Greek Test

Question 1

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 _________________.

Answer 1

religious center

Question 2

The term _______ refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as a public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.

Answer 2

agora

Question 3

The Greek term _______ can be translated as circle

Answer 3

kyklos

Question 4

Items found to be common among the people of Thea:

Answer 4

Elaborately decorated homes
Clay pipes connected toilets and baths to sewers
Straw reinforced the walls of their homes

Question 5

Minos is recognized as the legendary ruler of _____ ancient capital, ________.

Answer 5

Crete’s, Knossos

Question 6

Male virility and strength was associated with _______.

Answer 6

bulls

Question 7

The Greek term ______ can be translated as “double ax”.

Answer 7

labrys

Question 8

The palace of Minos was known in Greek times as the _________________.

Answer 8

House of the Double Axes

Question 9

Queen Pasiphae, wife of Minos, gave birth to the _______.

Answer 9

Minotaur

Question 10

____________ was the chief craftsperson who constructed the hollow wooden cow to assist the
queen in attracting the bull.

Answer 10

Daedalus

Question 11

Ariadne, daughter of Minos, provided ________ with a ______________ to help him kill the Minotaur.

Answer 11

Theseus, weapon and thread

Question 12

The ancient city of ________ is a citadel city that depended on cyclopean masonry for its
construction and was entered through a massive Lion Gate.

Answer 12

Mycenae

Question 13

Homer is considered the author of the ______ and the __________.

Answer 13

Iliad, Odyssey

Question 14

Achilles was considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while ______________.

Answer 14

battling the Trojans

Question 15

_________ is the central character in the Iliad, which focuses on his _______.

Answer 15

Achilles, rage

Question 16

The Greek term areté can be translated as “virtue,” and can be interpreted as _____________________.

Answer 16

“reaching one’s highest potential”

Question 17

Hector, son of the king of Troy, killed _________ which enraged Achilles.

Answer 17

Patroclus

Question 18

Priam is best remembered as the ______________ during the action of the Iliad.

Answer 18

King of Troy

Question 19

Penelope was the wife of ___________.

Answer 19

Odysseus

Question 20

Hesiod, in his Theogony, The Birth of the Gods, who first detailed the Greek _______.

Answer 20

pantheon

Question 21

________ 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.

Answer 21

Corinth, east and west

Question 22

________ was the home to the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Answer 22

Delphi

Question 23

The term peristyle refers to the row of ________ that stand on the raised platform of an ancient Greek ________.

Answer 23

columns, temple

Question 24

The term entasis refers to columns _____ about one-third of the way up and ________ again near the top.

Answer 24

swell, contract

Question 25

In ancient Greek architecture, the Ionic order features ______ capitals.

Answer 25

scrolled

Question 26

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.

Answer 26

Sarpedon, Patroclus, Hypnos

Question 27

Kleisthenes instituted the first Athenian _____________ in 508 BCE.

Answer 27

democracy

Question 28

The term demes became part of the Athenian political system and refers to small local areas
comparable to ________________ in a modern city.

Answer 28

precincts or wards

Question 29

At the time of the battle of ___________ in 490 BCE, Darius ruled the Persians.

Answer 29

Marathon

Question 30

After the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, ____________ ran 26 miles between Marathon and
Athens to deliver word of the Greek _________.

Answer 30

Phidippides, victory

Question 31

Herodotus, author of an extensive History of the Persian Wars is recognized as the first _____________.

Answer 31

Greek historian

Question 32

The _________ was considered the centerpiece on the Athenian Acropolis.

Answer 32

Parthenon

Question 33

The Propylaia served as a ___________ entryway to the complex

Answer 33

monumental

Question 34

Polyclitus cast the bronze statue known as Doryphoros (Spear bearer), which was celebrated throughout the ancient world as a demonstration of a treatise on ______________________________.

Answer 34

proportions of the human
body

Question 35

The 92 metopes on the four sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and four enemies:

Answer 35

Trojans
Giants
Amazons
Centaurs

Question 36

Socrates was placed on trial for:

Answer 36

Subversive behavior
Corrupting young men
Introducing new gods

Question 37

Leucippus a ______________ conceived an atomic theory in which everything is made up of small, indivisible _________ and the empty space, or void, between them.

Answer 37

pre-Socratic thinker, particles

Question 38

Protagoras is responsible for one of the most famous of all Greek dictums:

Answer 38

“Man is the Measure of all things”.

Question 39

Aristophanes specialized in writing _______ and is the playwright for Lysistrata.

Answer 39

comedies

Question 40

Aeschylus is the playwright for the Oresteia trilogy that includes events after Agamemnon’s return from the ____________.

Answer 40

Trojan War

Question 41

In the ancient Greek theater, the term __________ identifies the elevated platform on which the actors performed.

Answer 41

proscenium

Question 42

Rumor had it that farther to the east, the kingdom of the Ganges, Alexander’s next logical
opponent, had a force of 5,000 __________.

Answer 42

elephants

Question 43

One of the most important ideas that _________ expressed in the Poetics is catharsis, the
cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.

Answer 43

Aristotle