CLASSICAL EUROPE (WH) Flashcards
(38 cards)
Goddess of LOVE? (similar to Aphrodite)
Venus
The Aenid?
Virgil
Chief deity in Roman Mythology?
Jupiter
Huge amphitheater
Coliseum
God of WAR?
Mars
Goddess of HEARTH?
Vesta
Most renowned military leaders and empire builders; his impact is felt in the spread of Hellenistic Culture.
Alexander the Great
Athletic game in honor of Zeus?
Olympic Games
God of MARRIAGE?
Hera
Large vase for storage of oil and other supplies ?
Amphoras
Goddess of hearth, home and fire?
Hestia
Temple dedicated to the goddess Athena?
Parthenon
Made Athens a showcase of Greece?
Pericles
Ruler of the underworld?
Hades
God of the seas?
Poseidon
Patron of Athens; embodied wisdom and protected handicrafts and agriculture.
Athena
Chief Olympic God
Zeus
It made Mycenean civilization major power.
Trojan War
Legendary King (King of Knossos)
King Minos
A palace on a hill?
Mycenean Kingdom
Mountainous peninsula surrounded by Ionina and Aegean Sea.
Greece
Discovered the treasure of a lifetime (palace with 800 rooms).
Sir Arthur Evans
Similar to the Middle East Civilization?
Mycenean
Warlike tribe from the north who invaded the Mycenean?
Dorians