Chapter 2

Question 1

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 _____.

Answer 1

Acropolis
religious center

Question 2

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

Answer 2

agora

Question 3

The Greek term _____ can be translated as “circle”.

Answer 3

kyklos

Question 4

Items found to be common among the people of Thea:

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Minos

Question 6

Male virility and strength was associated with _____.

Answer 6

bulls

Question 7

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

Answer 7

labrys

Question 8

The place of Minos was known in Greek times as the _____.

Answer 8

House of the Double Axes

Question 9

Queen _____, wife of _____, gave birth to the Minotaur

Answer 9

Pasiphae
Minos

Question 10

_____ was the chief craftsperson who constructed the hollow wooded cow to assist the queen in attracting the bull.

Answer 10

Daedalus

Question 11

Ariadne, daughter of Minos, provided Theseus with _____.

Answer 11

a weapon and thread to help him kill the Minotaur

Question 12

The ancient city of Mycenae is a citadel city that depended on _____ for its construction and was entered through a _____.

Answer 12

cyclopean masonry
massive Lion Gate

Question 13

Homer is considered the author of _____ and _____.

Answer 13

the Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Achilles

Question 15

Achilles is the central character in the _____, which focuses on _____.

Answer 15

Iliad
his rage

Question 16

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

Answer 16

areté

Question 17

Hector, son of the king of Troy, killed _____ which enraged _____.

Answer 17

Patroclus
Achilles

Question 18

Priam is best remembered as _____ during the action of the Iliad.

Answer 18

the King of Troy

Question 19

_____ was the wife of Odysseus.

Answer 19

Penelope

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Hesiod

Question 21

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

Answer 21

built a towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers,

Question 22

Delphi was the home to the Sanctuary of _____.

Answer 22

Apollo

Question 23

_____ instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BCE.

Answer 23

Kleisthenes

Question 24

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

Answer 24

demes

Question 25

At the time of the battle of marathon in 490 BC, _____ ruled the Persians.

Answer 25

Darius

Question 26

After the battle of marathon in 490 BC, _____ ran 26 miles between marathon and _____ to deliver word of the Greek victory.

Answer 26

Pheidippides
Athens

Question 27

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

Answer 27

peristyle

Question 28

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

Answer 28

entasis

Question 29

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.

Answer 29

Hypnos

Thanatos

Question 30

_____, author of an extensive History of the persian Wars is recognized as the first Greek historian.

Answer 30

Herodotus

Question 31

The _____ was considered the centerpiece on the Athenian Acropolis.

Answer 31

Parthenon

Question 32

The _____ served as a monumental entryway to the complex.

Answer 32

Propylais

Question 33

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.

Answer 33

Doryphorus
Spear bearer

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Trojans
Giants
Amazons
Centaurs

Question 35

Socrates was placed on trial for:

Answer 35

Subversive behavior
Corrupting young men
Introducing new gods

Question 36

_____ 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.

Answer 36

Leucippus

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Protagoras

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Aristophanes

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Aeschylus

Question 40

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

Answer 40

proscenium

Question 41

Rumor had it that farther to the east, the kingdom of the Ganges, Alexander’s next logical opponent, had a _____

Answer 41

force of 5,000 elephants

Question 42

One of the most important ideas that Aristotle expressed in the
Poetics is catharsis,…

Answer 42

the cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.

Question 43

In ancient Greek architecture, the _____ features scrolled capitals.

Answer 43

Ionic order