Monsters, Gods, and Adventures
The animal that Circe turns half of Odysseus's crew into
What are pigs?
The mechanism/trick by which Penelope keeps the suitors at bay.
What is weaving and unweaving a burial shroud for Laertes?
Mythological founder of Athens; slayed the minotaur in his youth
Who is Theseus?
Who are the hetaira?
What is the Persian Wars?
Was blinded by Odysseus claiming to be "No Man"; Poseidon's son
Who is the cyclops, Polyphemus?
The feat of cunning that Odysseus was responsible for during the Trojan War.
What is the Trojan Horse?
The four Athenian rulers we studied who shaped Athens before Pericles.
Who are:
Draco – First recorded Athenian lawgiver (c. 621 BCE)
Solon – Athenian reformer and poet (c. 594 BCE)
Pisistratus – Tyrant of Athens (ruled in periods between 561–527 BCE)
Cleisthenes – Democratic reformer (reforms enacted around 508/507 BCE)
Society was broken up into demes, which means that people were organized by this thing.
What is residency?
The way that Athenians were (s)elected to most positions (other than general).
What is by lot?
In order to survive these gals, you might need to put some wax in your ears.
Who are The Sirens?
When Telemachus and his father first reunite after twenty years, Telemachus is frightened, believing his father to be this, due to the sudden transformation by Athena.
What is a god?
The percentage of Athenians who could vote.
What is 10-20% (women, slaves, metics were excluded)?
The word for foreigners who lived in Athens; these people could not vote.
Who are metics?
Athenian historian; documented the history of the Thirty in his text, The Hellenica.
Who is Xenophon?
Athena's unique way of motivating characters & moving the plot forward.
What is taking on disguises?
Penelope proposed an archery contest to the suitors, which required them to string Odysseus' massive bow and shoot an arrow through the sockets of this.
What are 12 axe heads?
Who are the Thirty Tyrants?
TWO PARTER! YOU MUST GET BOTH RIGHT FOR POINTS:
1. The iconic landmark that Pericles built with the money from the Delian League.
2. The god or goddess this thing is dedicated to.
Hint: he would be impressed by a walk through Centennial Park.
1. What is the Parthenon?
2. Who is Athena?
The significance of this quote (include the speaker for full credit):
"Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit. Neither is poverty an obstacle, but a man may benefit his country whatever the obscurity of his condition. There is no exclusiveness in our public life..."
What is Pericles' exaltation of Athenian democracy during his famous Funeral Oration speech, in which he is describing the government in its most idyllic terms?
The location on Odysseus's journey in which xenia is best displayed.
Where is in the kingdom of the Phaeacians (under King Alcinous)?
The story of this group of people serves as the FOIL for Odysseus's family.
What is the story of Aegisthus, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes?
The person responsible for ousting the Thirty.
Who is Thrasybulus?
Who is Socrates?
The significance of this quote (include the PRIMARY speaker as part of your response):
Think, now, and say whether you agree with me or not. Suppose a carpenter to be doing the business of a cobbler, or a cobbler of a carpenter; and suppose them to exchange their implements or their duties, or the same person to be doing the work of both, or whatever be the change; do you think that any great harm would result to the State?
Not much.
But when the cobbler or any other man whom nature designed to be a trader, having his heart lifted up by wealth or strength or the number of his followers, or any like advantage, attempts to force his way into the class of warriors, or a warrior into that of legislators and guardians, for which he is unfitted, and either to take the implements or the duties of the other; or when one man is trader, legislator, and warrior all in one, then I think you will agree with me in saying that this interchange and this meddling of one with another is the ruin of the State.
Most true.
What is Socrates's criticism of the Athenian Democracy as documented in Plato's Republic, in which he points out that the current system threatens destruction by letting untrained/unworthy people hold office?