Chapter 25 Student Quiz

. What is the organizing principle of the Fasti?

. Where do Pyramus and Thisbe plan to meet outside their homes?

. Milanion (or Hippomenes) defeated Atalanta in a footrace by:

. Which of the following is true of the Baucis and Philemon?

. What was the fate of Alcyone?

. Alcyone had a dream that her husband:

. Who was transformed into a fountain pining for her beloved brother Caunus?

. Where may be the original home of the story of Pyramus and Thisbe?

. Who raped then married Flora?

. Which is Ovid's only work composed in the epic hexameter?

. Who came to Pomona disguised as an old woman?

. What work of Ovid's is composed of fifteen letters from mythological heroines to their absent lovers?

. Who wrote the Thebaid and the Achilleid?

. Which poet was one of the most famous members of the group of new poets called by poetae novi?

. Who was the greatest of the early Roman poets, celebrated for his epic treatment Roman history in the Annals?

. What former slave wrote an adaptation of the Odyssey and was crucial to the spread of Greek mythology in the Roman world?

. What was the Greek equivalent of Augustus?

. What was the first and greatest of the Roman temples?

. The Etruscan deities Tin, Uni, and Menvra were assimilated with what Greek and Roman deities?

. To what does Magna Graecia refer?

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