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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Half-man & half-goat creatures; companions of Pan and Dionysus
Styx
satyr
Mt. Parnassus
Hades/Pluto
2. Victorious athletes & generals & and emperors wore crowns of made of the branches of the laurel tree to symbolize their victory; now & 'laurels' refer to someone's achievements
Tiber
X (Roman numeral)
laurels
sub rosa
3. The Underworld; in early mythology & everyone went to Tartarus after they died; in later mythology & only bad people went to Tartarus after they died
vs./versus
Tartarus
in loco parentis
Hera/Juno
4. 'unknown land'
sedentary
mores
Hannibal
terra incognita
5. The people in control of the Italian peninsula before Rome began to spread
sic transit gloria mundi
Etruscans
ambrosia and nectar
pro tempore
6. City-state in ancient Greece known for its powerful army; fought against Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars
C (Roman numeral)
Sparta
mentor
sic transit gloria mundi
7. Temple in Rome dedicated to all the Roman gods
Ares/Mars
Priam
Helen
Pantheon
8. 5
Hades/Pluto
Ares/Mars
Ides of March
V (Roman numeral)
9. The technical biological term for the human species
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10. The golden wool of a ram sought by Jason and the Argonauts
Hannibal
Golden Fleece
P.M./post meridiem
Sparta
11. Greek island in the Ionian Sea; the home of Odysseus
the furies
Pegasus
X (Roman numeral)
Ithaca
12. A member of one of the original aristocratic families of Rome; 'aristocratic'
Iliad
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
Minotaur
patrician
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
Paris
Homer
terra incognita
i.e./id est
14. Used on documents & coins & monuments & etc. as an official signature of the Roman government
Mt. Parnassus
Odysseus/Ulysses
SPQR
Tiber
15. Spirits who carry out curses and torture for wrongdoing toward one's family member (s)
Carthage
the furies
Ithaca
cornucopia
16. 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
sine qua non
Jove
Hydra
Pax Romana
17. 10
Eros/Cupid
X (Roman numeral)
Pompeii
puerile
18. 'With highest honors' graduating from college in the highest grade scale
Saturnalia
toga
pax vobiscum
summa cum laude
19. God of wine and revelry; son of Zeus and Semele
magnum opus
N.B./nota bene
pontifex maximus
Dionysus/Bacchus
20. King of Ithaca who came up with the idea of using the Trojan horse to defeat the city of Troy; hero of the Odyssey
pax vobiscum
e pluribus unum
Sisyphus
Odysseus/Ulysses
21. 'per day'
Orpheus & Eurydice
per diem
via
laurels
22. 'in the whole &' 'as a whole &' 'totally'; ex: The suggestions were adopted in toto.
Excelsior!
D (Roman numeral)
Golden Fleece
in toto
23. The 9 goddesses who looked after the arts and inspired men in those arts
Medea
muses
Orpheus & Eurydice
veni & vidi & vici
24. The three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the Underworld
Cerberus
Hector
sub poena
e.g./exempli gratia
25. The arena for gladiatorial games in Rome (also known as the Flavian Amphitheater)
et al./ et alii
verbatim
Colosseum
the furies
26. Usually referring to Julius Caesar & the Roman dictator Who was assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15th) 44 BCE
Persephone/Proserpina
Caesar
Sparta
Paris
27. Goddess of grain & the harvest & and the seasons; mother of Persephone/Proserpina
Tiber
aqueduct
Spartacus
Demeter/Ceres
28. First emperor of the Roman Empire; adopted son of Julius Caesar; member of the 2nd Triumvirate; also known as Octavian
Poseidon/Neptune
p.o./ per os
i.e./id est
Augustus
29. 'With highest honors' graduating from college in the highest grade scale
labor vincit omnia
in loco parentis
mores
summa cum laude
30. Goddess of the hearth
Carthage
ex officio
Hestia/Vesta
veni & vidi & vici
31. 500
D (Roman numeral)
e.g./exempli gratia
Punic Wars
Charon
32. A king Who was tortured in the Underworld by having water and grapes within his reach & but the water and grapes pulled away whenever he went to take drink or a bite
Tantalus
Homer
Hephaestus/Vulcan
status quo
33. 1
A.M./ante meridiem
Tartarus
i.e./id est
I (Roman numeral)
34. 'per year'
Cronus/Saturn
Sicily
per annum
ad infinitum
35. Challenged Athena to a weaving contest and was turned into a spider for her excessive pride
Arachne
Caesar
A.M./ante meridiem
Icarus & Daedalus
36. 'great-souled & high-minded'
Orpheus & Eurydice
magnanimous
Troy
Ides of March
37. God of metallurgy (metal working); married to Aphrodite
pontifex maximus
Parthenon
Hephaestus/Vulcan
A.D./anno Domini
38. Usually referring to Julius Caesar & the Roman dictator Who was assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15th) 44 BCE
Caesar
p.o./ per os
post mortem
et al./ et alii
39. 'And others'
lapsus linguae
sic transit gloria mundi
labyrinth
et al./ et alii
40. Greek island in the Ionian Sea; the home of Odysseus
sub rosa
mea culpa
ex libris
Ithaca
41. 'An unwelcome person' - used in diplomacy to indicate a person Who is barred from entering a certain country
persona non grata
Colosseum
Caesar
Daedalus
42. 'That is' used for further explanation: 'in other words...'
Elysian Fields/Elysium
Mt. Olympus
i.e./id est
Augustus
43. 'great work'
Paris
Jason
N.B./nota bene
magnum opus
44. 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
Icarus & Daedalus
Troy
Zeus/Jupiter
Cerberus
45. God of the sea
Poseidon/Neptune
valedictorian
satyr
N.B./nota bene
46. The wife of Odysseus; a model of faithfulness to one's husband
Elysian Fields/Elysium
Atlas
Dionysus/Bacchus
Penelope
47. Home of the Greek gods
Mt. Olympus
Parthenon
Arachne
Priam
48. Sea to the west of Greece; named after King Aegeus after he drowned himself in the sea thinking his son Theseus was dead
Hercules/Heracles
the Fates
sic transit gloria mundi
Aegean Sea
49. 'Work conquers all'
labor vincit omnia
semper paratus
Hector
polytheism
50. 'seize the day'
Circus Maximus
carpe diem
Artemis/Diana
Penelope