Ancient History Flashcards
Who wrote the Oresteian Trilogy, the Persians, Promethus Bound, Agamemnon and the Supliants?
Aeschylus
Who wrote Oedipus Rex, Antigone and Electra, amongst others?
Sophocles
Who wrote Medea, Baccahe and Hippolytus?
Euripides
Who wrote Lysistrata and the Clouds?
Aristophanes
Who wrote de Rerum natura?
Lucretius
Who created Venus de Mlio, sculpted in the 2nd-1st century BC?
Alexandros of Antioch
What is the greek equivalent of a toga?
Chiton
Which war occured during 280-275 BC and who was it fought between?
King Epirus of Pyrrhus and the roman republic
Which greek event was held every 3 years between 566BC to the 3rd century AD?
Panathenaic Games
Who beat Aeschlyus in a contest for a prize at a Dionysian festival in 468BC?
Sophocles
Who formed the 7 sages of Greece and was a Mytilenean general?
Pittacus
Which famous greek was a stonemason and fought in the Peloponnesian War? He was later sentenced to death.
Socrates
Who, according to Thucydides, was the first citizen of Athens?
Pericles
Who expanded the Delian League before later succumbing to a plague?
Pericles
Who wrote about the Greco-Persian Wars in his ‘The Histories’?
Herodotus
