Final

Question 1

Answer 1

• What: the start of Alexander’s expedition to Asia
• Where: Asia
• When: Spring 334
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): Historical narrative by Plutarch biographical

Question 2

Answer 2

• What: the start of Alexander’s expedition to Asia
• Where: Asia
• When: Spring 334
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): Historical narrative by Diodorus, biographical

Question 3

Answer 3

• What: maladministration in Alexander’s empire by Arrian
• Where: Carmania Craterus
• When: After 334 BC, his expedition into Asia
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): Historical and biographical narrative by Arrian

Question 4

Answer 4

• What: Arrian on Alexander’s ultimate aims
• Where: Babylon
• When: 324 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative

Question 5

Answer 5

• What: the arrangements at Babylon after the death of Alexander (by Diodorus)
• Where: Babylon
• When: June 323 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): narrative history

Question 6

Answer 6

• What: Pyrrhus, king of Epirus
• Where: Epirus
• When: late 290s-274 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative biography by Plutarch

Question 7

Answer 7

• What: Pyrrhus, king of Epirus
• Where: Epirus
• When: late 290s-274 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative biography by Plutarch

Question 8

Answer 8

• What: Decree of Chremonides on the Alliance between Athens and Sparta
• Where: Athens
• When: between 268 and 265 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): decree

Question 9

Answer 9

• What: Decree of Chremonides on the Alliance between Athens and Sparta
• Where: Athens
• When: between 268 and 265 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): decree

Question 10

Answer 10

• What: The rise of the Achaean League by Polybius
• Where: Greece, likely specifically Sparta
• When: 280 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative by Polybius

Question 11

Answer 11

• What: The rise of the Achaean League by Polybius
• Where: Greece, likely specifically Sparta
• When: 280 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative by Polybius

Question 12

Answer 12

• What: The rise of the Achaean League by Polybius
• Where: Greece, likely specifically Sparta
• When: 280 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative by Polybius

Question 13

Answer 13

• What: The sack of Corinth by the Romans by Pausanias
• Where: Corinth from the perspective of the Romans
• When: sometime after 146 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative

Question 14

Answer 14

• Antiochus I as King of Babylon
• Where: Babylon, temple of Nabu, patron god of Borsipppa
• When:
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): cuneiform text inscribed on a cylinder inside a temple

Question 15

Answer 15

• Antiochus I as King of Babylon
• Where: Babylon, temple of Nabu, patron god of Borsipppa
• When:
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): cuneiform text inscribed on a cylinder inside a temple

Question 16

Answer 16

• What: King Asoka of India and the Greek World
• Where: India
• When: mid-third century
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): 13th major rock edict, and a rock-cut inscription from Kandahar

Question 17

Answer 17

• What: The army of Antiochus III at the battle of Raphia by Polybius
• Where: Raphia
• When: Spring 217
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative

Question 18

Answer 18

• What: II Maccabees: Seleucis I and the Jews
• Where: Greece
• When: 187-160 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical accounts

Question 19

Answer 19

• What: II Maccabees: Seleucis I and the Jews
• Where: Greece
• When: 187-160 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical accounts

Question 20

Answer 20

• The Great Procession at Alexandria
• Where: Alexandria, Egypt
• When: 279/278 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical account reproduced by Athenaeus from Callixinus

Question 21

Answer 21

• The Great Procession at Alexandria
• Where: Alexandria, Egypt
• When: 279/278 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical account reproduced by Athenaeus from Callixinus

Question 22

Answer 22

• The Great Procession at Alexandria
• Where: Alexandria, Egypt
• When: 279/278 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical account reproduced by Athenaeus from Callixinus

Question 23

Answer 23

• What: Ptolemy and the Red Sea
• Where: Isthmus, Red Sea, city of Berenice
• When: around the time of Ptolemy II, so early 200s/late 100s.
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical/geographical excerpt by Strabo

Question 24

Answer 24

• Where: Letter of complaint to Zenon from a non-Greek
• When: 256-255 BC
• What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): a letter

Question 25

Answer 25

* What: Letter of Ptolemy II Philadelphus on the billeting of troops * Where: Egypt/Ilium * When: mid third century * What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): letter

Question 26

Answer 26

* What: The population of Alexandria * Where: Alexandria, Egypt * When: second half of the second century * What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): historical narrative by Polybius

Question 27

Answer 27

* What: Petition to the strategos from the royal peasants of Oxyrhyncha * Where: Oxyrhyncha * When: c. 138 * What kind (papyrus, inscription, literary/historical narrative etc): petition