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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. A mural painted directly onto wet plaster (fresco means 'fresh' in Italian)
fresco
C (Roman numeral)
Theseus
Delphic Oracle
2. Sorceress & wife of Jason; killed their children to get revenge on Jason for leaving her
Medea
Artemis/Diana
summa cum laude
Punic Wars
3. Maze under the palace of Palace of Minos at Crete & where the Minotaur (half man & half bull) was thought to have been imprisoned
Homer
labyrinth
L (Roman numeral)
Colosseum
4. Mother Earth; the wife of Uranus & the sky; she gave birth to the Titans & the Cyclopes & and the Hundred-Handed Ones
Athena/Minerva
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
Ge/Gaea
fresco
5. 'my fault' ; tua culpa -'your fault'
A.D./anno Domini
Hector
the furies
mea culpa
6. Goddess of the hunt
Artemis/Diana
Sisyphus
sedentary
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
7. Goddess of childbirth; married to Zeus; queen of the gods
cornucopia
Pompeii
Hera/Juno
jovial
8. 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.
Sparta
marathon
Colosseum
p.o./ per os
9. The garment which signified a Roman man's citizenship
Apollo/Apollo
toga
Punic Wars
Delphic Oracle
10. 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
Ariadne
Prometheus
P.S./post scriptum
Charon
11. 10
N.B./nota bene
status quo
X (Roman numeral)
Gorgons
12. Writing after the body of a letter
Achilles' heel
Hydra
P.S./post scriptum
Pompeii
13. 'great work'
Apollo/Apollo
papyrus
paterfamilias
magnum opus
14. The people in control of the Italian peninsula before Rome began to spread
semper fidelis
Carthage
carpe diem
Etruscans
15. Prince of Troy Who was killed by Achilles in the Iliad; Achilles tied Hector's dead body to the back of his chariot and dragged it around the city walls three times
Helen
Demeter/Ceres
semper paratus
Hector
16. 'Word for word'
Augustus
Pan
verbatim
Helen
17. God of the sun & light & reason & and the lyre
V (Roman numeral)
Gorgons
ambrosia and nectar
Apollo/Apollo
18. Epic poem written by Home chronicling the Trojan War
Iliad
puerile
Odysseus/Ulysses
M (Roman numeral)
19. 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
Pandora
veto
sine qua non
mores
20. 'note well' i.e. take note
Eros/Cupid
N.B./nota bene
in memoriam
Ge/Gaea
21. 'The end'
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
finis
sic semper tyrannis
ex officio
22. '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.
sic semper tyrannis
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
sic transit gloria mundi
Charon
23. 'for the time being' - temporary
Palatine Hill
Demeter/Ceres
marathon
pro tempore
24. Athenian prince who killed the Minotaur
rostra
labyrinth
Theseus
Demeter/Ceres
25. Large island off the southeast coast of Italy; home of Mt. Etna & a huge volcano; where the Cyclopes lived in the Odyssey
ambrosia and nectar
Sicily
C (Roman numeral)
D (Roman numeral)
26. 'before midday &' in the morning & before noon
Colosseum
plebeian
tempus fugit
A.M./ante meridiem
27. Athenian prince who killed the Minotaur
Priam
Aphrodite/Venus
in toto
Theseus
28. Eurydice died on their wedding day. Orpheus went down to the Underworld to bring her back. Hades agreed & on the condition that Eurydice would follow behind Orpheus on their way up to the mortal world and he couldn't check to make sure She was behind
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
Orpheus & Eurydice
Sisyphus
puerile
29. Spirits who carry out curses and torture for wrongdoing toward one's family member (s)
the furies
Pompeii
Golden Fleece
Styx
30. Prince of Troy Who was killed by Achilles in the Iliad; Achilles tied Hector's dead body to the back of his chariot and dragged it around the city walls three times
Palatine Hill
in loco parentis
muses
Hector
31. Market place/business center
et al./ et alii
Pompeii
Demeter/Ceres
agora/forum
32. 'peace be with you'
pax vobiscum
mentor
ego
Mt. Olympus
33. 'horn of plenty' a symbol of food and abundance
Mt. Olympus
labyrinth
Tantalus
cornucopia
34. 'in memory of'
lapsus linguae
Zeus/Jupiter
the Fates
in memoriam
35. Kingdom in Asia Minor which fought against Greece in Homer's Iliad
in loco parentis
Etruscans
Troy
tribune
36. 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
Medea
M (Roman numeral)
Odysseus/Ulysses
37. 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
apple of discord
Poseidon/Neptune
verbatim
per capita
38. Good-humored & jolly (ancient astrologers thought that the planet Jupiter fostered cheerfulness)
jovial
the Odyssey
Prometheus
Colosseum
39. 'per head' 'per person'
Hydra
epic
per capita
tribune
40. God of love and desire; son of Aphrodite
Nike/Victoria
mosaic
the furies
Eros/Cupid
41. Roman officials who were charged with protecting the people (the plebeians) from oppression; they were sacrosanct & meaning no one could harm them
terra incognita
paterfamilias
C (Roman numeral)
tribune
42. 'To err is human' - in other words & it's normal to mess up
SPQR
Sisyphus
Nike/Victoria
errare humanum est
43. 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)
Jove
Gorgons
via
Perseus & Medusa
44. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War
magnum opus
the Odyssey
rara avis
toga
45. 'great-souled & high-minded'
Punic Wars
Cronus/Saturn
Golden Fleece
magnanimous
46. 'I'
laurels
ego
Cronus/Saturn
cave canem
47. A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage & a Phoenician city in Northern Africa & for control of the Mediterranean (264-146 BC)
Aphrodite/Venus
Punic Wars
SPQR
aqueduct
48. Inventor who created the Labyrinth where the Minotaur lived
toga
Atlas
Daedalus
Hercules/Heracles
49. A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant & used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on
Cyclops
papyrus
D (Roman numeral)
Hestia/Vesta
50. The daughter of king Minos of Crete & who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth after he killed the minotaur
Aegean Sea
Uranus
Ariadne
Spartacus