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Classical Literature Authors Exam Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Classical Literature Authors Exam Questions AndAnswers Latest Update
Homer - correct answers from Ionia in late 8th or early 7th century in Archaic period; greek poet who wrote
Iliad and Odyssey. wrote in dactylic hexameter
Hesiod - correct answers from Boetia in 700 bce; wrote Theogony and Works and Days. wrote in didactic
hexameter.
Archilochus - correct answers died around 652 bce. known as "Europe's first pain in the neck"; he was insulting
and his works included roasts. his iambics were invective. Proverbial wisdom
Sappho - correct answers from Lesbos in 630 bce. monodist who was famous for hymn to aphrodite. well
respected in Greece. author was double vulnerable because she was a homoerotic and a woman.
Callimachus - correct answers born in 310 bce in Hellenistic Period. scholar poet who lacked ingenium but had
strong ars. famous for Aitia (Origins)
Livius Andronicus - correct answers born in tarentum in 280 bce (hellenistic period) in magna graecia. 1/4 first
famous latin authors. first account and staging of tragedy. he started latin literature officially. translated the
Odusia.
Ennius - correct answers born in 239 bce in Calabria (Hellenistic Period). romans viewed him as first great
poet. Tria corda (3 hearts): spoke three languages= Oscan, Latin, and Greek. He was considered official roman
poet pre-Vergil. wrote tragedies. famous for the Annals.
Plautus - correct answers born in Umbria in 254 bce (Hellenistic Period) His poems consisted of "slapstick
humor" and colloquial language. Comic Playwright with 130 comedies ascribed to him. popular during his own
lifetime
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