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CH. 2 the greek world Flashcards

1
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The term ______________ is translated to mean “top of the city”, and refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center.

A

Acropolis

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The term __________ refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as a public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.

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Agora

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3
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The Greek term __________ can be translated as “circle”.

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Kyklos

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Items found to be common among the people of Thea:

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 Elaborately decorated homes
 Clay pipes connected toilets and baths to sewers
 Straw reinforced the walls of their homes

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________ is recognized as the legendary ruler of Crete’s ancient capital, Knossos.

A

Minos

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6
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Male _________________ was associated with bulls.

A

virility and strength

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The Greek term _______ can be translated as “double ax”.

A

Labrys

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The palace of Minos was known in Greek times as the _________________

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House of the Double Axes.

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Q

___________, wife of Minos, gave birth to the Minotaur.

A

Queen Pasiphae

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________ was the chief craftsperson who constructed the hollow wooden cow to assist the queen in attracting the bull.

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Daedalus

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____________, daughter of Minos, provided Theseus with a weapon and thread to help him kill the Minotaur.

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Ariadne

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The ancient city of _____________ is a citadel city that depended on cyclopean masonry for its
construction and was entered through a massive Lion Gate.

A

Mycenae

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13
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________ is considered the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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Homer

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_______ was considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while battling the Trojans.

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Achilles

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Achilles is the central character in the ______, which focuses on his rage.

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Iliad

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The Greek term ______ can be translated as “virtue,” and can be interpreted as “reaching one’s highest potential”.

A

Areté

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17
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Hector, son of the king of Troy, killed ________ which enraged Achilles.

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Patroclus

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18
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_______ is best remembered as the King of Troy during the action of the Iliad.

A

Priam

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19
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__________ was the wife of Odysseus.

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Penelope

20
Q

_______, in his Theogony, The Birth of the Gods, who first detailed the Greek pantheon.

A

Hesiod

21
Q

Corinth controlled north-south trade routes from early times, but after it built a __________________________________, it soon controlled the sea routes east and west as well.

A

towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers

22
Q

Delphi was the home to the ____________________.

A

Sanctuary of Apollo

23
Q

The term ___________ refers to the row of columns that stand on the raised platform of an ancient
Greek temple.

A

peristyle

24
Q

The term _______ refers to columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near
the top.

A

entasis

25
Q

In ancient Greek architecture, the _______________ features scrolled capitals.

A

Ionic order

26
Q

On the krater the Death of Sarpedon, Sarpedon has just been killed by Patroclus and is being carried off by _________(the winged figure) and __________ (Death) as Hermes, the messenger of the gods looks on.

A

Hypnos
Thanatos

27
Q

On the krater the Death of Sarpedon, _________ has just been killed by _________ and is being carried off by Hypnos (the winged figure) and Thanatos (Death) as Hermes, the messenger of
the gods looks on.

A

Sarpedon
Patroclus

28
Q

__________ instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BCE.

A

Kleisthenes

29
Q

The term ______ became part of the Athenian political system and refers to small local areas comparable to precincts or wards in a modern city.

A

demes

30
Q

At the time of the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, _______ ruled the Persians.

A

Darius

31
Q

After the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, _________ ran 26 miles between Marathon and Athens to deliver word of the Greek victory.

A

Phidippides

32
Q

__________, author of an extensive History of the Persian Wars is recognized as the first Greek
historian.

A

Herodotus

33
Q

The _________ was considered the centerpiece on the Athenian Acropolis.

A

Parthenon

34
Q

The _________ served as a monumental entryway to the complex

A

Propylaia

35
Q

_________ cast the bronze statue known as _________ (Spear bearer), which was celebrated throughout the ancient world as a demonstration of a treatise on proportions of the human
body.

A

Polyclitus
Doryphoros

36
Q

The 92 metopes on the four sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and four
enemies:

A

 Trojans
 Giants
 Amazons
 Centaurs

37
Q

Socrates was placed on trial for:

A

 Subversive behavior
 Corrupting young men
 Introducing new gods

38
Q

___________ a pre-Socratic thinker conceived an atomic theory in which everything is made up of small, indivisible particles and the empty space, or void, between them.

A

Leucippus

39
Q

___________ is responsible for one of the most famous of all Greek dictums: “Man is the Measure of all things”.

A

Protagoras

40
Q

___________ specialized in writing comedies and is the playwright for Lysistrata.

A

Aristophanes

41
Q

_________ is the playwright for the Oresteia trilogy that includes events after Agamemnon’s return from the Trojan War.

A

Aeschylus

42
Q

In the ancient Greek theater, the term ___________ identifies the elevated platform on which the
actors performed.

A

proscenium

43
Q

Rumor had it that farther to the east, the kingdom of the Ganges, __________ next logical opponent, had a force of 5,000 ___________.

A

Alexander’s
elephants

44
Q

One of the most important ideas that ________ expressed in the Poetics is catharsis, the cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.

A

Aristotle

45
Q

the cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.

A

catharsis

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