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100

This bird is regarded as being a symbol of the Queen of the Gods

Peacock

100

Despite having a reputation for being warriors, this City-State actually lost more battles than it won

Sparta

100

You can find one of these bipedal half-human half-animals at Camp Halfblood or beyond the wardrobe

Satyr

100

A story by Homer in which Achilles mostly just pouts and then commits brutal murder

The Illiad

100

This famous library was burnt by Julius Caesar but not destroyed until a Muslim invasion many years later

The Library of Alexandria

200

This crafty goddess is sometimes referred to as "The Grey-Eyed One"

Athena

200

This site was thought to mark the center of the world

Delphi (specifically the omphalos at the Temple of Apollo)

200

In the Disney movie Hercules, Scar (from The Lion King) was used to represent this creature

Nemean Lion

200

Plato wrote this story about love, which is told through speeches by various men at a party

Symposium

200

The main combatants in the Peloponnesian War

The Athenians and the Spartans

300

Taking this from the Queen of the Amazons was one of Heracles's 12 labors

The Girdle/Belt of Hippolyta

300

This city was formed after its founder planted dragon teeth to grow men

Thebes

300

Sigmund Freud named a disorder after this king, not acknowledging the actual story

Oedipus

300

This play includes the first known use of a red carpet

Agamemnon

300

A battle in this German forest featured Germanic tribes ambushing and slaughtering Roman forces

Teutoburg

400

Not only are these birds angry, they're also metal

Stymphalian birds

400

This was the location of Julius Caesar's assassination

Largo di Torre Argentina


Specifically the Theater of Pompey


Specifically the Curia of Pompey

400

These rulers of the Underworld feature prominently in the Webtoon Lore Olympus

Hades and Persephone

400

The mistress of a poet, she is requested to give many, many, many kisses

Lesbia

400

An offense against this woman spurred the formation of the Roman Republic from the previous monarchy

Lucretia

500

This goddess's wedding gift of a golden apple incited a war

Eris

500

Home to a famous poet, the name of this island gives us one of the only English words with Hittite roots

Lesbos

500

This planet is the only one in our solar system named after a Greek deity instead of their Roman equivalent

Uranus

500

The only still-surviving complete Ancient Greek trilogy

Aeschylus's Oresteia

500

Carthago delenda est was coined by this Roman politician

Cato the Elder

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