Ancient Athletics Terms Exam 1

Question 1

Stadium

Answer 1

A place where foot races were held

Question 2

Amphora

Answer 2

A pottery vessel used as a storage jar for wine or oil

Question 3

Stephanitic games

Answer 3

winners received only a garland for victory, another name for Panhellenic games

Question 4

Stephanos

Answer 4

Greek word for crown

Question 5

Stadion

Answer 5

A unit of length (600 ancient feet) or a footrace that was one stadion in length. Oldest event of the Olympic games

Question 6

Hopllitodromos

Answer 6

A footrace where competitors competed in armor

Question 7

Herodotus

Answer 7

Greek historian who lived in 5th century BCE

Question 8

Menes

Answer 8

A pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt. Credited wit uniting lower and upper Egypt

Question 9

Mentohotep

Answer 9

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, credited with reuniting Egypt.

Question 10

Hyksos

Answer 10

“hill people” from western Asia who invaded and took over Lower Egypt for 150 years

Question 11

Xenia

Answer 11

guest friendship; hospitality

Question 12

Homer

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A Greek poet of the 8th century BCE. Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 13

Agathos

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A good man; man of worth

Question 14

Arete

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Excellence in war, and/or sport, goodness, valor, nobility, virtue

Question 15

Apoina

Answer 15

Reconciliation or recompense

Question 16

Metis

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Cleverness

Question 17

Chrematitic games

Answer 17

“money” or valuable prize games

Question 18

Tyrant

Answer 18

People who took control of states without constitutional ratification

Question 19

Polis

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city-states in ancient Greece, made up of a center and its surrounded territory.

Question 20

Athlon

Answer 20

prize

Question 21

Gymnasium

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“place for nudity”; used for recreation, physical education, and athletic practice

Question 22

Time

Answer 22

honor

Question 23

Diaulos

Answer 23

double-stade race

Question 24

Dolichos

Answer 24

4,800 m race

Question 25

Hysplex

Answer 25

starting gate

Question 26

Tripod

Answer 26

three-legged piece of furniture, given as a prize for competitors

Question 27

Pentathlon

Answer 27

5 event contest : long jump, javelin, discus, stadion race, and wrestling

Question 28

Pyx

Answer 28

boxing

Question 29

Pale

Answer 29

wrestling

Question 30

Pankration

Answer 30

"all-in" combination wrestling

Question 31

Pelops

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Greek mythological figure known not only for his role in stories of mount Olympus but also as a ruler in the Peloponnesian region

Question 32

Oinomaos

Answer 32

King of Greek region of Pisa in Greek mythology

Question 33

Hippodamia

Answer 33

daughter of King Oinomaos

Question 34

Zeus

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God of the sky in Greek mythology

Question 35

Sanctuary

Answer 35

areas set apart for devotion to the gods

Question 36

Pausanians

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an ancient Greek geographer

Question 37

Temple

Answer 37

a building in ancient Greece that was dedicated to a specific god within the pantheon

Question 38

Treasury

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a small building where offerings of money and precious objects were presented to the gods

Question 39

Doric order

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one of the orders of styles of classical architecture

Question 40

Centaur

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a creature with the head, arms, and torso of a man and the body and legs of a horse

Question 41

Apollo

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ancient greek god of sunlight, music, and poetry

Question 42

Vault

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a roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches

Question 43

Palestra

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a wrestling school in ancient Greece

Question 44

Python

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the serpent living at the center of the Earth, believed to be at Delphi

Question 45

Delphi

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an ancient sacred precinct located in central Greece on the slopes of Mount Parnassus

Question 46

Nemea

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an ancient site in northeastern part of the Peloponnese

Question 47

Isthmia

Answer 47

an ancient Greek village in the Corinthia region of Greece

Question 48

Poseidon

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the ancient Greek god of the sea

Question 49

Heroon

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a shrine dedicated to an ancient Greek or Roman hero

Question 50

Opheltes

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the infant son of King Lycurus and his wife Eurydice of Nemea

Question 51

Theater

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a semi-circular open-air structure used for staging dramatic and musical performances

Question 52

Melikertes

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later called Palaemon, prince and the son of King Athamas

Question 53

Triton

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greek god of the sea

Question 54

Kypselus

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the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century

Question 55

Ionic order

Answer 55

order of classical architecture

Question 56

Corinthian order

Answer 56

order of classical architecture