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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. 'The end'
muses
finis
per capita
papyrus
2. 1
I (Roman numeral)
Hestia/Vesta
sic semper tyrannis
N.B./nota bene
3. 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
Golden Fleece
Aphrodite/Venus
Ides of March
4. 50
L (Roman numeral)
atrium
Achilles' heel
Pax Romana
5. Characterized by sitting & inactive (from sedet- to sit)
ex officio
sedentary
Aphrodite/Venus
Parthenon
6. 'And the rest' usually seen at the end of a list of things & instead of listing everything
Demeter/Ceres
etc./et cetera
Ge/Gaea
Hermes/Mercury
7. '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
Augustus
Troy
valedictorian
A.D./anno Domini
8. Another name for Zeus/Jupiter
Golden Fleece
Jove
summa cum laude
Mt. Vesuvius
9. Goddess of the hearth
Mt. Parnassus
Palatine Hill
Hestia/Vesta
Troy
10. Lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus
papyrus
Minotaur
i.e./id est
sic semper tyrannis
11. Gladiator who led an uprising of slaves against the Romans in the 1st c. BC
SPQR
Spartacus
sic transit gloria mundi
ex libris
12. 'Word for word'
rara avis
verbatim
Uranus
sine qua non
13. 'horn of plenty' a symbol of food and abundance
Spartacus
cornucopia
Odysseus/Ulysses
epic
14. 'All-knowing'
Colosseum
X (Roman numeral)
omniscient
Delphic Oracle
15. 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
terra firma
Icarus & Daedalus
Hades/Pluto
satyr
16. 'This for that &' a fair trade
Paris
rara avis
atrium
quid pro quo
17. Sailed with the Argonauts to take the Golden Fleece
Jason
marathon
mentor
ad nauseam
18. The three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the Underworld
sine qua non
Cerberus
Paris
Minotaur
19. 'And others'
Jason
Colosseum
et al./ et alii
Circus Maximus
20. After midday/noon
V (Roman numeral)
magnum opus
P.M./post meridiem
Pan
21. God of metallurgy (metal working); married to Aphrodite
Hephaestus/Vulcan
agora/forum
Uranus
SPQR
22. 'my fault' ; tua culpa -'your fault'
P.S./post scriptum
marathon
mea culpa
L (Roman numeral)
23. 'by mouth' - used on prescription medicines that have to be taken orally
sedentary
p.o./ per os
Nike/Victoria
vice versa
24. Sorceress & wife of Jason; killed their children to get revenge on Jason for leaving her
status quo
Medea
Chaos
muses
25. Refers to an action or condition necessary for something to happen
Aegean Sea
sine qua non
Demeter/Ceres
Colosseum
26. The 15th of March & the day in 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated
Dionysus/Bacchus
p.o./ per os
Ides of March
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
27. The technical biological term for the human species
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28. A town on the western coast of Italy destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuius in AD 79
Pompeii
P.M./post meridiem
post mortem
Hera/Juno
29. 'An unwelcome person' - used in diplomacy to indicate a person Who is barred from entering a certain country
veto
persona non grata
Aphrodite/Venus
D (Roman numeral)
30. God of the sun & light & reason & and the lyre
Prometheus
Apollo/Apollo
Artemis/Diana
Jove
31. Lived in the Labyrinth; fed off of Athenian youths; killed by Theseus
A.D./anno Domini
Minotaur
Augustus
mentor
32. Site of the Apollo's oracle at Delphi; home of the Muses
Saturnalia
Mt. Parnassus
Carthage
A.M./ante meridiem
33. Speaker's platform in the forum & which was decorated with the prows of ships the Romans captured in war (rostrum means 'beak & prow of a ship')
mentor
Parthenon
Golden Fleece
rostra
34. A serpent-like monster with many heads and poisonous breath; when one head got cut off & it grew two more; killed by Hercules as his second labor
Hydra
Circus Maximus
pax vobiscum
ex libris
35. 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
in memoriam
Cyclops
Cerberus
Icarus & Daedalus
36. One of the seven hills of Rome & south of the forum; the site of the imperial palace
Eros/Cupid
Medea
Palatine Hill
atrium
37. 'for the sake of an example' - abbreviation used when providing an example
etc./et cetera
e.g./exempli gratia
et tu & Brute?
fresco
38. The norms or values of a society
the furies
in toto
lapsus linguae
mores
39. Was chosen by Zeus to settle the argument of Who was the fairest of the goddesses; he chose Aphrodite because she promised him the most beautiful woman in the world if he chose her
Paris
Pegasus
Romulus and Remus
via
40. 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
D (Roman numeral)
Tiber
veni & vidi & vici
41. 'one out of many' - found on most US minted coins and the back of the dollar bill
mentor
e pluribus unum
Poseidon/Neptune
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
42. Temple in Rome dedicated to all the Roman gods
Homer
Poseidon/Neptune
mosaic
Pantheon
43. The Underworld; in early mythology & everyone went to Tartarus after they died; in later mythology & only bad people went to Tartarus after they died
Tartarus
Jason
in toto
Ides of March
44. 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
tempus fugit
etc./et cetera
Pandora
Romulus and Remus
45. The king of the gods; god of thunder and lightning
i.e./id est
Hestia/Vesta
rara avis
Zeus/Jupiter
46. 'And you & Brutus?' famous last words of Julius Caesar as the Senate members assassinated him; Brutus was supposed to be a friend of his & but had a hand in the killing
Hector
Hera/Juno
et tu & Brute?
puerile
47. The male head of a Roman family
muses
Pegasus
Hades/Pluto
paterfamilias
48. The oracle of Apollo; people visited the oracle for guidance and predictions of the future
semper paratus
Jove
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
Delphic Oracle
49. Sea to the west of Greece; named after King Aegeus after he drowned himself in the sea thinking his son Theseus was dead
Palatine Hill
ex officio
N.B./nota bene
Aegean Sea
50. The Underworld; in early mythology & everyone went to Tartarus after they died; in later mythology & only bad people went to Tartarus after they died
the Fates
Hydra
per annum
Tartarus