Quiz 007

Episode 7 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 007: Hesiod’s Lands and Seasons. See what you remember about Archaic Greek history and Works and Days by clicking “START” below!

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Consider the following quote: “As for me, / Well, brother Perses, / I’d like to state a few facts.” Who says this?

Athena

Pandora

Prometheus

Hesiod

Dictys

2 / 10

In which year did the first ever Olympic Games take place?

1184 BCE

539 BCE

1776 BCE

776 BCE

586 BCE

3 / 10

The “days” part of Works and Days contains what?

A series of satirical portraits of 8th-century BCE Greek philosophers.

A history of Ancient Greek theologians up to his time.

A catalog of the Boeotian nobility of Hesiod's lifetime.

A detailed history of Bronze Age Greek civilization.

A collection of rules for what to do on which days of the month.

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Which autobiographical experience that Hesiod records in his poetry may have influenced his philosophy about life?

A constant sense of being the second poet of Archaic Greece, always behind Homer.

His family's move from Kyme in the eastern Aegean to Askra, a backwater in central Greece.

His unrequited love for an aristocratic girl in Thessaly.

His father's come-from-behind victory in the inaugural Olympic Games – one Hesiod felt he couldn't surpass.

A youthful indiscretion at a public sacrifice to Poseidon.

5 / 10

Pandora is created in Greek mythology in order to:

Punish Prometheus for stealing fire.

Trick Hephaestus into teaching mankind the secrets of forging.

Share some of the responsibilities of Demeter.

Give the Argives a chest full of powerful bronze weapons.

Stop Mount Etna from erupting again.

6 / 10

Around which year did the Bronze Age Collapse begin?

1200 BCE

2100 BCE

400 BCE

1900 BCE

900 BCE

7 / 10

Hesiod’s distinct poetic voice is best described as:

Filled with nautical metaphors and nomenclature.

Preoccupied with Sophoclean tradition.

Totally unstructured and experimental.

Homespun, colloquial and earthy.

Ornate and aristocratic.

8 / 10

In addition to the story of Pandora, the earlier part of Works and Days contains which other pervasive Ancient Mediterranean tale?

The story of men first learning to cultivate grain.

The flood story (in Hesiod, the flood of the Gulf of Corinth).

The story of a hero's journey (in Hesiod's case, Perseus) into a dark abyss.

The story of the Five Ages of man.

The story of a cursed apple.

9 / 10

What caused Mycenaean, Archaic and Classical Greece to form into culturally distinct city states, rather than a large confederated kingdom?

A powerful spirit of cultural independence unique to the peoples of the lower Balkans.

An adherence to polytheist notions that regions should worship different and distinct deities.

Geographical factors like mountains, waterways and natural resource distribution.

A well documented series of early outbreaks of Bubonic Plague.

Pressure from Bronze Age Roman imperialists to keep Greece fragmented.

10 / 10

What central property of civilization does Zeus give men in Works and Days?

Marriage

Architecture

Athletics

Literacy

Justice

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