Literature: Ancient Greek-The Early Period

Who was the first to use elegiac couplet?

• Callinus of Ephesus

• Homer

• Virgil

• Ovid

Who is the author of the Odyssey?

• Homer

• Virgil

• Ovid

• Sophocles

Who was the first choral lyric poet?

• Thaletas

• Pindar

• Sappho

• Anacreon

What did Hesiod write?

• Works and Days, Theogony

• Iliad and Odyssey

• Aeneid

• Divine Comedy

What is the main plot of the Odyssey?

• King Odysseus is kept 7 years on Ogygia by Calypso; his son Telemachus consults Nestor and Menelaus; Odysseus tells of his wanderings and eventually returns home to kill his wife's suitors.

• Odysseus embarks on a quest to find the Golden Fleece and faces various mythical creatures along the way.

• The story follows the adventures of a young hero named Telemachus as he seeks to rescue his father from the underworld.

• Odysseus is transformed into a swine by a witch and must find a way to regain his human form.

What did Peisander of Rhodes write about?

• Heracleia, about Hercules.

• The Iliad, about the Trojan War.

• The Aeneid, about Aeneas's journey.

• Metamorphoses, about the creation of the world.

Who invented the Sapphic strophe?

• Sappho of Lesvos

• Homer

• Pindar

• Virgil

What are the Homeric Hymns?

• Poems attributed to an unknown author, including the Battle of the Frogs and Mice.

• A collection of ancient Greek myths about the gods.

• Epic tales of the Trojan War written by Homer.

• A series of philosophical essays on ethics and morality.

Who was the first Athens poet?

• Solon

• Hesiod

• Pindar

• Aeschylus

Who kills Hector in the Iliad?

• Achilles

• Agamemnon

• Odysseus

• Patroclus