Greece

Question 1

helots

Answer 1

subjugated people of Laconia

Question 2

hoplite

Answer 2

citizen soldiers of Greece; spear and shield, had to provide their own armor so only wealthier Greeks could be hoplites

Question 3

Dekasterion

Answer 3

courthouse near the water clock and the prison

Question 4

Anaktoron

Answer 4

place inside the Telesterion where only the Hierophants could enter where the sacred objects were stored

Question 5

Sicyon

Answer 5

city-state close to Corinth

Question 6

Cadmus

Answer 6

founder of Thebes, married Harmonia, father of Agave, brother of Europa; killed a dragon at a spring, planted the teeth and the Spartoi grew out of the teeth of dragons

Question 7

Agave

Answer 7

daughter of Cadmus, mother of Pentheus, aunt of Dionysus; a maenad; killed her son Pentheus because she thought he was a lion and came back home with his head on a stick

Question 8

Europa

Answer 8

sister of Cadmus; abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull, carried off to Crete

Question 9

Archidamus III

Answer 9

King of Sparta during Phryne’s life; son of Agesileus 2

Question 10

meanad

Answer 10

female follower of Dionysus; “the raving ones”; dancing and intoxication; carried a thyrsus; wore ivy wreaths and handled snakes