Semester 1 Characters
The character who grew up for two decades without a father.
Who is Telemachos?
The site of Homer's great war.
What is Troy?
What author is believed to have been blind?
Who is Homer?
Which book is considered the first proper history?
What is Herodotus' The Histories.
Who is Achilleus' best friend?
The homeland of Odysseus.
What is Ithaka?
Which author was a traveler and collector of stories?
Who is Herodotus?
What book, an epic poem, is considered one of the first works of western literature?
What is The Iliad.
What are the first four books of the Odyssey often called?
What is the "Telemachy"
The Trojan princess and prophetess, cursed by Apollo.
Who is Kassandra?
What is Anatolia?
Which author is entirely anonymous, or unknown?
Who is the author of Job?
What book is so different from the first in its series that some have thought it was written by another author?
What is The Odyssey?
At what battle is Croesus captured by Cyrus the Great?
What is the Siege of Sardis?
The Trojan spy, tricked and slain by two intrepid Greek heroes.
Who is Dolon?
What is Sparta?
Which author was an Athenian playwright?
Who is Aeschylus?
What book is the only complete tragic trilogy from the Classical Greek world, and depicts a shift from honor codes to law?
What is the Oresteia?
The method by which Zeus mutilates his father.
What is castration?
Who is Teiresias?
The site of Orestes' trial, as well as a major Hellenic city state in Attica.
What is Athens?
Which author was a Dark Ages Greek who lived shortly after Homer, and also wrote the famous "Works and Days"?
Who is Hesiod?
What book explores the origins of the gods?
What is the Theogony?
What are Leviathan and Behemoth?