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Time

Normal Time:

Mythic Time:

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Keywords & Buzzwords

The Number 7
Word Amount Amount Amount
and/or Josh will Francis Antoine Kings of Rome:
Phrase like you if will like will like
Romulus and Remus (753-715 BCE)
you use you if you you if you Numa Pompilius (715-673 BCE)
this word use this use this Tullius Hositilus (673 - 642 BCE)
word word Ancus Marcius (642 - 617 BCE)
Mythic 7/10 6/10 7/10 Tarquinius Priscus (617 - 579 BCE)
Time Servius Tullius (579 - 535 BCE)
Lucius Tarquinucius Superbus (534 - 510 BCE)
Ritual 9/10 8/10 8/10
Hills of Rome:
Heroes 6/10 7/10 6/10
Aventine
Caelian
Invocation 8/10 8/10 7/10 Capitoline
Esquiline
Muses 9/10 9/10 8/10 Palatine
Quirinal
Allegory 10/10 10/10 10/10 Viminal

Trickery 7/10 6/10 7/10 Dwarfs:

and/or
Dopey
Tricksters
Grumpy
Doc
Gravitas 10/10 10/10 10/10 Happy
Bashful
Divine 9/10 8/10 10/10 Sneezy
Machinery Sleepy

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Interpretive Questions You Will

Undoubtedly Have to Answer at
Some Point

If Julius Caesar were a character in the play, Julius

Caesar, which character would he play?

How could anyone have ever found the Catalogue of

Ships interesting?

Are we the Romans?

Figure 1: A Wolf
If you had Zeus’s powers for one day, what would you
do with them first?

Why am I still here?

How does The Odyssey reflect your own life, which

character can you sympathize with the most? Have you
ever cheated on your wife for years on end?

Why didn’t Zeus just get a C-section instead of asking

Hephaestus to break his head open with an axe?

On a hotness scale of 1-10, rate the following gods and

goddesses: Aphrodite, Athena, Hecate, Hermes, Zeus,
Nike, Dionysus, Athena, Persephone
Figure 2: An Eagle

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Maps Sappho1

Figure 3: A map you will need to memorize for your first test
(really)
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If you want to learn more about Sappho2 you’re going to have to ask.
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You don’t

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The Battle of Thermopylae
The Battle of Thermopylae was the greatest battle since
Herodotus began writing history, i.e. since history
began. One of the most unusual aspects of the battle was
the multitude of camera crews filming every second of
it. The footage was later edited into the blockbuster hit,
300.
Figure 4: Documentary of the Great(est) War
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The Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Marathon took place somewhere near
modern-day Kenya. The Kenyans were scared of the
invading Persians, so they ran away and never stopped.
Kenyans are known to still be the greatest long-distance
runners in the world.
Figure 5: A Kenyan winning, again.
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Questions for the Lengthy

Discussion of the State of the Union Gladiators
Address that You Will Definitely
Have No Matter What Else You There are a few different types of gladiators. We cut to
Might Be Studying at the Time the chase and give you the two that you need to know:

How does the President enter?

Who sits next to the President? SP

Is the President making good eye contact with his QR
audience? Is he cute? Is he blinking too much—because
I hate people who blink too much.

Where is it taking place? (House of Representatives

chamber in the Capitol building)

Is Samuel Alito being a stupidface?(Yes) Figure 6: A living

gladiator
How does the symbolism of the address stem from
Roman roots? While the President doesn’t have lictors
carrying around fasces like an emperor might, what
does he have? Loquaciously explain how the
iconography is both a continuation and a formation of
the classical world.

Name five of the President’s 34 titles. (ex. The Big

Cheese, Head Honcho, Leader of the Free World)
Figure 7: A dead gladiator
Has the President eliminated partisan politics yet?

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The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid

Philosophers & Inventions
Draw lines from each of these epic poems to the story
elements they contain. (Hint: each answer will be used The Greeks had a thinking man’s kinda culture, and they
three times) produced three of the most influential philosophers of all
time: Socrates, Play-Doh™ and Aristotle. Remarkably,
Socrates invented Play-Doh™ and sculpted all of his
The Iliad • • is an epic poem knowledge into it. Play-Doh™ was such an intelligent
plaything that it was able to carry on Socrate’s elevated
• has epic similes level of thinking to its human successor, Aristotle.
Aristotle then took Alexander the Great under his wing,
• has epic battles
who really wasn’t that great.
• damsel in distress

• takes a while to read

The Odyssey • • divine intervention

• underworld scene

• should actually be
prose

• invocation of muses

• author is dead

The Aeneid • • requires an essay

Figure 8: Play-Doh™, the successor of Socrates, mentor of
Aristotle

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The Cursus Honorum

The Cursus Honorum was a totem pole hierarchy (if you

will) of ranking and place in society. It was very
important to the Romans, and still is to this day. It went
something like this:

Princeps Senatus
Censor
Dictator
Consul
Praetor
Tribune of the Commons
Aedile
Pedestrians
Quaestor
Military Tribunes
Bicyclists

Evidently there was a great deal of hierarchy. Here is a

more modern “Cursus Honorum” for comparison:

Hitler
People

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