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Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Noname on June 01, 2009, 03:57:32 AM

I'll start us off with a relatively easy one.

Alexander the Great's death divided his empire between several major rulers. What were these rulers called as a group?

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Malte279 on June 01, 2009, 09:59:56 AM

The Diadochi, which means something along the lines of "successors". They included the dynasties of Ptolemy in Egypt, of Seleucus in most of what had been the Persian empire before, Lysimachus who got Asia Minor and parts of Macedonia. There was at least one more, but I don't remember. Anyway Diadochi would be the collective name.

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Noname on June 01, 2009, 01:16:17 PM

Correct. I believe the Diadochi were Ptolemy, Selucus, Lysander, Lysimachus, and Cassander. There may have been some minor ones as well...

Your turn, Malte.

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Malte279 on June 01, 2009, 02:02:17 PM

We usually think of the 300 Spartans when thinking of the battle of Thermopylae. There was a large group of warriors NOT from Sparta though who made their last stand against the Persians in that battle. Who were they?

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Nick22 on June 01, 2009, 02:03:10 PM

That would be the Athenians.. Although I'll have to look up wjho lead them..

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Malte279 on June 01, 2009, 02:05:01 PM

Nope. I think there were some Athenians at Thermopylae (not sure though) but in any case they did not fight a last stand battle there.

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Noname on June 01, 2009, 03:15:27 PM

Would that be the 700 Thespians?

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Malte279 on June 02, 2009, 05:19:37 AM

Exactly :yes
Your turn Noname.

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Noname on June 02, 2009, 01:49:59 PM

The first Heliocentric theory was made by a man known as Aristarchus of Samos, 1800 years before Copernicus, and even longer before Galileo. However, there was another Greek was had a similar idea before him, although it was not quite Heliocentric.

I'll give you a hint: this man tried to determine the distances between the Earth and the sun, and the Earth and the moon.

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Mirumoto_Kenjiro on September 10, 2009, 06:35:19 PM

Was it Heraclides of Pontus in the 4th century BC?

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Noname on September 10, 2009, 06:36:32 PM

No, but his name also started with an "H."

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on September 10, 2009, 06:46:46 PM

Horace?

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Noname on September 10, 2009, 06:49:08 PM

No... and that was a Roman, if I'm not mistaken...

The Greek who is the correct answer lived c. 190 BC – c. 120 BC.

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Mirumoto_Kenjiro on September 10, 2009, 07:00:45 PM

The only name I have from that time is Seleucus of Seleucia, but his name obviously does not not start with an H.

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on September 10, 2009, 08:03:25 PM

Homer?

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Mirumoto_Kenjiro on September 10, 2009, 10:11:14 PM

I thought Homer was a storyteller.

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Noname on September 11, 2009, 03:59:11 AM

It isn't Homer, Horace, or Hesiod... Another hint. This man was born in Nicea, what is today the small city or Iznik, Turkey.

Title: Ancient Greece Trivia
Post by: Malte279 on January 19, 2010, 07:27:11 AM

Hipparchus?