Carthago Delenda Est
Born along the Alban Hills in the town of Tusculum, what Roman citizen and bearer of numerous offices is remembered as a champion of ancient Roman virtues and a fierce opponent of what he considered Hellenistic cultural contamination?
Cato The Elder
A virgin goddess like Athena and Artemis, what sister of Zeus tended to the hearth of Olympus?
Hestia
Name both parents of the 9 muses
Zeus and Mnemosyne
In Book IV of the Iliad, what deity assumes the guise of a son of Antenor in order to break the truce between the Greeks and Trojans?
Athena
In Book 3 of the Iliad, what 2 heroes agree to a dual to win Helen and end the war?
Paris (Alexander) and Menelaus
What conservative Roman politician served as censor in 184 B.C. and championed destroying Carthage with the phrase Carthāgō dēlenda est?
Cato the Elder
Name the four children of Zeus and Hera
Eileithya, Hebe, Hephaestus, and Ares
What mountain do they live on?
Helicon
What Trojan archer, a son of Lycaon, did Athena persuade to break the truce?
Pandarus
What Goddess disguised to look like Hector's sister, Laodice, goes to Helen in her rooms to summon her to the walls of Troy to watch the dual between Paris and Menelaus?
Iris, The goddess of the Rainbow
What Roman general was sent to conquer Carthage?
Publius Scipio Aemilianus
The union of Zeus and Themis results in the 3 fates: name them.
Clotho (the spinner)
Lachesis (measures the thread)
Atropos (cuts the thread)
Calliope
What Greek hero is wounded when the Truce between the Greeks and Trojans is broken?
Menelaus
What is Helen doing when she is summoned to the walls of Troy?
Weaving a tapestry of the events of the Trojan War
What conflict began when the Roman ally Masinissa made unprovoked attacks on enemy territory, and ended with a Roman commander weeping at the fall of Rome’s great rival in 146 B.C., though accounts of the Romans salting the earth are certainly exaggerated?
Third Punic War
What 2 gods does Hephaestus capture in his own bed, in flagrante delicto?
Ares and Aphrodite
What is the name of the muse of history?
Clio
What is the name of Agamemnon's Herald?
Talthibius
What goddess saves Paris from being killed by Menelaus during their dual, by causing the chinstrap on his helmet to break?
Aphrodite
Give the dates of the 3rd Punic War
149-146 BC
According to Hephaestus in Book 1 of the Iliad, what God cast him from Olympus, and why?
Zeus, becaus he had been trying to defend his mother Hera.
What is the name of the muse of love poetry?
Erato
What is the name of the doctor in the Greek camp who heals Menelaus?
Machaon
What is the name for the main gateway to Troy?
The Scaean Gates