2007 FJCL State Latin Forum Greek Literature

Question 1

Which of the following authors wrote comedies: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, or Aristophanes?

Answer 1

Aristophanes

Question 2

Who wrote the Argonautica?

Answer 2

Apollonius

Question 3

Which of the following Greek authors wrote odes to Olympic victors: Bacchylides, Hesiod, Lysias, or Diogenes?

Answer 3

Bacchylides

Question 4

From what city of Lesbos did both Alcaeus and Lesbos come?

Answer 4

Mytilene

Question 5

Which famous tragedian wrote a play on recent historic, not mythological, events?

Answer 5

Aeschylus

Question 6

Which historian wrote about the Lydians, Scythians, Egyptians, and the medes?

Answer 6

Herodotus

Question 7

Which tragedian has more plays extant than any other?

Answer 7

Euripides

Question 8

Which tragedian wrote two plays about Iphigeneia?

Answer 8

Euripides

Question 9

The Dyskolos is the most recent find by which of the following New Comedy writers: Alexis, Antiphones, Eubuls, or Menander?

Answer 9

Menander

Question 10

Which Greek statesman and poet wrote to publicize and justify his political policies and also to question the morals of the people of his beloved Athens?

Answer 10

Solon

Question 11

Who was the Greek author of the idylls who influenced the Eclogues of Vergil?

Answer 11

Theocritus

Question 12

Who was the Athenian orator who was the great rival of Demosthenes?

Answer 12

Aeschines

Question 13

What are the plays of Aristophanes?

Answer 13

Clouds, Wasps, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata, Frogs, Ecclesiazusae, and Plutus

Question 14

In which play does a character ride a giant dung beetle to the heavens?

Answer 14

Peace

Question 15

Which Greek lyric poet wrote a poem criticizing Helen, then recanted it in another poem after he was struck blind, saying that Helen never actually went to Troy?

Answer 15

Stesichorus

Question 16

Which Spartan lyric poet of the 7th century BC was best known for writing pithy poems about peace, love, and drinking?

Answer 16

Alcman

Question 17

In which dialogue of Plato’s does a friend of Socrates try to convince him to escape from his death penalty?

Answer 17

Crito

Question 18

Which of the following was not a concept that Aristotle wrote about: forms, logic, metaphysics, or rhetoric?

Answer 18

Forms

Question 19

Who was known in Greece as the “laughing philosopher”?

Answer 19

Democritus

Question 20

Which Greek philosopher was said to have measured the height of the Egyptian pyramids by observing their shadows and was famous for believing that water was the essential element of all matter?

Answer 20

Thales

Question 21

Which orator’s first known speech, Against Eratosthenes, was made on his own behalf and concerned the murder of his own brother?

Answer 21

Lysias

Question 22

Which orator wrote political works in the unity of Greece, especially in his work Panegyricus?

Answer 22

Isocrates

Question 23

Which historian and scholar was famous for his book On the Measurement of the Earth, and was known as “Pentathlos,” or “the well-rounded one”?

Answer 23

Eratosthenes

Question 24

The Hippocrates Corpus, attributed to Hippocrates, is written in which dialect of Greek?

Answer 24

Ionic

Question 25

Which author’s only surviving trilogy is the Orestia?

Answer 25

Aeschylus

Question 26

Which orator was known as the pupil of Isocrates and the teacher of Demosthenes?

Answer 26

Isaeus

Question 27

Which of these is Thucydides most noted for in his History of the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 27

The reporting of speeches

Question 28

Which of the following plays of Euripides is considered a satyr play: Cyclops, Hippolytus, Ion, or Heracles?

Answer 28

Cyclops

Question 29

What author was noted for his epic poems on the Trojan War and the return of Odysseus?

Answer 29

Homer

Question 30

Which author wrote dialogues that included Socrates?

Answer 30

Plato

Question 31

Which author wrote The Persian Wars and is considered the father of history?

Answer 31

Herodotus

Question 32

Fro whom did Hesiod write his Works and Days?

Answer 32

his brother

Question 33

Which archaic poet was famous for dropping his shield and running from battle?

Answer 33

Archilochus

Question 34

Which author wrote all of the following: Ajax, Philoctetes, and Antigone?

Answer 34

Sophocles

Question 35

Which famous orator was said to have cured his stuttering by speaking with pebbles in his mouth?

Answer 35

Demosthenes

Question 36

The Aetna (an elegiac poem about origins) was written by whom?

Answer 36

Callimachus

Question 37

Which of the following was NOT a Greek philosopher: Anaxagoras, Anaximenes, Andocides, Anaxander?

Answer 37

Andocides

Question 38

Which of the following is NOT a term used in Greek tragedy: chorus, parabasis, stichomythia, or encomium?

Answer 38

encomium

Question 39

Which Greek philosopher was best known for his paradoxes?

Answer 39

Zeno

Question 40

Which play of Aristophanes finds Aeschylus and Euripides king for the “throne of tragedy”?

Answer 40

Frogs

Question 41

Who was the god of drama in ancient Greece?

Answer 41

Dionysus

Question 42

From which of Plato’s works does the idea of the philosopher-king come?

Answer 42

Republic

Question 43

Which Greek philosopher was famous for saying that you can never step into the same river twice?

Answer 43

Heraclitus

Question 44

Which orator’s surviving speeches are the oldest extant? He was noted for writing speeches for others to deliver and he helped establish the rule of the Four Hundred in Athens.

Answer 44

Antiphon

Question 45

Which disciple of Socrates write the Anabasis, the expedition of Cyrus the Younger?

Answer 45

Xenophon

Question 46

Which of these was NOT considered an essential element by the pre-Socratic philosophers?

Answer 46

wood

Question 47

Which play by Sophocles, written not long before his death, showed Oedipus visiting Theseus?

Answer 47

Oedipus at Colonus

Question 48

Which of these men was said by Aristotle to have added the third actor to Greek tragedy?

Answer 48

Sophocles

Question 49

In which play of Aeschylus does he recount the wanderings of Io?

Answer 49

Promethues Bound

Question 50

To whom did Homer write hymns?

Answer 50

Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, Aphrodite, Dionysus