CLAS230 Classical Mythology
Department of Classics, Monmouth College

Sample Map/Geography Quiz

Part I MAP
Directions: Find each of the following ten places on the map provided. Click here for a sample map. Click here for a map of the Mediterranean world.

 ATHENS / CORINTH / DELPHI / MYCENAE / DELOS/ CRETE / THEBES / ITHACA / SPARTA / THESSALY / TROY

Here is a map of Greece with many important mythological sites marked. You can use this to study:
Joe, Jimmy. Timeless Myths Geographia. Aegean Map.
http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/aegeanmap.html

Part II GEOGRAPHY
Directions: Provide some significant information about each of the places in Part I. Relate each place to a specific mythic event or character connected with the study of the tragic hero in  this course.

Here are some examples of appropriate answers:
Troy: According to Euripides' Trojan Women, Andromache was the wife of Hector.
Thebes: According to Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Jocasta, the mother of Oedipus, was queen of Thebes.
Sparta: According to Euripides' Trojan Women, Menelaus took Helen back here after the Trojan War.
 

List of Places you should know for this quiz

This material has been published on the web by Prof. Tom Sienkewicz for his students at Monmouth College. If you have any questions, you can contact him at toms@monm.edu.

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