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| Greek (Indo-European) peoples first came into the Greek peninsula during the time period | 2000-1600 |
| The earliest of Sophocles’ three Theban plays was produced around | 441 |
| Which of these is a standard category of myths? | folk tales |
| In classical Athens, if you cared only for your own affairs, you would be called | idiotes |
| “What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?” is the riddle of | the sphinx |
| The god who abducted Persephone was | Hades |
| Each day at the City Dionysia, three tragedies were followed directly by | a satyr play |
| For many years in succession, Pericles was elected | strategos |
| The god of the sea and of earthquakes is | Poseidon |
| In 490, the Athenians defeated the Great King's army at | Marathon |
| Which of these does NOT provide a conventional unitary explanation of the source of myth? | the polis |
| The principal sources of myth for the plots of tragedy are the royal house of Thebes and | Trojan War |
| Leonidas and the three hunded Spartans fought to the last man to delay the advance of the Persians at | Thermopylae |
| The "teacher of Greece," whose works were thought by some to have the answers to all life's questions, was | Homer |
| The tragedian who wrote The Persians was | Aeschylus |
| Zeus's supremacy over earlier earth-mother deities is shown in stories of his | sexual relations |
| Hubris leads to atê and | nemesis |
| According to a tale that Sophocles does not tell, Teiresias was blinded by | Hera |
| At the end of Antigone, Creon has lost his | son and wife |
| The Minoan civilization had its greatest centers on the island of | Crete |
| Ouranos was castrated by | Cronus |
| In 480, the Persians burned | Athens |
| The hetaira of Pericles was | Aspasia |
| The principal historian of the Persian Wars was | Herodotus |
| In Homer's Odyssey, Aphrodite is the wife of | Hephaistos |
| According to Aristotle, tragedy should produce in the audience | catharsis |
| According to Solon's story of Kleobis and Biton, the greatest blessing that could befall young men at the peak of their health and strength is | death |
| What event in Athenian history helps to date the first production of Oedipus the King? | the plague of Athens |
| The Greek word for the love of which Aphrodite is the goddess is | eros |
| Oedipus thought that his father was Polybus when in fact it was | Laius |
| Which of these is an essential characteristic of myth? | narrative |
| At the end of Oedipus the King, Oedipus is | blind |
| In the 8th century, the population of what we call Greece increased by a factor of | 7 |
| Who killed Polyneices? | Eteocles |
| The mother of Dionysos is | Semele |
| The king of Mycenae who sacrificed his daughter for a fair wind to Troy was | Agamemnon |
| Antistrophe is | part of a choral ode |
| In a tragedy, the action between two choral odes is called | episode |
| The chorus of Oedipus the King is composed of | old men of Thebes |
| Who was NOT a brother or sister of Ismene? | Haemon |
| Who finally persuades Philoctetes to go to Troy? | Heracles |
| Alcestis' father-in-law is | Pheres |
| The Trojan hero who, in the sixth book of the Iliad, tells his wife that he must return to the fighting even though he knows that he will lose because otherwise he would feel shame before the Trojans is | Hector |
| Oedipus at Colonus was produced when Sophocles was | dead |
| The Greek comic poet who staged a debate between the old and new education was | Aristophanes |
| In the Iliad, the Athenian hometown hero is | Ajax |
| In Greece, Helen had been the wife of | Menelaus |
| The principal seer of the Trojans was | Helenus |
| Which character appears on stage in only one of Sophocles' Theban plays? | Polyneices |
| What god did Zeus force to serve the king of Thessaly? | Apollo |
| The Minotaur was the brother of | Phaedra |
| The people we associate most closely with the intellectual revolution of the 5th century BCE are the | sophists |
| In what deme of Athens was Sophocles born? | Colonus |
| Oedipus comes to rest at the shrine of | the Erinyes |
| Ajax's half-brother is | Teucer |
| The "prime cultural value" of Homeric and later Greeks was | arete |
| Another name for Cypris is | Aphrodite |
| In Hippolytus, the deus ex machina is | Artemis |
| This character is depicted in a fountain statue on McClung plaza: | Europa |
| Who wrote a treatise "Concerning Nature, or What Does Not Exist"? | Gorgias |
