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Classical Literacy

Subject : literacy
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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






2. Goddess of childbirth; married to Zeus; queen of the gods






3. 'beware of the dog'






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.






5. Goddess of grain & the harvest & and the seasons; mother of Persephone/Proserpina






6. 500






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.






8. Home of the Greek gods






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






10. 'The other way around'






11. Blind poet Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey






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

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13. 10






14. The ferryman for the river Styx going into the underworld






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






16. 'per head' 'per person'






17. Mother Earth; the wife of Uranus & the sky; she gave birth to the Titans & the Cyclopes & and the Hundred-Handed Ones






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






19. 100






20. Twin brothers & raised by a wolf; Romulus killed Remus and founded Rome






21. A picture made from small bits of glass or pottery






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






23. The river surrounding the Underworld






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






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






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






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






28. Epic poem written by Home chronicling the Trojan War






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






30. 'great-souled & high-minded'






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






32. 'note well' i.e. take note






33. 'That is' used for further explanation: 'in other words...'






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






35. Temple devoted to Athena; located on the Acropolis of Athens






36. Sweet-sounding (literally 'flowing like honey')






37. God of the Underworld/Tartarus






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






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






40. The wife of Odysseus; a model of faithfulness to one's husband






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






42. Religion in Which many gods are worshipped (from Greek poly 'many' and theoi 'gods')






43. 'A slip of the tongue'






44. 'in memory of'






45. Goddess of love






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)






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






48. Spirits who carry out curses and torture for wrongdoing toward one's family member (s)






49. A large horse and chariot racing track in Rome






50. The three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the Underworld