"Cooked"
Which leader helped hold the Persians off at Thermopolae?
Leonidas
What is the name of the sun god in Greece?
What is the name of the sun god in Egypt?
What is the name of the sun god in Mesopotamia?
Apollo. Ra. Shamash.
When Alexander was 20 years old, he put down a revolt where?
Thebes
What was the name of Paris and Hector's father, king of Troy?
Priam
What was Oedipus's wife/mother name?
Jocasta
What was the name of the poison that Socrates drank?
Hemlock
What was the name of Alexander's general that took over Egypt after he died?
Ptolemy
What was the name of the 1/2 human, 1/2 bull that Theseus killed?
Minotaur
Which ancient Greek poet is traditionally credited with composing the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
What was the name of the blind prophet in Oedipus Rex?
Tiresias
Which city did Alexander the Great die? Where was he buried?
Babylon.
Egypt.
What is the name of the Antigone's uncle who sentenced her to death for burying her brother?
Creon
What was the name of the person "ostracized" from Athens?
Themistocles
What is the name of the Spartan that changed society to control the slaves?
Lycurgus
What was the name of Alexander the Great's father? What was the name od his personal tutor?
Philip II
Aristotle
Aristotle's concept that virtue is finding a moderate, balanced path is called...
The Golden Mean
What is the name of the historian that tried to be neutral in his writing?
Thucydides
What is the name of the ship that allowed the Greeks to sink the Persian navy at Salamis?
Trireme
Who said this, "Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with others... but we are an example to them"
Pericles
Who was the main person that Plato wrote about in the Republic?
Socrates
What was the name of the monster that Odysseus and his men tricked, and injured in his cave?
Cyclops or Polyphemus
What year did Alexander the Great reach India?
325BC
What is a tetradrachm?
An Athenian coin.
One Aesop tale taught not to play pranks on others. What was the name of that tale?
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
What was the name of the runner that went to sparta to get support to fight the Persians?
Phidippides