Vocab Part 1

Question 1

Crete

Answer 1

Largest of the islands of Greece, home of one of the most advanced of the Archaic Greek culture

Question 2

Minos

Answer 2

Legendary king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europe

Question 3

Minotaur

Answer 3

Mythical half-bull, half-man living in beneath Minos’ palace

Question 4

Labyrinth

Answer 4

A complex maze of passages difficult to navigate

Question 5

Knossos

Answer 5

One of the 5 major cities of Minoan culture

Question 6

Poseidon

Answer 6

Mythic god of the sea, known as the Earthshaker

Question 7

Archipelago

Answer 7

A large group or chain of islands

Question 8

Thera

Answer 8

Small island in the Cyclades archipelago near Crete, destroyed by volcano

Question 9

Arthur Evans

Answer 9

Amateur archeologist who discovered Knossos in 1900

Question 10

Fresco

Answer 10

The technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture

Question 11

Theseus

Answer 11

Greek hero, killed the Minotaur among other acts

Question 12

Ariadne

Answer 12

Daughter of Minos, helped Theseus kill the Minotaur… Eventually married Dionysus

Question 13

Archaic

Answer 13

Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period, forming the earliest stage, prior to full development

Question 14

Linear A

Answer 14

Early pictographic language found on Crete, currently undeciphered.

Question 15

Linear B

Answer 15

Hieroglyphic language representing earliest form of Greek, also known as Mycenaean, named after Mycenae where Agamemnon is said to have ruled. Deciphered in 1953.