Humanities Chapter 2 Test Flashcards
known as the “top of the city” and refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center
acropolis
refers to the portion of ancient Greek city-state that served as a public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center
agora
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
who is the legendary ruler of Crete’s ancient capital, Knossos
Minos
Male virility and strength was associated with ____
bulls
translated as “double ax”
labrys
The palace of Minos was known in Greek times as the __________________
House of Double Axes
who gave birth to the Minotaur that was the wife of Minos
Queen Pasphae
____________ was the chief crafts person who constructed the hollow wooden cow to assist the queen in attracting the bull.
Daedalus
____________, daughter of Minos provided Theseus with a weapon and thread to help kill the minotaur
Ariadne
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
_________ is the author of the Iliad and the odyssey
Homer
___________ is considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while battling the Trojans
Achilles
Achilles is the center of the _________ which focuses on his rage
Iliad
Greek translation that means “virtue”
arete
what does arete interpreted as
reaching one’s highest potential
_________, son of King Troy, killed Patroclus which enraged Achilles
Hector
___________ is best remembered as king of Troy during the action of the Iliad
Priam
______________ was the wife of the Odysseus
Penelope
___________, in his Theogony, the Birth of the gods, who first detailed the Greek pantheon
Hesoid
where controlled north-south trade routed from early times
Corinth
After Corinth built a towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers, it controlled the sea routes of the ____________
east and west
____________ was the home to the sanctuary of Apollo
Delphi
the row of columns that stand on raised platforms of an ancient Greek temple
peristyle
The __________ features scrolled capitols
Ionic Order
what are the 3 different columns
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
On the ___________________________, Sarpedon has just been killed.
Karter the Death of Sarpedon
Who killed Sarpedon?
Patroclus
Who was carrying him off ________(the winged figure) and ________(death)
hypnos, thanatos
who is the messenger god that looks on Sarpedon
Hermes
_______________ instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BC
Kleisthones
the term that became part of the Athenian political system and refers to small local areas comparable to precincts or wards in a modern city
demes
during the battle of Marathon in 490 BC who ruled the Persians
Darius
what is the centerpiece of the Athenian Acropolis
Parthenon
The monumental entryway to the complex
Proplaia
what is the bronze statue Polyclitus made, known as the spear beater
Doryphoros
what was the Doryphoros demonstrated as
the treatise on proportions of the human body
the 92 metopes on the 4 sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and the 4 enemies:
Trojans, Giants, Amazons, Centaurs
Socrates was place on trial for
subversive behavior
corrupting young men
introducing new gods
the person that is a pre-socratic thinker that conceived an atomic theory in which everything is made up of small, indivisible particles and the empty space, or void, between them
Leucippus
__________ is responsible for one of the most famous of all Greek dictums: “Man is the measure of all things”
Protagoras
________________ specialized in writing comedies and the playwright for Lysteria
Aristophanes
________________ identifies the elevated platform on which the actors performed
proscenium
_____________ is the playwright for the Orsteia trilogy that includes events after Agamemnon’s return from the Trojan War
Aeschylus
father to the east, the kingdom of the Ganges, Alexander’s next logical opponent, had a force of ___________
5,000 elephants
the most important idea that Aristotle expressed in the Poetics is Catharsis, is ____________________ of the _________________
cleansing purification, or purgation of the soul
The term __________ refers to columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top.
entasis
who is the Greek historian who wrote about the Persian wars?
Herodotus
who ran 26 miles between marathon and Athens to deliver the word of the Greek victory
Phidippides
a story that a culture assumes is true
myth
the golden age of Greek art was
480-430 BC
causing an unparalleled level of excellence in art…
architecture,
poetry,
drama,
philosophy,
government,
law,
logic,
history,
and mathematics.
The human figure was the principal motif of Greek art. The Greeks were…
skilled painters, we can judge the realistic detail of Greek painting by the figures that adorn their everyday pottery.
what happened to the Parthenon?
a direct rocket hit destroyed its core
the Parthenon was built without… it remained intact until…
mortar; 1687
Greek statues were not the bleached white marble we assoc Classical sculpture. It was made with…
colored encaustic, a mixture of powdered pigment and hot wax applied to hair, lips, eyes, and the nails of the figure.
