2013 FJCL State Latin Forum Greek Literature

Question 1

What author was said to have been struck blind for slandering Helen of Tory in one of his poems?

Answer 1

Stesichorus

Question 2

Which of the following authors did not write tragedies?

Answer 2

Menander

Question 3

Which philosopher was the first to develop what became known as the Atomic Theory?

Answer 3

Leupcippus

Question 4

Which author wrote The History of the Peloponnesian Wars until 411 B.C.?

Answer 4

Thucydides

Question 5

Which orator was convicted for the mutilation of the Hermes statute in cahoots with Alcibiades?

Answer 5

Andocides

Question 6

Which Greek poet wrote funeral eulogies for those who died at Marathon and Thermopylae?

Answer 6

Simonides

Question 7

From what city did Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes all flourish?

Answer 7

Miletus

Question 8

What are the five ages of man in Hesiod’s Works and Days?

Answer 8

Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic, and Iron

Question 9

Accoidng to legend, what poet was carried back to land by dolphins after pirates threw him in the ocean?

Answer 9

Arion

Question 10

What tragedian lived for 90 years, almost throughout the entire 5th century BC?

Answer 10

Sophocles

Question 11

Which historian wrote a 58 book work on Philip II of Macedon?

Answer 11

Theopompus

Question 12

Which tragedian was most famous for his use of deus ex machina?

Answer 12

Euripides

Question 13

Which tragedian wrote Alcestis and Hippolytus?

Answer 13

Euripides

Question 14

Which orator was said to have cured his speech impediment by putting pebbles in his mouth?

Answer 14

Demosthenes

Question 15

Which writer of comedy did NOT live during the “Middle Comedy” era: Alexis, Antiphones, Eubulus, or Philemon?

Answer 15

Philemon

Question 16

What tragedian was fined by the Athenians for writing a depressing tragedy about the Persian capture of Miletus?

Answer 16

Phrynicus

Question 17

Which poet doubled as a famous Athenian statesman and used his works in part to justify his policies?

Answer 17

Solon

Question 18

Which poet was famous for his “Lock of Berenice” which influenced Catullus?

Answer 18

Callimachus

Question 19

Who is usually considered the first Greek historian?

Answer 19

Hecataeus

Question 20

Who was the Athenian orator who was the teacher of Demosthenes?

Answer 20

Isaeus

Question 21

Who believed that the primary substance was air?

Answer 21

Anaximenes

Question 22

What are the plays of Aristophanes?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What terms are used in Greek comedy?

Answer 23

parados, parabasis, and exodus

Question 24

Which Greek philosopher was known as the ‘weeping’ philosopher?

Answer 24

Heraclitus

Question 25

Who wrote such biting verses against the sculptors Bupalus and Athenis that they hung themselves?

Answer 25

Hipponax

Question 26

Which of the following attacked Socrates: Knights, Clouds, Peace, or Wealth?

Answer 26

Clouds

Question 27

Which of the following deities is not th subject of one of the Homeric Hymns?

Answer 27

Hestia

Question 28

Which poet was said to have purged Sparta of a plague by appeasing Apollo with his poetry?

Answer 28

Thaletas

Question 29

Which city fined Pindar because he became associated with Athens?

Answer 29

Thebes

Question 30

What work of Plato is a diablogue with Socrates in prison?

Answer 30

Crito

Question 31

Which of the following was a work written by Aristotle?

Answer 31

Politics

Question 32

In what year does Xenophon’s history Hellenica end?

Answer 32

362 BC

Question 33

Which Greek philosopher believed that there were four primary elements: ari, water, earth, and fire?

Answer 33

Empedocles

Question 34

Who hailed from Samos, moved to Croton and southern Italy and influenced the Roman kings?

Answer 34

Pyathagoras

Question 35

Which scholar succeeded Zendodotus as head of the Alexandrian library?

Answer 35

Erastothenes

Question 36

Who is usually considered the first of the ten Attic Orators?

Answer 36

Antiphon

Question 37

Which philosopher and mathematician was said to have invented the screw and the pulley?

Answer 37

Archytas

Question 38

Which Athenian orator wrote the Panegyricus urging Athenians and Spartans to unite?

Answer 38

Isocrates

Question 39

Which scholar was famous for his book On the Measurement of the Earth, in which he very accurately calculated earth’s circumference?

Answer 39

Eratosthenes

Question 40

Which body of water is famously denoted by a joyful cry of “Thalassa, Thalassa” in the Anabasis of Xenophon?

Answer 40

Black Sea

Question 41

Which dialect is Herodotus’ famous history written in?

Answer 41

Ionic

Question 42

Who wrote Silloi, a work of lampoons that mocked Homer hexameters?

Answer 42

Timon

Question 43

Which poet hailed from Lesbos and influenced Catullus?

Answer 43

Sappho

Question 44

Which skeptic philosopher produced nothing but his arguments survive through his pupil Clitomachus?

Answer 44

Carneades

Question 45

Which authors’ fragmented works include Heros, Kitharistes, Ogre, and Phasma but is most famous for his only complete work, Dyskolos?

Answer 45

Menander

Question 46

How many works of Sophocles are extant, including his satyr play?

Answer 46

8

Question 47

For which of these tragedians in his authorship of Prometheus Bound spitted because it heavily differs from his other extant works?

Answer 47

Aeschylus

Question 48

What tragedian was said to have been ripped apart by dogs?

Answer 48

Euripides

Question 49

Which scientist was also one of the seven sages of Greece?

Answer 49

Thales

Question 50

Who was the patron of Greek theater?

Answer 50

Dionysus