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Classical Literacy
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1. The plebs were the free but non-aristocratic citizens of Rome; today & plebeian means 'of a low class'
Perseus & Medusa
patrician
Hades/Pluto
plebeian
2. 'The one who says farewell' -- the student with the highest grade point average & Who is chosen to give a speech at the end of graduation
per capita
Colosseum
Pantheon
valedictorian
3. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
i.e./id est
Hades/Pluto
i.e./id est
Saturnalia
4. Greek island in the Ionian Sea; the home of Odysseus
P.M./post meridiem
Jove
Ithaca
Elysian Fields/Elysium
5. In early mythology & the resting place of heroes; the later mythology & where good people went in the afterlife
Saturnalia
veni & vidi & vici
Elysian Fields/Elysium
toga
6. 'in the year of the Lord &' designating the time period after Christ's birth
toga
Chaos
Ge/Gaea
A.D./anno Domini
7. 'The things that must be done' - a to-do list
agenda
magnum opus
Mt. Parnassus
Tantalus
8. 5
Sparta
X (Roman numeral)
V (Roman numeral)
Tartarus
9. The city in Northern Africa that the Romans fought and destroyed during the Punic Wars (264-146 BC.)
Atlas
Carthage
Hestia/Vesta
Hydra
10. Through & by way of (from via- road & way)
Medea
via
Hera/Juno
consul
11. Large island off the southeast coast of Italy; home of Mt. Etna & a huge volcano; where the Cyclopes lived in the Odyssey
finis
Sicily
magnum opus
I (Roman numeral)
12. Athenian prince who killed the Minotaur
Theseus
apple of discord
Colosseum
Ares/Mars
13. Sorceress & wife of Jason; killed their children to get revenge on Jason for leaving her
mea culpa
tempus fugit
Medea
N.B./nota bene
14. A bundle of wooden sticks and an axe blade that the attendants of Roman magistrates carried; symbolized the magistrates' power to inflict capital punishment
tempus fugit
X (Roman numeral)
fasces
Jove
15. Blind poet Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Colosseum
terra firma
atrium
Homer
16. 'The things that must be done' - a to-do list
Odysseus/Ulysses
agenda
finis
Homer
17. 'boyish &' 'childlike' (from puer- boy)
Hera/Juno
Hannibal
puerile
Priam
18. 'boyish &' 'childlike' (from puer- boy)
Circus Maximus
Daedalus
Hera/Juno
puerile
19. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War
the Odyssey
Hector
valedictorian
ad nauseam
20. Maze under the palace of Palace of Minos at Crete & where the Minotaur (half man & half bull) was thought to have been imprisoned
Hector
post mortem
labyrinth
ex officio
21. 100
C (Roman numeral)
agora/forum
sic semper tyrannis
Eros/Cupid
22. Good-humored & jolly (ancient astrologers thought that the planet Jupiter fostered cheerfulness)
mosaic
Ithaca
jovial
Pax Romana
23. Roman officials who were charged with protecting the people (the plebeians) from oppression; they were sacrosanct & meaning no one could harm them
Tantalus
tribune
I (Roman numeral)
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
24. God of wine and revelry; son of Zeus and Semele
Cyclops
Dionysus/Bacchus
in memoriam
Augustus
25. 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.
marathon
quid pro quo
Ides of March
Hector
26. 1
finis
ex libris
I (Roman numeral)
Pompeii
27. One-eyed children of Ouranos/Uranus and Gaea (Mother Earth); sided with Zeus during the war with the Titans; were helpers of the smith-god Hephaestus
Pantheon
consul
Cyclops
Arachne
28. The norms or values of a society
mores
sub rosa
Minotaur
verbatim
29. 'Higher!' -- the state motto of New York
Penelope
Excelsior!
in loco parentis
Pan
30. 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
Sicily
sedentary
Trojan Horse
via
31. Volcano which erupted in AD 79 and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum
p.o./ per os
Mt. Vesuvius
Aphrodite/Venus
Minotaur
32. A bundle of wooden sticks and an axe blade that the attendants of Roman magistrates carried; symbolized the magistrates' power to inflict capital punishment
fasces
valedictorian
i.e./id est
e pluribus unum
33. The 200 year period of peace which began under the rule of Augustus
M (Roman numeral)
Pax Romana
X (Roman numeral)
toga
34. 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
V (Roman numeral)
per diem
Helen
35. 'I refuse &' used by the president of the US to stop any bill he sees unfit from passing
veto
Pegasus
Spartacus
vice versa
36. Temple devoted to Athena; located on the Acropolis of Athens
e pluribus unum
Icarus & Daedalus
Hannibal
Parthenon
37. 'great work'
magnum opus
Parthenon
Apollo/Apollo
Paris
38. Goddess of victory
Nike/Victoria
satyr
in memoriam
tribune
39. Goddess of love
errare humanum est
Pegasus
Aphrodite/Venus
Hercules/Heracles
40. 5
per capita
sic semper tyrannis
V (Roman numeral)
agora/forum
41. 'To the point of sickness' - doing/saying something over and over until everyone is sick and tired of it
Chaos
M (Roman numeral)
ad nauseam
P.M./post meridiem
42. The king of the gods; god of thunder and lightning
persona non grata
Zeus/Jupiter
in memoriam
Odysseus/Ulysses
43. The king of the gods; god of thunder and lightning
Priam
Zeus/Jupiter
semper fidelis
satyr
44. Gladiator who led an uprising of slaves against the Romans in the 1st c. BC
Mt. Olympus
in loco parentis
Mt. Parnassus
Spartacus
45. After midday/noon
ad infinitum
P.M./post meridiem
iota
consul
46. Daughter of Demeter; kidnapped by Hades to make her his queen
mosaic
Jove
Persephone/Proserpina
Hera/Juno
47. Figuratively 'secretly.' Aphrodite gave her son Eros a rose. Eros gave it to Harpocrates & the god of silence & to ensure that his mother's love affairs remained a secret.
polytheism
sub rosa
Pandora
sub poena
48. One of the 12 Titans & father of Zeus/Jupiter & who swallowed his children in an attempt to keep from being overthrown
sic transit gloria mundi
Cronus/Saturn
M (Roman numeral)
A.D./anno Domini
49. 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
Persephone/Proserpina
laurels
ambrosia and nectar
A.D./anno Domini
50. A member of one of the original aristocratic families of Rome; 'aristocratic'
patrician
Theseus
pontifex maximus
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