Greek Test Flashcards
The word Acropolis is translated to mean “top of the city” and refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its _________________.
religious center
The term _______ refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as a public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.
agora
The Greek term _______ can be translated as circle
kyklos
Items found to be common among the people of Thea:
Elaborately decorated homes
Clay pipes connected toilets and baths to sewers
Straw reinforced the walls of their homes
Minos is recognized as the legendary ruler of _____ ancient capital, ________.
Crete’s, Knossos
Male virility and strength was associated with _______.
bulls
The Greek term ______ can be translated as “double ax”.
labrys
The palace of Minos was known in Greek times as the _________________.
House of the Double Axes
Queen Pasiphae, wife of Minos, gave birth to the _______.
Minotaur
____________ was the chief craftsperson who constructed the hollow wooden cow to assist the
queen in attracting the bull.
Daedalus
Ariadne, daughter of Minos, provided ________ with a ______________ to help him kill the Minotaur.
Theseus, weapon and thread
The ancient city of ________ is a citadel city that depended on cyclopean masonry for its
construction and was entered through a massive Lion Gate.
Mycenae
Homer is considered the author of the ______ and the __________.
Iliad, Odyssey
Achilles was considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while ______________.
battling the Trojans
_________ is the central character in the Iliad, which focuses on his _______.
Achilles, rage
The Greek term areté can be translated as “virtue,” and can be interpreted as _____________________.
“reaching one’s highest potential”
Hector, son of the king of Troy, killed _________ which enraged Achilles.
Patroclus
Priam is best remembered as the ______________ during the action of the Iliad.
King of Troy
Penelope was the wife of ___________.
Odysseus
Hesiod, in his Theogony, The Birth of the Gods, who first detailed the Greek _______.
pantheon
________ controlled north-south trade routes from early times, but after it built a towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers, it soon controlled the sea routes __________ as well.
Corinth, east and west
________ was the home to the Sanctuary of Apollo.
Delphi
The term peristyle refers to the row of ________ that stand on the raised platform of an ancient Greek ________.
columns, temple
The term entasis refers to columns _____ about one-third of the way up and ________ again near the top.
swell, contract
In ancient Greek architecture, the Ionic order features ______ capitals.
scrolled
On the krater the Death of Sarpedon, ________ has just been killed by ________ and is being carried off by _______ (the winged figure) and Thanatos (Death) as Hermes, the messenger of the gods looks on.
Sarpedon, Patroclus, Hypnos
Kleisthenes instituted the first Athenian _____________ in 508 BCE.
democracy
The term demes became part of the Athenian political system and refers to small local areas
comparable to ________________ in a modern city.
precincts or wards
At the time of the battle of ___________ in 490 BCE, Darius ruled the Persians.
Marathon
After the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, ____________ ran 26 miles between Marathon and
Athens to deliver word of the Greek _________.
Phidippides, victory
Herodotus, author of an extensive History of the Persian Wars is recognized as the first _____________.
Greek historian
The _________ was considered the centerpiece on the Athenian Acropolis.
Parthenon
The Propylaia served as a ___________ entryway to the complex
monumental
Polyclitus cast the bronze statue known as Doryphoros (Spear bearer), which was celebrated throughout the ancient world as a demonstration of a treatise on ______________________________.
proportions of the human
body
The 92 metopes on the four sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and four enemies:
Trojans
Giants
Amazons
Centaurs
Socrates was placed on trial for:
Subversive behavior
Corrupting young men
Introducing new gods
Leucippus a ______________ conceived an atomic theory in which everything is made up of small, indivisible _________ and the empty space, or void, between them.
pre-Socratic thinker, particles
Protagoras is responsible for one of the most famous of all Greek dictums:
“Man is the Measure of all things”.
Aristophanes specialized in writing _______ and is the playwright for Lysistrata.
comedies
Aeschylus is the playwright for the Oresteia trilogy that includes events after Agamemnon’s return from the ____________.
Trojan War
In the ancient Greek theater, the term __________ identifies the elevated platform on which the actors performed.
proscenium
Rumor had it that farther to the east, the kingdom of the Ganges, Alexander’s next logical
opponent, had a force of 5,000 __________.
elephants
One of the most important ideas that _________ expressed in the Poetics is catharsis, the
cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.
Aristotle
