Part One Flashcards
Name the orator who wrote speeches to be performed in court, but never performed them himself?
Isocrates
Callimachus’s Hecale is about which Greek hero?
Theseus
What is the name of Odysseus’ faithful swineherd in Book 14 of Homer’s Odyssey?
Eumaeus
What Thracian slave from Samnos established the genre of fables?
Aesop
Hesiod’s Catalogue of Women stated the Golden Fleece was given to whom?
Helle
In which Greek city-state does the Lysistrata take place?
Athens
Plato died in what year?
347 B.C.
Eubulus wrote in which literary genre?
Middle Comedy
Stesichorus composed a poem insulting which mythological figure?
Helen of Troy
Which poet introduced lyric solos into dithyrambic structures?
Melanippides
What work by Callimachus focuses on ancient Greek myths, cults, and festivals?
Aetia
Which philosopher was the teacher of Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
Which philosopher founded the study of Cynicism?
Antithenes
The philosopher Empedocles introduced which theory as the basis of the universe?
the four elements
To what genre(s) of literature did Terpander write?
lyric poetry and music
Which playwright wrote about Andromache, Hecuba, and various other Trojan Women?
Euripides
What pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus constructed the first map of the Earth?
Anaximander
What woman was the prize of Agamemnon, who reluctantly returned her to her father, a priest of Apollo?
Chryseis
Who wrote the Symposium?
Plato or Xenophon
From which Greek dialect is poetry believed to have originated?
Dorian
In what Socratic dialogue does Plato discuss justice, order and character of the city-state, and the just man?
Republic
Euclid is the “father” of which branch of mathematics?
Geometry
In Euripides’s Hippolytus, to whom is Theseus married?
Phaedra
Of how many books is Ptolemy’s Almagest comprised?
13