Mortal Combat
The Meaning of Life
Oedipus
Feeling Artsy
Who's your Daddy?
100
Alliance formed by Greek city-states in 478 as a defense organization against Persia
What is Delian League
100
The school of philosophical thought that argued nothing can be known for certain
What is skepticism
100

The author of Oedipus, considered the most skillful dramatist of Greece

Who is Sophocles
100
A style of column marked by a lush acanthus-leafed capital
What is Corinthian
100
Known as the Father of Medicine
Who is Hippocrates
200
The number of years of the Thirty Years' Peace
What is 14
200
He said, "Virtue is knowledge," meaning if one knows what is good, one will not commit evil acts; drank poisoned hemlock
Who is Socrates
200
Oedipus is king of this city
What is Thebes
200
Literature offering small portraits of everyday life, or "little pictures"
What is idylls
200
Known as the Father of History
Who is Herodotus
300
The name of the civil war that dominated Greece following the Thirty Years' Peace
What is Peloponnesian War
300
School of thought that argued that true freedom arises from realizing that if one wants nothing, then one will never lack anything
What is Cynicism
300
The names of Oedipus's real parents
Who is King Laios and Jocasta
300
One of the greatest lyric poets who addressed her work to women friends on her native island of Lesbos
Who is Sappho
300
Known as the Father of Geometry
Who is Euclid
400
A popular Athenian leader and general who died during the plague in Athens in 430 B.C.
Who is Pericles
400
The school of philosophical thought argued that only the atoms and the void exist; pleasure is the highest good
What is Epicureanism
400
The instruments Oedipus uses to blind himself
What are Jocasta's brooches
400

A humorous play that focuses on how people interact in particular social groups

What is comedy of manners

400
Some consider him the Father of Epic Literature because of his novels about the Trojan War
Who is Homer
500
The Macedonian who conquered Greece and set out to conquer Persia but was assassinated
Who is Philip II
500
Studied under Plato, tutored Alexander the Great, and proposed a model state ruled by the middle class
Who is Aristotle
500
Says, "You mock my blindness, do you? But I say that you, with both your eyes are blind."
Who is Teiresias
500
A posture that places the body's weight on one leg and uses the other leg as support
What is contrappposto
500
Known as the Father of New Comedy
Who is Menander
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