Terms

Question 1

Acropolis

Answer 1

area in Ancient Athens with temples, became center of all Greek religious life

Question 2

antilogy

Answer 2

a controversy or discussion usually found in a play

Question 3

Asebia

Answer 3

impiety, disrespect

Question 4

Dikos Logos

Answer 4

Just argument

Question 5

Adikos logos

Answer 5

Unjust argument

Question 6

Dionysia

Answer 6

Festival to honor Dionysus where tragedies and comedies were put on

Question 7

Elgin marbles

Answer 7

Statues from the Parthenon taken by Lord Elgin back to England

Question 8

Esoteric

Answer 8

Works intended for only a small group of experts (eg. all remaining works of Aristotle)

Question 9

Exoteric

Answer 9

Works intended for a large audience (eg. all lost works of Aristotle)

Question 10

Frieze

Answer 10

Band around temple with sculpture

Question 11

Hedone

Answer 11

Pleasure

Question 12

Helots

Answer 12

Class of serfs in Sparta between slaves and citizens

Question 13

Hero Cult

Answer 13

Cults that worshipped heroes (esp. Heracles)

Question 14

Koroi/Korai

Answer 14

Male/Female statues in the Archaic period used as status symbol and sometimes grave markers

Question 15

Metope

Answer 15

Sections between the triglyphs with engravings

Question 16

Mystery Cult

Answer 16

Secret cults that upperclass sometimes made fun of, most famous is Eleusinian Mysteries to Demeter and Persephone

Question 17

Nomos

Answer 17

Human law

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Phusis

Answer 18

Natural law

Question 19

Oikos

Answer 19

Home

Question 20

Ostracism

Answer 20

Athens dispelled people for 10 years based on a vote on ostrakon

Question 21

Parabasis

Answer 21

When all actors leave the stage and the chorus addresses the audience directly

Question 22

Peplos

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Material worn by women (peplos kore)

Question 23

Phrontistai

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Nice word for intellectuals

Question 24

Phrontisterion

Answer 24

Thinkery

Question 25

Sophists

Answer 25

Dirty word for philosophers used by Plato to describe those he didn’t like

Question 26

Stasis

Answer 26

Civil strife

Question 27

Stichomythia

Answer 27

Tit-for-tat in plays that use the previous words in their reply

Question 28

Symposium

Answer 28

Drinking party

Question 29

Time (with long e)

Answer 29

look me up bitch

Question 30

Tragic irony

Answer 30

Greater meaning in words or actions only understood by audience not characters

Question 31

Tyrannos

Answer 31

Tyrant, the demos usually liked them

Question 32

Basileus

Answer 32

King by birthright