2009 FJCL State Latin Forum Greek Literature

Question 1

Which of the following poets was female: Alceus, Sappho, Simonides, or Terpander?

Answer 1

Sappho

Question 2

Which of the following wrote tragedy: Aeschylus, Plato, Socrates, or Hesiod?

Answer 2

Aeschylus

Question 3

Who wrote the Republic?

Answer 3

Plato

Question 4

Who was considered the greatest orator of Athens?

Answer 4

Demosthenes

Question 5

Who is considered the other of history?

Answer 5

Herodotus

Question 6

The bucolic works of Vergil were based on what Greek author?

Answer 6

Theocritus

Question 7

What meter was used by Homer in the Iliad?

Answer 7

hexameter

Question 8

What play contains a strike on love-making to end a war?

Answer 8

Lysistrata

Question 9

Which of the following was not one of the plays of the Oresteia trilogy: Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Antigone, or Agamemnon?

Answer 9

Antigone

Question 10

Which of these was founded by Aristotle: Academy, Lyceum, Ephebic College, or Stoa?

Answer 10

Lyceum

Question 11

Which philosopher believed that all things are formed form earth, water, fire, and air?

Answer 11

Empedocles

Question 12

Who was the main opponent of Demosthenes?

Answer 12

Aeschines

Question 13

Whose works cover the years 411 BC to 363 BC?

Answer 13

Xenophon

Question 14

Which author describes the same war as seen in the movie 300?

Answer 14

Herodotus

Question 15

Which book of the Iliad contains the famous catalog of ships?

Answer 15

Book 2

Question 16

Which of the following was not considered one of the seven Sages: Periander, Solon, or Dinarchus?

Answer 16

Dinarchus

Question 17

To whom does Hesiod address Works and Days?

Answer 17

his brother

Question 18

During what period of Greek literature did Callimachus write?

Answer 18

Hellenistic

Question 19

Into how many tablets did Callimachus divide the Library of Alexandria catalogue?

Answer 19

120

Question 20

What is the major topic of Pindar’s Odes?

Answer 20

games

Question 21

Which Greek playwright’s epitaph mentioned his participation at the Battle of Marathon but not his success as an author?

Answer 21

Aeschylus

Question 22

What city is the scene for Antigone?

Answer 22

Thebes

Question 23

How many total plays would be submitted by a playwright for a single dramatic festival?

Answer 23

4

Question 24

Which work of Menander translates as “The Grouch”?

Answer 24

Kolax

Question 25

Which of the following plays opens with a discussion between two deities?

Answer 25

Trojan Women

Question 26

In the Frogs, what is Dionysus questing for?

Answer 26

artist

Question 27

The title Electra can refer to allay written by which two authors?

Answer 27

Sophocles & Euripides

Question 28

In the Bacchae, how are Pentheus and Dionysus related?

Answer 28

cousins

Question 29

Which playwright was inducted into the Eleusinian mysteries?

Answer 29

Aeschylus

Question 30

Plato's Republic involves a section on the famous Allegory of the ____?

Answer 30

cave

Question 31

Which Greek author wrote a defense of Helen of Troy?

Answer 31

Gorgias

Question 32

Which of the following titles was written by both Xenophon and Plato?

Answer 32

Symposium

Question 33

Which philosopher commented that if horses could draw, they would draw their gods to look like horses?

Answer 33

Parmenides

Question 34

Who wrote a speech in defense of the "lady" Phyrne?

Answer 34

Dinarchus

Question 35

Against Leocrates is a work of which orator?

Answer 35

Lycurgus

Question 36

To whom is the quote "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" belong?

Answer 36

Thucydides

Question 37

Chaereas and Callirhoe, the Greek romance, was written by which author?

Answer 37

Chariton

Question 38

Which of the following is the oldest: Theognis, Hipponax, Callinus, or Mimnermus?

Answer 38

Callinus

Question 39

Which of the following does NOT have a Homeric hymn in their honor: Cronos, Demeter, Helios, or Cybele?

Answer 39

Cronos

Question 40

"To view our Neighbor's Bliss without Desire, To dread not Famine, with her Aspect dire! Be these thy Thoughts, to these thy Heart incline, And lo! These Blessings shall be surely thine." is from which work?

Answer 40

Works and Days

Question 41

Which of the following is NOT a fragmentary play of Sophocles: Antiope, Niobe, Polyxene, or Tereus?

Answer 41

Antiope

Question 42

Which of the following non-extant works of Aristophanes is the most recent: Babylonians, Proagon, Kakalos, or Amphiaraos?

Answer 42

Kakalos

Question 43

Although Euripides wrote a play entitled Phoenissae, who wrote one before him?

Answer 43

Phrynichus

Question 44

Who visits Prometheus LAST in Prometheus Bound?

Answer 44

Hermes

Question 45

In the Symposium, who confesses his love for Socrates and attempts at getting the love returned?

Answer 45

Alcibiades

Question 46

In what book of the Odyssey does Odysseus first appear as an active character?

Answer 46

Book 5

Question 47

Which of these Attic orators was sent to Sparta in 391 to discuss peace terms?

Answer 47

Andocides

Question 48

Who taught an extremely famous young student in Macedon?

Answer 48

Aristotle

Question 49

The quote "If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot" comes from which Greek philosopher?

Answer 49

Hippocrates

Question 50

State the number of types of Greek comedy, the number of Attic orators, the year of Menander's death, and the number of completely extant plays of Sophocles.

Answer 50

3, 10, 292 BCE, and 7