Classics 129:
Greek Myths from Troy to Hollywood
Beth Severy-Hoven
Spring 2009 ~ Macalester College

Quiz on Events, People and Places in Greek & Roman History

You will need to be able to locate the following on a map of Greece and/or the Mediterranean Basin:

 Rome

Athens

Attica

Carthage

Argos

Corinth

Delos

Ithaca

Eleusis

Delphi

Sicily

Cyprus

Peloponnese

Crete

Thebes

Troy

Lydia

 

You will need to know basic information about the following poets, including when they lived, and be able to match them with the following compositions:

Sappho

Aeschylus

Euripides

Hesiod

Homer

Ovid

Vergil

Aeneid

Agamemnon

Homeric Hymns

Iliad

Metamorphoses

Odyssey

Theogony

You will need to know when these events occurred relative to each other and the lives of the above people, as well as who was involved in the wars:

Trojan War
Persian Wars
Peloponnesian Wars
Conquests of Alexander
Roman Conquest of Mediterranean Basin
Athenian Democracy
Classical Period
Age of Augustus

 

Course Homepage ~ Classics Department ~ Macalester College

Beth Severy-Hoven, Macalester College
last updated 1/20/9