Greece

Question 1

Phleius

Answer 1

NW Peloponnese; the Spartans took Phleius in 379

Question 2

Pithos

Answer 2

large storage container for bulk fluids and grains; like a barrel or a cask

Question 3

Keres

Answer 3

female death spirits; personified violent death; they waited for death and then ate the dead

Question 4

Hecuba

Answer 4

wife of Priam, mother of Hector

Question 5

Priam

Answer 5

husband of Hecuba, father of Hector

Question 6

Hector

Answer 6

a Trojan warrior, son of Priam and Hecuba and husband of Andromache. He was killed by Achilles, who dragged his body behind his chariot three times around the walls of Troy.

Question 7

Neoptolemus

Answer 7

son of Achiles; enslaved Andromache after killing her husband Hector

Question 8

Andromache

Answer 8

man-fighter; Andromache was an Amazon’s name; she married Hector and became a slave to Neoptolemus (son of Achilles) after the fall of Troy; “Andromache is forced to share the bed of her husband’s murderer.”

Question 9

andros

Answer 9

man

Question 10

Eponymous Heroes

Answer 10

15 feet above Agora; marble podium bearing bronze larger-than-life-size statues of the ten heroes representing the tribes; giant flames at each end; announcements, decrees, and proposed legislation posted: Phryne’s crime would have been posted here.