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44 Cards in this Set
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Achilles
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heroic Greek warrior
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Utnapishtim
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Sumerian "Noah" figure
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Haemon
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engaged to Antigone
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Crito
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friend of Socrates
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Hector
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Trojan warrior
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Gilgamesh
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mourned Enkidu
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Priam
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king of Troy
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Telemachus
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son of Odysseus
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Antigone
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buries her brother's body
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Creon
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king of Thebes
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Penelope
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wife of Odysseus
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Siduri
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"woman of the vine"
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Who helped Achilles fight against Hector?
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Athene
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In "The Silver Mine", who listened to the parson's story?
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the king |
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What is a speech or conversation between two or more characters called?
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dialogue
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What object cause rift between Baard and Anders?
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gold watch
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How many years was Odysseus gone from his home?
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twenty or 20
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What stole Gilgamesh's plant that restored life?
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serpent
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What is considered to be the oldest book of the Bible?
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Job
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Who said, "Boys, my father will get everything before we can and leave nothing big and brilliant for me, to show what we can do!"
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Alexander the Great
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Who wrote the Iliad?
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Homer
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Who wrote Antigone? |
Sophocles
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Who was Aristotle's teacher?
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Plato
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Socrates died from?
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drinking poison
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"We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing
That skies are clear and grass is growing." |
"What Is So Rare as a Day in June?"
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"The kingdom is better served with men than with money."
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"The Silver Mine"
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"One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death thou shalt die." |
"Death Be Not Proud"
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"Vital spark of heavenly flame!
Quit, oh quit this mortal frame." |
"The Dying Christian to His Soul"
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"[W]e are from one nest. Only he has learned to talk like his master; I like mine."
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"Two Ancient Indian Fables"
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Odysseus's description of his ____ proved his identity to his wife. |
bed
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In "Two Images from The Republic," the world is compared to a ship and a ____.
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cave
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What follows the exposition in the dramatic structure of a Greek drama?
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rising action
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A weakness or defect which helps to bring about a hero's the downfall is a ____.
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tragic flaw
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Something that interrupts a static (in a drama) and causes the rising action is called an ____. |
inciting force |
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The stage of a Greek theater is called ____.
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orchestra
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A ____ is a brief anecdote designed to teach a moral, and often involving animals as characters.
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fable
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A ____ is a short poem written in pairs of unrhymed lines, often on themes of war, love, or death. |
elegy |
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What kind of wood was the Kon-Tiki made out of?
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balsa
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In "Two Ancient Fables," what did the son want his mother to turn into?
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a pig |
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Who was the bling poet who wrote stories about the ancient Greek gods? |
Homer |
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Argos was a ___. |
dog |
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Mars' Hill was located in ____. |
Athens |
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Who wrote The Republic? |
Plato |
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Who wrote Lives? |
Plutarch |
