CH. 2 the greek world

Question 1

The term ______________ is translated to mean “top of the city”, and refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center.

Answer 1

Acropolis

Question 2

The term __________ refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as a public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.

Answer 2

Agora

Question 3

The Greek term __________ can be translated as “circle”.

Answer 3

Kyklos

Question 4

Items found to be common among the people of Thea:

Answer 4

 Elaborately decorated homes
 Clay pipes connected toilets and baths to sewers
 Straw reinforced the walls of their homes

Question 5

________ is recognized as the legendary ruler of Crete’s ancient capital, Knossos.

Answer 5

Minos

Question 6

Male _________________ was associated with bulls.

Answer 6

virility and strength

Question 7

The Greek term _______ can be translated as “double ax”.

Answer 7

Labrys

Question 8

The palace of Minos was known in Greek times as the _________________

Answer 8

House of the Double Axes.

Question 9

___________, wife of Minos, gave birth to the Minotaur.

Answer 9

Queen Pasiphae

Question 10

________ was the chief craftsperson who constructed the hollow wooden cow to assist the queen in attracting the bull.

Answer 10

Daedalus

Question 11

____________, daughter of Minos, provided Theseus with a weapon and thread to help him kill the Minotaur.

Answer 11

Ariadne

Question 12

The ancient city of _____________ is a citadel city that depended on cyclopean masonry for its
construction and was entered through a massive Lion Gate.

Answer 12

Mycenae

Question 13

________ is considered the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Answer 13

Homer

Question 14

_______ was considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while battling the Trojans.

Answer 14

Achilles

Question 15

Achilles is the central character in the ______, which focuses on his rage.

Answer 15

Iliad

Question 16

The Greek term ______ can be translated as “virtue,” and can be interpreted as “reaching one’s highest potential”.

Answer 16

Areté

Question 17

Hector, son of the king of Troy, killed ________ which enraged Achilles.

Answer 17

Patroclus

Question 18

_______ is best remembered as the King of Troy during the action of the Iliad.

Answer 18

Priam

Question 19

__________ was the wife of Odysseus.

Answer 19

Penelope

Question 20

_______, in his Theogony, The Birth of the Gods, who first detailed the Greek pantheon.

Answer 20

Hesiod

Question 21

Corinth controlled north-south trade routes from early times, but after it built a __________________________________, it soon controlled the sea routes east and west as well.

Answer 21

towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers

Question 22

Delphi was the home to the ____________________.

Answer 22

Sanctuary of Apollo

Question 23

The term ___________ refers to the row of columns that stand on the raised platform of an ancient
Greek temple.

Answer 23

peristyle

Question 24

The term _______ refers to columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near
the top.

Answer 24

entasis

Question 25

In ancient Greek architecture, the _______________ features scrolled capitals.

Answer 25

Ionic order

Question 26

On the krater the Death of Sarpedon, Sarpedon has just been killed by Patroclus and is being carried off by _________(the winged figure) and __________ (Death) as Hermes, the messenger of the gods looks on.

Answer 26

Hypnos Thanatos

Question 27

On the krater the Death of Sarpedon, _________ has just been killed by _________ and is being carried off by Hypnos (the winged figure) and Thanatos (Death) as Hermes, the messenger of the gods looks on.

Answer 27

Sarpedon Patroclus

Question 28

__________ instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BCE.

Answer 28

Kleisthenes

Question 29

The term ______ became part of the Athenian political system and refers to small local areas comparable to precincts or wards in a modern city.

Answer 29

demes

Question 30

At the time of the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, _______ ruled the Persians.

Answer 30

Darius

Question 31

After the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, _________ ran 26 miles between Marathon and Athens to deliver word of the Greek victory.

Answer 31

Phidippides

Question 32

__________, author of an extensive History of the Persian Wars is recognized as the first Greek historian.

Answer 32

Herodotus

Question 33

The _________ was considered the centerpiece on the Athenian Acropolis.

Answer 33

Parthenon

Question 34

The _________ served as a monumental entryway to the complex

Answer 34

Propylaia

Question 35

_________ cast the bronze statue known as _________ (Spear bearer), which was celebrated throughout the ancient world as a demonstration of a treatise on proportions of the human body.

Answer 35

Polyclitus Doryphoros

Question 36

The 92 metopes on the four sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and four enemies:

Answer 36

 Trojans  Giants  Amazons  Centaurs

Question 37

Socrates was placed on trial for:

Answer 37

 Subversive behavior  Corrupting young men  Introducing new gods

Question 38

___________ a pre-Socratic thinker conceived an atomic theory in which everything is made up of small, indivisible particles and the empty space, or void, between them.

Answer 38

Leucippus

Question 39

___________ is responsible for one of the most famous of all Greek dictums: “Man is the Measure of all things”.

Answer 39

Protagoras

Question 40

___________ specialized in writing comedies and is the playwright for Lysistrata.

Answer 40

Aristophanes

Question 41

_________ is the playwright for the Oresteia trilogy that includes events after Agamemnon’s return from the Trojan War.

Answer 41

Aeschylus

Question 42

In the ancient Greek theater, the term ___________ identifies the elevated platform on which the actors performed.

Answer 42

proscenium

Question 43

Rumor had it that farther to the east, the kingdom of the Ganges, __________ next logical opponent, had a force of 5,000 ___________.

Answer 43

Alexander’s elephants

Question 44

One of the most important ideas that ________ expressed in the Poetics is catharsis, the cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.

Answer 44

Aristotle

Question 45

the cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.

Answer 45

catharsis