Answer Options:
Christians
donkeys
fraudulent diviners
witches
North African philosophers
Answer: fraudulent diviners
Question: Of the hundreds of gods named in the ‘Theogony,’ which are the only ones Hesiod claimed to have encountered in person?
Answer Options:
Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia, Urania, and Calliope
the Muses
Muses
Answer: the Muses
Question: As can be seen throughout Book I.V., modeling his history on Herodotus’s, opted against a straightforward, chronological narrative, instead repeatedly angling off on long tangents and having his narrative jump back and forth from one historical period to another.
Answer: False
Question: Unlike Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey,’ Hesiod’s main focus in the ‘Works & Days’ is the middle class of Greeks, not the aristocracy.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: In terms of surviving Greek drama, we have left only 33 tragedies, 11 comedies and just one of which type of play?
Answer Options:
satyr play
satyr play
satyr play
satyr play
satyr
Answer: satyr play
Question: In early versions of the Aeneas myth, Aeneas and his followers settled in Turkey, but later their destination was shifted to Italy by the Romans.
Answer: True
Question: If one could take a time machine back to hear the first performance of the ‘Homeric Hymn to Demeter,’ what sort of event would you most likely be attending?
Answer Options:
the consecration of the temple at Eleusis
a festival of Demeter
a secretive gathering of her mystery initiates
a poetry competition
a dinner party
Answer: a secretive gathering of her mystery initiates
Question: Which character in “The Golden Ass” was quite possibly a Christian?
Answer Options:
Psyche
a market gardener
a centurion
a bandit leader
Answer: a market gardener
Question: The death of Eunus, the leader of the Sicilian slave revolt, from maggots/worms/lice was similar to the death of which other figure?
Answer Options:
Alexander “the false prophet”
Antigonos the One-Eyed
Soter Historionisi
Teridates
Ptolemaios, king of Thebes
Answer: Antigonos the One-Eyed
Question: Name one of the two poets whose conception of the gods Xenophanes challenges.
Answer Options:
Homer
Hesiod
Answer: Homer
Question: As Eusebius records in his “The Ecclesiastical History,” the New Testament was originally three times as long, but Eusebius then eliminated several of the gospels and apostles’ letters that were circulating.
Answer: True
Question: Which non-divine character in the Bacchae has already appeared in more than one previous reading this semester?
Answer Options:
Pentheus
Tiresias
Tiresias
Answer: Tiresias
Question: Even though Attis physically emasculates himself, Catullus keeps referring to the youth as “he” throughout the poem ‘Attis’ and the ‘Attis’ poems.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: While witches in Greco-Roman literature were typically old hags who cursed people and engaged in other foul acts, Apuleius was the first to represent them as typically having godlike powers.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: The ‘Myth of Ages,’ which concerns the deterioration of justice over time, is a central part of the ‘Theogony.’
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Which Latin word would best describe Aeneas?
Answer: pious
Question: Which character views Lucius as a savior and expresses enormous gratitude toward him for his aid?
Answer Options:
Charite (a girl who is told in “Cupid & Psyche story”)
Diopea the Chaldaean (a marketplace diviner)
market gardener (a market gardener)
Palaestra (a brothel and a wife)
Thelyphron (a lawyer)
Answer: Charite (a girl who is told in “Cupid & Psyche story”)