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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Maze under the palace of Palace of Minos at Crete & where the Minotaur (half man & half bull) was thought to have been imprisoned
Chaos
sedentary
M (Roman numeral)
labyrinth
2. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
mentor
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
Hades/Pluto
Odysseus/Ulysses
3. Winged horse which flew from the neck of Medusa the Gorgon after Perseus cut off her head
Tantalus
Sparta
mosaic
Pegasus
4. The 9 goddesses who looked after the arts and inspired men in those arts
agenda
finis
muses
Styx
5. 'And the rest' usually seen at the end of a list of things & instead of listing everything
Hydra
etc./et cetera
carpe diem
veni & vidi & vici
6. 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)
Priam
muses
Tantalus
rostra
7. 'Work conquers all'
e.g./exempli gratia
plebeian
labor vincit omnia
Saturnalia
8. The wife of Odysseus; a model of faithfulness to one's husband
Sicily
sub rosa
Penelope
semper fidelis
9. Lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus
Hestia/Vesta
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
Minotaur
Persephone/Proserpina
10. Goddess of victory
V (Roman numeral)
sub poena
Nike/Victoria
sub poena
11. The people in control of the Italian peninsula before Rome began to spread
Theseus
Etruscans
Sicily
Ares/Mars
12. 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
Atlas
Medea
Priam
Sisyphus
13. A long poem that narrates the deeds of a hero or the history of a nation & e.g. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
epic
Minotaur
Palatine Hill
sic semper tyrannis
14. 50
Etruscans
L (Roman numeral)
plebeian
rara avis
15. Literally refers to the heel of Achilles (a character from the Iliad who killed Hector)
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16. A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage & a Phoenician city in Northern Africa & for control of the Mediterranean (264-146 BC)
Punic Wars
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
agora/forum
veto
17. 'great work'
in toto
magnum opus
Delphic Oracle
A.D./anno Domini
18. 'horn of plenty' a symbol of food and abundance
cornucopia
mellifluous
apple of discord
agora/forum
19. 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.
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
marathon
ambrosia and nectar
tempus fugit
20. 'All-knowing'
omniscient
Hermes/Mercury
Mt. Parnassus
Mt. Vesuvius
21. Refers to an action or condition necessary for something to happen
Uranus
Mt. Olympus
verbatim
sine qua non
22. Market place/business center
Trojan Horse
in toto
agora/forum
Styx
23. 'With highest honors' graduating from college in the highest grade scale
via
status quo
ex libris
summa cum laude
24. Sea to the west of Greece; named after King Aegeus after he drowned himself in the sea thinking his son Theseus was dead
Aegean Sea
Ariadne
pro tempore
Prometheus
25. 'great-souled & high-minded'
magnanimous
mores
Sisyphus
SPQR
26. First emperor of the Roman Empire; adopted son of Julius Caesar; member of the 2nd Triumvirate; also known as Octavian
Hydra
Augustus
Ariadne
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
27. Titan best known for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to humans; He was punished by being chained to a rock and having his liver eaten by a bird everyday
fasces
patrician
per capita
Prometheus
28. Athenian prince who killed the Minotaur
Jason
Theseus
agora/forum
Ariadne
29. 'I'
Parthenon
the Fates
ego
per diem
30. Refers to an action or condition necessary for something to happen
sine qua non
Ariadne
Tartarus
Sicily
31. A system created by the Romans which carried water over long distances
aqueduct
Parthenon
valedictorian
verbatim
32. God of war
tribune
Hector
papyrus
Ares/Mars
33. 'The other way around'
vs./versus
Prometheus
SPQR
vice versa
34. The daughter of king Minos of Crete & who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth after he killed the minotaur
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
Ariadne
Punic Wars
laurels
35. 'Higher!' -- the state motto of New York
labor vincit omnia
Jove
agenda
Excelsior!
36. The city in Northern Africa that the Romans fought and destroyed during the Punic Wars (264-146 BC.)
the Odyssey
Charon
Carthage
muses
37. Doctor of medicine
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
e.g./exempli gratia
Pan
errare humanum est
38. Goddess of love
summa cum laude
i.e./id est
Cronus/Saturn
Aphrodite/Venus
39. 'That is' used for further explanation: 'in other words...'
Ariadne
Helen
i.e./id est
Excelsior!
40. 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
Excelsior!
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
Trojan Horse
pax vobiscum
41. 'A rare bird' - something unique/rare
valedictorian
consul
rara avis
sic semper tyrannis
42. Challenged Athena to a weaving contest and was turned into a spider for her excessive pride
Arachne
Tartarus
semper fidelis
V (Roman numeral)
43. The highest political office in the Roman Republic; 2 were elected every year
consul
fresco
Styx
Saturnalia
44. 100
the Odyssey
et al./ et alii
C (Roman numeral)
Styx
45. 'The end'
marathon
finis
Colosseum
in loco parentis
46. 50
Nike/Victoria
polytheism
veni & vidi & vici
L (Roman numeral)
47. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
magnum opus
rara avis
Hades/Pluto
Pegasus
48. 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
tribune
mea culpa
Iliad
49. Daughter of Demeter; kidnapped by Hades to make her his queen
Zeus/Jupiter
Persephone/Proserpina
C (Roman numeral)
Ides of March
50. 'my fault' ; tua culpa -'your fault'
rara avis
the Fates
mea culpa
Hercules/Heracles