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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. 'peace be with you'
pax vobiscum
P.M./post meridiem
Arachne
mores
2. A teacher Who is like a parent; comes from the Mentor & Odysseus' old friend & whom he left in charge of his son Telemachus when he went off to the Trojan War
papyrus
Pegasus
mentor
aqueduct
3. God of the sun & light & reason & and the lyre
Tartarus
Aphrodite/Venus
Apollo/Apollo
N.B./nota bene
4. 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)
Hera/Juno
Dionysus/Bacchus
Ides of March
Priam
5. 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.
sub rosa
M (Roman numeral)
Hades/Pluto
pax vobiscum
6. 'Always faithful' - motto of the US Marines
semper fidelis
Uranus
pontifex maximus
Spartacus
7. 'After death'
post mortem
summa cum laude
Cerberus
V (Roman numeral)
8. Good-humored & jolly (ancient astrologers thought that the planet Jupiter fostered cheerfulness)
Daedalus
jovial
summa cum laude
Etruscans
9. 'great-souled & high-minded'
fasces
magnanimous
Mt. Olympus
Circus Maximus
10. 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
terra incognita
Hestia/Vesta
Pandora
Orpheus & Eurydice
11. The daughter of king Minos of Crete & who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth after he killed the minotaur
Artemis/Diana
Ariadne
Aegean Sea
persona non grata
12. 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
Carthage
Pompeii
Arachne
13. 'in the whole &' 'as a whole &' 'totally'; ex: The suggestions were adopted in toto.
Helen
mea culpa
in toto
via
14. The technical biological term for the human species
15. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War
quid pro quo
the Odyssey
sic transit gloria mundi
polytheism
16. Winged horse which flew from the neck of Medusa the Gorgon after Perseus cut off her head
polytheism
Sicily
Pegasus
Ithaca
17. 50
Delphic Oracle
N.B./nota bene
L (Roman numeral)
Odysseus/Ulysses
18. Spirits who carry out curses and torture for wrongdoing toward one's family member (s)
toga
Ithaca
ad nauseam
the furies
19. A bundle of wooden sticks and an axe blade that the attendants of Roman magistrates carried; symbolized the magistrates' power to inflict capital punishment
Charon
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
fasces
veni & vidi & vici
20. Large island off the southeast coast of Italy; home of Mt. Etna & a huge volcano; where the Cyclopes lived in the Odyssey
mentor
Sicily
Jason
Aphrodite/Venus
21. 'Thus passes the glory of the world.' i.e. 'Worldly things are fleeting.'
Hermes/Mercury
Golden Fleece
sic transit gloria mundi
summa cum laude
22. A long poem that narrates the deeds of a hero or the history of a nation & e.g. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Hercules/Heracles
Dionysus/Bacchus
vice versa
epic
23. 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
P.S./post scriptum
Poseidon/Neptune
apple of discord
i.e./id est
24. 'Work conquers all'
plebeian
C (Roman numeral)
Mt. Olympus
labor vincit omnia
25. Characterized by sitting & inactive (from sedet- to sit)
Atlas
sedentary
per capita
persona non grata
26. Blind poet Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Sparta
Homer
iota
Pantheon
27. A large horse and chariot racing track in Rome
Sisyphus
Circus Maximus
sedentary
Daedalus
28. 'per head' 'per person'
Pantheon
fasces
Saturnalia
per capita
29. '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
omniscient
Etruscans
paterfamilias
30. 'doctor/teacher of philosophy' - an advanced academic degree
patrician
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
the Odyssey
vice versa
31. Site of the Apollo's oracle at Delphi; home of the Muses
Mt. Parnassus
Parthenon
ex officio
cornucopia
32. Refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the responsibilities of a parent
sic transit gloria mundi
ad infinitum
pax vobiscum
in loco parentis
33. 'Word for word'
Atlas
Sicily
Sicily
verbatim
34. Refers to an action or condition necessary for something to happen
post mortem
Cyclops
sine qua non
Carthage
35. The messenger god; god of thieves and travelers; son of Zeus; invented the lyre; escorted people to the Underworld when they died
Chaos
Artemis/Diana
per capita
Hermes/Mercury
36. 'under penalty' a written order for a person to come testify in court
fresco
Medea
sub poena
p.o./ per os
37. 'This for that &' a fair trade
tempus fugit
quid pro quo
paterfamilias
atrium
38. 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
ex officio
Trojan Horse
valedictorian
Jove
39. The daughter of king Minos of Crete & who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth after he killed the minotaur
Hercules/Heracles
Ariadne
satyr
labor vincit omnia
40. Lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus
valedictorian
sic transit gloria mundi
Caesar
Minotaur
41. Gladiator who led an uprising of slaves against the Romans in the 1st c. BC
mea culpa
Perseus & Medusa
Hydra
Spartacus
42. First emperor of the Roman Empire; adopted son of Julius Caesar; member of the 2nd Triumvirate; also known as Octavian
Augustus
Palatine Hill
SPQR
Apollo/Apollo
43. 'I refuse &' used by the president of the US to stop any bill he sees unfit from passing
veto
Hydra
mosaic
sub poena
44. A town on the western coast of Italy destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuius in AD 79
L (Roman numeral)
per annum
C (Roman numeral)
Pompeii
45. Market place/business center
agora/forum
Tantalus
Delphic Oracle
Cerberus
46. Daughter of Demeter; kidnapped by Hades to make her his queen
Persephone/Proserpina
Excelsior!
X (Roman numeral)
Parthenon
47. Carthaginian general who attacked Italy by crossing the Italian Alps in the 2nd Punic War; He was eventually defeated by Scipio at the Battle of Zama
plebeian
Hephaestus/Vulcan
papyrus
Hannibal
48. 'An unwelcome person' - used in diplomacy to indicate a person Who is barred from entering a certain country
apple of discord
tempus fugit
Colosseum
persona non grata
49. Goddess of the hunt
Aegean Sea
Artemis/Diana
Jason
etc./et cetera
50. 'unknown land'
terra incognita
pontifex maximus
papyrus
Jove