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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sorceress & wife of Jason; killed their children to get revenge on Jason for leaving her
fasces
Medea
labor vincit omnia
mellifluous
2. Characterized by sitting & inactive (from sedet- to sit)
in toto
sedentary
mentor
Paris
3. Temple devoted to Athena; located on the Acropolis of Athens
Mt. Vesuvius
Romulus and Remus
plebeian
Parthenon
4. The golden wool of a ram sought by Jason and the Argonauts
Achilles' heel
Atlas
veto
Golden Fleece
5. One of the seven hills of Rome & south of the forum; the site of the imperial palace
atrium
the Fates
Palatine Hill
epic
6. Religion in Which many gods are worshipped (from Greek poly 'many' and theoi 'gods')
polytheism
vice versa
veto
pontifex maximus
7. Titan who had to hold up the heavens on his shoulders as punishment for rebelling against Zeus
Prometheus
quid pro quo
Atlas
paterfamilias
8. 'under penalty' a written order for a person to come testify in court
the furies
Jove
sub poena
Homer
9. 'Thus passes the glory of the world.' i.e. 'Worldly things are fleeting.'
sic transit gloria mundi
Augustus
et tu & Brute?
vice versa
10. 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
Theseus
persona non grata
Pandora
sine qua non
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
Tartarus
pontifex maximus
rara avis
tempus fugit
12. The god of the sky; created the Titans with Gaia & Mother Earth
cornucopia
Homer
Uranus
tribune
13. Perseus slayed Medusa the Gorgon
Sicily
Cronus/Saturn
Dionysus/Bacchus
Perseus & Medusa
14. Queen of Sparta Who was promised to Paris by Aphrodite for choosing her (Aphrodite) as the fairest goddess; Helen was already married to Menelaus and her kidnapping began the Trojan War
M (Roman numeral)
Sparta
Helen
I (Roman numeral)
15. The people in control of the Italian peninsula before Rome began to spread
Theseus
Sparta
Etruscans
laurels
16. 'Word for word'
verbatim
Priam
per annum
rara avis
17. The male head of a Roman family
pax vobiscum
paterfamilias
terra firma
mores
18. 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')
Hermes/Mercury
rostra
Punic Wars
in loco parentis
19. A teacher Who is like a parent; comes from the Mentor & Odysseus' old friend & whom he left in charge of his son Telemachus when he went off to the Trojan War
Poseidon/Neptune
pax vobiscum
rostra
mentor
20. Greek god of nature; had the torso and head of a man & but the legs and horns of a goat
i.e./id est
Ares/Mars
Pan
Romulus and Remus
21. Sweet-sounding (literally 'flowing like honey')
via
p.o./ per os
the furies
mellifluous
22. 'Time flies/flees'
Ares/Mars
ego
tempus fugit
in loco parentis
23. The norms or values of a society
paterfamilias
mores
P.S./post scriptum
Pompeii
24. 'per day'
i.e./id est
per diem
in memoriam
Hydra
25. A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage & a Phoenician city in Northern Africa & for control of the Mediterranean (264-146 BC)
Penelope
Tartarus
Punic Wars
Medea
26. Prince of Troy Who was killed by Achilles in the Iliad; Achilles tied Hector's dead body to the back of his chariot and dragged it around the city walls three times
paterfamilias
muses
Hector
vice versa
27. The three goddesses who determine a person's life: when he will be born & how long he will live & and when he will die; one sister spins the thread of life & the second measures out a certain length & and the third cuts it at the end of the person's
Zeus/Jupiter
Zeus/Jupiter
the Fates
e pluribus unum
28. A serpent-like monster with many heads and poisonous breath; when one head got cut off & it grew two more; killed by Hercules as his second labor
Ariadne
Icarus & Daedalus
Mt. Vesuvius
Hydra
29. Sailed with the Argonauts to take the Golden Fleece
Jason
Hera/Juno
labor vincit omnia
Helen
30. In early mythology & the resting place of heroes; the later mythology & where good people went in the afterlife
toga
Elysian Fields/Elysium
persona non grata
Perseus & Medusa
31. Reception hall (like the living room) in a Roman house
atrium
Palatine Hill
lapsus linguae
Demeter/Ceres
32. The daughter of king Minos of Crete & who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth after he killed the minotaur
Ariadne
Penelope
Spartacus
Daedalus
33. God of the sea
Poseidon/Neptune
tribune
Ithaca
et al./ et alii
34. A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant & used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on
satyr
i.e./id est
papyrus
Parthenon
35. Usually referring to Julius Caesar & the Roman dictator Who was assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15th) 44 BCE
Caesar
Mt. Olympus
Palatine Hill
quid pro quo
36. Volcano which erupted in AD 79 and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum
Carthage
Atlas
Mt. Vesuvius
per diem
37. Temple devoted to Athena; located on the Acropolis of Athens
Parthenon
semper fidelis
omniscient
Demeter/Ceres
38. 'After death'
i.e./id est
sedentary
sedentary
post mortem
39. 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
Uranus
apple of discord
Dionysus/Bacchus
Hannibal
40. 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)
Cerberus
jovial
Gorgons
Ithaca
41. A town on the western coast of Italy destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuius in AD 79
satyr
Sisyphus
carpe diem
Pompeii
42. 10
X (Roman numeral)
Pantheon
magnanimous
ego
43. Half-man & half-goat creatures; companions of Pan and Dionysus
satyr
Tiber
epic
Atlas
44. 'horn of plenty' a symbol of food and abundance
sic transit gloria mundi
cornucopia
post mortem
Hephaestus/Vulcan
45. Athenian prince who killed the Minotaur
Theseus
Poseidon/Neptune
Romulus and Remus
Iliad
46. 'A rare bird' - something unique/rare
rara avis
magnanimous
the furies
Iliad
47. Refers to an action or condition necessary for something to happen
e pluribus unum
sine qua non
per annum
mosaic
48. 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.
Medea
sub rosa
tempus fugit
Saturnalia
49. The three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the Underworld
agora/forum
Mt. Olympus
per diem
Cerberus
50. Literally & the apple that Eris (goddess of strife) threw in front of Hera & Aphrodite & and Athena to cause a dispute over Who was the fairest; figuratively & anything which causes a dispute
ego
apple of discord
Ares/Mars
ex officio