2010 FJCL State Latin Forum Greek Literature (OUTLIER)

Question 1

What is the chronology of events from the epic cycle?

Answer 1

Patroclus’ death, Hector’s death, Achilles’ death, the horse ruse

Question 2

What does the term rhapsode mean?

Answer 2

song stitcher

Question 3

Which Homeric Hymn told the story of Elusis and its mysteries?

Answer 3

Demeter

Question 4

Which philosopher theorized everything in the universe was made of atoms?

Answer 4

Democritus

Question 5

What lyric poet was best known for celebrations of athletic victories?

Answer 5

Pindar

Question 6

What poet wrote, “Of those who died at the Hot Gates their fame is famous,” in honor of the dead at Thermopylae?

Answer 6

Simonides

Question 7

Which choral form was a predecessor to tragedies?

Answer 7

dithyramb

Question 8

What comprises the Oresteia trilogy?

Answer 8

Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides

Question 9

The period of time when the great tragic poets wrote is which of these?

Answer 9

Golden Age

Question 10

Which play was not written by Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Trojan Women, or Philoctetes?

Answer 10

Trojan Women

Question 11

Which play is incorrectly matched with its subject: Clouds(youths are taught sophistic techniques), Wasps(generational conflict & court spoofs), Lysistrata(ladies engineer peace by an interesting method), or Birds(a travesty of the Daedalus & Icarus myth)? What is the correct subject of the incorrectly matched play?

Answer 11

Birds(Two Athenians travel to Nephelokokkygia(‘cloudcuckooland’) to escape the war)

Question 12

Which writer is commonly known as the “Father of History”?

Answer 12

Herodotus

Question 13

The Constitution of Athens was authored by whom?

Answer 13

the Old Oligarch

Question 14

Which Platonic work describes the death of Socrates?

Answer 14

Phaedo

Question 15

Whose works are considered New Comedy?

Answer 15

Menander’s

Question 16

Which tragic poet is said to have lived in a cave contemplating the mysteries of life?

Answer 16

Euripides

Question 17

Which playwright has the most surviving plays?

Answer 17

Euripides

Question 18

What tale was told about Arion of Methymna?

Answer 18

He was rescued from drowning by a music loving dolphin

Question 19

Identify the schools of Aristotle, Socrates, Zeno, and Anaximander.

Answer 19

Peripatetic, Classical Greek, Stoicism, Ionian/Milesian/Naturalism

Question 20

Which work is by Callimachus: Eroticus, Antiope, Poetics, or Aetia?

Answer 20

Aetia

Question 21

Who wrote the Philippics?

Answer 21

Demosthenes

Question 22

What Chian author of the late fourth century wrote a Hellenica and a Philippics which only exist in fragments today?

Answer 22

Theopompus

Question 23

Which of these works is prose: Iliad, Frogs, Argonautica, or Cyropaedia?

Answer 23

Cyropaedia

Question 24

What literary device is exemplified by all of the following phrases: bronze-shirted Achaean, fish-haunted sea, helmeted Hector?

Answer 24

epithet

Question 25

According to Homer, who was buried by Sleep and Death?

Answer 25

Sarpedon

Question 26

Who first recited the story of the Golden Age?

Answer 26

Hesiod

Question 27

What writer influenced Catullus with these words: “Peer of the gods is that man, who face to face, sits listening to your sweet speech and lovely laughter”?

Answer 27

Sappho

Question 28

What philosopher-poet denounced Homer and Hesiod for telling lies about the gods?

Answer 28

Xenophanes

Question 29

What poet’s works was preserved as an example of bathos?

Answer 29

Praxilla of Sikyon

Question 30

What poet was a general twice in his lifetime?

Answer 30

Sophocles

Question 31

Which writer, according to legend, was torn to pieces by Molossian hounds?

Answer 31

Euripides

Question 32

Whose followers were called Peripatetics?

Answer 32

Aristotle’s

Question 33

What orator first taught rhetoric to Athenians?

Answer 33

Gorgias

Question 34

In 406, Sophocles wore mourning at his play production to honor which recently deceased author?

Answer 34

Euripides

Question 35

What was the normal number of comedies presented in a day at the Great Dionysia?

Answer 35

five

Question 36

What common theme is present in Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazuzae, and Ecclesiazuzae?

Answer 36

women protagonists

Question 37

What play concludes with a crazed mother helping tear apart her son, then carrying his head away on her staff?

Answer 37

Bacchae

Question 38

What poet lived near Mt. Helicon and claimed he received his calling as a poet form the mountain itself?

Answer 38

Hesiod

Question 39

What Ephesian poet of invective was a serious influence on Horace?

Answer 39

Hipponax

Question 40

What philosopher did Aristotle call the inventor of rhetoric?

Answer 40

Empedokles

Question 41

Which Greek poet, author of a work entitled Anthus, is perhaps best known for his appearance in both Symposium and Thesmophoriazusae?

Answer 41

Agathon

Question 42

To whom are the following words attributed: “Of the gods I can know nothing, neither that they are nor that they are not, nor how they are shaped if at all”?

Answer 42

Protagoras

Question 43

What orator had a golden stature of himself set up at Delphi?

Answer 43

Gorgias

Question 44

What orator was seriously involved in the mutilation of Hermae (415)?

Answer 44

Andocides

Question 45

What versatile orator even wrote a satyr play, Sisyphus?

Answer 45

Critias

Question 46

Who wrote Persika, Periodos, and Indika?

Answer 46

Ctesias of Cnidos

Question 47

What did the Atthidographers write?

Answer 47

Local Athenian history

Question 48

What comic poet portrayed Pericles as a wanton warmonger?

Answer 48

Cratinus

Question 49

What sound effect/quote is associated with Frogs?

Answer 49

Brekekekex koax koax

Question 50

Which author would one consult for advice on horseback riding?

Answer 50

Xenophon