2012 FJCL State Latin Forum Greek Literature

Question 1

How many books comprise The Iliad?

Answer 1

24

Question 2

Which Greek philosopher wrote the Peri Physeos?

Answer 2

Epicurus

Question 3

Which Aristophanes play is aimed towards the institution of large paid juries and their subservience to leaders?

Answer 3

The Wasps

Question 4

Which historian’s History of the Peloponnesian War covered the years 431 - 411 BC?

Answer 4

Thucydides

Question 5

Cicero’s Philippics were modeled after which ancient orator’s originals?

Answer 5

Demosthenes’

Question 6

Which book of Plato’s Republic began with the allegory of the cave?

Answer 6

Book 7

Question 7

Both Pindar and his rival ___________ wrote odes to commemorate the horse-race at the Olympic Games of 476 BC.

Answer 7

Bacchylides

Question 8

Which man came to be a poet after the Muses appeared to him while he was feeding his sheep on Mount Helicon?

Answer 8

Hesiod

Question 9

Who wrote Hippolytus which represented the author’s insight and religious outlook?

Answer 9

Euripides

Question 10

Which pupil of Alcman is said to have charmed a dolphin with his song and to have invented the dithyramb?

Answer 10

Arion

Question 11

Which tragedy by Aeschylus is based on the curse of Oedipus and his sons Eterocles and Polyneices?

Answer 11

The Seven Against Thebes

Question 12

What is the name of the brother addressed in the introduction of Hesiod’s Works and Days?

Answer 12

Perses

Question 13

What are the plays of Sophocles?

Answer 13

Ajax, Trachinian Women, Oedipus Rex (Tyrannus), Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Electra, Philoctetes

Question 14

What epics make up the Trojan cycle (epic cycle)?

Answer 14

Cypria, Iliad, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliupersis, Nostoi, Odyssey, and Telegony

Question 15

Which Greek author, in addition to plato, wrote a Symposium?

Answer 15

Xenophon

Question 16

Aristotle, in his Poetics, claimed that whose Oedipus Rex was the supreme example of Greek tragedy?

Answer 16

Sophocles

Question 17

Which author wrote the Panegyricus which urged Greeks to unite together against Persia?

Answer 17

Isocrates

Question 18

What are the works of Aeschylus?

Answer 18

Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Eumenides, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound

Question 19

Which indicated movement to the left by the chorus of a Lyric poem?

Answer 19

antistrophe

Question 20

What is the time span for the period of Middle Comedy?

Answer 20

400-323 BC

Question 21

Which of these histories describes the adventures of the Ten Thousand?

Answer 21

Anabasis

Question 22

In Pindar’s Odes of Victory, which games were celebrated in the 3rd year of the Olympiad with a prize comprised of a laurel wreath?

Answer 22

Pythian

Question 23

Who first developed the theory that our solar system is heliocentric?

Answer 23

Aristarchus

Question 24

How many of Antiphon’s speeches are extant?

Answer 24

15

Question 25

Which dialogue of Plato centers on a discussion of death and the immortality of the soul?

Answer 25

Phaedo

Question 26

To which Sophist is the following quote attributed: “Man is the measure of all things”?

Answer 26

Protagoras

Question 27

Plato said that everything in this world is a copy or image of a perfect original. This describes the theory of ____.

Answer 27

ideas

Question 28

Who founded the Peripatetic School?

Answer 28

Aristotle

Question 29

Which playwright lived to be ninety years old and led a relatively happy life?

Answer 29

Sophocles

Question 30

Who wrote Moralia and Parallel Lives?

Answer 30

Plutarch

Question 31

Which of these works is prose?

Answer 31

On His Return

Question 32

Which of these festivals held in honor of Dionysus took a place at Athens in February each year?

Answer 32

the Great Dionysia

Question 33

What is the meter of Homeric Hymns?

Answer 33

dactylic hexameter

Question 34

In which book of the Iliad does achilles learn thatHector has killed Patroclus?

Answer 34

18

Question 35

Andocides is known for his mutilation of the images of the god ______.

Answer 35

Hermes

Question 36

Whose philosophical school was called The Lyceum?

Answer 36

Aristotle’s

Question 37

Which playwright is best known for his usage of “deus ex machina”?

Answer 37

Euripides

Question 38

The song of the chorus as they marched into their laces in the orchestra is referred to as _______.

Answer 38

parados

Question 39

The Shield of Heracles focuses on the fight between Heracles and which son of Ares?

Answer 39

Cycnus

Question 40

Who wrote Ibis an Aitia?

Answer 40

Callimachus

Question 41

KEEP IT GOING

Answer 41

OK

Question 42

How many tragedies are included in the Oresteia?

Answer 42

3

Question 43

In what year did Sophocles win the Dionysian Festival for his tragedy Philoctetes?

Answer 43

409 BC

Question 44

Which poet urged Spartans to fight for their country and discouraged cowardice in his pieces?

Answer 44

Tyrtaeus

Question 45

Who planned a conspiracy which resulted in the revolution of the Four Hundred?

Answer 45

Gorgias

Question 46

The name of Menander’s first play is ___________________?

Answer 46

The Self- Tormenter

Question 47

Which speech of Lysias deals with the murder of his brother Polemarchus and also with the crimes of the Thirty in general?

Answer 47

Against Eratosthenes

Question 48

In which of his works does Hesiod discuss the origins of the gods, beginning with Chaos?

Answer 48

Theogony

Question 49

Mach each work with its author: Eumenides, Heraclidae, Phaedo, and Bacchants.

Answer 49

Aeschylus, Euripides, Plato, and Euripides

Question 50

Which poem by Mimnermus of Colophon was named after a girl he loved?

Answer 50

Nanno