Greek Arts and Literature

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1. The opening line of a play by which playwright reads: 'Ismene, dear sister, You would think that we had already suffered enough...'? Aeschylus Aristotle Thespis Sophocles

2. Which poet wrote: 'Water is best, and gold, like a blazing fire in the night, stands out supreme of all lordly wealth.'? Sappho Pindar Archilochos Bacchylides

3. In which of his plays did Aristophanes write: 'Well. I'm afraid you've come a fool's errand. Your wives have gone.'? The Acharnians The Thesmophoriazusae Lysistrata The Birds

4. Who wrote that a life of reason was: 'a life in the possession of intelligence, thought, knowledge, and a complete memory of everything, but without an atom of pleasure, or indeed pain, in a condition of utter insensibility to such things.'? Aristotle Plato Democritus Thales

5. Which of the following is not credited with being an architect of the Parthenon? Phidias Gorgias Ictinus Callicrates

6. To what age was Ovid referring when he wrote: 'Truth, modesty, and shame, the world forsook: Fraud, avarice, and force, their places took.'? Answer: (Two words, or three with 'the')

7. Which poet wrote: 'Tonight I've watched -- the moon and then -- the Pleiades -- go down -- The night is now -- half-gone; youth -- goes; I am --in bed alone.'? Pindar Demades Anacreon Sappho

8. Who said: 'Practice makes perfect.'? Diogenes Plutarch Heraclitus Demosthenes

9. Who said: 'We can only explain you, young man, by assuming that your father was drunk the night he begot you.'? Pausanias Strabo Porphyry Diogenes

10. It was said of which Greek artist that his grapes were so lifelike birds tried to peck at them? Parrhasios Theotocopoulos Domenicos Zeuxis