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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the responsibilities of a parent
Aphrodite/Venus
Hephaestus/Vulcan
et tu & Brute?
in loco parentis
2. Festival of Saturn held on December 17th & during which social roles were temporarily reversed (slaves enjoyed relaxed discipline & etc)
veto
Atlas
Saturnalia
Cerberus
3. The god of the sky; created the Titans with Gaia & Mother Earth
Uranus
sub poena
sub poena
Minotaur
4. 'To the point of sickness' - doing/saying something over and over until everyone is sick and tired of it
muses
ad nauseam
etc./et cetera
mentor
5. Blind poet Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
Spartacus
epic
Achilles' heel
6. 'Thus passes the glory of the world.' i.e. 'Worldly things are fleeting.'
per annum
sic transit gloria mundi
Hera/Juno
Paris
7. 'And the rest' usually seen at the end of a list of things & instead of listing everything
etc./et cetera
post mortem
vs./versus
Zeus/Jupiter
8. Half-man & half-goat creatures; companions of Pan and Dionysus
I (Roman numeral)
satyr
Athens/Acropolis
marathon
9. The king of the gods; god of thunder and lightning
Zeus/Jupiter
Circus Maximus
pro tempore
polytheism
10. 'All-knowing'
Trojan Horse
Troy
V (Roman numeral)
omniscient
11. The Underworld; in early mythology & everyone went to Tartarus after they died; in later mythology & only bad people went to Tartarus after they died
Hera/Juno
Persephone/Proserpina
Tartarus
Jason
12. Speaker's platform in the forum & which was decorated with the prows of ships the Romans captured in war (rostrum means 'beak & prow of a ship')
Hercules/Heracles
Sparta
rostra
Homer
13. 'for the time being' - temporary
rostra
Pompeii
puerile
pro tempore
14. King punished in Tartarus by having to roll a stone up a hill continuously for eternity; when he reached the top & the stone rolled to the bottom again
Pandora
Sisyphus
Styx
omniscient
15. A mural painted directly onto wet plaster (fresco means 'fresh' in Italian)
valedictorian
fresco
via
Cyclops
16. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War
the Odyssey
Minotaur
Carthage
Hector
17. Home of the Greek gods
Mt. Olympus
per annum
in memoriam
Ides of March
18. Market place/business center
Hades/Pluto
et tu & Brute?
SPQR
agora/forum
19. 'unknown land'
Augustus
lapsus linguae
veto
terra incognita
20. 'from the library of' used as an inscription on a bookplate to show the name of the book's owner: ex libris Mark Twain.
Pegasus
V (Roman numeral)
ex libris
Tartarus
21. Goddess of wisdom
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
Athena/Minerva
Troy
Pegasus
22. Lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus
lapsus linguae
Ides of March
Hector
Minotaur
23. One-eyed children of Ouranos/Uranus and Gaea (Mother Earth); sided with Zeus during the war with the Titans; were helpers of the smith-god Hephaestus
Cyclops
pontifex maximus
X (Roman numeral)
tribune
24. Doctor of medicine
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
Ares/Mars
A.D./anno Domini
Hermes/Mercury
25. Perseus slayed Medusa the Gorgon
Perseus & Medusa
magnanimous
veni & vidi & vici
Hydra
26. 'Word for word'
pontifex maximus
et tu & Brute?
Pax Romana
verbatim
27. 'in the whole &' 'as a whole &' 'totally'; ex: The suggestions were adopted in toto.
rara avis
magnanimous
polytheism
in toto
28. 'The things that must be done' - a to-do list
mores
Golden Fleece
cave canem
agenda
29. One of the 12 Titans & father of Zeus/Jupiter & who swallowed his children in an attempt to keep from being overthrown
Etruscans
sedentary
Colosseum
Cronus/Saturn
30. A long poem that narrates the deeds of a hero or the history of a nation & e.g. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Priam
epic
Punic Wars
apple of discord
31. Goddess of victory
Ge/Gaea
omniscient
Nike/Victoria
Chaos
32. One of the seven hills of Rome & south of the forum; the site of the imperial palace
Palatine Hill
mea culpa
fresco
in toto
33. 'per year'
Demeter/Ceres
N.B./nota bene
per annum
tempus fugit
34. Greek god of nature; had the torso and head of a man & but the legs and horns of a goat
Pan
summa cum laude
Achilles' heel
pontifex maximus
35. Volcano which erupted in AD 79 and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum
pontifex maximus
Mt. Vesuvius
Hector
Parthenon
36. Icarus was the son of Daedalus who flew too close to the sun with the wings his father made him from wax and feathers & and fell to his death
Icarus & Daedalus
SPQR
Hermes/Mercury
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
37. The arena for gladiatorial games in Rome (also known as the Flavian Amphitheater)
veni & vidi & vici
Ge/Gaea
A.M./ante meridiem
Colosseum
38. A state of disorganized matter from which the gods and the world were created
p.o./ per os
Sicily
Odysseus/Ulysses
Chaos
39. Volcano which erupted in AD 79 and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum
mentor
Troy
sedentary
Mt. Vesuvius
40. Inventor who created the Labyrinth where the Minotaur lived
satyr
Charon
Daedalus
p.o./ per os
41. God of metallurgy (metal working); married to Aphrodite
Punic Wars
Hephaestus/Vulcan
apple of discord
Medea
42. A hollow wooden horse built by the Greeks so that they could get into the walls of Troy. The Greeks pretended to pack up and leave from the war & but some hid in the horse which was later led into the walls of Troy by the Trojans (thinking it was a
Aphrodite/Venus
Trojan Horse
Hera/Juno
vs./versus
43. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
tribune
Cronus/Saturn
Styx
Hades/Pluto
44. 'I'
ego
A.D./anno Domini
Sparta
jovial
45. 'in the year of the Lord &' designating the time period after Christ's birth
in toto
A.D./anno Domini
Hannibal
plebeian
46. Sorceress & wife of Jason; killed their children to get revenge on Jason for leaving her
Artemis/Diana
Achilles' heel
Medea
in toto
47. 'peace be with you'
omniscient
pax vobiscum
via
Troy
48. Reception hall (like the living room) in a Roman house
Homer
Hephaestus/Vulcan
atrium
Atlas
49. Literally refers to the heel of Achilles (a character from the Iliad who killed Hector)
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50. 5
p.o./ per os
Athens/Acropolis
Palatine Hill
V (Roman numeral)