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The Trojan Horse figures prominently in Homer's The Iliad.
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In Homer's The Odyssey, Penelope deceives her suitors by weaving and unraveling. . . ?
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When Athena visits Penelope in Homer's The Odyssey, who does the goddess disguise herself as?
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Who speaks to Odysseus in the following passage from Homer's Odyssey, and of what creatures is Odysseus being warned?
"Then queen _________ spoke to me and said:
'First of all, you'll run into the ___________,
who seduce all men who come across them.
Whoever unwittingly encounters them
and hears the _________'s call never gets back.
(...)
They'll be sitting
in a meadow, surrounded by a pile,
a massive heap, of rotting human bones
encased in shriveled skin. Row on past them.
Roll some sweet wax in your hand, and stuff it
in your companions' ears, so none of them
can listen. But if you're keen to hear them,
make your crewmen tie you down in your swift ship.
Stand there with hands and feet lashed to the mast.
(...)
Then you can hear __________ as they sing.
You'll enjoy their song. If you start to beg
your men, or order them, to let you go,
make sure they lash you there with still more rope.'"
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376 times (48.3%) |
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In Homer's Odyssey, into what does Circe turn Odysseus's men?
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848 times (69.2%) |
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Homer's Iliad is named for Ilion which, in turn, is another name for ...
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In The Odyssey, what is Charybdis?
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In The Odyssey, true dreams are said to pass through a gate made of?
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In The Iliad who is often called the gray-eyed goddess?
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The title of Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves is taken from a quotation by which author?
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"The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,
Black as his purpose, did the night resemble
When he lay couched in the ominous horse,
Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd
With heraldry more dismal.
(...)
Roasted in wrath and fire,
And thus o'ersized with coagulate gore,
With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus
Old grandsire Priam seeks."
Who wrote this?
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"Cerberus, monster cruel and uncouth,
With his three gullets like a dog is barking
Over the people that are there submerged.
Red eyes he has, and unctuous beard and black,
And belly large, and armed with claws his hands;
He rends the spirits, flays, and quarters them.
(...)
When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm!
His mouths he opened, and displayed his tusks;
Not a limb had he that was motionless.
And my Conductor, with his spans extended,
Took of the earth, and with his fists well filled,
He threw it into those rapacious gullets."
Who wrote this?
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"Let lie ... the love we seek not is no love ...
This ruined body! Is the fall thereof
Too deep for all that now is over me
Of anguish, and hath been, and yet shall be?
Ye Gods ... Alas! Why call on things so weak
For aid? Yet there is something that doth seek,
Crying, for God, when one of us hath woe.
O, I will think of things gone long ago
And weave them to a song, like one more tear
In the heart of misery ... All Kings we were;
And I must wed a King. And sons I brought
My lord King, many sons ... nay, that were naught;
But high strong princes, of all Troy the best.
(...)
Yea, and the gardener of my garden great,
It was not any noise of him nor tale
I wept for; these eyes saw him, when the pale
Was broke, and there at the altar Priam fell
Murdered, and round him all his citadel
Sacked.
(...)
Why raise me any more? What hope have I
To hold me? Take this slave that once trod high
In Ilion; cast her on her bed of clay
Rock-pillowed, to lie down, and pass away
Wasted with tears. And whatso man they call
Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!"
Who wrote this lament by Hecuba, the erstwhile queen of Troy?
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Allen Ginsberg wrote his poem "Kaddish" because his rabbi wouldn't let him read a traditional kaddish, or Jewish mourning prayer, with his Christian and atheist friends present at the funeral of the person he wrote it for.
Who did he write it for?
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According to The Odyssey, who fought on the side of the Greeks, or Achǽans, during the Trojan War?
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In Homer's The Odyssey, who was not loyal to Odysseus?
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From the novel Katherine by Anya Seton her sister Phillippa de Roet married what famous author and poet?
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Fill in the missing name of an ancient writer in this stanza from Matthew Arnold's poem, 'Dover Beach' --
"_______ long ago
Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea."
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James Joyce's Ulysses and Derek Walcott's Omeros have this in common:
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Why was Poseidon out to take revenge on Odysseus in The Odyssey?
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In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus (or Ulysses) was king of where?
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Who or what did Homer call the "child of morning" throughout The Odyssey?
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Who wrote this?
"In ancient and also in modern periods we find a few Poets who are accounted perfect; whom it were a kind of treason to find fault with. This is noteworthy; this is right: yet in strictness it is only an illusion. At bottom, clearly enough, there is no perfect Poet! A vein of Poetry exists in the hearts of all men; no man is made altogether of Poetry. We are all poets when we read a poem well. (...) All Poets, all men, have some touches of the Universal; no man is wholly made of that. Most Poets are very soon forgotten: but not the noblest Shakespeare or Homer of them can be remembered forever; – a day comes when he too is not!"
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"Of arms and the man I sing" is the beginning of ...
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