VSF Quiz

V1 - Greek for Dromos

δρόμος

V1 - Dromos definition

Race, running

V1 - Dromedary

literally "Runner," a Camel

V1 - Anadromous

ana (upward) + dromos "running" - literally, one who runs upward; used in context of describing fish who migrate upstream up rivers from the sea, e.g. salmon

V1 - Hippo/ drome

hippo (horse) + dromos (running) - a chariot/horse race course; definition has extended to include theaters, etc.

V1 - Palindrome

palin (again, back) + dromos (running) - something that runs back; racecar ! tacocat !

V1 - Adrastea

a "not" + drasmos "running" - literally, from whom there is no running away; Greek goddess of vengeance

S1 - Sum summus mus

I am the greatest mouse

S1 - Et tiger non regit te

And the tiger does not rule you

S1 - In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

We go in a circle at night and are consumed by fire

F1 - The library of Alexandria actually burned down through a series of fires, the first being ...

...the purge of intellectuals in 145 BC

F1 - Caesar accidentally burned a chunk of the library of Alexandria during...

...a civil war in 48 BC

F1 - Due to a lack of funding and support, the Library of Alexandria declined over a period of...

...300 years

F1 - The Library of Alexandria was finally destroyed...

...between 270-275 BC during the Palmyrene invasion of Egypt

F1 - Name of the modern rebuilding of the Library of Alexandria

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

V2 - tutor root

Tutor, tutoris, m. - "Watcher, protector, defender"; tueor, tueri, tutus sum- "To protect/watch"

V2 - derivatives of tueri and tutor

Tutor, Tutee, Intuit, Intuition, Tuition, Tutorial, Tutelage, Tutelary

S2 - "Homines dum docent discunt"

"Men learn while they teach" - Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium

F2 - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a...

...Roman educator from Hispania

F2 - Quintilianus was tutored by...

...Domitius Afer

F2 - Quintilianus opened a public school of rhetoric in...

...69 AD (Year of the Four Emperors)

F2 - Quintilianus taught many notable students such as...

Pliny the Younger and maybe Tacitus

F2 - Quintilianus was made a consul by...

...Emperor Vespasian

F2 - Quintilianus wrote a twelve-volume textbook about the theory and practice of rhetoric called... around the year...

...Institutio Oratoria ...95 AD

F2 - Quintilianus also wrote a lost work called...

...De Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae

V3 - sidus, sideris, n.

star, constellation

V3 - sidus derivatives

sidereal, consider, desire, sideration

S3 - 'Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra,

dis genite et geniture deos.'

"Be blessed for your new courage, boy, thus a path to the stars, offspring of gods and about to beget gods." - Apollo to Iulus, Aeneid Book IX, Line 641

F3 - Claudius Ptolemy lived in... from...

...Alexandria for most of his life ...100-170 AD

F3 - Ptolemy was a...

...mathematician, astronomer, musical theorist, and geographer

F3 - Mathēmatikē Syntaxis

Also known as Almagest, geometric models of stars and planets, calculations of their past and future positions

F3 - Handy Tables

Astronomical data tables, useful for calculating positions and eclipses, does not survive today

F3 - Planetary Hypotheses

Describes structure of the universe

F3 - Planets named by the Romans

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

F3 - Uranus discovered in... by... who wanted to name it... after King George III, but Uranus was chosen as a better name

...1781 ...William Herschel ...Georgium Sidus

F3 - Neptune discovered in... by... almost named after French mathematician...

...1846 ...Johann Gottfried Galle ...Urbain Le Verrier

F3 - Pluto identified in... named by (11-year-old girl from England)

...1930 ...Venetia Burney

F3 - Root of Earth

PIE root "er-"

V4 - panacea

cure-all, universal remedy

V4 - roots of panacea

pan - all, akos - heal

V4 - Derivatives of pan-

panarchy

pandemic

pancreas

pandemonium

pantisocracy

panharmonic

panorama

Pantheon

S4 - Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.

Life is short,

The art is long,

Opportunity fleeting,

Experiment dangerous,

Judgement difficult. - Hippocrates

F4 - Hippocrates was a physician from...

...the island of Cos in Greece

F4 - Hippocrates practiced and taught medicine throughout...

...Greece and Asia Minor

F4 - Hippocratus wrote, unsurprisingly, the Hippocratic Oath, a.k.a...

...Corpus Hippocratium

F4 - the number of writings attributed to Hippocratus, most of which were probably not actually written by him, number around...

...sixty

F4 - Medicine in ancient Rome was greatly influenced by...

...Greece and Egypt

F4 - Knowledge combined by medicine of ancient Rome

Hippocratic Oath, using diet as treatment and surgical procedures

F4 - Medicine in ancient Rome believed that wellness of the mind was correlated to that of the body

(I don't know how to Quizlet-ify this)

F4 - name of the guy who:

- Theorized that brain controlled body, not heart

- Wrote many treatises drawing upon his knowledge from doing dissections

Galen of Pergamon

V5 - Kore roots

korē -\> maiden, girl; korwo -\> growing; ker\- -\> growing

V5 - Kore derivatives

Crescere - to grow, thrive

Creare - to produce, create

V5 - Persephone

Female thresher of corn

V5 - roots of Persephone

persophatta (original form); perso-; Similar in meaning to parsa\- -\> "sheaf of corn"; gwhen\- -\> "to strike"

V5 - "Gwhen-" relations

Bane

Bezoar - antidote to poison

Bazahr -\> pad-zahr

Zahr -\> poison

V5 - Proserpina roots

proserpere -\> to creep forth; "corruption" of Persephone. Similar to serpere - to creep

V5 - Derivatives of serpere:

Serpent

Serpentine

Herpes

Herpetology

S5 - protinus alter amat, fugit altera nomen amantis

silvarum latebrīs captivarumque ferarum⁠

exuviīs gaudens innuptaeque aemula Phoebes:

vitta coercebat positos sine lege capillos.

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F5 - Jupiter's first wife was...

...Metis, whom he swallowed and which resulted in Athena

F5 - Jupiter's second wife was... with whom he had the offspring of...

... Themis ... Horae (seasons) + Morai (Fates)

F5 - Jupiter's third wife was...

...Eurynome

F5 - Jupiter's fourth marriage was...

...Ceres

F5 - Jupiter's fifth marriage was...

Mnemosyne

F5 - Jupiter's sixth marriage was...

Leto

F5 - Painter of The Abduction of Europa

Rembrandt

F5 - Painter of Juno Discovering Jupiter with Io

Pieter Lastman

F5 - Hesiod's Theogony

The work of a Greek poet describing the genealogy of mythology

F5 - Diodorus Siculus

Greek historian who claimed that Jupiter had his last affair with Alcmene

V6 - logodaedaly

skill or cleverness in the coining of new words

V6 - logodaedaly roots

λόγος ("word") + Δαίδᾰλος ("Daedalus") from δαιδάλλω ("work, craft")

S6 - Bibant, quoniam edere nollent

"Since they do not want to eat, let them drink!"

F6 - \__________________ was a consul in..., given command of the Roman fleet during the...

Publius Claudius Pulcher... 249 BC... First Punic War...

F6 - According to..., he lost... after ignoring a bad omen—when the sacred chickens refused to eat, he threw them into the ocean. \___ ships were lost. Pulcher was fined... (bronze coins) and committed suicide afterwards.

Suetonius... the Battle of Drepana... 120... 120,000 assēs

V7 - Orthogonal

ortho (ορθος): straight, right, proper

gon (γωνια): corner, angle

V7 - Ortho- derivatives

orthodontics, orthodox, ortholinear, orthosis, orthotic