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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ovid telling to turn a blind eye about the affairs of his lover in Amores 2:2?

2. When does Ovid marry for the first time?

3. Of what does Ovid dream in Amores 3:5?

4. After the attempted abortion, what is Corinna's immediate state?

5. What advice is Ovid giving to men in Amores 3:4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ovid waiting outside a door in Amores 1:6? What does he hope will happen?

2. What difference does Ovid and his father have about his career?

3. In Amores book 3, why does Ovid regret writing elegies of Corinna and her beauty?

4. Why is Elegy lame and "short in one foot" in the beginning of Amores book 2?

5. Briefly describe Ovid's dream. What does the dream interpreter say it means?

6. What does Ovid hope to accomplish by telling the story of the river that falls in love with the wandering woman to the stream?

7. What is the event that happens to cause Ovid to first offer an elegy and then scorn regarding the writing tablet?

8. Describe Ovid at the chariot races.

9. What does Dipsas tell Corinna?

10. Who dies in Amores 2? Does this character have a special ability?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After the Cures For Love, there is a fragment of the text that remains from his poem On Facial Treatment for Ladies. This fragment gives us a glimpse into what makeup and its applications might have been like two thousand years ago in Rome. Further this text with some research on the side and discuss the history and changes of makeup over time.

Part 1. Summarize and explain the information in On Facial Treatment for Ladies and other sources you have used.

Part 2. What would it have been like to use cosmetics as they were then?

Part 3. How have cosmetics changed over time to become how they are today? How is the experience of the user different?

Essay Topic 2

In the end of Amores Book 1, Ovid names several other authors as timeless and enduring. Write an essay about these other authors.

Part 1. Who are the authors that Ovid names? What do they do?

Part 2. Are these authors still well known?

Part 3. How does the fame of these authors compare to Ovid's?

Essay Topic 3

There are many social mores regarding sexuality that from Rome in Ovid's time that are similar to those in America in the 1960's. Discuss those social mores.

Part 1. What part of the social mores of the two eras are worthy of comparison?

Part 2. How are they similar? How are they different?

Part 3. Has there been any "progress" or "evolution" since Rome in 2 AD or are we essentially the same?

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