Kailee- Latin Literature

4. novel about the adventures of Encolpius Ascyltus and Giton
7. political leader and excellent orator who followed the attic style
8. a history 18 books long covering the years 14 through 68
11. the author of satyricon
13. based on Euripides’ play but sympathized Jason more
14. comic playwright born in Carthage
16. the greatest Latin orator
20. a tragedy attributed to Seneca; fabula praetexta
21. published to discuss all the customs of German people
26. wrote de architectura dedicated to Augustus
29. deals with life and false virtues and friendship
30. friend that Epistulae Morales wrote 124 letters to
34. a biography of Tacitus’ father in law
35. wrote a twelve book long treatise on a perfect orator
37. generally known for his poems written in dactylic, he also wrote a tragedy about Medea
38. banished to Egypt for having an affair with the emperor’s wife
41. a poet taught by his father
43. the common name for Seneca the younger
44. a playwright and poet that knew three different languages
45. a book written by Tibullus after a woman he was in love with
47. an unfinished poem about Achilles
48. received a sabine farm from Vergil
50. wrote Apologia defending himself

1. when he died he requested all his poems be destroyed leaving only his satires
2. a fragmentary work covering 78 to 67 bc
3. forced to commit suicide due to his jealousy
5. poem four books long in dactylic hexameter
6. poem in 10 books about Julius Caesar
9. one of Plautus’ most successful comedies
10. a historian who received the ius trium liberorum
12. a poem telling the story of a feud between the Polyneics and the Eteocles
15. wife of Q. Caecilius Metellus whom Catullus fell in love with
17. Plautus’ favorite play
18. ell in love with a woman Cynthia from his poems
19. considered the worst Latin poet
22. what Catullus calls his lover in his poems
23. a work mocking Claudius instead of becoming a god he became a pumpkin
24. person that asked Vergil’s friends to edit the Aeneid instead of burning it
25. author of Attic Nights
27. spent last 10 years of life working on Aeneid
28. a poem in 17 books about the 2nd Punic war
31. wrote a greek history of the Estrucans
32. wrote ad urbe condita which was 142 books
33. a historian with three surviving works
36. considered founder of Latin literature
39. the inventor of fabulae praetextae
40. most famous for his epigrams
42. play set in Athens about the brothers
46. poet that wrote an effigy about visiting his brother grav
49. belonged to the circle of M. Valerius Messalla