Mythology
This member of the first triumvirate was killed by senators Brutus and Cassius at the Theatre of Pompey.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This Greek letter has been adopted into mathematics as a symbol for the ratio of a circle's circumference to a circle's diameter.
What is Pi?
In the myth of Demeter and Persephone, what food item does Persephone eat in the underworld that forces her to return there for a portion of every year?
Pomegranate Seeds
The Peloponessian war was fought between these two city states.
What are Athens and Sparta?
This director adapted Homer's classic tale of Odysseus' return home in a recently released movie.
The craftsman who designed the labyrinth on the island of Crete to house the Minotaur.
Who is Daedalus?
The Carthaginians under general Hannibal Barca defeated the larger Roman forces at this battle in 216 BC.
What is the Battle of Cannae?
The Minoans lived on this island.
What is Crete?
This historic spaceflight landing the first humans on the moon was named after the Greek god of the sun.
What is Apollo 11?
What volcano erupted in 79 AD, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum?
What is Vesuvius?
He was the god of thieves, liars, and gamblers.
Who is Hermes?
King Leonidas held back Persian forces in a tight coastal pass during this battle in 480 BC.
What is Thermopylae?
The Tony-winning musical adapts the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
He tested the omniscience of the gods by killing his son, Pelops, cooking him, and serving him as a meal to the Olympians.
Who is Tantalus?
He fled from Troy after the Trojan war and fifteen generations later his descendants would found Rome.
Who is Aeneas?
As told in the Bacchae, he was torn limb from limb by his mother agave after rejecting the worship of Dionysus.
Who is Pentheus?
The term ostracism came from this practice.
This term from Latin means a court order requiring a detained person to be brought before a judge to check the lawfulness of their imprisonment, literally meaning that you shall have the body.
What is habeas corpus