Ancient Greece (All)

Question 1

Hesiod

Answer 1

A simple farmer until one day when he was visited by one of the muses, while he was tending to a herd of sheep on Mt. Helicon, and he wrote several works including The Theogony

Question 2

Theogony

Question 3

Olympian Gods

Question 4

Zeus

Question 5

Tartarus

Answer 5

An inescapable place of punishment that the 1st and 2nd generations of gods were sent to after the cosmic war.

Question 6

The Abyss

Answer 6

A void of space where one could fall for a year and not touch the bottom in the center of Tartarus

Question 7

Homer

Question 8

Traditional Burial rites: Prothesis, Ekphora, and Internment/Cremation

Question 9

Hades

Question 10

Odysseus/The Odyssey

Question 11

Tiresias

Question 12

The Mother of Odysseus

Question 13

Achilles

Question 14

Minos

Question 15

Symbolic Retribution


Question 16

Tantalus

Question 17

Sisyphus

Question 18

The Suitors


Question 19

Agamemnon


Question 20

The Styx, the Acheron


Question 21

Charon the Boatman

Question 22

Cerberus

Question 23

Herakles

Question 24

Elysium/Elysian Fields

Question 25

Isles of the Blessed


Question 26

Fields of Asphodel


Question 27

Fields of Punishment

Question 28

Persephone

Question 29

Demeter

Question 30

Gian Bernini/The Rape of Proserpina

Question 31

Pomegranate Seeds

Question 32

Eleusinian Mysteries (Descent, Search, Ascent)

Question 33

Kykeon

Question 34

Orpheus

Question 35

Euridyce

Question 36

“The Frogs”

Question 37

Aristophanes

Question 38

Dionysus

Question 39

Xanthias

Question 40

Euripides & Aeschylus

Question 41

Philosophy

Question 42

Pythagoras

Question 43

Plato


Answer 43

A famous greek Philosopher that mainly focused on the afterlife

Question 44

Socrates

Answer 44

The central figure of Plato’s dialogue- while originally a real person, the dialogues eventually made it so socrates was a vessel for Plato’s ideas

Question 45

Theory of Forms

Answer 45

The theory of forms suggests that abstract, perfect forms or ideals exist beyond our physical world, representing the true essence of all things we encounter, which are merely imperfect copies of these forms.
For example, in this realm, there is a version of a chair that is the ‘ideal’ or ‘perfect’ version, that the physical world attempts to copy and imitate

Question 46

Cave Analogy


Answer 46

Plato’s cave analogy illustrates how people can be trapped in a world of illusions, only seeing shadows of reality projected on a wall, representing ignorance. When one prisoner escapes and discovers the true world outside the cave, he realizes the deeper truths of existence and the importance of education and enlightenment in understanding reality.

Question 47

Phaedo

Answer 47

Phaedo is a dialogue by Plato that recounts the final hours of Socrates before his execution, focusing on his discussions about the immortality of the soul and the nature of the afterlife. Through conversations with his followers, Socrates argues that the soul exists beyond the body and offers philosophical insights on death, knowledge, and the pursuit of truth.

Question 48

The River Lethe

Answer 48

The river in which the dead would drink from to forget and reincarnate.

Question 49

Gorgias

Answer 49

A dialogue where Socrates speaks of the God Rhadamanthus, who is a judge of dead souls
If a souls is deformed, then Rhadamanthus stamps it as curable or incurable-
The incurable often were public figures (politicians)

Question 50

Phaedrus

Answer 50

the helmsman of Aeneas’s ship, but fell asleep one night and fell into the water
Now dead palinursu explains to Aeneas that he didn’t drown immediately and was alive for 3 days
On the 4th day, he saw land and swam to shore but natives killed him as he went on shore
Palinurus explains his body is still there unburied
Without proper burial rights, he can’t board the boat ould cross after 100 years of waiting

Question 51

The Story of Er

Answer 51

Er was a soldier who got badly wounded in a battle, so badly that he was thought to be dead and left on the field- When he recovered he said he was not just unconscious but had a vision of the afterlife when he was ‘dead’ and detailed the ‘afterlife’.The virtuous souls arise towards the heavens on the right, while evil souls descend to the left, while evil souls are met by wild men of fire aspect, who drag them away flaying them with whips and thorns. On the 12th day the souls are reincarnated