Classical History
This city-state dominated the Aegean during the Classical Period of Greek History.
Athens
This gal is the goddess of wisdom and war.
Athena/Minerva
This city was famous for holding the Olympic games.
Olympia
After the fall of the Roman empire, Latin eventually evolved into the [blank] languages.
This famous philosopher was well known for living off the land and is arguably the most famous cynic philosophers.
Diogenes
Athens had this type of government during its golden age, which we have in America as of today.
Democracy (+100 bonus points if you can parse the etymology of this word)
This guy is the main character of the Iliad and is known for only being vulnerable in his heels.
Achilles (+100 bonus points if you know the story behind his heel vulnerability)
This famous temple in Rome was dedicated to "all gods"
The Pantheon
This is the language that functioned as a lingua franca throughout the mediterranean world and even beyond.
Greek
The story goes that this Roman emperor fiddled while Rome burned.
Nero (+100 bonus points if you know when the fiddle was invented)
After the death of Alexander the great, this Greek dynasty took over in Egypt and lasted until the death of Cleopatra in 31 BCE, when the Romans took over.
The Ptolemaic Dynasty
This eclectic group sailed to Colchis to obtain the golden fleece, with Jason as their leader.
Gaul, as it was known anciently, mostly comprises the territory of this modern-day country.
France
The famous Roman author Virgil composed this famous epic poem on commission from Augustus, and based much of it on the Iliad and the Odyssey.
The Aeneid
This Greek author was famous for pioneering the genre of historiography, with his sweeping history of Egypt, Persia, and the Persian wars.
Herodotus
This war was a decades long conflict between Athens and Sparta, which Sparta eventually won.
The Peloponnesian War
This infamous king was punished by the gods by being forced to roll a bolder up a hill, and watch it fall all the way down, for all eternity.
Sisyphus
What is the capital of Nevada?
Carson city
The Greeks got their alphabet from this civilization in the eastern mediterranean.
The Phoenicians.
[Blank] became the first emperor of Rome after defeating [Blank] in a series of civil wars and disputes.
Augustus/Octavian; Mark Antony
The Punic Wars were a series of 3 conflicts between Rome and this great city in northern Africa.
Carthage. (+100 bonus points if you can name the famous general who crossed the alps and attacked Rome during the 2nd Punic War)
This is the part of the underworld where evil souls reside.
Tartarus (+100 bonus points if you can name the place where normal souls reside)
Near the end of the Iliad, [blank], the king of Troy, beseeches Achilles to give him the body of his son, [blank], after Achilles had killed him :(
Priam; Hector
This is the writing system in which Mycenaean Greek was written.
Linear B
This Athenian playwright wrote such well known tragedies as Medea, The Bacchae, and Persians, and also fought at the battle of Marathon.
Euripides