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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The city in Northern Africa that the Romans fought and destroyed during the Punic Wars (264-146 BC.)
Mt. Parnassus
Arachne
laurels
Carthage
2. Good-humored & jolly (ancient astrologers thought that the planet Jupiter fostered cheerfulness)
jovial
tribune
labyrinth
Hera/Juno
3. 'Against' & used to show Who is up against who in sports matches & legal battles & etc.
vs./versus
quid pro quo
mea culpa
Mt. Vesuvius
4. 'boyish &' 'childlike' (from puer- boy)
puerile
Penelope
Helen
Artemis/Diana
5. '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
et al./ et alii
labor vincit omnia
valedictorian
iota
6. Site of the Apollo's oracle at Delphi; home of the Muses
Eros/Cupid
Mt. Parnassus
N.B./nota bene
Pan
7. Refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the responsibilities of a parent
in loco parentis
persona non grata
summa cum laude
post mortem
8. Titan who had to hold up the heavens on his shoulders as punishment for rebelling against Zeus
Atlas
Nike/Victoria
in loco parentis
pax vobiscum
9. 'With highest honors' graduating from college in the highest grade scale
Pan
valedictorian
summa cum laude
Mt. Parnassus
10. Another name for Zeus/Jupiter
Jason
Saturnalia
Pax Romana
Jove
11. 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
cave canem
pax vobiscum
Orpheus & Eurydice
post mortem
12. Used on documents & coins & monuments & etc. as an official signature of the Roman government
Chaos
Trojan Horse
Augustus
SPQR
13. 'The other way around'
Minotaur
vice versa
e.g./exempli gratia
Jove
14. 'per year'
Poseidon/Neptune
omniscient
per annum
Parthenon
15. Religion in Which many gods are worshipped (from Greek poly 'many' and theoi 'gods')
Palatine Hill
Persephone/Proserpina
polytheism
Arachne
16. 'great-souled & high-minded'
toga
e.g./exempli gratia
puerile
magnanimous
17. 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
Prometheus
Tartarus
Hermes/Mercury
ego
18. 'in the whole &' 'as a whole &' 'totally'; ex: The suggestions were adopted in toto.
Tantalus
Etruscans
Spartacus
in toto
19. Good-humored & jolly (ancient astrologers thought that the planet Jupiter fostered cheerfulness)
e.g./exempli gratia
jovial
labyrinth
status quo
20. 'firm ground/solid earth'
Artemis/Diana
Ares/Mars
terra firma
Eros/Cupid
21. Reception hall (like the living room) in a Roman house
Achilles' heel
atrium
Hestia/Vesta
iota
22. Religion in Which many gods are worshipped (from Greek poly 'many' and theoi 'gods')
Athens/Acropolis
et al./ et alii
polytheism
in loco parentis
23. A long poem that narrates the deeds of a hero or the history of a nation & e.g. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Poseidon/Neptune
tempus fugit
in loco parentis
epic
24. Goddess of the hearth
Caesar
magnum opus
Helen
Hestia/Vesta
25. Market place/business center
Pompeii
Chaos
agora/forum
status quo
26. 'under penalty' a written order for a person to come testify in court
sub poena
C (Roman numeral)
tempus fugit
paterfamilias
27. 'A slip of the tongue'
terra firma
Minotaur
atrium
lapsus linguae
28. Temple devoted to Athena; located on the Acropolis of Athens
plebeian
vice versa
pro tempore
Parthenon
29. 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)
Pompeii
Priam
Ariadne
sub poena
30. 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
sine qua non
P.S./post scriptum
Priam
31. The 9 goddesses who looked after the arts and inspired men in those arts
muses
Jason
fresco
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
32. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War
vice versa
the Odyssey
puerile
mosaic
33. A mural painted directly onto wet plaster (fresco means 'fresh' in Italian)
persona non grata
fresco
patrician
Caesar
34. Maze under the palace of Palace of Minos at Crete & where the Minotaur (half man & half bull) was thought to have been imprisoned
per capita
Spartacus
Theseus
labyrinth
35. 'A rare bird' - something unique/rare
toga
rara avis
cave canem
semper paratus
36. Home of the Greek gods
fasces
Hades/Pluto
Mt. Olympus
pontifex maximus
37. 100
C (Roman numeral)
magnanimous
verbatim
agora/forum
38. 'Time flies/flees'
p.o./ per os
tempus fugit
Poseidon/Neptune
vs./versus
39. Doctor of medicine
Athena/Minerva
per annum
Hector
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
40. 'unknown land'
terra incognita
Styx
A.D./anno Domini
the Odyssey
41. Spirits who carry out curses and torture for wrongdoing toward one's family member (s)
Cyclops
the furies
Tantalus
laurels
42. 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
sic transit gloria mundi
papyrus
toga
Colosseum
43. 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
sine qua non
laurels
Dionysus/Bacchus
Aphrodite/Venus
44. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
sub poena
Pax Romana
Hades/Pluto
Mt. Parnassus
45. River that runs through the city of Rome
Tiber
aqueduct
Colosseum
Orpheus & Eurydice
46. The 15th of March & the day in 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated
Ides of March
Ge/Gaea
e pluribus unum
Nike/Victoria
47. 'To infinity &' to continue forever & without limit
et tu & Brute?
Nike/Victoria
ad infinitum
persona non grata
48. 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
Circus Maximus
mosaic
Caesar
49. Goddess of victory
semper paratus
Nike/Victoria
verbatim
Ge/Gaea
50. 'I'
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
in toto
ego
agora/forum