Iliad
Odyssey
Tragedy
Hero cult
Greek vocabulary
100

Achilles' Trojan rival whose corpse is depicted on the Boston Hydria

Hector, Trojan prince and greatest fighter of Troy

100

Name of the wife and son of Odysseus

Penelope and Telemachus

100

Author and name of the only extant example of ancient Greek theater trilogy

The Oresteia, written by Aeschylus

100

Defining characteristic of the hero cult

Seasonality

100

Glory sought by the hero

Kleos

200

Achilles' closest companion, who dies in battle and forces Achilles to return to the fight

Patroclus, whose name means "the glory of the father"

200

Name of the nymph who retains Odysseus for years on her island

Calypso

200

Oedipus is king of the city of...

Thebes

200

The cult hero is the typical exponent of the following virtue

Justice (dikē)

200

Excessive outrage, which in humans is always connected to morality

Hybris (ὕβρις)

300

What is the Iliad about?

The anger of Achilles, best of the Achaeans

300

What is the topic of the Odyssey?

The nostos of Odysseus

300

City in which Orestes' trial takes place

Athens

300
Hero cult places could be identified by the presence of ____________ of the hero, as represented in the Boston Hydria 

The tomb of the hero

300

Key word in Greek tragedy that means "aberration", "disaster" or "punishment for disaster" 

Atē

400

King of Troy

Priam

400

Odysseus tells the cyclops Polyphemus that his name is

No-man; No one (Gk: outis)

400

Theseus calls on this god to cause the death of his son Hippolytus

Poseidon


400

Electra performs this act of ancestor worship at her father's tomb

Pouring libations

400

A soul or spirit, often represented on painting, as in the Boston Hydria, as a small, winged figure

Psūkhē (ψυχή)

500

City of origin of king Agamemnon, leader of the Greek expedition to Troy

Mycenae, one of the major centres of Greek civilization in the Bronze Age (1600-1100 BC)


500

Who first recognizes Odysseus when he is back in Ithaca?

His dog Argos

500

Oedipus' place of death (which also happens to be Sophocles' place of death)

Colonus, which means 'tumulus' or 'elevation', one of the demes of ancient Attica

500

Competition annually performed at Athens in honor of Dionysus, in which people like Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides gained fame and reputation

The City Dionysia or contest of tragedies

500

This word means "prosperous, happy" for the uninitiated and "blessed" for the initiated

Olbios (ὄλβιος)