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Classical Literacy

Subject : literacy
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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






2. Festival of Saturn held on December 17th & during which social roles were temporarily reversed (slaves enjoyed relaxed discipline & etc)






3. The god of the sky; created the Titans with Gaia & Mother Earth






4. 'To the point of sickness' - doing/saying something over and over until everyone is sick and tired of it






5. Blind poet Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey






6. 'Thus passes the glory of the world.' i.e. 'Worldly things are fleeting.'






7. 'And the rest' usually seen at the end of a list of things & instead of listing everything






8. Half-man & half-goat creatures; companions of Pan and Dionysus






9. The king of the gods; god of thunder and lightning






10. 'All-knowing'






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






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')






13. 'for the time being' - temporary






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






15. A mural painted directly onto wet plaster (fresco means 'fresh' in Italian)






16. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War






17. Home of the Greek gods






18. Market place/business center






19. 'unknown land'






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.






21. Goddess of wisdom






22. Lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus






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






24. Doctor of medicine






25. Perseus slayed Medusa the Gorgon






26. 'Word for word'






27. 'in the whole &' 'as a whole &' 'totally'; ex: The suggestions were adopted in toto.






28. 'The things that must be done' - a to-do list






29. One of the 12 Titans & father of Zeus/Jupiter & who swallowed his children in an attempt to keep from being overthrown






30. A long poem that narrates the deeds of a hero or the history of a nation & e.g. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey






31. Goddess of victory






32. One of the seven hills of Rome & south of the forum; the site of the imperial palace






33. 'per year'






34. Greek god of nature; had the torso and head of a man & but the legs and horns of a goat






35. Volcano which erupted in AD 79 and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum






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






37. The arena for gladiatorial games in Rome (also known as the Flavian Amphitheater)






38. A state of disorganized matter from which the gods and the world were created






39. Volcano which erupted in AD 79 and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum






40. Inventor who created the Labyrinth where the Minotaur lived






41. God of metallurgy (metal working); married to Aphrodite






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






43. God of the Underworld/Tartarus






44. 'I'






45. 'in the year of the Lord &' designating the time period after Christ's birth






46. Sorceress & wife of Jason; killed their children to get revenge on Jason for leaving her






47. 'peace be with you'






48. Reception hall (like the living room) in a Roman house






49. Literally refers to the heel of Achilles (a character from the Iliad who killed Hector)

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