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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'With highest honors' graduating from college in the highest grade scale
Delphic Oracle
summa cum laude
jovial
Etruscans
2. Maze under the palace of Palace of Minos at Crete & where the Minotaur (half man & half bull) was thought to have been imprisoned
labyrinth
Theseus
veto
L (Roman numeral)
3. 'boyish &' 'childlike' (from puer- boy)
puerile
Troy
Mt. Parnassus
persona non grata
4. 'doctor/teacher of philosophy' - an advanced academic degree
per capita
Prometheus
Poseidon/Neptune
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
5. 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
Trojan Horse
muses
ad infinitum
Delphic Oracle
6. Doctor of medicine
status quo
et al./ et alii
sic semper tyrannis
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
7. 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
Sisyphus
Artemis/Diana
Helen
Cronus/Saturn
8. 'unknown land'
rara avis
terra incognita
Sisyphus
Romulus and Remus
9. Goddess of love
P.M./post meridiem
Aphrodite/Venus
sub poena
marathon
10. 'A rare bird' - something unique/rare
X (Roman numeral)
M (Roman numeral)
rara avis
Tantalus
11. 5
mosaic
C (Roman numeral)
Hestia/Vesta
V (Roman numeral)
12. A state of disorganized matter from which the gods and the world were created
Nike/Victoria
Theseus
P.S./post scriptum
Chaos
13. Sea to the west of Greece; named after King Aegeus after he drowned himself in the sea thinking his son Theseus was dead
Aegean Sea
veni & vidi & vici
Troy
Tantalus
14. The Underworld; in early mythology & everyone went to Tartarus after they died; in later mythology & only bad people went to Tartarus after they died
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
post mortem
pax vobiscum
Tartarus
15. 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)
atrium
Poseidon/Neptune
M (Roman numeral)
Priam
16. A town on the western coast of Italy destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuius in AD 79
Pompeii
Ariadne
Circus Maximus
V (Roman numeral)
17. A member of one of the original aristocratic families of Rome; 'aristocratic'
veni & vidi & vici
patrician
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
errare humanum est
18. 'for the sake of an example' - abbreviation used when providing an example
Persephone/Proserpina
Hades/Pluto
laurels
e.g./exempli gratia
19. Goddess of wisdom
Delphic Oracle
Athena/Minerva
rara avis
fresco
20. 'Time flies/flees'
tempus fugit
Styx
in memoriam
Sicily
21. Greek god of nature; had the torso and head of a man & but the legs and horns of a goat
polytheism
sic semper tyrannis
Pan
tempus fugit
22. Sea to the west of Greece; named after King Aegeus after he drowned himself in the sea thinking his son Theseus was dead
Aegean Sea
the Odyssey
et al./ et alii
in memoriam
23. The garment which signified a Roman man's citizenship
toga
N.B./nota bene
ad nauseam
the furies
24. Female monsters who had snakes for hair and whose horrifying gaze could turn a man to stone if he looked at them (Medusa was one of the Gorgons)
Gorgons
Caesar
mosaic
Ge/Gaea
25. In early mythology & the resting place of heroes; the later mythology & where good people went in the afterlife
Elysian Fields/Elysium
Tiber
Hades/Pluto
Aegean Sea
26. 'Time flies/flees'
labor vincit omnia
mellifluous
tempus fugit
quid pro quo
27. God of metallurgy (metal working); married to Aphrodite
SPQR
laurels
atrium
Hephaestus/Vulcan
28. Volcano which erupted in AD 79 and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum
cornucopia
Athena/Minerva
sine qua non
Mt. Vesuvius
29. Titan best known for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to humans; He was punished by being chained to a rock and having his liver eaten by a bird everyday
Styx
in toto
Prometheus
per capita
30. The 9 goddesses who looked after the arts and inspired men in those arts
muses
sine qua non
Artemis/Diana
ex officio
31. 'for the time being' - temporary
pro tempore
agenda
mea culpa
Zeus/Jupiter
32. 'I refuse &' used by the president of the US to stop any bill he sees unfit from passing
Apollo/Apollo
per annum
Jason
veto
33. Literally 'the greatest bridge' -- the chief priest of Roman religion (later & the emperor took on this role); now used to refer to the Pope & the head of the Catholic Church
vs./versus
pontifex maximus
Eros/Cupid
Penelope
34. Reception hall (like the living room) in a Roman house
Mt. Olympus
Excelsior!
atrium
satyr
35. The norms or values of a society
Romulus and Remus
fresco
mores
N.B./nota bene
36. Greek island in the Ionian Sea; the home of Odysseus
muses
Romulus and Remus
X (Roman numeral)
Ithaca
37. The king of the gods; god of thunder and lightning
Troy
e pluribus unum
Zeus/Jupiter
Apollo/Apollo
38. '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
lapsus linguae
per diem
A.M./ante meridiem
ex officio
39. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War
mea culpa
mores
finis
the Odyssey
40. 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
rostra
Theseus
carpe diem
Hannibal
41. Challenged Athena to a weaving contest and was turned into a spider for her excessive pride
per annum
Arachne
mentor
Medea
42. Epic poem written by Home chronicling the Trojan War
Carthage
Iliad
Ares/Mars
tribune
43. The king of the gods; god of thunder and lightning
Chaos
Elysian Fields/Elysium
sub rosa
Zeus/Jupiter
44. 'one out of many' - found on most US minted coins and the back of the dollar bill
e pluribus unum
Nike/Victoria
laurels
rostra
45. Kingdom in Asia Minor which fought against Greece in Homer's Iliad
ad infinitum
N.B./nota bene
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
Troy
46. Eurydice died on their wedding day. Orpheus went down to the Underworld to bring her back. Hades agreed & on the condition that Eurydice would follow behind Orpheus on their way up to the mortal world and he couldn't check to make sure She was behind
agenda
Orpheus & Eurydice
Carthage
Pompeii
47. Characterized by sitting & inactive (from sedet- to sit)
labor vincit omnia
via
sedentary
Odysseus/Ulysses
48. The technical biological term for the human species
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49. City-state in ancient Greece known for its powerful army; fought against Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars
status quo
Prometheus
iota
Sparta
50. 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
via
Paris
tribune
semper fidelis