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WHO IS A GOD OF ARCHERY

Apollo + Artemis

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WHAT IS THE FIRST SCENE OF THE ILIAD

Chryslers asking for his daughter back

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IF YOU WANT A PROPHECY, WHO SHOULD YOU ASK?

Apollo

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WHO IS A GOD OF HOSPITALITY

Zeus

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WHO IS A GOD OF EARTHQUAKES

Poseidon

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CHARACTERISTICS OF EPIC POETRY

  • Stock scenes

  • "in media res"

  • Epithets

  • Invocations of the muse

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WHAT TRANSLATES TO "HONOR"

Time^-

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WHICH GOD HELPS PRIAM ENTER THE GREEK CAMP

Hermes

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ACHILLIES RETURNS HECTORS BODY TO PRIAM (T/F)

True

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WHAT WRITING SYSTEM DID THE MINOANS USE

Linear A

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WHAT WAS A BAD MONARCHY CALLED

Tyranny

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12

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

Athens

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WHO DOES ODYSSEYS TELL HE IS "NOMAN"

Polyphemus

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14

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

The agora

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WHO CHILD IS POLYPHEMUS

Poseidon

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16

ALL WOMEN WERE BANNED FROM SYMPOSIUM (T/F)

False

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HOW DO WE KNOW THE WRITER OF ODYSSEY KNEW THE ILIAD

The Odyssey never repeats a scene from the iliad

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18

HOMER WROTE THE HOMERIC HYMNS (T/F)

False

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19

GREEK PERIODS IN ORDER (BRONZE, ARCHAIC, DARK)

  1. Bronze Age

  2. Archaic Age

  3. Dark Age

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20

WHO INVENTED COINS

The Lydians

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WHERE DID ERATOSTHENES (ALLEGEDLY) MEET EUPHILETOS' WIFE

Euphiletos' mother' funeral

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22

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

False

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23

WHO PICKED THE MEMBERS O THE GEROUSIA

The assembly

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24

WHO OUTLAWED DEBT SLAVERY IN ATHENS

Solon

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25

DISABLED SPARTAN CHILDREN WERE ALWAYS KILLED (T/F)

False

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WHAT WAS THE AGOGE

Spartan school

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ACCORDING TO PLUTARCH, HOW DID LYCURGUS DIE

Suicide

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HOW DID AN ATHENIAN GET ONTO THE BOULE

By lot

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WHICH WAS THE LARGEST SOCIAL CLASS AT SPARTA

Helots

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30

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

True

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ORDER OF SALAMIS,THERMOPYLAE, MARATHON BATTLE

Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis

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WHICH POLIS HELPED IONIA REBEL

Athens

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TRAGEDIES WERE PUT ON AT A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL TO HONOR WHO

Dionysus

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34

TO GET THE GOLDEN FLEECE, JASON HAD TO FACE

  • Fire-breathing bulls

  • Dragon's teeth that turned into attacking warriors once planted

  • A dragon

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ORDER OF THE PERSIAN KINGS DARIUS, CYRUS, XERXES

Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes

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ALL GREEK POLEIS FOUGHT PERSIA TOGETHER (T/F)

False

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WHICH PERSIAN KINGS INVADED MAINLAND GREECE

Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, Xerxes

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38

FACTS ABOUT THEMISTOCLES

  • He was athenian

  • Encouraged Athens to spend their silver on triremes

  • Tricked both greeks and persians into fighting at Salamis

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

False

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WHO MAKES U THE CHORUS IN MEDA

Corinthian women

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41

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

False

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42

WHO DIED OF PLAUGE

Pericles

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43

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

False

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WHICH ATHENIAN POLITICIAN(S) ENDED UP IN PERSIA

  • Themistocles

  • Alcibiades

  • Hippias

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WHICH POLIS LAUNCHED THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION

Athens

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AFTER WHICH BATTLE DID ATHENS EXECUTE ITS VICTORIOUS GENERALS

Arginousae

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WHOCH PHILOSOPHER WAS EXECUTED

Socrates

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SOCRATES WAS THE FIRST PHILOSOPHER (T/F)

False

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WHO WAS ONE OF SOCRATES STUDENTS

  • Critias

  • Alcibiades

  • Plato

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

Poets

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WHICH POLIS LED THE DELIAN LEAGUE

Athens

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WHERE DID MOST PRESOCRATICS PHILOSOPHERS COME FROM

Ionia

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WHAT OFFICE DID PERICLES REPEATEDLY HOLD IN ATHENS

Strategos

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54

SOCRATES FOUGHT IN SEVERAL BATTLES (T/F)

True

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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

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

False

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57

CRITIAS WAS ONE OF THIRTY TYRANTS (T/F)

True

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58

WHO CHANGED SIDES MULTIPLE TIMES DURING THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

Alcibiades

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AUTHOR TO WAR

  • Thucydides: Peloponnesian War

  • Herodotus: Persian War

  • Homer: Trojan War

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WHAT PUNISHMENT DOES SOCRATES PROPOSE FOR HIMSELF

Being treated like an olympic victor

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WHAT ROLE DID ALEXANDER LIKE HAVING IN BATTLES

Staying back and masterminding everything

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WHY DID ALEXANDER STOP CONQUERING

His men wanted to go home

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63

STATES OF WOMEN ARE

Korai

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STATUES OF MEN ARE

Kouroi

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WHAT IS ONE WAY EARLY GREEK STATUES DIFFERED FROM EGYPTIAN STATUES

Men were nude

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

Doric

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CLEITUS BLACK FUN FACTS

  • He was a spartiate

  • Alexander killed him

  • He saved Alexanders life

  • He was one of alexander’s companions

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

True

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

False

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EVENTS IN ORDER

  • Birth of Alexander

  • Battle of Chaperone

  • Death of Philip

  • Battle of Gaugamela

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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

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PHILIPS REFORMS INCLUDED

  • Training Persians how to form a Macedonian phalanx

  • The sarissa

  • The first league between poleis

  • Royal pages

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WHICH CITY DID ALEXANDER BURN DOWN WHEN DRUNK

Persepolis

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WHAT WAS ALEXANDERS FAVORITE BOOK

The Iliad

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75

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

False

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

False

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WHICH GREEK CITY DID ALEXANDER DESTROY

Thebes

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WHAT MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE HELLENISTIC AGE

Chaeronea

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ALEXANDER CLAIMED HE WAS A GOD (T/F)

True

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