Humanities Chapter 2 Test

Question 1

known as the “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

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

Answer 2

agora

Question 3

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

who is the legendary ruler of Crete’s ancient capital, Knossos

Answer 5

Minos

Question 6

Male virility and strength was associated with ____

Answer 6

bulls

Question 7

translated as “double ax”

Answer 7

labrys

Question 8

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

Answer 8

House of Double Axes

Question 9

who gave birth to the Minotaur that was the wife of Minos

Answer 9

Queen Pasphae

Question 10

____________ was the chief crafts person 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 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 the author of the Iliad and the odyssey

Answer 13

Homer

Question 14

___________ is considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while battling the Trojans

Answer 14

Achilles

Question 15

Achilles is the center of the _________ which focuses on his rage

Answer 15

Iliad

Question 16

Greek translation that means “virtue”

Answer 16

arete

Question 17

what does arete interpreted as

Answer 17

reaching one’s highest potential

Question 18

_________, son of King Troy, killed Patroclus which enraged Achilles

Answer 18

Hector

Question 19

___________ is best remembered as king of Troy during the action of the Iliad

Answer 19

Priam

Question 20

______________ was the wife of the Odysseus

Answer 20

Penelope

Question 21

___________, in his Theogony, the Birth of the gods, who first detailed the Greek pantheon

Answer 21

Hesoid

Question 22

where controlled north-south trade routed from early times

Answer 22

Corinth

Question 23

After Corinth built a towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers, it controlled the sea routes of the ____________

Answer 23

east and west

Question 23

____________ was the home to the sanctuary of Apollo

Answer 23

Delphi

Question 24

the row of columns that stand on raised platforms of an ancient Greek temple

Answer 24

peristyle

Question 25

The __________ features scrolled capitols

Answer 25

Ionic Order

Question 26

what are the 3 different columns

Answer 26

Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

Question 27

On the ___________________________, Sarpedon has just been killed.

Answer 27

Karter the Death of Sarpedon

Question 28

Who killed Sarpedon?

Answer 28

Patroclus

Question 29

Who was carrying him off ________(the winged figure) and ________(death)

Answer 29

hypnos, thanatos

Question 30

who is the messenger god that looks on Sarpedon

Answer 30

Hermes

Question 31

_______________ instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BC

Answer 31

Kleisthones

Question 32

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

Answer 32

demes

Question 33

during the battle of Marathon in 490 BC who ruled the Persians

Answer 33

Darius

Question 34

what is the centerpiece of the Athenian Acropolis

Answer 34

Parthenon

Question 34

The monumental entryway to the complex

Answer 34

Proplaia

Question 34

what is the bronze statue Polyclitus made, known as the spear beater

Answer 34

Doryphoros

Question 34

what was the Doryphoros demonstrated as

Answer 34

the treatise on proportions of the human body

Question 34

the 92 metopes on the 4 sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and the 4 enemies:

Answer 34

Trojans, Giants, Amazons, Centaurs

Question 35

Socrates was place on trial for

Answer 35

subversive behavior corrupting young men introducing new gods

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Leucippus

Question 36

__________ is responsible for one of the most famous of all Greek dictums: "Man is the measure of all things"

Answer 36

Protagoras

Question 37

________________ specialized in writing comedies and the playwright for Lysteria

Answer 37

Aristophanes

Question 37

________________ identifies the elevated platform on which the actors performed

Answer 37

proscenium

Question 37

_____________ is the playwright for the Orsteia trilogy that includes events after Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War

Answer 37

Aeschylus

Question 38

father to the east, the kingdom of the Ganges, Alexander's next logical opponent, had a force of ___________

Answer 38

5,000 elephants

Question 39

the most important idea that Aristotle expressed in the Poetics is Catharsis, is ____________________ of the _________________

Answer 39

cleansing purification, or purgation of the soul

Question 40

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

Answer 40

entasis

Question 41

who is the Greek historian who wrote about the Persian wars?

Answer 41

Herodotus

Question 42

who ran 26 miles between marathon and Athens to deliver the word of the Greek victory

Answer 42

Phidippides

Question 43

a story that a culture assumes is true

Answer 43

myth

Question 44

the golden age of Greek art was

Answer 44

480-430 BC

Question 45

causing an unparalleled level of excellence in art...

Answer 45

architecture, poetry, drama, philosophy, government, law, logic, history, and mathematics.

Question 46

The human figure was the principal motif of Greek art. The Greeks were...

Answer 46

skilled painters, we can judge the realistic detail of Greek painting by the figures that adorn their everyday pottery.

Question 47

what happened to the Parthenon?

Answer 47

a direct rocket hit destroyed its core

Question 48

the Parthenon was built without... it remained intact until...

Answer 48

mortar; 1687

Question 49

Greek statues were not the bleached white marble we assoc Classical sculpture. It was made with...

Answer 49

colored encaustic, a mixture of powdered pigment and hot wax applied to hair, lips, eyes, and the nails of the figure.