Greek Life and Lit

Question 1

According to Socrates in Plato’s Apology, what is the maximum price one would have to pay for one of
Anaxagoras’ books when purchasing it from the Orchestra?

Answer 1

1 drachma

Question 2

What were hippiatrikoi?

Answer 2

Veterinarians

Question 3

In “Homer’s” Iliad, which Trojan broke the truce between the Greeks and the Trojans in Book IV?

Answer 3

Pandarus

Question 4

In which Greek polis were women dominant over men?

Answer 4

None

Question 5

Which of these figures in Greek literature had his eyes gouged out?

Answer 5

Oedipus

Question 6

Which lyric poet wrote an elegy to the Spartans who died at Thermopylae?

Answer 6

Simonides

Question 7

Plato’s Crito discusses Crito, one of Socrates’ followers, attempting to do what?

Answer 7

Free Socrates

Question 8

Which of the following was depicted on Minoan pottery?

Answer 8

Bull-leaping

Question 9

Our knowledge of Socrates comes largely from the works of Plato, Aristophanes and what Greek Historian?

Answer 9

Xenophon

Question 10

In the Bacchae of Euripides, who is torn apart by the Bacchae?

Answer 10

Pentheus

Question 11

What is the first word in the Odyssey?

Answer 11

Andra

Question 12

In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, who ultimately convinces Demeter to give up her anger?

Answer 12

Rhea

Question 13

Which Greek writer was supposedly killed when a bird dropped a turtle onto his head?

Answer 13

Aeschylus

Question 14

What was the mixing bowl known as?

Answer 14

krater

Question 15

Who won the prize at the first presentation of tragedy in Athens in 534 BC?

Answer 15

Thespis

Question 16

Which poet was opposed alike to free invention of heroic incident and to rehashing traditional material?

Answer 16

Callimachus

Question 17

The famous “Long Walls” led citizens from Athens to what port city?

Answer 17

Piraeus

Question 18

Where was the most famous oracle located?

Answer 18

Delphi

Question 19

What was boustrophedon?

Answer 19

Method of writing

Question 20

The Greeks most likely derived their alphabet from which civilization?

Answer 20

Phoenicians

Question 21

An important aspect of Greek culture was the idea of kalokagathia. What was this?

Answer 21

beauty and goodness

Question 22

“Homer” was thought to be from what region?

Answer 22

Ionia

Question 23

Which Greek letter supposedly dropped out of use before the classical period?

Answer 23

Digamma

Question 24

What was the council in Athens called?

Answer 24

Boule

Question 25

Order of pottery from earliest to latest (O = oriental, RF = red figure, BF = black figure, G = geometric)

Answer 25

O BF RF

Question 26

Which of the following refers to a general?

Answer 26

strategos

Question 27

Which of the following was not a gymnasium?

Answer 27

Palaestra

Question 28

“You cannot step into the same river twice”

Answer 28

Heraclitus

Question 29

Aristotle’s Ethics were named after?

Answer 29

his father and son

Question 30

What was a wide tunic worn by both men and women called?

Answer 30

chiton

Question 31

Which of Plato’s dialogues concerns a conversation between Socrates and a poet, ultimately culminating in Socrates concluding that he knows more about Homer than the poet himself?

Answer 31

Ion

Question 32

Men live chained to their seats in such a way that they can only see shadows projected on the wall by a light of truth which is behind them. This is a description of what?

Answer 32

Allegory of the Cave

Question 33

What was the Areopagus?

Answer 33

Athenian Court

Question 34

In which play is the construction of “Nephelokukkugia” intended?

Answer 34

The Birds

Question 35

Which philosopher thought of the world as breathing air from the boundless mass outside of it and spoke of this air as a god?

Answer 35

Anaximenes

Question 36

What was the rigorous education and training regimen for all Spartan males?

Answer 36

Agoge

Question 37

Name three of Homer's works

Answer 37

Iliad, Odyssey, Nostoi

Question 38

The first four books of the Odyssey are collectively known as?

Answer 38

Telemachy

Question 39

What best describes nekuia?

Answer 39

Necromancy

Question 40

Which month was called Poseideon in the Athenian calendar?

Answer 40

December

Question 41

Aristophanes wrote works protesting what?

Answer 41

Peloponnesian War

Question 42

In Plato’s Symposium, who describes love from a physician’s perspective?

Answer 42

Eryximachus

Question 43

Mycenaean women began adopting fashion ideas from which other culture around the 18th century BC?

Answer 43

Minoans

Question 44

Solon decreed that the happiest man in the world was?

Answer 44

Tellus

Question 45

Who asked Solon for his advice on who was the happiest man in the world?

Answer 45

Croesus

Question 46

How are the writings of Herodotus and Homer different?

Answer 46

History vs Poetry

Question 47

Pnyx refers to?

Answer 47

hill in Athens

Question 48

Which gate led to the Kerameikos?

Answer 48

Dipylon

Question 49

What was the Kerameikos?

Answer 49

Cemetery

Question 50

What was the term for the vertical staff of a sundial?

Answer 50

gnomon

Question 51

What direction does one go when traveling from the Parthenon to the Temple of Hephaestus in the Agora?

Answer 51

NW

Question 52

What was the council of elders at Sparta called?

Answer 52

gerousia

Question 53

What was the elite force of 300 hoplites who acted as the royal bodyguard of Sparta?

Answer 53

hippeis

Question 54

In his Ethics, Aristotle claims that the highest aim of humans is what?

Answer 54

excellence

Question 55

What were the long spears carried by the cavalry?

Answer 55

sarissai

Question 56

In which work does Hesiod discuss the origin of the universe?

Answer 56

Theogony

Question 57

The syssitia were men's clubs that formed the basis of social and military life in which polis?

Answer 57

Sparta

Question 58

Which historian wrote " As for the carrying off of women, it is the deed of a rogue; but to make a stir about such as are carried off argues a man a fool"?

Answer 58

Herodotus

Question 59

Which of Plato’s dialogues opens with a recapitulation of the first five books of the Republic?

Answer 59

Euthyphro

Question 60

In which of Xenophon’s works does Socrates defend himself before the jury?

Answer 60

Memorabilia

Question 61

What Spartan festival, held in honor of Apollo, resulted in Sparta’s absence at the Battle of Marathon?

Answer 61

Carnea

Question 62

Who was said to have won a musical contest at this festival and founded the "First School" of music at Sparta?

Answer 62

Terpander

Question 63

What cloth was used to make sails?

Answer 63

linen

Question 64

What is the subject of the Iliad, as stated in the first line of the epic?

Answer 64

The wrath of Achilles

Question 65

In the Odyssey, how long does it take Odysseus to reach Ithaca after the fall of Troy?

Answer 65

10 years

Question 66

Classical Religion developed from Minoan and Mycenaean religion with influences from which region?

Answer 66

Near East

Question 67

What was the common dialect of Greek during the time of Alexander?

Answer 67

Koine

Question 68

What dialect was used by Athenian playwrights?

Answer 68

Attic

Question 69

On a trireme, what were the second level of rowers called?

Answer 69

zygitai

Question 70

Which dialect was brought into Greece along with its namesake “invasion?”

Answer 70

Doric

Question 71

Anaximander proposed a rational explanation for the origin of the world. What is this concept?

Answer 71

Unbounded

Question 72

Which of the works of the Oedipus trilogy was written first?

Answer 72

Antigone

Question 73

Which of the works of the Oedipus trilogy takes place first chronologically?

Answer 73

Oedipus Tyrannos

Question 74

What were settlements established specifically as trading posts?

Answer 74

emporia

Question 75

Who was responsible for establishing the Academy school around 385 BC?

Answer 75

Plato

Question 76

What was the measurement of the area of a strip of land that oxen could plow in one day?

Answer 76

plethron

Question 77

Which goddess was wounded in the Iliad?

Answer 77

Aphrodite

Question 78

In which sports event did participants jump on and off their moving chariot?

Answer 78

Apobates

Question 79

What was the smallest silver coin?

Answer 79

obol

Question 80

How long is one-sixth of a stadion?

Answer 80

100 feet

Question 81

What were private individual bankers called?

Answer 81

trapezitai

Question 82

Who was the most famous physician of Greek medicine?

Answer 82

Hippocrates

Question 83

Which nephew of Plato was made head of The Academy after Plato's death?

Answer 83

Speusippus

Question 84

The betrothal was which of these?

Answer 84

engye

Question 85

In a Greek house, what were the women's quarters called?

Answer 85

gynaikonitis

Question 86

“Whom the gods love, die young”

Answer 86

Menander

Question 87

Whom is Aristophanes primarily attacking in his Clouds?

Answer 87

Socrates

Question 88

What was the term for children's toys?

Answer 88

paignia

Question 89

Which ring, discussed by Plato in his Republic, could turn the wearer invisible?

Answer 89

Ring of Gyges

Question 90

The Myth of Er discusses what?

Answer 90

The afterlife

Question 91

What were dice called?

Answer 91

kuboi

Question 92

Acharnae was which of these?

Answer 92

deme

Question 93

Which philosopher of Agrigentum believed that the world was composed of four elements: earth, air, fire and water?

Answer 93

Empedocles

Question 94

Who was the author of the Argonautica?

Answer 94

Apollonius of Rhodes

Question 95

Which of these was a colony founded by Sparta in 706 BC?

Answer 95

Taras

Question 96

Which of Plato’s works contains a number of the fashionable wits sharing discourses on the nature of love?

Answer 96

Symposium

Question 97

The Greek phalanx may have originated as early as the 8th century BC in what area?

Answer 97

Sparta

Question 98

How many works of literature can we ascribe to Socrates?

Answer 98

None

Question 99

What was the term for the sacrifice of 100 oxen?

Answer 99

hecatomb