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46 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote the play "Bacchae"?
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Euripides.
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The ancient poet who gave the Greeks the Theogony and the Works and Days.
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Hesiod
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What is the Theogony?
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A book by the poet Hesiod describing the origination of the gods.
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What is the Works and Days?
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A book by the poet Hesiod describing the pleasures and perils of ancient agricultural life.
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Who wrote the Iliad?
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Homer.
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Who wrote the Odyssey?
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Homer.
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Who was Homer?
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An ancient Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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Who wrote the play "Medea"?
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Euripides.
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Who wrote the book The Metaphysics?
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Aristotle.
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The title of Herodotus of Halicarnassus' book.
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The Histories.
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Who was Aeschylus?
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A late 6th to early 5th century B.C. Greek tragedy-wrtier who fought in the Persian Wars.
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What three plays make up the Oresteian Trilogy of Aeschylus?
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Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and the Eumenides.
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Who wrote the play "Prometheus Bound"?
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Aeschylus
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Who wrote the book The Physics?
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Aristotle.
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What three plays make up the Oedipus Cycle of Sophocles?
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Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonnus, and Antigone.
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Who wrote the plays called the "Oedipus Cycle"?
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Sophocles.
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Who wrote the plays called the "Oresteian Trilogy"?
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Aeschylus.
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Who was Euripides?
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A 5th century B.C. Athenian tragedy--writer famous for the plays Medea, Hippolytus, and the Bacchae.
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Lived in the 1st century A.D. and wrote a series of "parallel lives" of the Greeks and Romans.
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Plutarch
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Who was Herodotus of Halicarnassus?
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A 5th century B.C. Greek who wrote "The Histories" and became known as "the father of history."
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Who wrote the play Hippolytus?
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Euripides.
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Who was Aristotle?
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A 4th century B.C. Greek philosopher famous for philosophical works grounded in observation rather than speculation.
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Who was Sophocles?
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A 5th century B.C. Greek tragedy-writer whose most famous work is The Oedipus Cycle.
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Who wrote the book Nicomachean Ethics?
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Aristotle.
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From what city was Herodotus, and in what region was it?
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Halicarnassus, in Ionia
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He wrote the play "The Clouds."
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Aristophanes
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Who was Plato?
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A 4th century B.C. Greek philosopher famous for philosophical works grounded in speculation rather than observation.
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What is "comedy"?
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A literary genre that exaggerates the flaws of people in order to teach a moral lesson.
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Who wrote the dialogue Gorgias?
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Plato.
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Who was Xenophon?
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A late 5th to early 4th century student of Socrates.
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To what literary genre do Plato's works belong?
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The dialogue.
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He wrote the play "The Frogs."
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Aristophanes
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Who wrote the dialogue The Apology?
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Plato.
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Whose trial is the dialogue The Apology about?
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Socrates.
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Who was Thucydides?
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A 4th century Athenian general who wrote the book The Peloponnesian War.
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This Greek comic poet flourished around the time of Socrates.
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Aristophanes
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Who wrote the dialogue Ion?
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Plato.
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What book did Xenophon write to continue Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War?
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The Hellenica.
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Who wrote the Hellenica?
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Xenophon.
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Of what great philosopher were Plato and Xenophon students?
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Socrates.
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What is "tragedy"?
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A literary genre in which bad things happen to "good" people because of their unrecognized character flaws.
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Who wrote the dialogue The Republic?
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Plato.
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About how many dialogues did Plato write?
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30.
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Who wrote the book The Politics?
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Aristotle.
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He wrote the play "The Birds."
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Aristophanes
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He is famous for saying "The unexamined life is not worth living."
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Socrates
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