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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the responsibilities of a parent
Mt. Olympus
Carthage
agenda
in loco parentis
2. 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
Cyclops
sub rosa
summa cum laude
Ariadne
3. A polis (city-state) in Greece & center of art and philosophy & named after Athena (its patron goddess); the Acropolis was the hill in Athens where many temples (including the Parthenon & the temple to Athena) were located
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
Athens/Acropolis
Sparta
Pantheon
4. Son of Zeus; had to complete 12 labors to regain favor with the gods after killing his family; when he died & he became a god
carpe diem
valedictorian
Etruscans
Hercules/Heracles
5. 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
Hannibal
Prometheus
Paris
the furies
6. 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
Poseidon/Neptune
Priam
Hades/Pluto
7. 'Word for word'
Icarus & Daedalus
Chaos
verbatim
e pluribus unum
8. The ferryman for the river Styx going into the underworld
A.M./ante meridiem
magnum opus
Trojan Horse
Charon
9. Greek god of nature; had the torso and head of a man & but the legs and horns of a goat
Tiber
ad nauseam
Sparta
Pan
10. 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
Orpheus & Eurydice
Chaos
sedentary
11. Athenian prince who killed the Minotaur
ad infinitum
A.D./anno Domini
Theseus
Jason
12. The golden wool of a ram sought by Jason and the Argonauts
Golden Fleece
terra firma
fresco
Artemis/Diana
13. Festival of Saturn held on December 17th & during which social roles were temporarily reversed (slaves enjoyed relaxed discipline & etc)
Saturnalia
Sisyphus
plebeian
jovial
14. 'per head' 'per person'
per capita
cornucopia
paterfamilias
Ge/Gaea
15. 'for the time being' - temporary
Medea
verbatim
Cyclops
pro tempore
16. Large island off the southeast coast of Italy; home of Mt. Etna & a huge volcano; where the Cyclopes lived in the Odyssey
Ge/Gaea
Achilles' heel
Perseus & Medusa
Sicily
17. 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
per annum
Gorgons
in toto
mentor
18. 'The end'
Ides of March
Colosseum
ex officio
finis
19. The plebs were the free but non-aristocratic citizens of Rome; today & plebeian means 'of a low class'
Persephone/Proserpina
Theseus
p.o./ per os
plebeian
20. 'All-knowing'
pro tempore
omniscient
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
labor vincit omnia
21. A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage & a Phoenician city in Northern Africa & for control of the Mediterranean (264-146 BC)
summa cum laude
P.S./post scriptum
Punic Wars
Cronus/Saturn
22. The golden wool of a ram sought by Jason and the Argonauts
N.B./nota bene
apple of discord
Golden Fleece
sic transit gloria mundi
23. 'To the point of sickness' - doing/saying something over and over until everyone is sick and tired of it
Chaos
sic semper tyrannis
ad nauseam
Caesar
24. 1
ex libris
I (Roman numeral)
Hydra
mellifluous
25. The daughter of king Minos of Crete & who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth after he killed the minotaur
ex libris
Ides of March
Persephone/Proserpina
Ariadne
26. 'Higher!' -- the state motto of New York
errare humanum est
Tiber
L (Roman numeral)
Excelsior!
27. 'Work conquers all'
mentor
labor vincit omnia
marathon
Apollo/Apollo
28. A state of disorganized matter from which the gods and the world were created
Hydra
apple of discord
Chaos
Circus Maximus
29. 'for the sake of an example' - abbreviation used when providing an example
apple of discord
Colosseum
Pegasus
e.g./exempli gratia
30. God of metallurgy (metal working); married to Aphrodite
Golden Fleece
tribune
Homer
Hephaestus/Vulcan
31. 'I'
status quo
ego
Uranus
Demeter/Ceres
32. 'I refuse &' used by the president of the US to stop any bill he sees unfit from passing
Hannibal
errare humanum est
Cerberus
veto
33. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (i); commonly used in the phrase 'not one iota &' meaning 'not one bit'
mores
iota
tempus fugit
e pluribus unum
34. The city in Northern Africa that the Romans fought and destroyed during the Punic Wars (264-146 BC.)
Atlas
Carthage
Hercules/Heracles
semper fidelis
35. Through & by way of (from via- road & way)
via
Daedalus
sic transit gloria mundi
Delphic Oracle
36. The highest political office in the Roman Republic; 2 were elected every year
consul
atrium
Homer
Arachne
37. Writing after the body of a letter
P.S./post scriptum
Trojan Horse
D (Roman numeral)
Apollo/Apollo
38. 'one out of many' - found on most US minted coins and the back of the dollar bill
A.M./ante meridiem
the Odyssey
status quo
e pluribus unum
39. The three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the Underworld
vice versa
Pegasus
Cerberus
Ares/Mars
40. 100
C (Roman numeral)
p.o./ per os
post mortem
Etruscans
41. The messenger god; god of thieves and travelers; son of Zeus; invented the lyre; escorted people to the Underworld when they died
Hermes/Mercury
Charon
fasces
p.o./ per os
42. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
magnanimous
Hades/Pluto
et al./ et alii
Homer
43. Mother Earth; the wife of Uranus & the sky; she gave birth to the Titans & the Cyclopes & and the Hundred-Handed Ones
atrium
Pandora
Cerberus
Ge/Gaea
44. Good-humored & jolly (ancient astrologers thought that the planet Jupiter fostered cheerfulness)
Ides of March
M (Roman numeral)
jovial
N.B./nota bene
45. 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
persona non grata
SPQR
Pandora
Saturnalia
46. Used on documents & coins & monuments & etc. as an official signature of the Roman government
SPQR
I (Roman numeral)
Excelsior!
Circus Maximus
47. 'doctor/teacher of philosophy' - an advanced academic degree
per diem
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
Athena/Minerva
Parthenon
48. Lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus
Minotaur
polytheism
papyrus
Hydra
49. A town on the western coast of Italy destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuius in AD 79
Pompeii
Aegean Sea
labyrinth
Saturnalia
50. 'my fault' ; tua culpa -'your fault'
mea culpa
Hades/Pluto
ambrosia and nectar
Tiber