Chapter 08 - Aegean Civilizations Of The Bronze Age

Question 1

Ch 8: Story - Parallel Lives by Plutarch tells the story of a character who slew the Minotaur, sailed off with Ariadne (daughter of King Minos who gave him a spool of thread so he could find his way out of the labyrinth), and beat Taurus in a wresting match - who is this man?

Answer 1

Theseus

Question 2

Ch 8: Theseus was the sun of King Aigeus of what great Greek city? Rumor mill says he may have been the result of rape by what Greek god?

Answer 2

Athens. Poseidon.

Question 3

Ch 8: Athens was obligated to pay 7 girls and 7 boys to King Minos, the King of Crete, for what purpose?

Answer 3

To sacrifice to the Minotaur

Question 4

Ch 8: In Greek legend, the king of Crete was the son of Zeus and Europa - who was this king?

Answer 4

King Minos

Question 5

Ch. 8: Poseidon, a total fucking douche, was mad at King Minos for not sacrificing a bull; how did he retaliate? What was the outcome?

Answer 5

He forced Minos’ wife, Pasiphae, to fall in love with a bull. The result was bestiality and the impossible crossing of a human and a bull: the Minotaur.

Question 6

Ch. 8: Who helped Pasiphae fuck the bull? What happened to this person’s son?

Answer 6

Daedalus built something so she could fuck the bull. Daedalus’ son stole his dad’s wings and flew too close to the sun like a moron, then died like a bug.

Question 7

Ch. 8: Sir Arthur Evans Discovered Knossos and named it for the people of the civilization there - what was the name he gave these people?

Answer 7

Minoans

Question 8

Ch. 8: The language of the Minoans was______?

Answer 8

Linear A

Question 9

Ch. 8: The palaces of this Aegean civilization were not fortified, and the structures were labyrinthine (spaces were arranged around a central court with movement rather than symmetry in mind) - what civilization was this?

Answer 9

Minoan

Question 10

Ch. 8: What were the 3 Aegean civilizations of the Bronze Age?

Answer 10

Minoan, Mycenaean, and Cycladic

Question 11

Ch. 8: The sites of this Aegean civilization were true, fortified citadels.

Answer 11

The Mycenaean civilization

Question 12

Ch. 8: Heinrich Schliemann ‘found’ what two ancient cities of the Mycenaean civilization?

Answer 12

Mycenae and Troy

Question 13

Ch. 8: These Mycenaean stone walls are an example of ashlar stone masonry; said to be built by one-eyed giants.

Answer 13

Cyclopean walls.

Question 14

Ch. 8: This feature sits over the entrance to the Citadel of Mycenae.

Answer 14

The Lion Gate

Question 15

Ch. 8: A tholos tomb is also know as a ___________ tomb.

Answer 15

Beehive

Question 16

Ch. 8: The Treasury of Atreus is a tholos/beehive tomb said to be the burial place of whom?

Answer 16

Agamemnon.

Question 17

Ch. 8: What evidence do we have of the Cycladic civilization?

Answer 17

Art and artifacts that are highly stylized and modern looking.

Question 18

Ch. 8: Agamemnon sacrifices who/what for his brother’s (Menelaus) war?

Answer 18

His daughter Iphigenia

Question 19

Ch. 8: Clytemnestra and her lover kill Agamemnon for what reason? Who avenges his murder?

Answer 19

For sacrificing their daughter, Iphigenia. Clytemnestra’s and Agamemnon’s son and daughter, Orestes and Electra.

Question 20

Ch. 8: What was the language of the Mycenaean’s?

Answer 20

Linear B