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Fun Trivia: A : Ancient Greece

Special Sub-Topic: Five Ancient Greeks


This Athenian author of comedies won his first victory at the City Dionysia in around 410 B.C.

    Plato. Also known as Plato Comicus, he was a younger contemporary of Aristophanes (who won his first victory at the City Dionysia in 427 B.C.). None of his plays survive in full.

This rhetorician wrote a work in reply to Isocrates's Panegyric.
    Aristotle. This obscure Aristotle is a Sicilian who is mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (5.35).

This very learned scholar produced editions of Homer.
    Aristophanes. Aristophanes of Byzantium was one of the great scholars working in Alexandria in Hellenistic times.

This author wrote about a couple who are separated, survive many misadventures, and finally live happily ever after in Ephesus.
    Xenophon. This is not the historian Xenophon, pupil of Socrates, but the novelist Xenophon from the second century A.D.

This Constantinopolitan wrote a history of the Christian Church.
    Socrates. This Socrates's history, a continuation of that of Eusebius of Caesarea, survives in full. I warned you that this quiz would be tricky!


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