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Classical Literacy

Subject : literacy
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Doctor of medicine






2. 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






3. 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






4. 'per year'






5. River that runs through the city of Rome






6. Goddess of childbirth; married to Zeus; queen of the gods






7. 'from the library of' used as an inscription on a bookplate to show the name of the book's owner: ex libris Mark Twain.






8. Sorceress & wife of Jason; killed their children to get revenge on Jason for leaving her






9. Goddess of love






10. The three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the Underworld






11. God of the Underworld/Tartarus






12. 'great-souled & high-minded'






13. 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






14. Mother Earth; the wife of Uranus & the sky; she gave birth to the Titans & the Cyclopes & and the Hundred-Handed Ones






15. After midday/noon






16. 'To err is human' - in other words & it's normal to mess up






17. Temple in Rome dedicated to all the Roman gods






18. Literally refers to the heel of Achilles (a character from the Iliad who killed Hector)


19. 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






20. 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






21. 'A slip of the tongue'






22. 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)






23. City-state in ancient Greece known for its powerful army; fought against Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars






24. 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






25. The river surrounding the Underworld






26. Greek god of nature; had the torso and head of a man & but the legs and horns of a goat






27. Writing after the body of a letter






28. 'boyish &' 'childlike' (from puer- boy)






29. 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






30. A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage & a Phoenician city in Northern Africa & for control of the Mediterranean (264-146 BC)






31. Athenian prince who killed the Minotaur






32. 50






33. 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)






34. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War






35. 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






36. 'Always prepared'






37. 100






38. 10






39. 'Word for word'






40. God of the sun & light & reason & and the lyre






41. 'Thus passes the glory of the world.' i.e. 'Worldly things are fleeting.'






42. Goddess of childbirth; married to Zeus; queen of the gods






43. 'I'






44. 'To err is human' - in other words & it's normal to mess up






45. 'by mouth' - used on prescription medicines that have to be taken orally






46. Maze under the palace of Palace of Minos at Crete & where the Minotaur (half man & half bull) was thought to have been imprisoned






47. The daughter of king Minos of Crete & who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth after he killed the minotaur






48. The Underworld; in early mythology & everyone went to Tartarus after they died; in later mythology & only bad people went to Tartarus after they died






49. Greek island in the Ionian Sea; the home of Odysseus






50. 'And the rest' usually seen at the end of a list of things & instead of listing everything