Literature
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer.
In what year was Rome founded?
753 BCE.
Who is Hercules' father?
Zeus.
What does SPQR stand for?
Senatus Populusque Romanus.
What change does Disney make about Hercules' parentage?
Hera isn't actually Hercules' mother.
Who wrote the Aeneid?
Virgil.
Which two main powers fought in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens and Sparta.
What is the Roman name for the goddesss, Hera?
Juno.
Translate: "In vino veritas."
There is truth in wine.
How many books are in Homer's Odyssey?
24.
Who are the three great Greek tragedians?
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
The Battle of Marathon occured in which war?
The Persian Wars.
Who fathered Romulus and Remus?
Mars.
Who coined the term "carpe diem"?
Horace.
Greek comedy is divided into how many categories? Name them.
Three. Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy.
Which Greek tragedy specifically relates to Ancient Greek democracy?
Sophocles' Antigone.
What form of government was the Roman Republic desperately trying to avoid?
Monarchy.
Which titan is tasked with holding up the world?
Atlas.
What does the phrase "γνώθι σαυτόν" mean?"
"Know yourself."
Who won The Great Homeric Race?
Liddy, obviously.
Maecenas was Caesar Augustus's close advisor. Which two prominent poets were under the patronage of Maecenas?
Horace and Virgil.
What caused the burning of the library of Alexandria in 48 BCE?
Julius Caesar's siege of Alexandria.
In the Iliad, a pregnant Hecuba has a dream about carrying a fiery torch in her womb that would bring ruin to Troy. Who represents that fiery torch?
Paris/Alexander.
What does "μηδέν άγαν" mean?
Nothing in excess.
Recite the Ancient Greek Alphabet in the correct order. Go!