Jesus
The name he went by during his life.
What is Yeshua?
This region of Ancient Greece is now called Turkey.
What is Ionia?
I'm told it's best to avoid these in formal writing.
What are contractions?
Philosophy comes from the Greek philos (love) and sophia, meaning this.
What is wisdom?
He is thought to have been born this year (range of 3).
What is 6-4 BC?
Sappho, Ancient Greek poet, lived on this island. (Hint: she wrote naughty and passionate poems about women)
What is Lesbos?
An appositive, a tacked-on noun serving to elaborate upon the preceding one, can be enclosed by these instead of commas, adding emphasis or even denoting a break in narration.
What are em dashes?
What is utility?
Christ has its etymological origin in this language.
What is Greek?
Ancient Greece was not an empire but a collection of city-states sharing a culture and language. This city-state has the most cultural and historical significance.
What is Athens?
Those learning Spanish and French simultaneously may be confused by this word, which in Spanish is the third-person singular indirect object pronoun and in French the third-person singular masculine direct object pronoun.
What is le?
The Renaissance, in "rediscovering" the value of Man via ancient texts, gave birth to this school of thought.
What is humanism?
Christians often cite Jesus doing this in a temple, as an example of righteous anger.
What is flipping over tables?
The first to rule, between Nero and Caligula.
Who is Caligula?
This possessive relative pronoun, despite it resemblance to the relative pronoun used only for persons, can be used for objects as well.
What is whose?
What are time, space, mind and body? Such questions are part of this branch of philosophy.
What is metaphysics?
Jesus' native language.
What is Aramaic?
This initialism is the emblem of the Roman Republic.
What is S.P.Q.R.?
In traditional style (it is debated today), the possessive form of names ending in s should be marked with an 's, except for names of this kind.
What are ancient classical and biblical names?
What can we know and how do we come to know things? Such questions are part of this branch of philosophy.
What is epistemology?