CLASSICAL EUROPE (WH) Flashcards
Goddess of LOVE? (similar to Aphrodite)
Venus
The Aenid?
Virgil
Chief deity in Roman Mythology?
Jupiter
Huge amphitheater
Coliseum
God of WAR?
Mars
Goddess of HEARTH?
Vesta
Most renowned military leaders and empire builders; his impact is felt in the spread of Hellenistic Culture.
Alexander the Great
Athletic game in honor of Zeus?
Olympic Games
God of MARRIAGE?
Hera
Large vase for storage of oil and other supplies ?
Amphoras
Goddess of hearth, home and fire?
Hestia
Temple dedicated to the goddess Athena?
Parthenon
Made Athens a showcase of Greece?
Pericles
Ruler of the underworld?
Hades
God of the seas?
Poseidon
Patron of Athens; embodied wisdom and protected handicrafts and agriculture.
Athena
Chief Olympic God
Zeus
It made Mycenean civilization major power.
Trojan War
Legendary King (King of Knossos)
King Minos
A palace on a hill?
Mycenean Kingdom
Mountainous peninsula surrounded by Ionina and Aegean Sea.
Greece
Discovered the treasure of a lifetime (palace with 800 rooms).
Sir Arthur Evans
Similar to the Middle East Civilization?
Mycenean
Warlike tribe from the north who invaded the Mycenean?
Dorians
The largest and most important island?
Crete
Trading Civilization
Minoans
Painting of water-based pigments on freshly applied plaster.
Frescoes
WRITE YOUR ANSWER IF ITS GREECE OR ROME:
1). Arch and Vault
2). Glassmaking
3). Catapult
4). Concrete
5). Astrolabe
6). Antikythera
7). Military Technology
8). Archimedes screw
9). Odometer
10). Bathhouses
11). Sundials and Waterclocks
12). Aqueducts
13). Lighthouses
14). Roads
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There is an absolute right or wrong.
Socrates
Father of history
Herodotus
Observation and comparison to gain knowledge.
Aristotle
Statue of Athena and Zeus in Parthenon.
Phidias
Statue of Hermes
Praxiteles
Social satire
Aristophanes
Discobolus (Dicus Thrower)
Myron
Antigone (conflicts between divine and human law)
Sophocles
Pythagorean Theory
Pythagoras
On the solstice
Thales