Greek and Roman Writers and their Works

Link the written work with their ancient writer. Bear with me! It's my first quiz. Use the author's English name in the simplest form (For instance, no "Publius Vergilius Maro", just "Virgil"

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Hint	Answer
The Elements	Euclid
Metamorphoses	Ovid
The Peloponnesian War	Thucydides
The Republic	Plato
________'s Lives	Plutarch
The War with Hannibal	Livy
Antigone	Sophocles
Eclogues and Georgics	Virgil
The Twelve Caesars	Seutonius
Gallic Wars	Julius Caesar
The Jewish War	Josephus
Histories	Herodotus
Nicomachean Ethics	Aristotle
On the Nature of Things	Lucretius
The Bacchae	Euripides
Lysistrata	Aristophanes
The Oresteia	Aeschylus
On the Natural Faculties	Galen
___________ Corpus	Hippocrates
The Iliad	Homer
Philippics	Cicero
Annals of Imperial Rome	Tacitus

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Level 18

Apr 23, 2014

No wonder nobody's getting Suetonius - it's not spelt correctly on the answers!

Level 32

Aug 28, 2014

Yes, Suetonius is spelled wrongly. Polybius also wrote on Hannibal (Book III). And the _Philippics_ per se were written by Demosthenes (so named because he attacked Philip of Macedon in them). Cicero's _Philippics_ were written against Mark Antony rather in imitation of Demosthenes's speeches.