Lessons 1-2

Question 1

a skilled craftsman or inventor

Answer 1

artificer

Question 2

a watercolor painting done on a wall or ceiling

Answer 2

fresco

Question 3

society

Answer 3

a group of people living in an ordered community

Question 4

the act of attack and robbery of ships at sea

Answer 4

piracy

Question 5

a soldier stationed to guard a palace

Answer 5

sentry

Question 6

a belt for a sword

Answer 6

baldric

Question 7

an image given to a god to fulfill a vow

Answer 7

votive offering

Question 8

part of Mediterranean Sea; between Greece and Asia Minor

Answer 8

Aegean Sea

Question 9

invaders who destroyed Knossos

Answer 9

Sea Kings

Question 10

largest island in the Aegean Sea

Answer 10

Crete

Question 11

“There is a land called Crete in the midst of the wine-dark sea, a fair land and a rich, begirt with water, and therein are many men innumerable and ninety cities.”

Answer 11

The Odyssey

Question 12

“Currents have more than one way of running through a strait.”

Answer 12

Strabo

Question 13

“The Sea”; main body of water south of Greece

Answer 13

Mediterranean Sea

Question 14

ancient Greek poet; author of the Illiad and the Odyssey

Answer 14

Homer

Question 15

a large jug with a wide mouth used for carrying water

Answer 15

ewer

Question 16

poem about the Trojan War

Answer 16

Illiad

Question 17

discover of the ancient city of Troy

Answer 17

Henry Schliemann

Question 18

time of Greece after Homeric Age

Answer 18

Historic Greece

Question 19

time of Greece described in the writings of Homer

Answer 19

Homeric Age

Question 20

“The cities of the hero-age thine eyes may seek in vain,

Save where some wrecks of ruin shall break the level plain.

So once I saw Myceanae, the ill-starred, a brren height

Too bleak for goats to pasture - the goat-herds point the site.

And as I passed a graybeard said: ‘Here used to stand of old

A city built by giants and passing rich in gold.”

Answer 20

Greek poet