All Things Homer
In Greek, this is what you have when you die a hero and people sing songs about you.
What is kleos?
Who is Oedipus Rex?
This orator and statesman gives a famous funeral oration.
Who is Pericles?
What is Apology?
What is Thucydides?
The book of the Iliad in which they send an embassy to Achilles
What is Book IX?
Orestes's sister who survives.
Who is Electra?
The king of Sparta at the beginning of the Peloponnesian conflict who advised caution.
Who is Archidamus?
This word describes the moment in a dialogue when things result in contradiction and confusion.
What is aporia?
"Men of Athens, I am grateful and I am your friend, but I will obey the god rather than you."
What is Socrates (Plato's Apology)?
This is the meter of all ancient epic poetry in Greek and Latin.
What is dactylic hexameter?
The god in whose honor Greek tragedy was performed.
Who is Dionysus?
A small colony on the western Greek coast which throws off Corcyrean rule and seeks help from Corinth.
What is Epidamnus?
The study of being and the essences of things.
What is ontology?
The hand that can string this bow with greatest ease,
that shoots an arrow clean through all twelve axes--
he is the man I follow, yes, forsaking this house
where I was once a bride
Who is Homer?
Swineherds are good guys, but these farmers are just the worst.
What are goatherds?
A stage prop in Agamemnon which modern Hollywood still uses at the Oscars.
What is the red carpet?
What is the oracle of Delphi?
In Gorgias, Socrates is looking for the definition of this word.
What is rhetoric?
Woe on you, younger gods! the ancient right
Ye have o'erridden, rent it from my hands.
Who is Aeschylus?
This mountain in modern day Turkey is where Zeus sits throughout much of the Iliad.
What is Mount Ida?
This god can cleanse Orestes but cannot absolve him of guilt.
Who is Apollo?
City that is beseiged by Sparta and eventually razed.
What is Plataea?
In Meno, Socrates helps the slave find the square root of what number?
What is 8?
"Yet men, bowed down by the pleasures of the moment and by the frauds and illusions of the evil spirits, did not lift up their heads towards the truth."
What is Athanasius?