Deck 4: Rome: Ovid Creation

Question 1

A fundamental difference between Ovid's Ages of Man and Hesiod's is that ____________________________.

A) Hesiod is writing for a much more sophisticated audience
B) Hesiod is not interested in moral conflicts
C) Ovid's main objective is to entertain
D) Hesiod reflects theories of ancient Greek philosophers, while Ovid does not

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Because many things in Ovid's work reflect issues of his time, ______________________________________.

A) he is less interesting than Hesiod
B) his work can be studied for its historical insights
C) he is more pessimistic than Hesiod
D) he is closer to the mythological roots of his ideas

Answer 2

B

Question 3

"But since, O gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book . . ." shows that Ovid's poem will be different from a classical Greek one because he ______________.

A) does not begin with a prayer to the Muse of poetry
B) speaks directly to the gods
C) believes that shape-changing is possible
D) does not name the gods

Answer 3

A

Question 4

_________________________ was the Roman counterpart of Poseidon.

A) Jupiter
B) Amphitrite
C) Neptune
D) Pluto

Question 5

Supply the word omitted from the following line of Ovid: "Either the Architect of All, . . . or else _________________ made man"?

A) Iapetus
B) Prometheus
C) Jupiter
D) Zeus

Question 6

Ovid's description of the Golden Age says _______________________________________________.

A) there were great warriors
B) there were noteworthy mariners and explorers
C) there was no need to farm
D) there were three changing seasons

Question 7

A major difference between the gold and silver ages cited by Ovid was that ______________________.

A) humans had begun using metals for weapons
B) humans had begun farming
C) humans now (in the silver age) lived in caves
D) the weather was now always cold

Question 8

A clue in "The Ages of Man" that Ovid is critical of his own Roman society is that __________________________.

A) "the son-in-law can now betray his own father-in-law" describes a conflict between Pompey and Julius Caesar
B) Ovid has copied the "Ages" idea from Hesiod, a Greek poet
C) he has incorporated the theories of Greek philosophers
D) he describes fewer "Ages" than Hesiod

Question 9

The first metamorphosis described in Ovid's poem is ______________________________________________.

A) the placement of fire, "the weightless fore of heavens dome"
B) "he, that earth might be symmetrical, first shaped its sides into a giant ball"
C) the separating of the sky and earth
D) "unraveling these things from their blind heap, assigning each its place"

Question 10

A belief well known at the time of Ovid held that the universe consisted of _________________.

A) air, water, fire, and earth
B) air. water, fire, and rock
C) fire, water, earth, and "seeds of the sky" (atoms)
D) fire, air, earth and growing green plants

Question 11

The four Ages of Mankind, according to Ovid, were: ___________________________, ____________________________, ____________________________, and ____________________________.

Question 12

The "Age" included by Hesiod but not by Ovid was _________________________.

Question 13

Each story in Ovid's Metamorphoses portrays an instance of ___________________.

Question 14

Ovid's chaos differs from Hesiod's in that it is ____________________________.

Question 15

________________________ was the Roman goddess of the sea.

Question 16

________________________ is the Roman equivalent of the Greek Zeus.

Question 17

Ovid says the bronze race were "more prone to cruelty, but not yet __________________."

Question 18

The major characteristic of Ovid's iron age is _______________________________.

Question 19

An example in the Metamorphoses that Ovid was influenced by the scientific theories of his time is ________________________.

Question 20

The situation described by Ovid as "no thing maintained its shape; all were at war" is ____________________.