vocab - Heracles, Temples

Question 1

Who is Alcmene?

Answer 1

wife of Ampitryon, decendant of Perseus

Question 2

Who is Amphitryon?

Answer 2

husband of Alcmene and nephew of Sthenelus

Question 3

seer

Answer 3

a person who is reputed to be able to ree the future

Question 4

Who is Eileithyia?

Answer 4

daughter of Zeus, Hera, goddess of midwives and childbirth - involved in the birth of Heracles

Question 5

Who is Eurystheus?

Answer 5

son of Sthenelus, King of Mycenae

Question 6

Who is Iphicles?

Answer 6

son of Alcmene and Amphitryon and King of Mycenae, descendant of Perseus

Question 7

Who is the Hydra?

Answer 7

a many-headed serpent monster

Question 8

what is a Hind?

Answer 8

a deer

Question 9

What is a Pithos

Answer 9

a large storage clay jar

Question 10

Where is Pisa?

Answer 10

a town near Olympia in the Greek Peloponnese

Question 11

What is a linchpin?

Answer 11

a fastener used to stop a wheel from coming off its axis

Question 12

What is a pediment?

Answer 12

a triangular area at the top of each end of a temple, which could contain sculpture

Question 13

What is a metope?

Answer 13

square decorative spaces that ran around a Doric temple and could contain sculpture

Question 14

What is the river Tiber?

Answer 14

the main river running through Rome

Question 15

What is Pallas?

Answer 15

a giant who fought against the Gods, not to be confused with Evander’s son, also called Pallas, or when Athena is caused Pallas Athena

Question 16

what is a pyre?

Answer 16

a funeral mound made of wood on which to cremate a body

Question 17

what is a sanctuary?

Answer 17

an area of Holy land dedicated to a god or gods that contained the temple and altar

Question 18

what is pollution?

Answer 18

when a person has done something to make them impure in the eyes of the gods

Question 19

What is a collonade?

Answer 19

an open-air covered walkway supported by columns

Question 20

what is cella (in greek naos)

Answer 20

small room in latin, room containing the cult statue

Question 21

what is opisthodomos?

Answer 21

the rear room in a temple that contained the city or the town’s treasures

Question 22

What is ionic frieze?

Answer 22

an unbroken strip of marble that goes all the way around a temple

Question 23

What is doric frieze?

Answer 23

a continuous strip of stone or marble divided into square spaces called metopes

Question 24

What is hiereus?

Answer 24

pl- hiereis
‘one who sacrifices to a god’ - a Greek priest

Question 25

What is a hiereia?

Answer 25

pl- hiereiai 'one who sacrifices to a hod'- a greek priestess

Question 26

What is a mantis?

Answer 26

pl-manteis a Greek soothsayer who reads entrails of animals or bird signs to predict the outcome of future events

Question 27

What is an augur?

Answer 27

a person who reads the flights of birds to predict the outcome of futures

Question 28

What is a blood sacrifice?

Answer 28

the killing of an animal as an offering to a god

Question 29

what is a hetacomb?

Answer 29

the sacrifice in honour of a God of atleast 100 oxen during large festivals

Question 30

What is gliding?

Answer 30

the covering of a surface in a thin layer of gold

Question 31

what is an Altis?

Answer 31

the sacred area in the centre of Olympia that contained religious buildings

Question 32

what is a semi engaged column

Answer 32

a supporting column that is embeded in a wall, half protruding from it

Question 33

What is pax deorum

Answer 33

the peace of Gods

Question 34

what is pontifex

Answer 34

pl - pontifices a Roman priest in charge of protecting temples, regulating religious law, and overseeing the religious calendar

Question 35

what is the Pontifex Maximus?

Answer 35

the head of the pontiffs, the greatest pontiff

Question 36

what is lituus?

Answer 36

staff used by a Roman augur

Question 37

What is a vestal

Answer 37

female priests in charge of the cult of goddess Vesta

Question 38

What is a mola salsa

Answer 38

a mix of salt and flour made by the vestal virgins in rome and sprinkled on the heads of sacrificial victims

Question 39

What is a haruspex

Answer 39

pl - haruspices a Roman priest who read omens from entrails

Question 40

What is a popa?

Answer 40

an official at a Roman sacrifice who struck the sacrificial animal with a wooden rod

Question 41

What is a cultrarius

Answer 41

an official at a sacrifice who slit the throat of the sacrificial animal

Question 42

what is the rotunda

Answer 42

a round Roman building, especially one with a dome

Question 43

What is an oculus

Answer 43

a circular opening at the top of a dome