Lit Flashcards
Who wrote the Iliad?
Homer
Who wrote the Odyssey?
Homer
What author was said to have been blind?
Homer
How many books were in the Iliad?
24
What is the meter of the Iliad?
dactylic hexameter
How many books are in the Odyssey?
24
Who wrote the Theogony?
Hesiod
Who wrote Works and Days?
Hesiod
What is the subject of Theogony?
births of the gods
To whom was Hesiod’s Works and Days written to?
his brother, Perses
What is the subject of Works and Days?
farming, five ages of man, Prometheus & Pandora
What author was a slave from Egypt or Thrace?
Aesop
Where did Aesop live?
Samos
What poet conflicted with the tyrant Pittacus?
Alcaeus
What two famous poets threw down their shields and ran from a battle?
Alcaeus and Archilochus
The poet Alcman was mainly known for his?
partheneia
What are partheneia?
songs sung by a chorus of maidens at religious festivals
What poet was born in Teos?
Anacreon
What poet was from Mytilene, on Lesbos?
Alcaeus
What poet moved the tyrant Polycrates’ court on Samos?
Anacreon
Who was the first Greek to have written a book in prose?
Anaximander
Who was the first man to have constructed the first map of the earth?
Anaximander
Who believed the primary substance was air?
Anaximenes
Who was the first to use the term iambic for the meter of some of his poems?
Archilochus
What poet was a pupil of Alcman?
Arion
What poet lived at the court of Periander in Corinth?
Arion
What poet was thrown overboard by pirates, but saved by a dolphin?
Arion
Who is credited with inventing the dithyramb, a form of choral lyric poetry?
Arion
Who was the nephew of Simonides?
Bacchylides
Who wrote odes in a style similar to Pindar?
Bacchylides
Bacchylides specifically wrote about which two games?
Olympian games of 476 and Pythian games of 470
Aristotle calls which poet the forerunner of tragedy?
Bacchylides
Who believed the universe consisted of four elements: air, fire, water, and earth?
Empedocles
Whose works include On Nature and Purifications?
Empedocles
Who said the primary element is fire?
Heracleitus
Which philosopher from Ephesus wrote On Nature?
Heracleitus
Who wrote the History of the Persian Wars?
Herodotus
How many books were in History of the Persian Wars?
9 books
What author was attacked by robbers when a flock of cranes flew overhead and exclaimed, “Those cranes will avenge me.”
Ibycus
Who founded the Eleatic school of philosophy?
Parmenides
What author’s works include the way of Truth and the Way of Seeming?
Parmenides
Who was a pre-Socratic philosopher from Elea?
Parmenides
Who was a lyric poet from Thebes in Boetia?
Pindar
What did Pindar write?
odes to the victors at the four great games - Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian odes
Who was instructed by Corinna?
Pindar
Whose house did Alexander the Great spare in Thebes?
Pindar’s
Who wrote in Doric Greek?
Pindar
Who wrote an ode to Hieron I of Syracuse, as well as to other Sicilian tyrants?
Pindar
Who was considered by many to be the greatest Greek lyric poet?
Pindar
How many writing of Pythagoras remain?
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Who believed in the transmigration of souls?
Pythagoras
Who was a Greek poetess from Lesbos?
Sappho
Who went into exile in Sicily because of political troubles in their home land?
Sappho
One of whose poems was translated by Catullus in his poem 51?
Sappho
Who was called the ‘tenth muse?’
Sappho
What lyric and elegiac poet was born on Ceos?
Simonides
Who was the uncle of Bacchylides?
Simonides
Simonides is most famous for his?
epigrams
Who wrote epitaphs for the Athenian dead at Marathon and the Spartan dead at Thermopylae?
Simonides
What poet had the real name Teisias?
Stesichorus
Who was supposedly struck blind for slandering Helen in one of his poems?
Stesichorus
Who was an elegiac poet from Megara?
Theognis
Theognis’s poems are addressed to whom?
Cyrnus, a young boy
Who was a Spartan elegiac poet of the seventh century?
Tyrtaeus
