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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 50
magnanimous
L (Roman numeral)
fresco
papyrus
2. 'doctor/teacher of philosophy' - an advanced academic degree
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
Mt. Parnassus
cornucopia
D (Roman numeral)
3. The god of the sky; created the Titans with Gaia & Mother Earth
P.S./post scriptum
Uranus
i.e./id est
in memoriam
4. Goddess of grain & the harvest & and the seasons; mother of Persephone/Proserpina
Demeter/Ceres
puerile
Orpheus & Eurydice
Helen
5. A long poem that narrates the deeds of a hero or the history of a nation & e.g. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
polytheism
Pax Romana
epic
terra firma
6. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
puerile
Hades/Pluto
in loco parentis
sic semper tyrannis
7. 500
SPQR
Eros/Cupid
Golden Fleece
D (Roman numeral)
8. 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)
X (Roman numeral)
i.e./id est
puerile
Priam
9. Mother Earth; the wife of Uranus & the sky; she gave birth to the Titans & the Cyclopes & and the Hundred-Handed Ones
Romulus and Remus
toga
mellifluous
Ge/Gaea
10. 100
Aegean Sea
Aphrodite/Venus
C (Roman numeral)
Medea
11. 'one out of many' - found on most US minted coins and the back of the dollar bill
Elysian Fields/Elysium
P.S./post scriptum
e pluribus unum
et al./ et alii
12. 'To the point of sickness' - doing/saying something over and over until everyone is sick and tired of it
P.S./post scriptum
Penelope
ad nauseam
ambrosia and nectar
13. 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
Odysseus/Ulysses
Mt. Parnassus
Atlas
Paris
14. King of Ithaca who came up with the idea of using the Trojan horse to defeat the city of Troy; hero of the Odyssey
Gorgons
Odysseus/Ulysses
agora/forum
per diem
15. 'I refuse &' used by the president of the US to stop any bill he sees unfit from passing
veto
P.S./post scriptum
magnum opus
Hannibal
16. Temple devoted to Athena; located on the Acropolis of Athens
ambrosia and nectar
terra firma
Excelsior!
Parthenon
17. In early mythology & the resting place of heroes; the later mythology & where good people went in the afterlife
L (Roman numeral)
Elysian Fields/Elysium
toga
sub poena
18. 'With highest honors' graduating from college in the highest grade scale
Ares/Mars
summa cum laude
finis
terra incognita
19. 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
paterfamilias
atrium
apple of discord
finis
20. 'per day'
P.M./post meridiem
per diem
Spartacus
D (Roman numeral)
21. 'firm ground/solid earth'
labyrinth
Mt. Parnassus
toga
terra firma
22. 'After death'
paterfamilias
mosaic
post mortem
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
23. 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
p.o./ per os
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Iliad
Helen
24. 'for the time being' - temporary
Iliad
apple of discord
pro tempore
terra firma
25. The 15th of March & the day in 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated
Homer
Pegasus
Medea
Ides of March
26. 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
tribune
Hector
Apollo/Apollo
27. 'in the whole &' 'as a whole &' 'totally'; ex: The suggestions were adopted in toto.
aqueduct
post mortem
Delphic Oracle
in toto
28. 'horn of plenty' a symbol of food and abundance
Hannibal
Hermes/Mercury
Prometheus
cornucopia
29. The male head of a Roman family
Icarus & Daedalus
Jove
paterfamilias
Punic Wars
30. 'With highest honors' graduating from college in the highest grade scale
Augustus
Atlas
summa cum laude
Pegasus
31. God of the sun & light & reason & and the lyre
Cyclops
Romulus and Remus
Hannibal
Apollo/Apollo
32. 'An unwelcome person' - used in diplomacy to indicate a person Who is barred from entering a certain country
Ge/Gaea
SPQR
persona non grata
semper paratus
33. 'And others'
lapsus linguae
Icarus & Daedalus
A.D./anno Domini
et al./ et alii
34. The daughter of king Minos of Crete & who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth after he killed the minotaur
paterfamilias
Mt. Olympus
sic semper tyrannis
Ariadne
35. Lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus
Odysseus/Ulysses
Minotaur
Ge/Gaea
Hercules/Heracles
36. Sweet-sounding (literally 'flowing like honey')
Priam
mellifluous
agora/forum
I (Roman numeral)
37. 'in the year of the Lord &' designating the time period after Christ's birth
Etruscans
verbatim
A.D./anno Domini
Pandora
38. 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)
quid pro quo
Atlas
Gorgons
cave canem
39. The people in control of the Italian peninsula before Rome began to spread
terra firma
pontifex maximus
Etruscans
Hera/Juno
40. Large island off the southeast coast of Italy; home of Mt. Etna & a huge volcano; where the Cyclopes lived in the Odyssey
Golden Fleece
omniscient
Sicily
muses
41. 5
V (Roman numeral)
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
et al./ et alii
errare humanum est
42. 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
muses
Sisyphus
rara avis
Achilles' heel
43. 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
the Fates
Aegean Sea
vice versa
toga
44. Good-humored & jolly (ancient astrologers thought that the planet Jupiter fostered cheerfulness)
Palatine Hill
jovial
Dionysus/Bacchus
P.M./post meridiem
45. 'in memory of'
V (Roman numeral)
in memoriam
in toto
Hermes/Mercury
46. Goddess of love
Aphrodite/Venus
apple of discord
Punic Wars
errare humanum est
47. 'in memory of'
valedictorian
M (Roman numeral)
in memoriam
sic semper tyrannis
48. 'seize the day'
Pandora
carpe diem
sub rosa
Apollo/Apollo
49. A large horse and chariot racing track in Rome
muses
tempus fugit
Medea
Circus Maximus
50. Spirits who carry out curses and torture for wrongdoing toward one's family member (s)
the furies
Chaos
Persephone/Proserpina
Pax Romana