Test 1

Question 1

What was the Delian League?

Answer 1

An Athenian alliance formed after defeating the Persian invasion

Question 2

Who was Pericles?

Answer 2

Respected Athenian statesman

Question 3

What were Pericles’s main goals?

Answer 3

To strengthen Athenian democracy and glorify Athens

Question 4

Main Idea- Greece/Golden Age

Answer 4

Democratic principles + classical culture flourished during Greece’s golden age

Question 5

Relevance-Greece/Golden Age

Answer 5

At its height, Greece set lasting standards in art, politics, lit, and philosophy that are still adhered to today

Question 6

When was the Age of Pericles?

Answer 6

461-429 BCE

Question 7

How did Pericles strengthen Athenian democracy?

Answer 7

Since government positions were unpaid, originally only wealthy people could afford to hold this position. Pericles increased the # of paid positions, and now even the poorest could serve if chosen, since he would receive a salary.

Question 8

Why was Pericles’s speech inaccurate? (please study that on your own)

Answer 8

It says whole people but what about women?

Question 9

How did Pericles ‘glorify’ Athens?

Answer 9

By stealing cash from the League communal fund and using it to beautify Athens, buying gold, ivory, marble and building the Parthenon.

Question 10

Who was Phidias?

Answer 10

The most famous sculptor in Athens (remember it sounds like Phineas, who was amazing at building stuff :P )

Question 11

What impact did Persian invasion have on Greece?

Answer 11

It unified and empowered the Athenians and they started fighting for each other instead of a king

Question 12

Who was Aspasia?

Answer 12

Pericles’s wife

Question 13

Study Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns.

Answer 13

Awesome.

Question 14

What did the Parthenon represent to the Athenians? Why was it so important?

Answer 14

Freedom, after they were attacked. They were almost killed, but, well, they weren’t. Yay.

Question 15

How did Pericles obtain the funds for the Parthenon?

Answer 15

Stealing from the Delian League along w/ the other things in the name of glorifying Athens

Question 16

Was the athenian democracy truly in hands of all the people?

Answer 16

No. Although Athenian citizens were widely represented at all levels of government, citizens only small part of athenian total population

Question 17

Who in Athens qualified to be a citizen?

Answer 17

male eighteen year old or older w/ a citizen father

Question 18

How was the Parthenon built?

Answer 18

Wooden frame built around each block of stone and pulled by oxen to site, then pulleys were used to lift them.

Question 19

What was the centerpiece of the Parthenon?

Answer 19

Statue of goddess of Athena, made of ivory and a ton of gold

Question 20

How did Pericles’s opponents attack him and his temple?

Answer 20

Claimed pericles was dressing Athens up like a pretentious woman and used others’ gold to make it more so

Question 21

How was the new sculpture style better than the old one?

Answer 21

The first style seemed unnatural

Question 22

How were laws passed in Athens?

Answer 22

Voted on and proposed directly by an assembly of all citizens

Question 23

How were leaders chosen in Athens?

Answer 23

By lot

Question 24

How were laws carried out in Athens?

Answer 24

Executive branch composed of 500 man council

Question 25

How big were the juries in Athens?

Answer 25

It varied

Question 26

Who was Polyclitis?

Answer 26

architect of theater of epidaurus

Question 27

what was a scayner?

Answer 27

a scene

Question 28

What was the supposed correlation between theater and healing?

Answer 28

Theater was medicine. Plays at this time were fundamentally musical experiences. A distressed individual could for example ease his nerves by listening to calming music or watching a funny show. This is why the theater was next to the healing center.

Question 29

Where was the theater?

Answer 29

Next to the healing center

Question 30

What was the purpose of the two story stage building?

Answer 30

Painted as backdrop and special effects

Question 31

How were perfect acoustics achieved in the theater?

Answer 31

No completely flat surface, so when the sounds hit the wall it is diffused in many different directions. Enhances the original sound by stretching it a little longer then it was

Question 32

How were sounds made even clearer in the theater?

Answer 32

Used a resonator, tuned to frequencies they wanted to delete so the audience could hear the sounds more clearly

Question 33

What is tragedy?

Answer 33

Serious form of drama w downfall of heroic or noble character, who often has a tragic flaw

Question 34

What is comedy?

Answer 34

Humorous form of drama, often including slapstick (physical comedy)

Question 35

Ancient Olympics vs. Modern: Who could participate?

Answer 35

Men of Greek descent/Both sexes, various countries

Question 36

Ancient Olympics vs. Modern: How many athletes?

Answer 36

Few hundred/2600 from 77 countries

Question 37

Ancient Olympics vs. Modern: Religious significance?

Answer 37

Held as a religious event to honor Greek god Zeus/None

Question 38

Ancient Olympics vs. Modern: Winners?

Answer 38

One only/Gold, silver, bronze medals awarded

Question 39

Ancient Olympics vs. Modern: Where?

Answer 39

Olympia, Greece/anywhere in the world

Question 40

Ancient Olympics vs. Modern: What season?

Answer 40

Summer only/Summer and Winter

Question 41

Polis

Answer 41

City-State

Question 42

What was unique about Olympia?

Answer 42

It was the only place in the world where both gods and men were worshipped

Question 43

What types of races did the Greek have?

Answer 43

200,400, and 5000 meters; later came the pentathlon (running, jumping, discus, wrestling and javelin.)

Question 44

How was the final Olympic victor chosen from the remaining two athletes?

Answer 44

hey would fight it out in wrestling and boxing combat.

Question 45

How long did athletes train for the Olympics? Why could only wealthy compete?

Answer 45

10 months on their own, followed by one month @ Olympia. Only the wealthy could afford to train for that long without working.

Question 46

What took place in the "echo-colony?"

Answer 46

A contest for trumpeters and heralds

Question 47

What took place in the Hippodrome?

Answer 47

Chariot and horse races (it was the horse race track)

Question 48

What did the victor of the Olympics receive?

Answer 48

A band around his head, a palm branch to wave and an olive wreath to take home. Allowed his pick of heiresses, fame, and good meals at public expense.

Question 49

Why were the Olympics eventually abolished?

Answer 49

Roman emperor considered them pagan.