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What is the name of the Greek "lawgiver" who is known for making multiple laws whose punishment for breaking them was death?
Antilles
Brutus
Cicero
Draco
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Battles such as Marathon and Thermopylae were major points of what war that was chronicled by the historian Herodotus?
The Greco-Persian War
The Greco-Roman War
The Peloponnesian War
The Ionian War
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The Greek writer Sophocles is perhaps best-known for what play that he wrote recording the tragedy of a hero-king who fell to ruin after he discovered that he had taken his mother to be his wife?
Oedipus Rex
The Times
The Iliad
The Ides of March
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What king and father of Alexander the Great led Macedon to rise up and dominate the rest of Greece?
Mehmet II
Leonidas I
Cairos IV
Philip II
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What is the name of the famous philosopher known for questioning everything up to the point that those in power sentenced him to death?
Plutarch
Socrates
Aristophanes
Stava
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What philosopher is known for recording the Socratic dialogues in works like The Republic and is also known for his Theory of Forms?
Pelemes
Plato
Plutarch
Prius
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The Greek writer Aeschylus is considered the father of what type of literature because of his famous trilogy Oresteia?
Tragedies
Comedies
Poems
Mysteries
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What Greek writer is particularly known for fables about personified animals such as "The Ant and the Grasshopper"?
Mercius
Callum
Virgil
Aesop
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Pericles was a powerful Greek statesman and friend of democracy who led what Greek poleis which is the home to sites like the Parthenon?
Crete
Sparta
Macedon
Athens
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What is the name of the famous Greek mathematician whose namesake theorem is still used today to find the length of a triangle's hypotenuse?
Barca
Pascal
Antelames
Pythagoras
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What is the name of the famous Hellenistic leader who took over Egypt and established a namesake dynasty over the realm after he named himself pharaoh?
Jens
Ptolemy
Criar
Thucydides
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What Athenian lawgiver is viewed as a foundational creator of Greek democracy after he overturned many of Draco's tyrannical laws and created institutions that would coalesce into a republican government following his death?
Caligula
Solon
Markost
Amphitryon
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What king of Epicurus is known for his many military victories that were incredibly costly in terms of human life?
Pyrrhus
Romulus
Julius Caesar
Pericles
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Euripides, the Greek playwright, is perhaps best-known for what story that he wrote about the infamous witch and villain from the legend of Jason and the Argonauts?
Medea
Antigone
Ariel
Medusa
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What poet from the island of Lesbos is known for her lyrical poetry often about love and the admiration of beauty?
Sappho
Dulcinea
Euclid
Megara
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What is the name of the Spartan king who gave up his life at Thermopylae along with his warriors to stall the Persian army that was marching on Greece?
Carrias
Leonidas
Agamemnon
Kirkheis
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Pindar was a Greek poet who popularized what type of poem that was written in praise of a person or event?
Ballads
Haikus
Lyric poems
Tragedies
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Archimedes is known for his Law of Buoyancy, the invention of the pulley system, and approximating what mathematic number that is used to calculate the properties of a circle?
Pi
Delta
Sigma
Arc
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Thucydides was one of the first secular historians who described objective events without claiming they were the works of the gods. He is particularly known for his history of what war between Athens and Sparta that took place from 431 B.C.E. to 404 B.C.E.?
The Peloponnesian War
The Greco-Persian War
The War of Reunification
The Ionian War
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What Macedonian military leader rose to lead Greece in a conquest of most of the known world before his death would cause his empire to fall to ruin?
Julius Caesar
Genghis Khan
Atilla the Hun
Alexander the Great
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What famous Greek orator was known for rallying rebellions against Philip II and Alexander the Great until Alexander caused him to take his own life?
Dominicus
Demosthenes
Dallas
Dionysus
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What philosopher and teacher of Alexander the Great is known for his theory of the four elements claiming that all things were made up of fire, water, air, and earth?
Perignes
Rufus
Aristotle
Plutarch
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What Greek comedy writer composed such classics as "The Frogs" and "The Knights"?
Sophocles
Creon
Aristophanes
Cassius
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Aristarchus was a Greek astronomer who was one of the first in Europe to place the sun at the center of the universe when most other astronomers believed what celestial body was actually at the center of the universe?
The Earth
Pluto
Hell
Mercury
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What "Father of Athenian Democracy" helped rework his polis's constitution to take power away from the nobles and give more rights to the commoners?
Imhotep
Scipio Africanus
Cleisthenes
Timothy
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Euclid is a Greek mathematician who is known as the father of what subject of mathematics which is the study of shapes, lines, and angles in terms of their physical properties?
Geometry
Calculus
Trigonometry
Algebra
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What is the name of the infamous Greek warmonger who was an enemy of Pericles and general democratic reform instead wishing to establish a more militaristic society in Athens?
Cleon
Scipio Africanus
Nolan
Karippines
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What is the name of the epic poem by Homer that told the mythologized history of the Trojan War?
The Argonia
The First Tale
The Odyssey
The Iliad
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Who is the famous Greek medic for which the oath that doctors take to "Do no harm" is named?
Amenones
Hippocrates
Amphitryon
Callius
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What Greek writer wrote Works and Days about typical Greek life and also Theogony about Greek mythology?
Ulios
Marks
Hesiod
Karlos
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