Greco Roman Period

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