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Which Alexandrian writer was famous for his idylls and for inventing the pastoral poetic form? |
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According to Roman tradition, the Roman republic was founded in 509 BCE after the Romans expelled a king who belonged to which people, whose culture heavily influenced the Romans' own? |
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Whose death marked the beginning of the Hellenistic Age? |
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What is the term for the combining of the rites and principles of different religions? |
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What language was used in Rome? |
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Name Rome's two greatest comic playwrights. |
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What Roman poet wrote On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura)? |
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What Roman poet is known for love poems about inner feelings of desire, disappointment, and jealousy? |
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What famous Roman writer and public figure dominated the Roman literature of his time with his letters, speeches, and philosophical tracts? |
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What term is used to describe the Hellenistic theatrical genre which satirized middle-class life, but avoided obscenity and political commentary? |
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Which author of the The Woman from Samos is often credited with perfecting the comedy of manners? |
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Which third-century Alexandrian poet wrote The Argonautica? |
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Which Hellenistic philosophy argued that the pathway to happiness was through the mystical communion of friendship? |
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What term is used to describe the Hellenistic ideal of freedom from desire? |
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What philosophy combined a surrender to fate with a devotion to duty, and sometimes unwittingly encouraged apathy? |
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According to legend, which Hellenistic scientist ran naked through the street shouting "Eureka!" after having discovered the principle of buoyancy while bathing? |
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If an artwork depicts a scene taken from everyday live, it is said to represent what type of subject? The Old Market Woman is a famous example. |
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Which Hellenistic mathematician is known as the "father of geometry"? |
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What type of column became a hallmark of Hellenistic architecture? |
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The Aphrodite of Melos was influenced by which artistic movement that began in late third-century Athens and which looked back nostalgically to the splendor of the fifth and fourth centuries? |
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