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Which ancient Greek author was blind?

Homer
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Xenophon
Homer is a legendary figure. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey.
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Sophocles
Aeschylus
Xenophon
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flagGreece
85%
0%
3%
11%
27
flagRomania
75%
8%
16%
0%
12
flagNew Zealand
73%
6%
13%
0%
15
flagAustralia
65%
2%
18%
13%
44
flagFrance
63%
10%
15%
10%
19
flagSpain
63%
9%
27%
0%
11
flagPoland
61%
12%
15%
10%
7821
flagItaly
60%
20%
20%
0%
10
flagthe United Kingdom
52%
19%
12%
14%
139
flagRepublic of Ireland
50%
5%
40%
0%
20
flagthe United States
48%
19%
17%
13%
158
flagAustria
48%
14%
20%
16%
104
flagIndia
47%
30%
12%
8%
72
flagCanada
46%
10%
16%
23%
30
flagGermany
42%
19%
22%
15%
461
flagUnknown
42%
9%
28%
19%
21
flagSweden
42%
21%
21%
14%
14
flagthe Philippines
42%
28%
14%
14%
14
flagSwitzerland
30%
30%
25%
12%
39
flagthe Netherlands
21%
26%
21%
30%
23

Whom were the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon built for by order of the king Nebuchadnezzar II?

for Nebuchadnezzar's wife queen Amytis
to the memory of Assyrian queen Semiramis
for daughter of Esther
it is not known

What area was called the "Magna Graecia" in antiquity?

Peloponnese with Sparta and Mycenae
Boeotia with Athens and Thebes
Thessaly with Larissa and Olympos
Southern Apennine Peninsula with Sicily

Who wrote "The Art of Poetry"?

Horace
Apicius
Sidonius Apollinaris
Seneca

Where did chess originate from?

China
India
Japan
Mongolia