I.—QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON “COLLEGE GREEK COURSE IN ENGLISH”—FROM PAGE 187 TO END OF THE BOOK.
1. Q. Who was the third member of the great tragical triumvirate of Greece, Æschylus and Sophocles being the other two? A. Euripides.
2. Q. When was Euripides born, and what noted battle took place the year of his birth? A. 480 B. C., in the year of the battle of Salamis.
3. Q. Where were the closing days of Euripides spent? A. At the court of the king of Macedonia.
4. Q. Who are two of the translators of Euripides? A. R. Potter, who has made a metrical translation, and T. A. Buckley, who has produced a version in prose.
5. Q. From what play of Euripides are the most of the extracts presented by our author taken? A. From the “Alcestis.”
6. Q. Under what title has Robert Browning rendered a version of “Alcestis?” A. “Balaustion’s Adventure.”
7. Q. Who was Alcestis? A. The wife and queen to Admetus, king of Pheræ, in Thessaly.
8. Q. By grace from Apollo, on what condition was Admetus granted the privilege of not dying? A. On condition of his being able to find some one who would agree to die in his stead when his turn should come.
9. Q. Who became the required substitute? A. Alcestis, the wife of Admetus.
10. Q. After her death by whom was she brought back to life and restored to her husband? A. By Heracles.
11. Q. From what drama of Euripides does our author take a celebrated chorus, in part eulogistic of Athens? A. The “Medea.”
12. Q. Who stands alone as representative to us of Greek comedy? A. Aristophanes.
13. Q. What two comedies of Aristophanes retain for us more interest than perhaps any other of his works? A. “The Frogs” and “The Clouds.”
14. Q. Who were the especial targets of these two comedies respectively? A. Euripides of the “Frogs” and Socrates of the “Clouds.”
15. Q. Who is first in fame among ancient lyric poets? A. Pindar.
16. Q. What does Sappho remain to this day in general estimation among those entitled to adjudge her just rank, from the various trustworthy indications that survive? A. The foremost woman of genius in the world.
17. Q. What is the only complete poem that has come down to us from Sappho? A. The “Hymn to Aphrodite.”
18. Q. On what does the fame of Simonides chiefly rest? A. On his epigrams.
19. Q. What is the most celebrated, perhaps, of all the epigrams of Simonides? A. That on the Spartan Three Hundred who fell at Thermopylæ.
20. Q. What is the great name in Greek idyllic poetry? A. Theocritus.
21. Q. What two other pastoral poets are associated with Theocritus, in a kind of parasitic renown? A. Bion and Moschus.
22. Q. From what two idyls of Theocritus does our author give presentations? A. The “Death of Daphnis,” and the “Festival of Adonis.”
23. Q. Who is first among the masters of eloquence? A. Demosthenes.
24. Q. The name of what other orator is associated with that of Demosthenes? A. Æschines.
25. Q. What are the most celebrated of Demosthenes’s public orations? A. The “Olynthiacs,” the “Philippics,” and the oration on the “Crown.”