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Ancient Greek and Roman Writers - Statistics
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The teacher of all Greece and the most important epic poet. | Homer | 89%
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| The student of Socrates and a founder of Academy in Athens, he is the source of the myth of Atlantis. | Plato | 86%
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| Roman orator, philosopher and politician, famous for his speeches against the conspiracy of Catilina | Cicero | 72%
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| Athenian playwright, wrote "Oedipus at Colonus" and "Antigone". | Sophocles | 70%
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| A poet from the island of Lesbos, she wrote a number of poems describing her passionate feelings for her female students. | Sappho | 67%
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| Greek tragic poets, believed by many Athenians to be scandalous and too modern for their tastes. He wrote, among others, "Medea" and "Bacchae". | Euripides | 55%
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| Greek epic poet, supposedly met the Muses, wrote "Works and Days" and "Theogony". | Hesiod | 52%
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| Greek biographer and philosopher, living under Imperial Romal rule; in one of his books he compares the lives of famous Greeks with famous Romans. | Plutarch | 48%
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| Roman historian; in his book he described the history of Rome from the foundation of the city. | Livy | 43%
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| The first known Roman lyric poet, famous both for his emotional poetry to an unfaithful lover (called Lesbia) and for his witty, sarcastic poems on enemies and politicians. | Catullus | 35%
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| Roman poet, protege of Mecenas and author of four books of odes. | Horace | 35%
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| A secretary to an emperor, this Roman biographer composed a set of lives of Caesars, most of them rather gossipy. | Suetonius | 34%
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| Athenian orator and politician; first he warned his compatriots against Philip of Macedon, to become later a sworn enemy of Philip's son, Alexander. | Demosthenes | 33%
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| Athenian politician of 7th/6th c. BCE, famous for redesigning Athenian politics and introducing first democratic elements into it. He was also a renown author of elegies. | Solon | 33%
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| Roman playwright, the most popular author of comedies; Shakespeare reworked one of his plays in "The Comedy of Errors". | Plautus | 25%
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| Roman poet, living in the late Republican era; he wrote a learned poem based on Epicurean philosophy. | Lucretius | 19%
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