Ancient East
Greece
Rome
Middle Ages/ Renaissance
Modern Age
100
a long, narrative poem involving a hero
What is an epic?
100
This blind poet write the Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
100
This man was Rome's most famous poet
Who is Virgil?
100
This form of popular Medieval learning combined Greek and Roman philosophy with Scripture
What is Scholasticism?
100
This older gentleman's mind turns to mush after he spends all his time reading stories about knights and chivalry.
Who is Don QUixote?
200
This is the oldest book in the Bible.
What is Job?
200
This Greek dramatist increased the number of speaking actors from 2 to 3, enlarged the CHorus to 15, and added painted scenery to play productions
Who is Sophocles?
200
This man, a ruthless murderer at a young age, grew up to be the first emperor of Imperial Rome
Who isi Julius Caesar?
200
This poet wrote about being led through Hell and Purgatory by the Roman poet Virgil and through Heaven by his childhood friend Beatrice
Who is Dante?
200
This allegorical character defeated the beast Apollyon with his double-edged sword
Who is Christian?
300
this is an epic king who searched for eternal life but never found it
Who is Gilgamesh?
300
This epic hero returned to his kingdom after a 20 year absence
Who is Odysseus?
300
This young boy ended up drowning because he didn' t listen to his father
Who is Icharus?
300
This man protested against the false teaching of the Catholic Church in Germany when he nailed his 95 Theses to the door
Who is Martin Luther
300
This man falsely accused a girl of stealing a ribbon he himslef had stolen.
Who is Rosseau?
400
This is what man's first stories were written upon.
What are clay tablets?
400
this term means 'worshipping many gods"
What is polytheism?
400
This Trojan priest tried to warn his people about the huge horse the Greeks had built
Who is Laocoon?
400
According to Luther, the one thing necessary for the Christian life, righteousness and freedom is this book.
What is the Bible?
400
this evangelist wrote Pilgrim's Progress while in prison
Who is John Bunyan?
500
This is the name of Noah in the Babylonian account of the flood.
What is Utnapishtim
500
This tragic hero's pride ended up costing him the lives of his wife, his son, and woul-be future daughter in law
Who is King Creon?
500
This Roman philosophy emphasized pleasure and materialism
What is Epicureanism?
500
This movement came about whan men started accepting the teachings of the Bible, rather than the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church
What is the Protestant Reformation?
500
this man who lived with cannibals on an island for a time, wrote America's only epic
Who is Herman Melville?
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