Classical/Ancient Literature

Name this poetic meter often described as “epic” for its use in such works as the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid

Name this character who Odysseus tricks into thinking his name is “nobody” and is a son of Poseidon

This title character attempted to avenge the death of her father, Agamemnon, at the hands of her mother Clytemnestra.

Name this epic which includes a war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas

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Name this title character of a play who was sacrificed by Agamemnon so that the Greeks could sail to Troy

Name this play where Dionysus is denied immortality by his aunt. (about crazed followers of Dionysus)

Name this title character who killed his mother, Clytemnestra , appeals for a trial to Athena and wins (The Furies)

Name this play where 2 Athenians convince Tereseus and his fellow birds to build a city in the sky.

Name this Platonic dialogue where characters discuss love at a party hosted by Agathon

Name this title character of an Epic who escapes from Troy and “founds” Rome

Name this play by Sophocles which the title character defies Creon by performing burial rites for Polyneices

Name these primary-texts of Norse Mythology

Name this title character of an epic who takes 10 yrs to come back home to Ithaca

Name this "Theban play" which has this Title group try to take over the title city. (Polyneices and Eteocles)

Name this women who had “the face that launched a thousand ships” and is the reason behind the Trojan War

Name this Epic about a title character who seeks immortality and journeys to the Cedar Forest to kill the ogre Humbaba

Name this play by Aristophanes which has Dionysus travel to the underworld because there are no more good playwrights

Name this author of the Theogony and Works and Days who wrote about the births of the gods and Olympians vs Titans

Name this play where the title character plans to end the Peloponnesian War by abstaining until the men agree to stop

Name this epic where Ravana is defeated by the title character

Name this play where Strepisades and his son Pheidippides learn sophistry from Socrates’s Thinkery

Name this wife of Aeneas who is left behind when he leaves to fulfill his true destiny. (Kills herself on his sword)