Places Of Worship

Question 1

Who oversaw the construction of the Athenian Acropolis?

Answer 1

Pericles

Question 2

Who was the main architect?

Answer 2

Phidias

Question 3

How tall is the Parthenon?

Answer 3

490 feet

Question 4

Name the four main buildings on the Parthenon

Answer 4

Propylaia
Parthenon
Erechtheion
Temple of Athene Nike

Question 5

What was the other function of the Parthenon?

Answer 5

Treasury/bank

Question 6

What was the erechtheion originally?

Answer 6

The place of the mythical kings Ericthaus

Question 7

What does the location of the erechtheion symbolise?

Answer 7

The fighting place between Athene and Poseidon

Question 8

What was housed within the Erechtheion?

Answer 8

Wooden statue of Athene Polias

Question 9

What are the three interpretations of the Caryatids?

Answer 9

Women in the panathenaia
Mourners of King Kerkops
Enslaved women of Carya

Question 10

What was unique about the sculpture of the Propylaia?

Answer 10

Doric outwardly ionic inside

Three corridors with a sunken middle ramp for sacrificial animals

Question 11

What was the Plynteria?

Answer 11

A cleansing ceremony performed in the Erechtheion

Question 12

Where is Delphi geographically and mythically according to the Greeks?

Answer 12

6 miles from the gulf of Corinth

Centre of the world

Question 13

What are the four main areas in the sanctuary to Apollo at Delphi?

Answer 13

Temple of Apollo
The theatre
The sacred way
The stadium

Question 14

What is the famous group of statues called surrounding the entrance to the sanctuary of Apollo?

Answer 14

The marathon group

+ Tegeas victory over Sparta and Spartas victory over Athens

Question 15

Approximately how many sanctuaries are there in the Sanctuary to Apollo

Answer 15

30

Question 16

Give a specific sanctuary in the sanctuary to Apollo at Delphi

Answer 16

Siphnian Treasury

Question 17

What is the name of the monument to the victory of the battle of Plataea?

Answer 17

The serpentine column

Question 18

What are the three sayings found if the temple of Apollo?

Answer 18

Know thy self
Nothing in excess
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Question 19

How many spectators could be seated at the theatre?

Answer 19

5,000

Question 20

How many spectators could be seated at the stadium?

Answer 20

6,500

Question 21

What was the name of the priestess of Apollo?

Answer 21

Pythia

Question 22

How many days was the oracle open to the public?

Answer 22

9

Question 23

What was the alternative to the spoken oracle at Delphi?

Answer 23

Black and white dice at the corycian cave

Question 24

What provision was given in payment at the oracle at Delphi?

Answer 24

A ritual cake and a sacrificial beast

Question 25

How could the payments for the Oracle at Delphi be altered?

Answer 25

City stated payed more e.g Athens

King is Croseus had the privilege not to pay

Question 26

What were the questions that people typically asked at Delphi?

Answer 26

Plutarch: victory, marriage, travel and farm

Question 27

Where is Olympia?

Answer 27

10 miles from the Ionian Sea

Question 28

What does the temple of Zeus face?

Answer 28

The ash alter and the rising sun

Question 29

Where would athletes face after finishing their race at Olympia?

Answer 29

The ash alter

Question 30

How tall was the statue of Zeus at Olympia?

Answer 30

12 meters

Question 31

Who had ash alters and who could climb them?

Answer 31

Zeus, Hera and Gaia

Woman could climb the first step of the alter only men could reach the top