The Landmark Thucydides Quizzes & Trivia
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Questions: 24 | Attempts: 359 | Last updated: Jan 16, 2017
Questions: 12 | Attempts: 261 | Last updated: Jan 16, 2017
A 25-question final exam on The History of the Peloponnesian War
Questions: 24 | Attempts: 359 | Last updated: Jan 16, 2017
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Sample QuestionWhat two Greek cities were the primary antogonists in the Peloponnesian War fought between the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League?
A 12-question quiz on The History of the Peloponnesian War, based on The Landmark Thucydides and covering the first year of the war.
Questions: 12 | Attempts: 261 | Last updated: Jan 16, 2017
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Sample QuestionThe oracle located at the most important Greek temple inspired Cylon's attempted coup in Athens. Where was it located?
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The Landmark Thucydides is a book, edited by Robert B. Strassler and introduced by Victor Davis Hanson. Thucydides was an Athenian historian who enumerates about the war between Athens and Sparta. Peloponnesian War is a...
Questions: 11 | Attempts: 507 | Last updated: Jun 23, 2019
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Sample QuestionWhat did Thucydides believe had given King Agamemnon of Mycenae the right to lead the Greeks against Troy?
A 12-question quiz on The History of the Peloponnesian War, based on The Landmark Thucydides and covering the second and third years of the war.
Questions: 12 | Attempts: 136 | Last updated: Dec 13, 2012
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Sample QuestionWhat event significantly weakened Athens during the summer of the war's second year?
A 12-question quiz on The History of the Peloponnesian War, based on The Landmark Thucydides and covering the fourth, fifth and sixth years of the war.
Questions: 12 | Attempts: 113 | Last updated: Dec 13, 2012
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Sample QuestionWhat powerful city led the entire island of Lesbos, except Methymna, into rebellion against Athens in the fourth year of the war.
A 12-question quiz on The History of the Peloponnesian War, based on The Landmark Thucydides and covering the seventh, eighth and ninth years of the war.
Questions: 11 | Attempts: 106 | Last updated: Dec 13, 2012
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Sample QuestionWhich Sicilian city revolted from Athens in the summer of the war's seventh year?
A 8-question quiz on The History of the Peloponnesian War, based on The Landmark Thucydides and covering the nineteenth through twenty-first years of the war.
Questions: 4 | Attempts: 100 | Last updated: Dec 13, 2012
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Sample QuestionWhat was the Athenian reaction to the total defeat in Sicily?
A 12-question quiz on The History of the Peloponnesian War, based on The Landmark Thucydides and covering the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the war.
Questions: 10 | Attempts: 81 | Last updated: Dec 13, 2012
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Sample QuestionWhy were the Syracusans losing hope and discussing surrender in the second year of the Athenian invasion?
A 12-question quiz on The History of the Peloponnesian War, based on The Landmark Thucydides and covering the seventeenth and eighteenth years of the war.
Questions: 11 | Attempts: 78 | Last updated: Dec 13, 2012
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Sample QuestionWhere did the Athenians decide to attack next after the destruction of Melos?
A 12-question quiz on The History of the Peloponnesian War, based on The Landmark Thucydides and covering the tenth through sixteenth years of the war.
Questions: 12 | Attempts: 73 | Last updated: Apr 5, 2019
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Sample QuestionWhy did Brasidas conclude that Cleon was incompetent despite his past successes at Pylos, Torone, and Galepsus.
