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1
Q

What plant did prometheus use to bring back fire

A

Fennel

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2
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who is King Minos

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first navel power, controls cyclades

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3
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Who is Asklepios

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A popular healing god who is with snakes

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4
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What is the port of Athens

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Piraeus

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5
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who makes Achilles new armour

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Hephaistos

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6
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who killed patroklaus

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Hektor

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7
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Minoan

A

Indo-european society on Crete island influences by Mycenaeans

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8
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What does Athena turn Odysseus into to return home

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A beggar

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9
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Who is Telemachus

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son of Odysseus

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10
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Who is Penelope

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wife of Odysseus

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11
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who first recognizes odysseus

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a nurse called Eurycleia

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12
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Who restores peace when suitors killed by odysseus families are angry

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Athena

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13
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Who is responsible for Attica unification

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Theseus

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14
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Mycenaean

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early Ancient Greek + into-european

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15
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when was collapse of Mycenean palace society

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1200 BCE

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16
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why was Athens important during the dark ages

A

The new style of pottery

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17
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522BCE tyrant of Athens

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Hipparchus

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18
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Athens main festival

A

Panathenaia

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19
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Achilles parents

A

Thetis and Peleus

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20
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who is not invited to Thetis and Peleus’ wedding

A

Eris (Strife)

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21
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what did Hera offer Paris

A

royal power

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22
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what did Athena offer Paris

A

wisdom and war success

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23
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what did Aphrodite offer Paris

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Helen, wife of Menelaus

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24
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Who is Menelaus’ brother

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Agamemnon

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25
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What did Agamemmnon want as his war prize

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Chryseis, daughter of Apollo priest

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26
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Briseis

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Achilles concubine who is taken by Agammemnon when he cant have Chryseis

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27
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Why does Achilles stop fighting

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When Bryseis is taken by Agamemmnon

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28
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What makes Achilles fight again

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Hektor killing patroklaus

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29
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how does zeus punish Prometheus

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first, taking fire from humans. then, making his bird eat his liver daily

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30
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who saved Prometheus from Zeus’ punishment

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Hercules

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31
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who asks for Hektors body back and why does Achilles give it to them

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king Priam because he is reminded of his father

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32
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what happens when Aphrodite helps Paris take Helen

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he is successful but her husband sends heroes to bring her back, including Achilles

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33
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Knossos Palace

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home of king Minos and minotaur, Greece’s largest historical site

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34
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Palace of Pylos

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home of Nestor, bright paintings

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35
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most famous oracle

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of Apollo from Delphi

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36
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Pythia

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high priestess of Apollo at Delphi

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37
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branch Pythia uses

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Laurel

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38
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Medeia

A

A heroine with magical powers

39
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Who freed children from Kronos

A

Zeus

40
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three major sources on Athenian history

A

Herodotus: persian war, thusidides: Peloponesian war, Xenophon, picks up where last left off.

41
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use of linear B

A

inventory in store rooms

42
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when was the alphabet made

A

8th century

43
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farming in oct/nov

A

plow and sow

44
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farming in nov

A

olives

45
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farming in may

A

grain harvest

46
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farming in sept

A

vintage (grapes)

47
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where are Athenians from

A

Athens and Attica

48
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What is Demos

A

countryside towns that grow larger

49
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3 harbours of Piraeus

A

Kantharos (largest), Zea (military), Mounykhia (military)

50
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what is polytheism

A

belief in multiple gods

51
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Hesios’s theory on who was first god

A

Chaos (void)

52
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how many olympians are there

A

12

53
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who made Herodotus

A

Homer and Hesiod

54
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Hesoid’s works

A

Theogony and works and days

55
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what happens in Theogony

A

prometheus tricking zeus

56
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what happens in works and days

A

zeus took fire from people and Prometheus brought it back, as punishment zeus brought Pandora to earth to punish men

57
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where did priestess sit and what did she hold

A

sat on tripod and held laurel branch

58
Q

what did they claim made Pythia high

A

Ethylene

59
Q

what were seers called

A

Manteis

60
Q

what were curse tablets made of

A

lead

61
Q

where were many curse tablets found

A

buried in Athenian Agora

62
Q

who was protected by gods

A

suppliants, heralds, strangers, beggars

63
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where were silver and lead mines

A

Laurion

64
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what made athens rich

A

silver

65
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where was copper imported from

A

cyprus

66
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what symbol was on athenian coins

A

athenian owl (for Athena)

67
Q

what did thesius do

A

credited with unifying athens

68
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who are gaia and ouranos’ kids

A

Rhea and Kronos

69
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Who are Rhea and Kronos’ kids

A

the titans then the olympians

70
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what did rhea give Kronos to swallow instead of zeus

A

a rock

71
Q

word for respect

A

time

72
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Aristotle religious opinion

A

poetry gives general truth, history gives particular facts

73
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Pandora name meaning

A

giver of all

74
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who accepted pandora as a gift

A

Epimethius (prometheus’ brother)

75
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euxanippos

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ordered to sleep in temple and had a suspicious dream he had to report

76
Q

who served for life and must be chaste

A

the Pythia/priestess

77
Q

most common divinations

A

flight patterns of birds and entrails of sacrificed animals

78
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what did people bury for the death gods to find

A

curse tablets and decapitated dolls

79
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what did some consider a sacred disease from gods

A

epilepsy

80
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dike meaning

A

justice according to human rules

81
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kosmos meaning

A

the ordered world

82
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what were those who did not fufill duties to the gods

A

asebes = without piety

83
Q

who was Hittite war against

A

ahhiyawa people (Achaeans)

84
Q

who is Paris

A

kind Alexander of Wilusa

85
Q

who fought in peloponesian war

A

athens and sparta

86
Q

who deciphered Linear B

A

Michael Ventris

87
Q

where is troy/ileon

A

northern coast of Anatolia

88
Q

what was weather in Greece like

A

happy medium between extremities

89
Q

how did they travel by sea

A

cargo ships and trirems (war ships)

90
Q

how did they travel by land

A

donkeys, chariots, primarily walking

91
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what marked area of agora

A

boundary stones

92
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what did kronos do to his kids so they didnt overthrow him

A

swallow them

93
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what did kronos do to his father

A

castrated him

94
Q

what evil clung to pandoras jar

A

hope (elpis)

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