Humanities--Greece

Question 1

The term Acropolis translates to what?

Answer 1

“top of the city”

Question 2

What does the Acropolis refer to?

Answer 2

a portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center

Question 3

the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as a public meeting place, market place, and civic center

Answer 3

agora

Question 4

the term kylos can be translated as

Answer 4

“circle”

Question 5

What items are found to be common among the people of Thea?

Answer 5

elaborately decorated homes
clay pipes connected baths and toilets to sewers
straw reinforced the walls of their homes

Question 6

What is Minos recognized as?

Answer 6

the legendary leader of Crete’s ancient capital, Knossos

Question 7

A man’s what was associated with bulls?

Answer 7

virility and strength

Question 8

The Greek term labrys can be translated as what?

Answer 8

“double ax”

Question 9

In Greek times, what was the palace of Minos known as?

Answer 9

the House of Double Axes

Question 10

who gave birth to a Minotaur?

Answer 10

Queen Pasiphae

Question 11

Who constructed a hollow wooden cow to assist the queen in attracting the bull?

Answer 11

Daedalus

Question 12

Ariadne assisted Theseus in what?

Answer 12

She provided Theseus with a weapon and thread to help him kill the Minotaur

Question 13

the ancient city of Mycenae is a citadel city that depended on what for its construction and was entered through a massive Lion Gate?

Answer 13

cyclopean masonry

Question 14

Homer is considered the author of what?

Answer 14

the Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 15

who was considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while battling the Trojans?

Answer 15

Achilles

Question 16

Achilles is the central character in the Iliad, which focuses on what?

Answer 16

his rage

Question 17

the Greek term arete can be translated as what?

Answer 17

virtue

Question 18

The Greek term arete can be interpreted as what?

Answer 18

“reaching one’s highest potential”

Question 19

Hector, song of king Troy, killed Patroclus which did what?

Answer 19

enraged Achilles

Question 20

Priam is best remembered as what during the action of the Iliad?

Answer 20

King of Troy

Question 21

Who was the wife of Odysseus?

Answer 21

Penelope

Question 22

Who first detailed the Greek pantheon in his Theogony: The Birth of the Gods?

Answer 22

Hesiod

Question 23

Who controlled north-south trade routes from early times?

Answer 23

Corinth

Question 24

Corinth built a towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers, it soon controlled what?

Answer 24

sea routes east and west

Question 25

Who was the home to the Sanctuary of Apollo?

Answer 25

Delphi

Question 26

In ancient Greek architecture, which features scrolled capitals?

Answer 26

Ionic

Question 27

What are three types of columns?

Answer 27

Doric Ionic Corinthian

Question 28

On the krater of the Death of Sarpedon what is happening?

Answer 28

Sarpedon has just been killed by Patroclus and is being carried off by Hypnos and Thanatos, as Hermes looks on

Question 29

Who instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BCE

Answer 29

Kleishtenes

Question 30

the term demes became part of the Athenian political system and refers to what?

Answer 30

small local areas comparable to precincts or wards in a modern city

Question 31

Who ruled the Persians at the time of the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE?

Answer 31

Darius

Question 32

After the battle of Marathon, Phidippides did what?

Answer 32

he ran 26 miles between Marathon and Athens to deliver word of the Greek victory

Question 33

Who is recognized as the first Greek historian?

Answer 33

Herodotus

Question 34

Who wrote an extensive "History of the Persian Wars"

Answer 34

Herodotus

Question 35

The Parthenon was considered what?

Answer 35

the centerpiece of the Athenian Acropolis

Question 36

What served as a monumental entryway to the Athenian Acropolis?

Answer 36

Propylaia

Question 37

Who cast the bronze statue known as the Doryphoros?

Answer 37

Polyclitus

Question 38

What is the Doryphoros?

Answer 38

a demonstration of a treatise on proportions of the human body

Question 39

the 92 metopes on the four sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and four enemies; which consist of what?

Answer 39

trojans giants amazons centaurs

Question 40

What was Socrates placed on trial for?

Answer 40

subversive behavior corrupting young men introducing new gods

Question 41

who conceived the atomic theory in which everything is made up of small, indivisible particles and empty space, or void, between them

Answer 41

Leucippus

Question 42

Leucippus came up with the atomic theory of what?

Answer 42

in which everything is made up of small, indivisible particles and the empty space, or void, between them

Question 43

Who is responsible for one of the most famous Greek dictums: "Man is the Measure of all things."

Answer 43

Protagoras

Question 44

Aristophanes specialized in writing what and is the playwright for what?

Answer 44

comedies; Lysistrata

Question 45

who is the playwright for the Oresteia trilogy that includes events after Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War?

Answer 45

Aeschylus

Question 46

In the ancient Greek theater, the term what identifies the elevated platform on which the actors performed?

Answer 46

proscenium

Question 47

Rumor had it that father to the east, the Kingdom of GANGES, Alexander's next logical opponent, had a force of what?

Answer 47

5,000 elephants

Question 48

the most important idea Aristotle expressed in the Poetics is CATHARSIS, which is what?

Answer 48

the cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul