Literature/Drama - Ancient Greece & Rome

Who wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad?

• Homer

• Sappho

• Aeschylus

• Sophocles

Who is considered responsible for the origin and development of Greek drama?

• Euripides

• Sophocles

• Aeschylus

• Aristophanes

Which of the following is not one of the three plays in Oresteia?

• Agamemnon

• Choephori

• Eumenides

• Bacchae

Answer explanation

The Oresteia is a cycle of three plays, written by the playwright Aeschylus, about Orestes, the son of Agamemnon. All Greek tragedies were written in trilogies, but this is the only example of a trilogy that still exists. The Oresteia was produced at the Greater Dionysia Festival in 458 BC, where it won first prize.

Who wrote Oresteia?

• Homer
• Aeschylus
• Euripides
• Sophocles

Which of the following is a poem by Sappho?

• Ode to Aphrodite

• The Trojan Women

• Antigone

• Lysistrata

Which of the following is a set of works by Sophocles?

• Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Electra

• Trojan Women, Helen, The Bacchae

• Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds

• Republic, Apology, Symposium

Which of the following is a set of works by Euripides?

• Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Electra

• Trojan Women, Helen, The Bacchae

• Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds

• Republic, Apology, Symposium

Which of the following is a set of works by Aristophanes?

• Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Electra

• Trojan Women, Helen, The Bacchae

• Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds

• Republic, Apology, Symposium

Which of the following is a set of works by Plato?

• Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Electra

• Trojan Women, Helen, The Bacchae

• Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds

• Republic, Apology, Symposium

Who wrote The Aeneid?

• Sophocles
• Virgil
• Ovid
• Homer