Chapter 10 - Ancient Greece

Question 1

Ch. 10: This king of Athens united Athenians and lead Athenians to war with Sparta, a war they lost.

Answer 1

Pericles

Question 2

Ch. 10: This term means the return of someone or something to a “natural state”.

Answer 2

Nostos

Question 3

Ch. 10: What page can you find the period divisions of Greek art and Architecture (from Neolithic to Hellenistic)?

Answer 3

Pages 96 - 97

Question 4

Ch. 10: The Temple of Athena Polias is also known as what?

Answer 4

The Parthenon

Question 5

Ch. 10: Hippocrates turned this building into a place of secular healing, seeking and employing biological answers to medicinal ailments (possibly one of the first hospitals?).

Answer 5

Asklepieion

Question 6

Ch. 10: The priestess Pythia advises Croesus, the King of Lydia on action regarding the Persians, saying if he were to “wage war agains the Persians, he would destroy a great empire” - what does he end up doing?

Answer 6

He wages war and destroys his own empire.

Question 7

Ch. 10: What does kleos mean?

Answer 7

Glory (as in quest for)

Question 8

Ch. 10: Which leader oversees the construction of the Temple of Athena Polias (Parthenon)?

Answer 8

Pericles, the King of Athens

Question 9

Ch. 10: An ‘optical refinement’ that deliberately bows columns or other parallel lines (of structure) so that they ‘appear’ parallel.

Answer 9

Entasis

Question 10

Ch 10: Phidias is the most famous of all the Greek ___________.

Answer 10

Sculptures

Question 11

Ch. 10: Erechtheion has columns that are Caryatids, which are what? What do they symbolize?

Answer 11

They are columns of 6 female figures. They represent women of the city in W. Turkey, Carya, who were subjugated to Athens after the people of Carya supported the Persians in war.

Question 12

Ch. 10: An Atlas is the male equivalent of this female-shaped columnar structure.

Answer 12

Caryatid

Question 13

Ch. 10: In the Athena Nike, Nike represents what? What is depicted in the frieze?

Answer 13

Represents victory. The Greeks fighting the Persians.

Question 14

Ch. 10: The Agora is basically equivalent to what?

Answer 14

The mall or living room. It’s a hangout for citizens and a place to hear the philosophers.

Question 15

Ch. 10: Manga Grecia is region of greek colonies in southern ____________ where the Temples of Concord and Segesta can be found.

Answer 15

Italy and Sicily

Question 16

Ch. 10: What is the Riddle of the Sphinx?

Answer 16

What walks on 4 feet in morning, 2 in afternoon, 3 at night?

A man (baby, adult, old).