Question
St. Augustine recounts theaters full of “stupid and ignorant people” who applauded after the delivery of this play’s line, “I’m human: nothing human is not my concern.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play by Terence in which Menedemus punishes himself by working his field.
ANSWER: The Self-Tormentor [or Heauton Timorumenos]
[10e] This author quoted that line from The Self-Tormentor in one of his letters to Lucilius. This Stoic philosopher and tutor to Nero wrote nearly every extant Roman tragedy.
ANSWER: Seneca [or Seneca the Younger; or Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger]
[10h] The only other Roman playwright Seneca quotes in his letters to Lucilius is this author using his line, “to be praised by a well-praised hero.” This creator of the fabula praetexta genre is the first native Italian playwright and wrote the mostly lost epic poem The Punic War.
ANSWER: Gnaeus Naevius
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