I read Percy Jackson!
The monster whom Percy’s namesake is famous for slaying.
Who is Medusa?
It’s the city where the hero who killed the Minotaur is from.
What is Athens?
In Greek it means “water horse”.
What is a Hippopotamus?
He was a great poet, but wanted his epic burned when he died.
Who is Vergil?
He solved a riddle, and had a real complex.
Who is Oedipus?
She thinks men are pigs, Percy is no exception!
Who is Circe?
It’s the namesake of a civilization, discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876.
What is Mycenae?
The fourteenth letter in the Greek alphabet.
What is Ξ?
He was a member of the second triumvirate based in Africa.
Who is Lepidus?
A deity who is the subject of a fresco at Pompeii with a rather large phallus.
Who is Priapus?
He was cast to earth by Zeus for avenging his son’s murder, and “his fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans and perfect smile made him look like a male model for battle gear.” (Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian)
Who is Apollo?
It was rebuilt by Julius Caesar after being razed in 146 BCE.
What is Corinth?
-α -ας -ᾳ -αν; -αι -ων -αις -ας
What is the alpha declension?
“[She] dispatched the same message to her father in Rome and to her husband at Ardea: that they should each take a trusty friend and come; that they must do this and do it quickly, for a frightful thing had happened.” (Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, 1.58)
Who is Lucretia?
The ancient equivalent of Valentines Day. Naked men would run around the streets hitting women for fertility.
What is the Lupercalia?
Triplet sons of Gaea and Uranus and brothers to the cyclopes, one helps Percy fight Kronos.
Who are the Hekatonkheires (or the Hundred-Handed Ones)?
“Menelaus went [to the king of this island] and tried to persuade him to join the allies. He made a present of breastplates to the absent Agamemnon, and swore he would send fifty ships, but he sent only one, […] and the rest he molded out of earth and launched them in the sea.” (Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, E.3.9)
What is Cyprus?
“[He] publishes [these researches], in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the Barbarians from losing their due meed of glory.” (Author, Work, Book 1)
Who is Herodotus? (Herodotus, The History of Herodotus, Book 1)
He was defeated at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE.
Who is Crassus?
“His face showed the joy of a man richly endowed.” (Dares the Phrygian, Fall of Troy, 13)
Who is Achilles?
A deity who battles Annabeth and is a Ptolemaic invention, replacing Osiris as consort of Isis.
Who is Sarapis?
The city where Ilšu-ibni was overseer of the merchants, that sits near the Euphrates.
What is Sippar?
He wished that he “were not among the men of the fifth generation, but either had died before or been born afterwards.” (Author, Work, 170)
Who is Hesiod? (Hesiod, Works and Days, 170)
“Emissaries from the Indian kings were often sent to [him], which had not been seen before that time by any Roman leader.” (Author, Work, 31)
Who is Augustus? (Augustus, Res Gestae, 31)
They developed an active and passive model to explain Roman sexuality. Free, older males were expected to be the active participants.
Who are Winkler and Halperin?