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68 Cards in this Set
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According to Bishop Ussher, the date of creation is:
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October 23 4004 BCE
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Exact date of Odysseus’ Return:
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April 16th 1178 BCE
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The Battle of Marathon
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490 BCE
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Fall of Rome:
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476 CE
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The Battle of Hastings:
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1066 BCE
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What is the “subject of the Iliad?:
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MENOS or the Rage of Achilles.
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Who is the greatest Trojan Warrior:
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Hector Breaker of Horses
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The Iliad narrates a portion of the events of the Trojan war. Approximately how long do those events last
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41 days
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Achilles’ dearest friend dies in the fighting at Troy, What is his name?
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Patroklus
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Who is Odysseus’ son?
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Telemachus
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Who is Odysseus’ Dog?
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Argos
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How does Eurycleia recognize Odysseus?
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By a scar he received as an infant made years ago by a boars white tusk when Odysseus went to Parnassus, out to see Autolycus and his sons . . . She knew this because she used to be his nursemaid.
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How does Homer describe Odysseus?
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A resourceful man of many twists and turns.
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What is the significance of Penelope’s Weaving?
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Her weaving is an attempt to Thwart her suitor’s advances.
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Penelope is finally sure of Odyssues’ identity when she asks him to do something at the end of the story. Explain. Plainly put:
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MOVE THE BED!
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When George Smith was translating Table XI of Gilgamesh, he noticed a remarkable similarity to another famous text. Explain:
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George Smith reached an ecstatic state when he realized that Table XI held a direct resemblance to Noah’s Ark.
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In 1874 Heinrich Schliemannn authored an article claiming that he had…
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Found Troy
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How does Lysistrata propose to persuade the men of Athens to stop the fighting
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The women held themselves within the Acropolis and go on a sex strike.
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Greek Drama originates from the festivities of which god
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Dionysus
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Which Athenian Playwright “invented the third actor”
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Sophocles
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What is Poggio Bracciolini’s obsession
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Translating books and preserving knowledge.
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Translate “Goat song”
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Tragos + Oide = Goat Song = Tragedy
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"Your guest, sitting here in your house, has not disgraced you. No missing the mark, look, and no long labor spent to string the bow. My strength’s not broken yet." |
Odysseus, following his successful completion of Pemelope’s suitors task.
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"There was a tale my lady so well told" |
Menalaus in this scene of the Odyssey, directs this quip towards Helen whn she tells Telemachus of his father’s bravery during the Trojan war. As well as her part in it.
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Define Polytropos
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Skilled in many ways
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Who is considered the master of “old Comedy”?
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Arostophones
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Who is considered the master of “new Comedy”?
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Menender
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What is the gist of the first recorded joke in Greek drama?
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TAKE MY WIFE
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In Pseudolus, why is Calidorus upset at the beginning of the play?
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His Lady is to be sold
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How is the Ending of Pseudolus subversive and irreverent?
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He humiliates his former master (Simo), takes a bounty from him, then, when Pseudolus takes off to go party he invites Simo to be his wing man. THEY DON’T EVEN INVITE THE AUDIENCE!
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Aeneas is in exile from what war?
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The Trojan One.
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When Dido and Aeneas go hunting what happens when the storm strikes?
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They take shelter in a cave and make sweet love.
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In The Swerve what are “the teeth of time”?
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Bookworms
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Where was the greatest library in the ancient/classical world?
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Alexandria
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Poggio possessed an incredible skill which helped him get a start in Florence. What was that skill?
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Impeccable Handwriting
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Describe Lucretius’s view on religion.?
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Lucretius believed it to be a source of too much conflict. He uses Agamemnon’s sacrificing of Iphigenia as an example. He had a view that the gods were otiose (Existent, but not active in the lives of mortals: Masons have the same belief that’s the big “Mason Secret”.)
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What was the earlier name of the Great Gatsby
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Trilmachio
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How does Trilmalchio interrupt this joke: “A rich man and a poor man…”
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Whats a poor man?
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Discuss some different views on education that the reader encounters in “Dinner with Trilmalchio.”
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There are the views of Agamemnon who is a teacher and holds in high esteem thorough reading and comprehension. Trimalchio is a “skimmer”, he functions on a barely coherent number of classic “name drops” which he uses only to make him sound well read. Then there is ‘the bird killer’ who wants his son to only be proficient in education so that he may move on to become a lawyer and be ‘useful’
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How does the Narrarator and his companions ‘ecape’ from Trialchio’s dinner
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During a Faux fire raid.
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Who was the Roman Emperor in the time of Petronius Arbiter
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Nero
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What is the origin of the phrase e plurubus unum
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Out of Many one
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Who is the Mother of St. Augustine of Hippo
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St. Monica
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Why does Augustine steal the pears
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For a thrill
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Based on class discussion, describe the ideas of ‘hiting the mark; and ‘missing the mark’:
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Missing the mark is to error, to wander away from the truth of he matter. To hit the mark is to boil down the essence to create a clear target so to make your point concisely.
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What is Sortes Virgilianae
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It is a form of divination through Bibliomancy specifically of the works of Virgil.
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What is the first line of Hamlet
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“Who’s there?”
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Describe and explain the name for the Beowulf manuscript.
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MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv this is how it is categorized on a library
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What seems to be troubling Prince Hamlet in Act 1 S. ii of Hamlet
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His Mothers Hasty Marriage
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Who is considered the father of Old Comedy
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Meanander
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Complete Augustine’s Prayer “Lord, make me chaste…”
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Tomorrow
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According to Augustine, what was the distinctive way that st. Ambrose used to read
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Silently
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Earlier in Augustines life, he had read the Gospels, what impact did they have on him
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He thought they were simple and unrefined.
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What poet does Sigmund Freud quote at the beginning of The Interpretation of dreams
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Virgil “If I cannot bend the heavens above I will move hell.”
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What poet does the 9-11 memorial quote
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Virgil “no day shall erase you from the memory of time”
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Who is Dane’s guide through hell
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Virgil, because He knows hell
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What is the gist of the sign over the entrance to hell
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Abandon all hope
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Describe the first circle of hell:
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Limbo, where all the virtuous Pagans are hanging out.
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Describe the 9th circle of hell, who is there
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Betrayers such as Brutus and Cassius
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What circle does Dante encounter Odysseus
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8th because he is deceitful
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According to the Canterbury Tales, when is a good time to go on a pilgrimage
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The spring or the time of Aries.
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How many times has he Wife of Bath been Married
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Five
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In the story of the grail what is the grail
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A platter
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O that this too, too solid flesh would melt…: |
Hamlet as he contemplates Suicide
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“the plays the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”: |
Hamlet as he sets his play to be a reenactment of the murder of his father.
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According to Greenblatt, what was Thomas Jefferson’s Philosophy
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Epicurean
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How does Satan escape Hell
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He convinces Sin (his former lover) and Death (his child) to let him loose.
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Milton, being blind, had to dictate Paradise lost to whom
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His three daughters.
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