Which ancient Mesopotamian culture, which crested around 2200-2000 BCE, gave rise to cuneiform?

Substantial archaeological evidence exists supporting the existence of the Israelite King _______, although nothing conclusive has been found to confirm the existence of _______.

Aeschylus’ Oresteian Trilogy ultimately ends with:

This character makes a big mistake by remarrying without consulting his/her spouse.

Midway through the Iliad, Hera does something in an effort to distract Zeus from the battlefield to help out her beloved Greeks. What does she do?

The “Days” portion of Hesiod’s Works and Days is:

The middle part of Aeschylus’ 458 BCE Oresteian Trilogy ends with the death of _______ and the coming of _______.

The order of the “Four Main Parts” of the Old Testament as they appear in Catholic and Protestant Bibles is:

The Merneptah Stele, dated to about 1207 BCE, records the king of _______’s expedition into foreign lands, and contains the first historical mention of _______.

This biblical character, looking at this three friends, famously exclaims, “miserable comforters are you all. Have windy words no limit?”

The Babylonian god Marduk defeats this powerful deity in the central episode of the Enuma Elish.

In which Aristophanes play does Socrates get satirized as a buffoonish sophist?

What’s Odysseus doing when we first meet him in the Odyssey?

This reluctant biblical prophet successfully convinces the citizens of Nineveh to mend their evil ways.

In this biblical book, a world weary speaker philosophizes variously about the value of wisdom, worldly possessions, and the futility of one’s accomplishments on earth.

In Oedipus at Colonus, King _______ helps protect Oedipus from his former brother-in-law, King _______.

The deity ______ and the swineherd _______ help Odysseus throughout the final books of the Odyssey, once he reaches his homeland of Ithaca.

Kills her brother.

At the heart-wrenching climax of the Iliad, _________ tells _________ “I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son.”

This character publicly deprecates and insults Dionysus.

Atreus’ three grandchildren are _________, __________, and _________.

The gods make this character to be Gilgamesh’s best friend, although the relationship between the two begins with a fight.

In the play Antigone, Antigone’s rational and eloquent fiance is called:

We read an Ancient Egyptian story about a peasant named Khunanup – dated to about 1800 BCE. What happens in this story?

Ancient Egypt’s wisdom literature shows a distinct __________ which doesn’t appear quite so much in the Book of Proverbs or other ancient compilations of wise sayings.

This famous Ancient Greek poet wrote odes to commemorate athletic victories.

In the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, which came about during Ancient Egypt’s First Intermediate and Middle Kingdom periods (c. 2200-1650 BCE), we first begin to see the notion(s) of:

Odysseus washes up in the land of the Phaecians, and meets the Phaecian princess, _________.

Which of the following puts the patriarchs of the Israelites in chronological order?

The story of the Seven Against Thebes, which was a war of succession between an two sons, took place after the death of:

A character in this play pleads that he is “dying of erectile hyperfunction!”

The Hellenistic period is usually said to begin with the death of Alexander of Macedon in _______ BCE, and end with the Roman conquest of Egypt in _______ BCE.

Zeus’ grandmother in Hesiod’s Theogony.

The linguistic device that pervades the Psalms and ancient Hebrew poetry in general is called:

From which book of the Old Testament does this exceptionally strange metaphor come: “Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies?”

We read Menander’s Old Cantankerous in Episode 37. The play, which premiered in Athens in 316 BCE, is the only nearly full extant example of Greek New Comedy. What characterized New Comedy, as opposed to the Old Comedy we associate with Aristophanes and his generation?

This character sleeps with Hipsipyle, queen of a north Aegean island populated exclusively by women.

Who is Hector’s wife in Homer’s Iliad?

The most famous plays of Ancient Greece were first staged in the 400s BCE in the city of Athens on the southeastern slope of the Acropolis during an annual springtime festival in honor of the god:

This biblical book, third in the Pentateuch, which contains a massive number of commandments, is mainly about animal sacrifice, cleanliness regulations, and other matters important to Israelite temple priests during the early Persian Period.