Regional Study Guide

Question 1

Works of blind Homer

Answer 1

Iliad and Odyssey

Question 2

Iliad

Answer 2

24 books long, dactylic hexameter, tells the story of the wrath of Achilles during the Trojan War

Question 3

Odyssey

Answer 3

24 books long, the story of Odysseus going home to Ithaca

Question 4

Homeric Hymns

Answer 4

To Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, Aphrodite, and Dionysius

Question 5

Hesiod (c 700 BC) works

Answer 5

Theogony

Works and Days

Question 6

Theogony

Answer 6

Dactylic hexameter, an account of the births of the gods

Question 7

Works and Days

Answer 7

Dactylic hexameter, written to Hesiod’s bro, Perses, talks about farming, 5 ages of man (golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron) and mentions Prometheus and Pandora

Question 8

Aesop

Answer 8

Author of fables, slave from Egypt or Thrace, lived on Samos

Question 9

Alcaeus

Answer 9

Poet late 7th cen BC from Mytilene (Lesbos), argued with Pittacus and went to Egypt, threw down his shield and ran from battle like Archilochus

Question 10

Works of Alcaeus

Answer 10

Lyric songs about politics, love, and hymns

Question 11

Alcman

Answer 11

Lyric poet late 7th cen BC in Sparta

Question 12

Works of Alcman

Answer 12

Partheneia: songs sung by a chorus of maidens at religious festivals

Question 13

Anacreon

Answer 13

Poet of the early 6th century born in Teos moved to Polycrates’ court on Samos then moved to Athens

Question 14

Works of Anacreon

Answer 14

Lyric, iambic, and elegiac poetry about love and the pleasures of life

Question 15

Anaximander

Answer 15

Pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus from c 610-545 first book in prose about nature

Question 16

Works of Anaximander

Answer 16

The first map of the earth

Question 17

Anaximenes

Answer 17

Presocratic philosopher from Miletus, contemporary of Anaximander (both during mid sixth cen)

Question 18

What did Anaximenes believe the primary substance to be?

Answer 18

Air

Question 19

Archilochus

Answer 19

Poet from Paros in mid 7th cen

Question 20

Works of Archilochus

Answer 20

Poem where he leaves behind his shield in battle, a great dishonor, first to name the meter iambic

Question 21

Arion

Answer 21

Lyric poet from the 7th cen, born on lesbos, pupil of Alcman, lived with Periander

Question 22

How did Arion survive being thrown overboard by pirates?

Answer 22

A dolphin, charmed by his singing, carried him to land, created dithyramb, a form of choral lyric poetry

Question 23

Bacchylides

Answer 23

Lyric poet from Ceos in the late 6th to mid 5th cen, nephew of poet Simonides