LITERATURE
What is The Book of the Dead? 1082.
Wlio was Egypt's first historian? 591, 1157.
What varieties of literature had the Egyptians? 1082.
How early was the science of medicine known in Egypt? 1082.
Who was Egypt's Homer? What poem the Egyptian Iliad? 1082.
Did the Egyptians write novels? 1082.
What early literature is Christian? 1083.
What was the most important result of Syriac writings? 1083.
What is the oldest book in Syriac in existence? 1083.
How were prize poems in Arabia sometimes written? 1084.
What can you tell about the expansion of Arabian literature in the
eighth and ninth centuries? 1084.
What was the condition of Arabia during Europe's dark ages? 1084. Upon what were Arabian law and theology based? 1084. In philosophy whom did the Arabians regard highly? 1084. In mathematics for what are we indebted to the Arabians? 1084. From what Arabian literature did that of Europe gain much? 1084. How did the stories of The Thousand and One Nights come to be told?
1084.
GREEK.
What are the two great Homeric poems, and what can you tell of
them? 1082, 882.
Was Homer the only epic poet of Greece? 870, 1082. What is the difference between a lyric and an epic poem? 1510. Who was the greatest Greek lyric poet? 1082, 1491. What other lyric poets won undying fame? 96, 1678, 1759. What caused the growth of the drama? 1082, 550. Who were some of the most important Greek dramatists? 20, 97, 632,
1781. What tragedian does tradition tell us was killed by an eagle dropping
a tortoise, to break its shell, on his bald head, mistaking it lor a
stone? 20.
Who was the greatest Attic tragedian? 20. Who is the head of the Greek dramatists? 550. What Greek dramatist is called the world's greatest laugher? 97. Who and what was Menander? 550, 1082.
Who were some of the most important Greek historians? 1082. Which was the father of history? 868. Which was the philosophical historian? 1908. Which was the gentleman of leisure? 2117. Who were the three great Greek philosophers? 1082. Which one has had great influence on all thinkers since? 1082. What are the distinctive principles of the teachings of Socrates? 1502, What feature of Greek law caused oratory to become so prominent?
1082.
Who was the greatest of orators? 1082. Who was the greatest writer of Greek comedies? 97. What city, founded not long before Demosthenes died, rivaled Athens
in literature and scholarship? 45. What great translation of the Scripture was made there? 972, 209,
1762. What island contains but three towns of any size, though Vergil told
of its hundred cities? 477.
What has made Troy famous to the literary world? 1945. What made the Greek poet Theocritus famous? 1899. From what is the language of the Greeks supposed to have been derived? 801.
What caused the decline of Greek literature? 1082. What was the most famous ancient library? 46. Where was it? Who founded it? 591. What story is told about its destruction? 46. What was Plutarch's professed purpose? 1506.
