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1. What is the only play by Plautus on a mythological theme?
2. In classical myth, what prophet had the gift of understanding animals?
3. What king of Cappadocia did Sulla restore to the throne in 96 BC?
4. What is the better known name of Horace's "Epistulae ad Pisonem"?
5. On what river was the "greatest of human seers" -- Iamus -- abandoned as a child?
6. In the time of Domitian, how many racing factions were there?
7. Who was the powerful magister peditum of Eugenius who fled and was eventually killed after the battle of Frigdus in 394?
8. Who wrote the Consolation of Philosophy while awaiting death in Prison?
9. In the Odyssey, who was the disloyal goatherd slaughtered by Odysseus?
10. Who advised Heracles to marry Deianara?
11. Who translated the Milesian tales of Aristedes into Latin?
12. Who was the last person NOT from the imperial family to be hailed by troops as "imperator" (Hint: 2nd decade of the 1st century AD)
13. Who was Achilles' chariot driver?
14. What was Cicero's first case?
15. Who, according to Moses Hadas, was the last Roman author to write in the Classical style when he wrote De Raptu Proserpina?
16. To what emperor was Galen the personal physician?
17. In the saga of the "Seven Against Thebes", as told by Statius in the Thebaid. Polynices married a daughter of what king?
18. Who was the naval commander of Mithradates VI?
19. What Lycian leader did Diomedes exchange armor with when they realized they were hereditary guest friends?
20. How about a lit. question to wrap things up: How many years did it take Cinna, a leader of the neo-terics, to write his poem, "Zmyrna"?
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