Ancient Greece - The Bronze Age

Question 1

Arion

Answer 1

Most famous musician of his time. Kidnapped by pirates and saved by dolphins.

Question 2

Zeus

Answer 2

King of the Gods, god of thunder, sky, and hospitality.

Question 3

Hera

Answer 3

Goddess of marriage, women, family, childbirth, wife of Zeus, hates Troy.

Question 4

Hades

Answer 4

God of the Underworld.

Question 5

Poseidon

Answer 5

God of the sea, earthquakes/storms, and horses. Built the walls of troy with Apollo.

Question 6

Athena

Answer 6

Virgin goddess. Goddess of wisdom, crafts, and war.

Question 7

Apollo

Answer 7

God of archery, healing, prophecy, and poetry. Built the walls of Troy with Poseidon.

Question 8

Artemis

Answer 8

Virgin goddess. Goddess of archery, hunting, animals, and young women.

Question 9

Ares

Answer 9

God of War.

Question 10

Aphrodite

Answer 10

Goddess of love, mother of Eros/Cupid. Favors the Trojans.

Question 11

Hephaestus

Answer 11

God of blacksmiths, married to Aphrodite. Disabled.

Question 12

Hermes

Answer 12

Messenger god, god of heralds, travelers, merchants, and thieves.

Question 13

Dionysus

Answer 13

God of wine, madness, ecstasy, and theater.

Question 14

Patron God/Goddess

Answer 14

A god a city has a special relationship with.

Question 15

Thetis

Answer 15

Nymph, minor nature goddess. Mother of Achilles.

Question 16

Achilles

Answer 16

Son of Thetis and Peleus. Dipped in the river styx. Invulnerable except for his heel.

Question 17

Paris

Answer 17

Prince of Troy. Judge of divine beauty contest - chose Aphrodite. Won Helen.

Question 18

Menelaus

Answer 18

King of Sparta. Husband of Helen.

Question 19

Helen

Answer 19

Daughter of Zeus. Considered most beautiful woman in the world. Wife of Menelaus until she ran away with Paris.

Question 20

When did the Trojan War occur?

Answer 20

Bronze Age.

Question 21

Agamemnon

Answer 21

King of Sparta. Brother of Menelaus.

Question 22

Priam

Answer 22

King of Troy. Father of Hector/Paris.

Question 23

Hector

Answer 23

Troy’s strongest warrior. Prince of Troy.

Question 24

Heinrich Schliemann

Answer 24

Discovered Troy. Believed that the entirety of the Iliad had actually happened/Gods existed.

Question 25

Archaeology

Answer 25

Study of material culture/old physical objects.

Question 26

Minoans

Answer 26

Lived in Crete. Did not have walls. Wrote in Linear A.

Question 27

Mycenaeans

Answer 27

Greeks. Conquered Crete. Wrote in Linear B. Had walls.

Question 28

Linear B

Answer 28

Writing system of the Mycenaeans. Symbols.

Question 29

Palace Economy

Answer 29

Goods redistributed through palace. Written by scribes in Linear B.

Question 30

The Dark Age

Answer 30

No literary sources. Decline in population, technology, and literacy. Palaces abandoned.

Question 31

Greek Alphabet

Answer 31

One sound = one letter. First appeared during Archaic Age. Spread by Phoenician traders.

Question 32

Homeric Question

Answer 32

Who is Homer? First real evidence for his life came 300 years after he died. Iliad written in many different dialects.

Question 33

Oral Poetry

Answer 33

Improvised, epithets, and stock scenes.

Question 34

Epithet

Answer 34

Frequent description of person/place. (e.x: fleet-footed achilles)

Question 35

Stock Scenes

Answer 35

Scene that appeared in numerous stories. Template for poets to riff on.

Question 36

Epic Poetry

Answer 36

Large scale stories of great men, women, and Gods.

Question 37

In media res

Answer 37

"Into the middle of things". Most stories of this time start in the middle assuming that the listener already knows the background story.

Question 38

Invocation of the Muse

Answer 38

Request for help from a deity in order to write an epic poem.

Question 39

The Iliad

Answer 39

Epic poem written by Homer about the Trojan War.

Question 40

Supplication

Answer 40

The act of begging on knees, putting hands on knee/beard of person being supplicated.

Question 41

Hero

Answer 41

Killed a lot of people. Favored by the Gods.

Question 42

Glory

Answer 42

Loot from great deeds achieved in battle.

Question 43

Aristeia

Answer 43

Epic poetry. Moment of excellence in battle.

Question 44

Briseis

Answer 44

Woman taken as Achilles' slave. Taken by Agamemnon.

Question 45

Patroclus

Answer 45

Achilles' friend. Wore his armor to fight Hector. Died.

Question 46

Andromache

Answer 46

Wife of Hector.

Question 47

Astyanax

Answer 47

Hector's son. Name means "Lord of the city".

Question 48

Myth

Answer 48

Traditional story.

Question 49

Sacrifice

Answer 49

Transactional offering made to the Gods.

Question 50

Pederasty

Answer 50

Sex between adult men and boys.

Question 51

Hospitality

Answer 51

"Xenia" - Guest friendship. Key Greek virtue.

Question 52

"The other"

Answer 52

Barbarians = non-Greeks. "Bar-bar-bar"

Question 53

Panhellenism

Answer 53

Greeks acting together.

Question 54

Double determination

Answer 54

Greek belief that our destiny has already been determined by the Gods.

Question 55

Ring Composition

Answer 55

Next story begins where last story ends, ends where first story begins.

Question 56

Trojan Horse

Answer 56

Tricks Trojans into letting Greeks into city.