Long a subject of controversy, which overseas institution currently holds the relics known as the Elgin Marbles or Parthenon Sculptures?

Which real-life Bronze Age palace on the island of Crete is said to be the site of the Labyrinth designed by Daedalus, father of Icarus?

Which style of Greek column typically has the plainest capital at its top: Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian?

A statue of the goddess Nike housed in the Louvre since the 1860s is typically referred to as Winged Victory of which Greek island where it was recovered?

Beginning with D and typically struck in silver, what was the basic unit of currency in Ancient Greece?

Also the name of modern Greece’s currency from the 1830s until the adoption of the Euro.

Odysseus (I)

Oedipus (T)

Theseus (A)

Midas (P)

Priam (T)

How many Spartan soldiers did King Leonidas lead to the Battle of Thermopylae?

Primarily used by the hoplites (heavy infantry soldiers), what kind of weapon was a δόρυ [dory/doru]?

In 480 BCE, Themistocles and the Athenians faced off against forces led by Persian ruler Xerxes I in the Battle of what: Gaugamela, Salamis or Nemea?

What term refers to both a tightly packed Ancient Greek tactical military formation and a bone in a human finger or toe?

According to legend, Pheidippides went for a long run to deliver a message about which battle in 490 BCE?

Which island was home to the poet Sappho, best known for writing about romantic and erotic love between women?

The convenient arrival of a chariot at the end of Euripides’s play Medea is a classic example of which plot device meaning “God from the machine”?

Which great philosopher, writer and polymath was tutor to the teenage prince Alexander of Macedon, later known as Alexander the Great?

In the comedy Lysistrata, the play’s title character organises women into an anti-war protest that takes what form?

Inspiring artists, writers and scientists were a group of nine goddesses called the Muses. Name at least one of them.

Pushing a boulder uphill for eternity… only to have it roll all the way back down just before reaching the top.

Chained to a rock while his liver is pecked out by a bird each day… then growing it back each night to be pecked out again.

Allowed to rescue his dead wife from the Underworld… but only if he doesn’t look back to check she’s still following.

Seeing the future… but having nobody believe her when she warns them of what's to come.

Unable to speak… except to repeat the last few words spoken to her.

Neptune, god of the sea

Venus, goddess of love and beauty

Mars, god of war

Terra or Terra Mater, the personification of “Mother” Earth

Pluto, ruler of the underworld