Book Two of Eugene Onegin begins with a punning quotation of the exclamation “O, Rus!” from one of these poems. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this type of poem that inspired an Alexander Pushkin poem declaring “A monument I’ve raised not built with hands.” Horace wrote four books of these lyric poems, along with his Satires, Epistles, and Epodes.
ANSWER: odes [or carmina]
[10m] A ruler of this country colloquially titles a Horace ode that opens “Nunc est bibendum.” Pushkin’s adaptation of Horace’s “Monument Ode” replaces a second-line allusion to an object in this country with Alexander’s column.
ANSWER: Egypt [or al-Misr; accept Ancient Egypt; accept er en kemet] (That is the “Cleopatra Ode.”)
[10h] The last lines of Pushkin’s “Arion” draw on Horace’s image of wet clothes offered to Neptune in the ode to this woman. Horace’s Ode 1.5 (“Book 1, Poem 5”) opens by asking this woman “What sweet boy among the many roses, [...] is thrusting close against you under your sweet grotto.”
ANSWER: Pyrrha
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