Chapter 2 - Greece's Dark Age

Question 1

This council of elite elders advised the king

Answer 1

Boule

Question 2

Dominant artistic style of the Dark Age

Answer 2

Protogeometric

Question 3

These companions would join a Greek king in battle

Answer 3

hetairoi

Question 4

This Greek word for king or chief emerged in the Dark Age

Answer 4

Basilers

Question 5

Greek region and all of its inhabitants

Answer 5

Demos

Question 6

Greek bards like Homer recited their poetry to this instrument

Answer 6

Kitharis

Question 7

Midas turned this person to gold and quickly regretted his new power

Answer 7

Daughter

Question 8

Pyramus and Thisbe communicated via this

Answer 8

Cracks in the wall

Question 9

This Greek author wrote a history of the gods, Theogony

Answer 9

hesiod

Question 10

Archeologists found fascinating burial tombs at this Dark Age village on Euboea

Answer 10

lefkandi

Question 11

Zeus and Hera had a major religious festival here

Answer 11

Olympia

Question 12

This word described you if you were dishonorable or cowardly

Answer 12

kakos

Question 13

Pyramus and Thisbe hailed from this ancient city

Answer 13

babylon

Question 14

This followed bronze

Answer 14

Iron

Question 15

Biggest town in a Greek region, also became Greek word for city

Answer 15

Polis

Question 16

Homer’s Odyssey was comprised of approximately this many thousand line

Answer 16

Twelve

Question 17

Greek Dark Age ended around this century

Answer 17

Eighth

Question 18

Homer’s lliad was comprised of approximately this many thousand lines

Answer 18

Sixteen

Question 19

Greek husbands received this payment upon marriage from the bride’s father

Answer 19

Dowry

Question 20

He designed the labyrinth that hid the Minotaur

Answer 20

Daedalus

Question 21

Granted Midas the golden touch

Answer 21

Dionysus

Question 22

Ancestral plot of land

Answer 22

Kleros

Question 23

Community gathering place of a Greek village

Answer 23

Agora

Question 24

Greek Dark Age began around this century

Answer 24

Eleventh Century

Question 25

How did Eurydice die the first time

Answer 25

From a snakebite

Question 26

Greek word meaning “the best”, every Greeks goal in life

Answer 26

Aristos

Question 27

She was locked up and eventually cast to sea by her father

Answer 27

Danae

Question 28

Who helped Theseus escape the labyrinth, only to be abandoned on an island by him

Answer 28

Ariadne

Question 29

A Greek extended family

Answer 29

oikos

Question 30

Who freaked out after Oedipus answered her riddle correctly

Answer 30

Sphinx

Question 31

Decorative pattern, popular in geometric

Answer 31

Meander

Question 32

What bond between families assured mutual hospitality and protection

Answer 32

Xenia

Question 33

Orpheus was very skilled at this instrument

Answer 33

Lyre

Question 34

Oedipus became king here after killing this city’s king

Answer 34

Thebes

Question 35

This is how Zeus disguised himself to visit Danae

Answer 35

Light