A background to the Odyssey

Question 1

Aphrodite

Answer 1

Goddess of love, daughter of Zeus

Question 2

Apollo

Answer 2

God of music, health and son of Zeus

Question 3

Ares

Answer 3

God of War

Question 4

Artemis

Answer 4

Goddess of hunting

Question 5

Athene

Answer 5

Goddess of wisdom and of Athens

Question 6

Dionysus

Answer 6

God of wine

Question 7

Demeter

Answer 7

Goddess of harvest

Question 8

Hades

Answer 8

God of the underworld

Question 9

Hera

Answer 9

Wife of Zeus and queen of heaven

Question 10

Hermes

Answer 10

Messenger of Zeus

Question 11

Poseidon

Answer 11

King of all the Gods and men

Question 12

Zeus

Answer 12

Goddess of wisdom and of Athene

Question 13

Minoan

Answer 13

Known for advanced art and architecture

Question 14

Mycenean

Answer 14

Known for military prowess and conquest

Question 15

Citadel

Answer 15

A fortress that controls a city, a fortified city centre

Question 16

Tholos

Answer 16

A circular building with a conical or vaulted roof

Question 17

When was the Cycladic period?

Answer 17

3200BC - 1100BC

Question 18

When was the Minoan period?

Answer 18

2700BC-1500BC

Question 19

When was the mycanean period?

Answer 19

1900BC-1100BC

Question 20

When was the Archaic period?

Answer 20

800BC - 500BC

Question 21

When was the classical period?

Answer 21

500BC - 323BC

Question 22

When was the helenistic period?

Answer 22

323BC- 146BC

Question 23

When was the roman period?

Answer 23

146BC - 330AD

Question 24

When was Byzantine period?

Answer 24

330AD - 1453AD

Question 25

When was the ottoman period?

Answer 25

1453AD - 1821AD

Question 26

What was the odyssey before it was written down?

Answer 26

'oral poetry' that was memorised and spoken, probably to musical accompaniment like a drum beat and lyre.

Question 27

Who could have written homer?

Answer 27

A number of bards

Question 27

When is the original composition of the odyssey beleived to be?

Answer 27

8th century BCE - We have no evidence for the poet homer,

Question 28

When is the Odyssey set?

Answer 28

C.1200BCE

Question 29

What time did homer live?

Answer 29

8th Century BCE Archaic Greek age, the world of Odysseus was the earlier Mycenaeans Bronze Age

Question 30

What was the Minoan era a time of?

Answer 30

A collision of ideas which reasulted in extraordianry culture

Question 31

What is Athenes sometimes descirbed as?

Answer 31

Civilisation at its peak

Question 32

Herodotus

Answer 32

The worlds first historian

Question 33

Chaos

Answer 33

Greek word for void, everything arose from the void