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Which of the following was NOT a stoic philosopher?
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Which of the following philosophers is the only one not to have a connection with the southern Spanish city of Córdoba?
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Which of these Silver Latin writers was the grandson of Seneca the Elder and raised by his uncle Seneca the Younger?
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Which one of these renowned Roman writers did NOT originally hail from Spain?
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To what ancient work does the following quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby refer?
"It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night -- and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over."
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The "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling features a Professor of Divination. Divination, the study of signs from the gods to predict the future, was a crucial feature of Greek and Roman life. Which one of these Roman authors wrote a work, De Divinatione ("On Divination"), in which the characters debate the pros and cons of this practice?
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Which Roman emperor was lampooned in a play one of whose titles translates as that very emperor's "Pumpkinification"?
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"Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am) is a famous statement by ...
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Which one of these Roman writers was an eye-witness of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius near Pompeii in the year 79?
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Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 story The Purloined Letter -- the third of his so-called Tales of Ratiocination -- contains the epigraph "nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio" ("nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness").
True or false: This is a quote from the works of Roman philosopher Seneca.
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"Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again."
Who wrote this -- and on what occasion (or subject)?
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