes a certain Greek hero raping a princess who secretly wanted to be raped. Who is the Greek hero in question?
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Check the statement below that is NOT true about Roman meretrices (singular meretrix).
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In the Ars Amatoria, on the subject of women aged 35 and older, Ovid writes:
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