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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Inventor who created the Labyrinth where the Minotaur lived
Daedalus
omniscient
Athens/Acropolis
persona non grata
2. 'I came & I saw & I conquered &' famous words of Julius Caesar
Hades/Pluto
Sicily
veni & vidi & vici
Gorgons
3. 'by mouth' - used on prescription medicines that have to be taken orally
labor vincit omnia
p.o./ per os
Cerberus
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
4. The technical biological term for the human species
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5. Characterized by sitting & inactive (from sedet- to sit)
the furies
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
Etruscans
sedentary
6. Goddess of grain & the harvest & and the seasons; mother of Persephone/Proserpina
Sicily
terra incognita
agora/forum
Demeter/Ceres
7. The daughter of king Minos of Crete & who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth after he killed the minotaur
via
ego
Ariadne
Persephone/Proserpina
8. The messenger god; god of thieves and travelers; son of Zeus; invented the lyre; escorted people to the Underworld when they died
C (Roman numeral)
laurels
Hermes/Mercury
Athena/Minerva
9. The golden wool of a ram sought by Jason and the Argonauts
Trojan Horse
SPQR
Golden Fleece
Homer
10. 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)
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Priam
Demeter/Ceres
Hera/Juno
11. 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
Cronus/Saturn
Ge/Gaea
12. 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
in toto
Paris
fasces
Daedalus
13. Maze under the palace of Palace of Minos at Crete & where the Minotaur (half man & half bull) was thought to have been imprisoned
status quo
pax vobiscum
labyrinth
Medea
14. The city in Northern Africa that the Romans fought and destroyed during the Punic Wars (264-146 BC.)
the Odyssey
agenda
P.S./post scriptum
Carthage
15. 'That is' used for further explanation: 'in other words...'
P.S./post scriptum
Hannibal
omniscient
i.e./id est
16. Goddess of the hearth
paterfamilias
Dionysus/Bacchus
Hestia/Vesta
Hermes/Mercury
17. 'for the sake of an example' - abbreviation used when providing an example
sine qua non
Mt. Olympus
e.g./exempli gratia
Achilles' heel
18. Sweet-sounding (literally 'flowing like honey')
Hydra
Nike/Victoria
in memoriam
mellifluous
19. 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
Cyclops
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
Icarus & Daedalus
muses
20. Good-humored & jolly (ancient astrologers thought that the planet Jupiter fostered cheerfulness)
N.B./nota bene
jovial
L (Roman numeral)
Palatine Hill
21. 'unknown land'
Sisyphus
terra incognita
sine qua non
Trojan Horse
22. Goddess of the hunt
Uranus
Pompeii
Artemis/Diana
Hannibal
23. 'The things that must be done' - a to-do list
agenda
Spartacus
Minotaur
epic
24. 5
Chaos
Elysian Fields/Elysium
V (Roman numeral)
Helen
25. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War
the Odyssey
Pax Romana
Mt. Parnassus
Charon
26. Goddess of childbirth; married to Zeus; queen of the gods
Hera/Juno
P.M./post meridiem
satyr
Augustus
27. The 15th of March & the day in 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated
Pompeii
mellifluous
Ides of March
semper paratus
28. 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
Eros/Cupid
Trojan Horse
Jove
D (Roman numeral)
29. 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
e pluribus unum
toga
the Fates
valedictorian
30. 'That is' used for further explanation: 'in other words...'
Pan
i.e./id est
terra firma
Nike/Victoria
31. A modern day race of 26.2 miles; from Marathon in Greece & the scene of a victory over the Persians in 490 BC; the modern race is based on the tradition that a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens (26 miles) with the news.
papyrus
Delphic Oracle
marathon
Hera/Juno
32. Blind poet Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Zeus/Jupiter
verbatim
Minotaur
Homer
33. 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
D (Roman numeral)
puerile
Pan
Helen
34. First emperor of the Roman Empire; adopted son of Julius Caesar; member of the 2nd Triumvirate; also known as Octavian
magnum opus
sub rosa
Augustus
Prometheus
35. Characterized by sitting & inactive (from sedet- to sit)
semper paratus
sedentary
muses
Pompeii
36. 'before midday &' in the morning & before noon
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
tribune
A.M./ante meridiem
Nike/Victoria
37. Lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus
Minotaur
magnanimous
Hydra
Cronus/Saturn
38. 'note well' i.e. take note
Romulus and Remus
Etruscans
N.B./nota bene
Charon
39. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (i); commonly used in the phrase 'not one iota &' meaning 'not one bit'
iota
Troy
Mt. Parnassus
Eros/Cupid
40. 'my fault' ; tua culpa -'your fault'
mea culpa
Tiber
A.D./anno Domini
Colosseum
41. 'boyish &' 'childlike' (from puer- boy)
Mt. Vesuvius
fresco
puerile
Hermes/Mercury
42. The 200 year period of peace which began under the rule of Augustus
laurels
status quo
Jove
Pax Romana
43. A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage & a Phoenician city in Northern Africa & for control of the Mediterranean (264-146 BC)
Priam
Punic Wars
Hydra
magnanimous
44. Goddess of victory
Iliad
magnum opus
Nike/Victoria
ex libris
45. Sea to the west of Greece; named after King Aegeus after he drowned himself in the sea thinking his son Theseus was dead
Priam
Aegean Sea
Ides of March
Uranus
46. The 9 goddesses who looked after the arts and inspired men in those arts
Elysian Fields/Elysium
ego
epic
muses
47. God of war
Cyclops
Ares/Mars
sic semper tyrannis
rostra
48. 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
Cerberus
cave canem
V (Roman numeral)
Sisyphus
49. 50
L (Roman numeral)
A.D./anno Domini
marathon
Achilles' heel
50. 'An unwelcome person' - used in diplomacy to indicate a person Who is barred from entering a certain country
persona non grata
Ithaca
Chaos
Aphrodite/Venus