Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: The falling out between Romulus and Remus that soon became deadly, leading to the death of Remus, was over…
Answer: where to locate the city that they were establishing [Rome]
Question: While there is no reason to think that there really was a Romulus and that he established Rome atop the Palatine Hill, it rings true that he would have founded the city atop one of Rome’s hills rather than next to the Tiber River.
Answer: True
Question: Those who attended the first performance of each of Sophocles’s plays would have been sitting below which ancient site?
Answer Options:
Athenian Acropolis
Temple of Dionysus at Thebes
Athenian Agora
Delphic Oracle of Pythian Apollo
Athenian Temple of Olympian Zeus
Answer: Athenian Acropolis
Question: Like Odysseus and Aeneas, Psyche’s epic journey takes her to the
Answer Options:
underworld
Hades
Underworld
Answer: underworld
Question: Xenophanes is the earliest known atheist in the history of western Europe.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: In Hesiod’s parable about the deterioration of the human race over the ages in his ‘Works & Days’ he compares the different generations to
Answer Options:
rocks.
trees.
metals.
Answer: metals.
Question: Apuleius took his ending for “The Golden Ass” from the lost Greek original, except in that novel Lucius is not saved by Isis, but by Zeus.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Just as Vergil had been so greatly inspired by Homer when composing the ‘Aeneid,’ Ovid when writing the ‘Metamorphoses’ was inspired by Hesiod, among other Greek poets.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: In the Underworld Odysseus is still so angry at Ajax that he refuses to speak to his ghost.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: When Isis is described by her priest as “Fortuna with eyes,” meaning one who can guide people on a particular path, she is being contrasted with which goddess?
Answer Options:
Cybele
Fortuna
Aengusis
Venus
Minerva
Answer: Fortuna