Chapter 2 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 _____.
Acropolis
religious center
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 virility and strength was associated with _____.
bulls
The Greek term _____ can be translated as “double ax”.
labrys
The place of Minos was known in Greek times as the _____.
House of the Double Axes
Queen _____, wife of _____, gave birth to the Minotaur
Pasiphae
Minos
_____ was the chief craftsperson who constructed the hollow wooded cow to assist the queen in attracting the bull.
Daedalus
Ariadne, daughter of Minos, provided Theseus with _____.
a weapon and thread to help him kill the Minotaur
The ancient city of Mycenae is a citadel city that depended on _____ for its construction and was entered through a _____.
cyclopean masonry
massive Lion Gate
Homer is considered the author of _____ and _____.
the Iliad and the Odyssey
_____ was considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while battling the Trojans.
Achilles
Achilles is the central character in the _____, which focuses on _____.
Iliad
his rage
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 _____.
Patroclus
Achilles
Priam is best remembered as _____ during the action of the Iliad.
the King of Troy
_____ 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 _____, it soon controlled the sea routes
east and west as well.
built a towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers,
Delphi was the home to the Sanctuary of _____.
Apollo
_____ 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 precints or wards in a modern city.
demes
At the time of the battle of marathon in 490 BC, _____ ruled the Persians.
Darius
After the battle of marathon in 490 BC, _____ ran 26 miles between marathon and _____ to deliver word of the Greek victory.
Pheidippides
Athens
The term _____ refers to the row of columns that stand on the raised platform of an ancient Greek temple.
peristyle
Ther term _____ refers to columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top.
entasis
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
_____, 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.
Propylais
Polyclitus cast the bronze statue known as _____ (_____), which was celebrated throughout the ancient world as a demonstration of a treatise on proportions of the human body.
Doryphorus
Spear bearer
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 dictmas: “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, Alexander’s next logical opponent, had a _____
force of 5,000 elephants
One of the most important ideas that Aristotle expressed in the
Poetics is catharsis,…
the cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.
In ancient Greek architecture, the _____ features scrolled capitals.
Ionic order
