Words, Words, Words
This is another word for "pride."
What is hubris?
Although many people might have thought this son of Philip of Macedon was a "great" guy, the Persian Empire didn't think so.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Her face reportedly "launched a thousand ships" and won Aphrodite title of "the fairest."
Who is Helen (of "Troy," i.e., "Helen of Sparta")?
This father counsels his son to think his fiancee as an enemy, "spit on her, And let her find her husband down in Hell!"
Who is Creon?
Epic poems often begin with an invocation of this figure:
What is a muse?
This word literally means "dancing place."
What is orchestra?
According to tradition, this 6th century B.C.E. individual was the first to introduce an actor on-stage alongside the chorus.
Who is Thespis?
This deity gave humanity the gift of fire, and Zeus the gift of his liver.
Who is Prometheus?
This mythological character falls in love with his father's former lover, while his mother falls in love with his father's illegitimate son with that lover. (Given the trends of Greco-Roman mythology, there's probably more than one "right" answer, but I'm only thinking of one.)
Who is Telemachus?
These are the three unities:
What is unity of action, time, and place?
Odysseus tells the Cyclops his name is "no one," but Odysseus's name actually means this:
What is hatred?
Although Solon the Lawgiver is often considered as laying the foundation for Athenian democracy, this reformer is often considered the"father of democracy" with his overthrow of Hippias, the tyrant son of Pisistratus.
Who is Cleisthenes?
The rage of this character is the focus of Homer's _The Iliad_:
Who is Achilles?
This prophet has lived as both a man and a woman and has appeared in The Odyssey, Oedipus, Antigone, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and even Dante's Inferno:
Who is Tiresias?
This type of Greek comedy often had a domestic setting and incorporated stock characters like the braggart soldier, the clever slave, the angry father, and the young lover.
What is New Comedy?
This Greek word appears in the name of the fifth book of the Bible and is sometimes contrasted with physis.
What is nomos? (Deuteronomy="second law.")
This series of wars between Athens and Sparta concluded in Athens' unconditional surrender and the "thirty Tyrants":
What are the Peloponnesian Wars? (Note reference in Aristophanes).
This character "in vain offers from her self to run, And drags about her what she strives to shun. Oppress'd with grief the pitying God [Glaucos} appears: And swells the rising surges with his tears;
Who is Scylla?
Odysseus's eating this god's cattle ruined his usual "sunny" disposition.
Who is Helios?
In his "Epistle to Cangrande," Dante describes Inferno-Purgatorio-Paradiso as a "comedy," explaining that "you need to know that comedy comes from komos "village" and oda, which means song," while _this_ word means "'goat song,' that is, smelly like a goat."
What is tragedy?
The literary theorist and philosopher Jacques Derrida describes this Greek word as "neither remedy nor poison, neither good nor evil, neither the inside nor the outside, neither speech nor writing."
What is pharmakon? ("Plato's Pharmacy." Is writing a "remedy" to our inability to remember, or does it poison our ability?)
Place the following people in chronological order: Aristophanes, Aristotle, Homer, Solon.
Who are Homer, Solon, Aristophanes, and Aristotle?
Picture Daily Double.
The picture below represents this hero and eventual spouse of Phaedra:
This witch claims she killed her brother out of "madness" to help Jason escape King Aeetes with the golden fleece.
Who is Medea?
This is the term for the meter Homer employs in _The Odyssey_.
What is dactylic hexameter?