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Question 1

Homeric hymn to Demeter?

Answer 1

Demeter mourns after Poseidon took her daughter, Persephone.

When she learned of Persephone’s whereabouts, she returned to Olympus but her daughter was forced to return to the Underworld for a third of the year.

Question 2

12 labours of Heracles?

Answer 2

1. Nemean Lion
2. Lernean Hydra
3. Golden Hind
4. Erymanthian Boar
5. Augean Stables
6. Stymphalian Birds
7. Cretan Bull
8. Mares of Diomedes
9. Girdle of Hippolyte
10. Cattle of Geryon
11. Apples of the Hesperides
12. Cerberus

Question 3

Story about cheating in the Olympics? (I forgot the name)

Answer 3

Oinomaos, King of Pisa, was told he would die when his daughter married, so he challenged suitors to a deadly chariot race. Pelops competed and won by bribing the king’s charioteer to replace the bronze linchpins with wax ones, causing the king’s chariot to crash and kill him. Afterward, Pelops established games in honor of Oinomaos.

Question 4

Frieze

Answer 4

A strip of marble that goes around a temple

Question 5

Sanctuary

Answer 5

An area of holy land dedicated to a god or gods contained the temple and altar

Question 6

Opisthodomos

Answer 6

The rear room in a temple that
contained a city or town’s treasure

Question 7

Colonnade

Answer 7

An-open-air covered walkway supported by columns

Question 8

Mantis

Answer 8

Soothsayers predicted the future by interpreting omens, often by examining the entrails of sacrificed animals.

Question 9

Augur

Answer 9

They read the flight of birds to predict the outcome of
future events

Question 10

Pediment

Answer 10

Triangular space at either end of the temple building that often contained sculpture

Question 11

Ionic frieze

Answer 11

A continuous strip of stone or marble that runs around a temple

Question 12

Doric frieze

Answer 12

A continuous strip of stone or marble divided into metopes

Question 13

Who were the 2 leading architects (Parthenon)

Answer 13

Pericles and Phidias