Greece

Question 1

Tartarus

Answer 1

the worst part of Hades; people having their livers pecked out, being tortured for all of eternity

Question 2

Ajax

Answer 2

retrieves Achille’s dead body and armor during the Trojan war; Odysseus argues that he should get to keep the magic armor and Ajax kills himself

Question 3

Euripides

Answer 3

from Salamis, he wrote on papyrus in a cave there; his mother sold vegetables in the Agora; two unsuccessful marriages, both wives cheated on him; sympathetic and interesting female characters in his plays; he was least successful of the playwrights in his time (because he was a feminist); Euripides is most popular today

Question 4

Alcestis

Answer 4

died in place of her husband; play by Euripides

Question 5

Sophocles

Answer 5

most popular in his own time; also a musician and wrote his own music

Question 6

Theorica

Answer 6

fund of monies spent on festivals, theater and largess dispensed to the people

Question 7

Deme

Answer 7

neighborhood or village as distinct from the polis

Question 8

Thargelion

Answer 8

festival for Apollo and Artemis; human sacrifice to purify Athens.

Question 9

grammatistes

Answer 9

taught reading writing and arithmetic to boys at the Academy

Question 10

lordõ

Answer 10

the penetratee leans back against the penetrator’s chest