Chapter 2 Greece - TEST

The term Acropolis is translated to mean BLANK and refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center.

"top of the city"

The term BLANK refers to the portion of the ancient greek city-state that served as a public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.

agora

The greek term BLANK can be translated as "circle".

kyklos

Items found to be common among the people of Thea:

Elaborately decorated homes
Clay pipes connected toilets and baths to sewers
Straw reinforced the walls of their homes

BLANK is recognized as the legendary ruler of Crete's ancient capital, Knossos.

Minos

Male virility and strength was associated with BLANK.

bulls

The Greek term BLANK can be translated as "double ax".

labrys

The palace of Minos was known in Greek times as the House of the BLANK

Double Axes.

Queen BLANK, wife of Minos, gave birth to the Minotaur.

Pasiphae

Daedalus was the chief craftsperson who constructed the hollow wooden cow to assist the
queen in BLANK

Attracting the bull

BLANK, daughter of Minos, provided Theseus with a weapon and thread to help him kill the
Minotaur.

Ariadne

The ancient city of BLANK is a citadel city that depended on cyclopean masonry for its
construction and was entered through a massive Lion Gate.

Mycenae

BLANK is considered the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Homer

Achilles was considered the greatest warrior among the Greeks while battling the BLANK.

Trojans

Achilles is the central character in the Iliad, which focuses on his BLANK.

rage

The Greek term BLANK can be translated as "virtue," and can be interpreted as "reaching one's
highest potential".

areté

BLANK, son of the king of Troy, killed Patroclus which enraged Achilles.

Hector

Priam is best remembered as the BLANK during the action of the Iliad.

King of Troy

BLANK was the wife of Odysseus.

Penelope

BLANK, in his Theogony, The Birth of the Gods, who first detailed the Greek pantheon.

Hesiod

BLANK controlled north-south trade routes from early times, but after it built a towpath to drag
ships over the isthmus on rollers, it soon controlled the sea routes east and west as well.

Corinth

BLANK was the home to the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Delphi

The term BLANK refers to the row of columns that stand on the raised platform of an ancient
Greek temple.

peristyle

The term BLANK refers to columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near
the top.

entasis

In ancient Greek architecture, the Ionic order features BLANK

scrolled capitals.

On the BLANK, Sarpedon has just been killed by Patroclus and is being
carried off by Hypnos (the winged figure) and Thanatos (Death) as Hermes, the messenger of
the gods looks on.

krater the Death of Sarpedon

BLANK instituted the first Athenian democracy in 508 BCE.

Kleisthenes

The term BLANK became part of the Athenian political system and refers to small local areas
comparable to precincts or wards in a modern city.

demes

At the time of the BLANK in 490 BCE, Darius ruled the Persians.

battle of Marathon

After the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, BLANK ran 26 miles between Marathon and
Athens to deliver word of the Greek victory.

Phidippides

BLANK, author of an extensive History of the Persian Wars is recognized as the first Greek
historian.

Herodotus

The BLANK was considered the centerpiece on the Athenian Acropolis.

Parthenon

The BLANK served as a monumental entryway to the complex

Propylaia

Polyclitus cast the bronze statue known as BLANK (Spear bearer), which was celebrated
throughout the ancient world as a demonstration of a treatise on proportions of the human
body.

Doryphoros

The 92 metopes on the four sides of the temple narrate battles between the Greeks and four
enemies:

Trojans
Giants
Amazons
Centaurs

Socrates was placed on trial for:

Subversive behavior
Corrupting young men
Introducing new gods

BLANK a pre-Socratic thinker conceived an atomic theory in which everything is made up of
small, indivisible particles and the empty space, or void, between them.

Leucippus

BLANK is responsible for one of the most famous of all Greek dictums: "Man is the Measure
of all things".

Protagoras

BLANK specialized in writing comedies and is the playwright for Lysistrata.

Aristophanes

Aeschylus is the playwright for the BLANK that includes events after Agamemnon's
return from the Trojan War.

Oresteia trilogy

In the ancient Greek theater, the term BLANK identifies the elevated platform on which the
actors performed.

proscenium

Rumor had it that farther to the east, the kingdom of the Ganges, Alexander's next logical
opponent, had a force of BLANK

5,000 elephants.

One of the most important ideas that Aristotle expressed in the Poetics is BLANK, the
cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul.

catharsis