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Humanities--Greece Flashcards

1
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The term Acropolis translates to what?

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“top of the city”

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What does the Acropolis refer to?

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a portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center

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the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as a public meeting place, market place, and civic center

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agora

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the term kylos can be translated as

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“circle”

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What items are found to be common among the people of Thea?

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elaborately decorated homes
clay pipes connected baths and toilets to sewers
straw reinforced the walls of their homes

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What is Minos recognized as?

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the legendary leader of Crete’s ancient capital, Knossos

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7
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A man’s what was associated with bulls?

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virility and strength

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The Greek term labrys can be translated as what?

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“double ax”

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In Greek times, what was the palace of Minos known as?

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the House of Double Axes

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who gave birth to a Minotaur?

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Queen Pasiphae

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Who constructed a hollow wooden cow to assist the queen in attracting the bull?

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Daedalus

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12
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Ariadne assisted Theseus in what?

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She provided Theseus with a weapon and thread to help him kill the Minotaur

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the ancient city of Mycenae is a citadel city that depended on what for its construction and was entered through a massive Lion Gate?

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cyclopean masonry

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Homer is considered the author of what?

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the Iliad and the Odyssey

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who was considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while battling the Trojans?

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Achilles

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Achilles is the central character in the Iliad, which focuses on what?

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his rage

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the Greek term arete can be translated as what?

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virtue

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The Greek term arete can be interpreted as what?

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“reaching one’s highest potential”

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Hector, song of king Troy, killed Patroclus which did what?

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enraged Achilles

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Priam is best remembered as what during the action of the Iliad?

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King of Troy

21
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Who was the wife of Odysseus?

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Penelope

22
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Who first detailed the Greek pantheon in his Theogony: The Birth of the Gods?

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Hesiod

23
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Who controlled north-south trade routes from early times?

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Corinth

24
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Corinth built a towpath to drag ships over the isthmus on rollers, it soon controlled what?

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sea routes east and west

25
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Who was the home to the Sanctuary of Apollo?

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Delphi

26
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In ancient Greek architecture, which features scrolled capitals?

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Ionic

27
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What are three types of columns?

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Doric
Ionic
Corinthian

28
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On the krater of the Death of Sarpedon what is happening?

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Sarpedon has just been killed by Patroclus and is being carried off by Hypnos and Thanatos, as Hermes looks on

29
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Who instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BCE

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Kleishtenes

30
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the term demes became part of the Athenian political system and refers to what?

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small local areas comparable to precincts or wards in a modern city

31
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Who ruled the Persians at the time of the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE?

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Darius

32
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After the battle of Marathon, Phidippides did what?

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he ran 26 miles between Marathon and Athens to deliver word of the Greek victory

33
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Who is recognized as the first Greek historian?

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Herodotus

34
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Who wrote an extensive “History of the Persian Wars”

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Herodotus

35
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The Parthenon was considered what?

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the centerpiece of the Athenian Acropolis

36
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What served as a monumental entryway to the Athenian Acropolis?

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Propylaia

37
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Who cast the bronze statue known as the Doryphoros?

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Polyclitus

38
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What is the Doryphoros?

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a demonstration of a treatise on proportions of the human body

39
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the 92 metopes on the four sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and four enemies; which consist of what?

A

trojans
giants
amazons
centaurs

40
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What was Socrates placed on trial for?

A

subversive behavior
corrupting young men
introducing new gods

41
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who conceived the atomic theory in which everything is made up of small, indivisible particles and empty space, or void, between them

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Leucippus

42
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Leucippus came up with the atomic theory of what?

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in which everything is made up of small, indivisible particles and the empty space, or void, between them

43
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Who is responsible for one of the most famous Greek dictums: “Man is the Measure of all things.”

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Protagoras

44
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Aristophanes specialized in writing what and is the playwright for what?

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comedies; Lysistrata

45
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who is the playwright for the Oresteia trilogy that includes events after Agamemnon’s return from the Trojan War?

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Aeschylus

46
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In the ancient Greek theater, the term what identifies the elevated platform on which the actors performed?

A

proscenium

47
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Rumor had it that father to the east, the Kingdom of GANGES, Alexander’s next logical opponent, had a force of what?

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5,000 elephants

48
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the most important idea Aristotle expressed in the Poetics is CATHARSIS, which is what?

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the cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul

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