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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'from the office &' 'by right of office' - used to refer to someone Who is a member of a group (a board & committee & council & etc.) because they hold another office/position
terra firma
ex officio
apple of discord
veto
2. Goddess of childbirth; married to Zeus; queen of the gods
L (Roman numeral)
Ides of March
Hera/Juno
mellifluous
3. 'beware of the dog'
Cyclops
sedentary
cave canem
Punic Wars
4. Figuratively 'secretly.' Aphrodite gave her son Eros a rose. Eros gave it to Harpocrates & the god of silence & to ensure that his mother's love affairs remained a secret.
Ithaca
mosaic
sub rosa
Tantalus
5. Goddess of grain & the harvest & and the seasons; mother of Persephone/Proserpina
lapsus linguae
Demeter/Ceres
Romulus and Remus
mosaic
6. 500
D (Roman numeral)
ego
muses
vice versa
7. 'Thus always & to tyrants.' Allegedly said by Brutus during the assassination of Caesar. John Wilkes Booth also shouted it after shooting President Lincoln. It is now the motto of Virginia.
sic semper tyrannis
patrician
status quo
via
8. Home of the Greek gods
ego
Mt. Olympus
Dionysus/Bacchus
Pax Romana
9. King of Ithaca who came up with the idea of using the Trojan horse to defeat the city of Troy; hero of the Odyssey
Palatine Hill
Icarus & Daedalus
Odysseus/Ulysses
Eros/Cupid
10. 'The other way around'
Golden Fleece
agora/forum
vice versa
semper paratus
11. Blind poet Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
tempus fugit
veto
veni & vidi & vici
Homer
12. Literally refers to the heel of Achilles (a character from the Iliad who killed Hector)
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13. 10
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
X (Roman numeral)
per capita
Medea
14. The ferryman for the river Styx going into the underworld
V (Roman numeral)
sine qua non
Charon
patrician
15. The king of the gods; god of thunder and lightning
Theseus
Ge/Gaea
Prometheus
Zeus/Jupiter
16. 'per head' 'per person'
per diem
per capita
Orpheus & Eurydice
L (Roman numeral)
17. Mother Earth; the wife of Uranus & the sky; she gave birth to the Titans & the Cyclopes & and the Hundred-Handed Ones
ad infinitum
jovial
N.B./nota bene
Ge/Gaea
18. Out of her curiosity & she opened a box containing all the bad things in the world; she put the lid on just in time & so that hope did not escape from the box & too
labor vincit omnia
papyrus
Pandora
Spartacus
19. 100
C (Roman numeral)
toga
ego
consul
20. Twin brothers & raised by a wolf; Romulus killed Remus and founded Rome
Romulus and Remus
D (Roman numeral)
the Odyssey
Chaos
21. A picture made from small bits of glass or pottery
C (Roman numeral)
mosaic
valedictorian
Etruscans
22. A mural painted directly onto wet plaster (fresco means 'fresh' in Italian)
Atlas
veni & vidi & vici
fresco
Minotaur
23. The river surrounding the Underworld
Homer
Styx
Minotaur
Orpheus & Eurydice
24. 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
ambrosia and nectar
ad nauseam
Troy
Trojan Horse
25. One of the 12 Titans & father of Zeus/Jupiter & who swallowed his children in an attempt to keep from being overthrown
Cronus/Saturn
P.M./post meridiem
Prometheus
summa cum laude
26. Was chosen by Zeus to settle the argument of Who was the fairest of the goddesses; he chose Aphrodite because she promised him the most beautiful woman in the world if he chose her
Ares/Mars
Paris
in memoriam
polytheism
27. 'To the point of sickness' - doing/saying something over and over until everyone is sick and tired of it
Perseus & Medusa
ad nauseam
Theseus
Paris
28. Epic poem written by Home chronicling the Trojan War
in loco parentis
Augustus
post mortem
Iliad
29. Lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus
I (Roman numeral)
Minotaur
Pegasus
P.M./post meridiem
30. 'great-souled & high-minded'
magnanimous
Delphic Oracle
Poseidon/Neptune
finis
31. God of metallurgy (metal working); married to Aphrodite
carpe diem
Nike/Victoria
Iliad
Hephaestus/Vulcan
32. 'note well' i.e. take note
Pan
Apollo/Apollo
N.B./nota bene
Cronus/Saturn
33. 'That is' used for further explanation: 'in other words...'
Icarus & Daedalus
Tiber
i.e./id est
Colosseum
34. Carthaginian general who attacked Italy by crossing the Italian Alps in the 2nd Punic War; He was eventually defeated by Scipio at the Battle of Zama
i.e./id est
P.S./post scriptum
per diem
Hannibal
35. Temple devoted to Athena; located on the Acropolis of Athens
Parthenon
verbatim
iota
veni & vidi & vici
36. Sweet-sounding (literally 'flowing like honey')
tribune
mellifluous
Pan
Delphic Oracle
37. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
D (Roman numeral)
Caesar
Sisyphus
Hades/Pluto
38. 'in the year of the Lord &' designating the time period after Christ's birth
A.D./anno Domini
Daedalus
p.o./ per os
Hydra
39. 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
per capita
Cyclops
Homer
rara avis
40. The wife of Odysseus; a model of faithfulness to one's husband
Chaos
Troy
Penelope
Poseidon/Neptune
41. Volcano which erupted in AD 79 and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum
Mt. Vesuvius
verbatim
apple of discord
Tantalus
42. Religion in Which many gods are worshipped (from Greek poly 'many' and theoi 'gods')
via
Romulus and Remus
post mortem
polytheism
43. 'A slip of the tongue'
lapsus linguae
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Minotaur
mellifluous
44. 'in memory of'
Gorgons
Charon
in memoriam
Eros/Cupid
45. Goddess of love
patrician
Aphrodite/Venus
I (Roman numeral)
the furies
46. King of Troy during the Trojan War; father of Hector and Paris; begged Achilles to give his son Hector's body back to be properly buried (Achilles had been dragging it around the city)
aqueduct
pro tempore
Circus Maximus
Priam
47. 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
D (Roman numeral)
Carthage
Icarus & Daedalus
toga
48. Spirits who carry out curses and torture for wrongdoing toward one's family member (s)
Cyclops
mosaic
the furies
Ides of March
49. A large horse and chariot racing track in Rome
Minotaur
Circus Maximus
satyr
Spartacus
50. The three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the Underworld
in toto
Cerberus
Orpheus & Eurydice
Jove