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1
Whose face 'launched a thousand ships'?
The face of Helen of Troy
The face of Medea
The face of Aphrodite
The face of Circe
2
How big was the population of the total Roman Empire at its peak?
Between 10 and 20 million
Between 20 and 50 million
Between 70 and 100 million
Between 50 and 75 million
3
What is catharsis according to Aristotle?
A big cleaning of your body
A fitness programm
A healthy diet
The purification of your soul
4
What did not contribute to the success of the Roman Empire?
Propaganda
Alliance with Carthago
Infrastructure
Divide and rule-politics
5
What is Protagoras famous about?
Cheating
He is not famous
The Vitruvian Man
Relativism
6
What was left in Pandora's box after it was opened?
Poison
Love
Hope
Money
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What was Pythagoras' magic number?
The Trinity: The number 3
Pi: 3.14….
Phi, the Golden number: 1.618034
The Tetractys: the number 10
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What Roman architect inspired Da Vinci?
Hadrianus
Vitruvius
Apelles
Euclides
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'Progymnasmata' are
exercise program for soldiers
educational exercises for rhetoric
buildings where athletes could change clothes
golden coins found at the gymnasion (sports school)
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What happened to Augustus' daughter Julia?
She was chosen as a Vestal Vergin
She was killed by her father's enemies
She was exiled because she couldn't produce offspring
She was exiled because she was unfaithfull to her husband
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Who said: 'One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing'?
Askleipius
Augustus
Aristotle
Socrates
12
Who was NOT one of the great three tragedians?
Euripides
Aesop
Sophocles
Aeschylos
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What does 'Renaissance' mean?
Reconciliation
Rebirth
Reminder
Recognition
14
What presocratic had as a rule 'Don't eat beans'?
Pythagoras
Thales
Parmenides
Democritus
15
What is -again, according to Aristotle- the most important element of a story?
The plot
The cliffhanger
The gamechanger
A happy ending
16
Who wrote the Allegory of the Cave?
Socrates
Michelangelo
Aristotle
Plato
17
What big change happened in the 6th century BC?
There was a shift from mythos to logos; hence science originated
Climate change caused a big downsize of the world population
The Greeks defeated the Persians
The discovery of the wheel changed agriculture and transportation
18
What building symbolized the Pax Augusta?
The Temple of Vesta
The Pantheon
The Ara Pacis
The Collosseum
19
What object is this?
A wax tablet
A manuscript
A cigarette box
An ashtray
20
What is the Allegory of the Cave about?
Theory of Forms
Distinction between universals and particulars
That the only truth is in what you can see
That the Truth does not exist
21
What writer used Ovid's story of Pyramus and Thisbe?
Dante Gabrielli
Christopher Marlowe
Juliet of Verona
William Shakespeare
22
What description fits Ovid's work Metamorphoses best?
Everything is connected to everything
What comes around, goes around
You can't step in the same river twice
Everything changes, nothing perishes
23
What was the relation between Julius Caesar and Augustus?
Caesar had adopted Augustus as his son
Augustus was Caesar's nephew
Caesar was Augustus' brother
Augustus was Caesar's young lover
24
'First do no harm' is part of
A fragment by Sappho
the Odyssee
The Hippocratic Oath
The Aeneid
25
What book was Pliny the younger reading during the eruption of the Vesuvius?
Livius' 'Ab urbe condita'
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Homer's Odyssee
Sappho's love poems
