Meet the Ancients Posisble Quiz Q

WHO IS A GOD OF ARCHERY

Apollo + Artemis

WHAT IS THE FIRST SCENE OF THE ILIAD

Chryslers asking for his daughter back

IF YOU WANT A PROPHECY, WHO SHOULD YOU ASK?

Apollo

WHO IS A GOD OF HOSPITALITY

Zeus

WHO IS A GOD OF EARTHQUAKES

Poseidon

CHARACTERISTICS OF EPIC POETRY

* Stock scenes
* "in media res"
* Epithets
* Invocations of the muse

WHAT TRANSLATES TO "HONOR"

Time^-

WHICH GOD HELPS PRIAM ENTER THE GREEK CAMP

Hermes

ACHILLIES RETURNS HECTORS BODY TO PRIAM (T/F)

True

WHAT WRITING SYSTEM DID THE MINOANS USE

Linear A

WHAT WAS A BAD MONARCHY CALLED

Tyranny

IF I DIG UP A GREEK COIN AND SEE AN OWL, IT PROBABLY CAME FOM

Athens

WHO DOES ODYSSEYS TELL HE IS "NOMAN"

Polyphemus

IF I WANTED TO BUY SOME OLIVE OIL, WHERE WOULD I GO

The agora

WHO CHILD IS POLYPHEMUS

Poseidon

ALL WOMEN WERE BANNED FROM SYMPOSIUM (T/F)

False

HOW DO WE KNOW THE WRITER OF ODYSSEY KNEW THE ILIAD

The Odyssey never repeats a scene from the iliad

HOMER WROTE THE HOMERIC HYMNS (T/F)

False

GREEK PERIODS IN ORDER (BRONZE, ARCHAIC, DARK)

1. Bronze Age
2. Archaic Age
3. Dark Age

WHO INVENTED COINS

The Lydians

WHERE DID ERATOSTHENES (ALLEGEDLY) MEET EUPHILETOS' WIFE

Euphiletos' mother' funeral

ACCORDING TO PLUTRACH, HISTORIANS GENERALLY AGREE ON LYCURGUS (T/F)

False

WHO PICKED THE MEMBERS O THE GEROUSIA

The assembly

WHO OUTLAWED DEBT SLAVERY IN ATHENS

Solon

DISABLED SPARTAN CHILDREN WERE ALWAYS KILLED (T/F)

False

WHAT WAS THE AGOGE

Spartan school

ACCORDING TO PLUTARCH, HOW DID LYCURGUS DIE

Suicide

HOW DID AN ATHENIAN GET ONTO THE BOULE

By lot

WHICH WAS THE LARGEST SOCIAL CLASS AT SPARTA

Helots

ATHENS IS THE SOURCE OF MOST SURVIVING GREEK LITERATURE (T/F)

True

ORDER OF SALAMIS,THERMOPYLAE, MARATHON BATTLE

Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis

WHICH POLIS HELPED IONIA REBEL

Athens

TRAGEDIES WERE PUT ON AT A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL TO HONOR WHO

Dionysus

TO GET THE GOLDEN FLEECE, JASON HAD TO FACE

* Fire-breathing bulls
* Dragon's teeth that turned into attacking warriors once planted
* A dragon

ORDER OF THE PERSIAN KINGS DARIUS, CYRUS, XERXES

Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes

ALL GREEK POLEIS FOUGHT PERSIA TOGETHER (T/F)

False

WHICH PERSIAN KINGS INVADED MAINLAND GREECE

Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, Xerxes

FACTS ABOUT THEMISTOCLES

* He was athenian
* Encouraged Athens to spend their silver on triremes
* Tricked both greeks and persians into fighting at Salamis

THE CHORUS IN MEDEA THINKS MEDEA SHOULD KILL HER CHILDREN (T/F)

False

WHO MAKES U THE CHORUS IN MEDA

Corinthian women

THUCYDIDES IS SOMETIMES CALLED "FATHER OF LIES" (T/F)

False

WHO DIED OF PLAUGE

Pericles

POLEIS COULD ENTER OR EXIT THE DELIAN LEAGUE AT WILL (T/F)

False

WHICH ATHENIAN POLITICIAN(S) ENDED UP IN PERSIA

* Themistocles
* Alcibiades
* Hippias

WHICH POLIS LAUNCHED THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION

Athens

AFTER WHICH BATTLE DID ATHENS EXECUTE ITS VICTORIOUS GENERALS

Arginousae

WHOCH PHILOSOPHER WAS EXECUTED

Socrates

SOCRATES WAS THE FIRST PHILOSOPHER (T/F)

False

WHO WAS ONE OF SOCRATES STUDENTS

* Critias
* Alcibiades
* Plato

IN PLATO'S IDEAL SOCIETY, WHAT SORT OF PERSON WAS BANNED

Poets

WHICH POLIS LED THE DELIAN LEAGUE

Athens

WHERE DID MOST PRESOCRATICS PHILOSOPHERS COME FROM

Ionia

WHAT OFFICE DID PERICLES REPEATEDLY HOLD IN ATHENS

Strategos

SOCRATES FOUGHT IN SEVERAL BATTLES (T/F)

True

HOW DID THEMISTOCLES NCREASE ATHENS MILITARY STRENGTH persuaded the city to invest in its fleet

* Persuades the city to invest in its fleet
* Trained Athens hoplites
* Built long walls
* Invaded Sicily

SPEECHES IN THUCYDIDES ARE ACCURATE QUOTATIONS OF WHAT WAS SAID (T/F)

False

CRITIAS WAS ONE OF THIRTY TYRANTS (T/F)

True

WHO CHANGED SIDES MULTIPLE TIMES DURING THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

Alcibiades

AUTHOR TO WAR

* Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
* Herodotus: Persian War
* Homer: Trojan War

WHAT PUNISHMENT DOES SOCRATES PROPOSE FOR HIMSELF

Being treated like an olympic victor

WHAT ROLE DID ALEXANDER LIKE HAVING IN BATTLES

Staying back and masterminding everything

WHY DID ALEXANDER STOP CONQUERING

His men wanted to go home

STATES OF WOMEN ARE

Korai

STATUES OF MEN ARE

Kouroi

WHAT IS ONE WAY EARLY GREEK STATUES DIFFERED FROM EGYPTIAN STATUES

Men were nude

IN WHAT COLUMN ORDER DID THE FRIEZE ALTERNATE BETWEEN TRIGYLPHS AND METOPES

Doric

CLEITUS BLACK FUN FACTS

* He was a spartiate
* Alexander killed him
* He saved Alexanders life
* He was one of alexander’s companions

SOME GREEKS HOPED PHILIP WOULD TAKE OVER GREECE (T/F)

True

ALEXANDER WAS THE FIRST GREEK LEADER TO WIN A BATTLE AGAINST PERSIANS (T/F)

False

EVENTS IN ORDER

* Birth of Alexander
* Battle of Chaperone
* Death of Philip
* Battle of Gaugamela

HOW DID ALEXANDER ATTEMPT TO WIN OVER PERSIANS

* Avenging Darius III
* Wedding Darius III daughter
* Keeping some Persian satraps in power
* Training Persians to fight like Macedonian

PHILIPS REFORMS INCLUDED

* Training Persians how to form a Macedonian phalanx
* The sarissa
* The first league between poleis
* Royal pages

WHICH CITY DID ALEXANDER BURN DOWN WHEN DRUNK

Persepolis

WHAT WAS ALEXANDERS FAVORITE BOOK

The Iliad

ANCIENT ART ALWAYS ILLUSTRATES SCENES FROM ANCIENT LITERATURE (T/F)

False

ALEXANDER USUALLY OUTNUMBERED THE PERSIAN ARMIES HE FOUGHT (T/F)

False

WHICH GREEK CITY DID ALEXANDER DESTROY

Thebes

WHAT MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE HELLENISTIC AGE

Chaeronea

ALEXANDER CLAIMED HE WAS A GOD (T/F)

True