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Who is called the father of tragedy?
Aeschylus
Which is Aeschylus’s most famous works?
The Oresteia
Which play by Aristophanes caricatured Socrates cruelly?
The Clouds
Name the most important dramatist of Greek Old Comedy?
Aristophanes
Who is believed to have founded the city of Rome?
Aeneas
Which period is known as the Greek Classical Period?
5th to 4th century BC
The eponymous hero of which epic is known for his cunning?
The Odyssey
Name the 3 Athenian tragedians of the 6th century BC in the chronological order?
Aeschylus, Socrates, Euripides
Which ancient form of drama led to the development of Comedy of Manners?
New Comedy of Menander
Who ruled Athens during the Greek Classical Period?
Pericles
Which classical tragedy are Laius and Jocasta characters in?
Oedipus Rex
Find the odd one out: Aeschylus, Parmenides, Sophocles, Euripides
Parmenides (pre-socratic philosopher)
Which classical hero has a name which means swollen foot?
Oedipus
On whom does Medea take revenge in Euripides’s famous play?
Jason
The odes of Pindar that celebrate the achievements of participants in competitions like Olympic Games are called
Victory Odes
Who developed a variation of the pindaric ode in the 17th century?
Abraham Cowley
How many actors were there in Aeschylus’s plays, apart from the chorus?
Two
When did Socrates die?
399 BC
Who is Helen of Troy’s twin sister born to Leda and the swan?
Clytemnestra
Which are the three major plays in the Theban trilogy?
Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
What did Dr. Johnson allude to when he said about Dryden, “He found it brick and left it marble”?
Augustus Caesar’s dying words
Which classical tragedian lived in both 1 century BC and 1st century AD?
Seneca
Who wrote homostrophic odes during Pax Romana?
Horace
Much of Plato's philosophy has been written in the form of
Dialogues
A maximum of how many speaking characters were there in a classical Greek tragedy?
Three
Which is Aristotle's surviving work on ethics?
Nichomachean Ethics
Which period is called the Hellenistic Period?
336 BC to 146 BC
Which Roman classical work is written in the form of letters addressed to Piso?
Ars Poetica
Which Roman classicist wrote Ars Amatoria?
Ovid
In Sophocles's play, how does Antigone die?
Suicide
In classical literature, which genre developed in association with the coarse and mythological satyr plays?
Comedy
Who are the two powerful republicans in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
Brutus & Cassius
Which of Aeschylus's tragedies has a typical Shelleyan situation, that of an ideal hero confronting a tyrant?
Prometheus Bound
When was Julius Caesar assassinated by the Republicans?
15th March 44 BC (Ides of March)
Who took the title Augustus' and became the first emperor of Rome?
Octavius Caesar
In which classical play is Dionysius a character?
The Frogs
Which classical writer wrote odes in praise of someone/ something?
Pindar
Who famously said that Aeschylus brought variety into drama?
Aristotle
During whose reign did Virgil, Horace and Ovid live?
Augustus Caesar
In the plays of _______, mythological characters were treated like ordinary human beings
Euripides
What philosophical orientation do the Roman classicists, Lucretius, Catullus and Horace share?
Epicurianism
Which is Seneca's famous tragedy of blood that tells the story of the House of Atreus?
Thyestes
Which epic was modelled on The Iliad and The Odyssey?
The Aeneid
Which classical tragedy tells the story of Orestes being punished for matricide?
The Eumenides
What does Virgil appear as in Dante’s Divine Comedy?
Guide
Whose professed aim in satire was to laugh people out of their follies?
Horace
Plautus & Terence wrote comedies modelled on?
New Comedy of Menander
Who wrote the famous works Amphitryon & Menaechmi?
Plautus
Which classical playwright was a major influence on English Restoration Comedy?
Plautus
Which classical work became the greatest source of mythology for Renaissance writers?
Ovid “Metamorphoses”
What is the difference between Old & New Comedy?
Old Comedy - Real individuals & local events,
New Comedy - Generalized situations & stock characters
Which tyrant ruled during Seneca’s time?
Nero
The Clouds by
Aristophanes
The Aeneid by
Virgil
The Frogs by
Aristophanes
The Orestia by
Aeschylus
The Eunuchs by
Terence
Which of the following are not revenge tragedies? The Eumenides, Amphitryon, Thyestes, Metamorphoses
Amphitryon & Metamorphoses
Which classical trilogy is the play The Libation Bearers part of?
The Orestia
In Year's Leda & the Swan, the Swan represents which Greek God?
Zeus
With which Greek philosophical school is carpe diem associated with
Epicureanism
Who were the arch enemies of the Greeks?
Republic
Who were the arch enemies of the Greeks?
The Persians
Which are the 3 time periods by which Ancient Greece is divided?
Archaic, Classical, Hellenic
Tragedy emerged as part of the religious festival
Dionysia
Thymele, Koilon, Orchestra form part of
Greek Theatre
Which section of the Greek tragedy includes the deux ex machina?
Exodus
Name the philosopher whose real name meant broad shouldered?
Plato
Which historical event led to the initiation to philosophy?
Peloponnesian war ended, 30 tyrants rule
Name the philosophical school founded by Plato along with the mathematician Theaetetus
Academy
Who headed the Academy after Plato’s death?
Speusippus
Name the school founded by Aristotle in Athens
Lyceum
