CH. 2 the greek world Flashcards
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.
Acropolis
The term __________ refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as a public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.
Agora
The Greek term __________ can be translated as “circle”.
Kyklos
Items found to be common among the people of Thea:
Elaborately decorated homes
Clay pipes connected toilets and baths to sewers
Straw reinforced the walls of their homes
________ is recognized as the legendary ruler of Crete’s ancient capital, Knossos.
Minos
Male _________________ was associated with bulls.
virility and strength
The Greek term _______ can be translated as “double ax”.
Labrys
The palace of Minos was known in Greek times as the _________________
House of the Double Axes.
___________, wife of Minos, gave birth to the Minotaur.
Queen Pasiphae
________ was the chief craftsperson who constructed the hollow wooden cow to assist the queen in attracting the bull.
Daedalus
____________, daughter of Minos, provided Theseus with a weapon and thread to help him kill the Minotaur.
Ariadne
The ancient city of _____________ is a citadel city that depended on cyclopean masonry for its
construction and was entered through a massive Lion Gate.
Mycenae
________ is considered the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer
_______ was considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while battling the Trojans.
Achilles
Achilles is the central character in the ______, which focuses on his rage.
Iliad
The Greek term ______ can be translated as “virtue,” and can be interpreted as “reaching one’s highest potential”.
Areté
Hector, son of the king of Troy, killed ________ which enraged Achilles.
Patroclus
_______ is best remembered as the King of Troy during the action of the Iliad.
Priam
__________ was the wife of Odysseus.
Penelope
_______, in his Theogony, The Birth of the Gods, who first detailed the Greek pantheon.
Hesiod
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.
towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers
Delphi was the home to the ____________________.
Sanctuary of Apollo
The term ___________ refers to the row of columns that stand on the raised platform of an ancient
Greek temple.
peristyle
The term _______ refers to columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near
the top.
entasis
In ancient Greek architecture, the _______________ features scrolled capitals.
Ionic order
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.
Hypnos
Thanatos
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.
Sarpedon
Patroclus
__________ instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BCE.
Kleisthenes
The term ______ became part of the Athenian political system and refers to small local areas comparable to precincts or wards in a modern city.
demes
At the time of the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, _______ ruled the Persians.
Darius
After the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, _________ ran 26 miles between Marathon and Athens to deliver word of the Greek victory.
Phidippides
__________, author of an extensive History of the Persian Wars is recognized as the first Greek
historian.
Herodotus
The _________ was considered the centerpiece on the Athenian Acropolis.
Parthenon
The _________ served as a monumental entryway to the complex
Propylaia
_________ 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.
Polyclitus
Doryphoros
The 92 metopes on the four sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and four
enemies:
Trojans
Giants
Amazons
Centaurs
Socrates was placed on trial for:
Subversive behavior
Corrupting young men
Introducing new gods
___________ 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.
Leucippus
___________ is responsible for one of the most famous of all Greek dictums: “Man is the Measure of all things”.
Protagoras
___________ specialized in writing comedies and is the playwright for Lysistrata.
Aristophanes
_________ is the playwright for the Oresteia trilogy that includes events after Agamemnon’s return from the Trojan War.
Aeschylus
In the ancient Greek theater, the term ___________ identifies the elevated platform on which the
actors performed.
proscenium
Rumor had it that farther to the east, the kingdom of the Ganges, __________ next logical opponent, had a force of 5,000 ___________.
Alexander’s
elephants
One of the most important ideas that ________ expressed in the Poetics is catharsis, the cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.
Aristotle
the cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.
catharsis
