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Question #1

When he was born his person’s mother Thetis attempted to make him immortal by dipping him in the sacred waters of the river Styx. Only she didn’t dip one part. Who is this person? (This answer can be found at www.greek-gods.info.)

A Paris

B Odysseus

C Achilles

D Agamemnon

Question #2

What is areté?

A a cocept of virtue, excellence and goodness

B a musical instrument

C an eight line poem

D a kind of paint

Question #3

What is an hellanodikai?

A a vessel for holding oil

B an Olympic judge

C a courtesan

D an island

Question #4

How many years was Plato’s academy open?

A nearly 10 years

B nearly 1,000 years

C nearly 100 years

D less than one year

Question #5

How do Odysseus and his men escape the cyclopse monster, Polyphemos?

A THey masquerade as guests at a wedding party.

B Athena turns them into lions, long enough for them to make their escape.

C They tie themselves underneath sheep.

D They construct wings and fly away.

Question #6

Eli Hunt’s theory on a lost Olympic sport centers on what item?

A a wheeled vehicle

B a blindfold

C foot restraints

D hand restraints

Question #7

Art history professor Boona Wescoast says that, on the whole Greek monsters don’t so something that Polyphemos, the cyclopse from Homer’s Odyssey, does? What does Polyphemos do that is unusal when compared to many other Greek monsters?

A try to gobble people up

B try to fly

C try to dance

D try to rescue soldiers in battle

Question #8

According the psychology professor Marshall Duke, the source of the word “monster” derives from what word?

A uncle

B covering

C night

D warning

Question #9

Who was queen of the gods and what is her Roman counterpart?

A She is Hestia. Her Roman counterpart is Vesta.

B She is Artemis. Her Roman counterpart is Aphrodite.

C She is Ares. Her Roman counterpart is Diana.

D She is Hera. Her Roman counterpart is Juno.

Question #10

Who is not known as a playwright?

A Sophocles

B Eurpides

C Aristophanes

D Socrates

Question #11

Who is most often credited with writing The Iliad and The Odyssey?

A Horace

B Sophocles

C Virgil

D Homer

Question #12

What is post and lintel?

A an architecture term

B a method for creating sculptures in human

C a pottery term

D an ancient Olympic sport

Question #13

What is a krater?

A a kind of brick

B the foundation on which most buiding from Ancient Greece were built

C a vessel used for mixing wine and water

D a carving tool

Question #14

What does Fiero say is “central to all the arts of classical Greece”?

A “literacy”

B “meditation”

C “deep religious beliefs”

D “the human body and human experience”

Question #15

The Winged Victory at Samothrace — also called Nike of Samothrace — is a, WHAT?

A Hellenistic sculpture

B The first marble sculpture known to exist

C A document ending a war

D Sculpture found in King Tut’s tomb

Question #16

The Parthenon was built under the leadership of this Athenian statesman and orator. Who was this person?

A Pericles

B Alexander the Great

C Julius Caesar

D Augustus

Question #17

Oedipus is often considered the best-known character in Ancient Greek drama. In Greek drama, who is Antigone to Oedipus?

A only his mother

B only his wife

C his wife and mother

D his daughter

Question #18

Lydian mode is:

A a musical term

B a sculpture technique

C a poetry/literary term

D an architectural term

Question #19

In The Republic, he engages in conversations. In The Clouds, a drama, he appears as a character. He didn’t write these works. Fiero says of him, “he preferred to roam the streets of Athens and engage his fellow citizens in conversation and debate.” He, Fiero says, felt “that the unexamined life is not worth living.” Who is he?

A Sophocles

B Aristophranes

C Aristotle

D Socrates

Question #20

In architecture, what is a frieze?

A a doorway

B a sculptured or ornamental band

C the square panel between the beam ends under the roof of a structure

D a type of canopy

Question #21

Fiero calls this work, “the world’s first treaties on literary criticism.” What is the work and who wrote it?

A The work is The Republic and Plato wrote

B The work is A Look at Good and Evil and Socrates wrote it.

C The work is Poetry: Line by Line and Sappho wrote it.

D The work is The Poetics and Aristotle write it.

Question #22

During the 5th century b.c.e. there were state-sponsored drama festivals. The festivals were dedicated to a god. Among many things, this was the god of wine, agriculture and the fertility of nature. This god has close parallels to the Roman god Bacchus. What is the name of this god?

A Dionysus

B Apollo

C Athena

D Tital

Question #23

According to Fiero, with what were the Spohists cocnerned?

A defining the limits of human knowledge

B forming a society that beleived in only one god

C judging sculpture

D developing theories of the solar system

Question #24

A portion of The Republic includes The Allegory of the Cave. Who wrote The Republic?

A Aristotle

B Plato

C Sophocles

D Augustus

Question #25

Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe wrote “one of the most revealing images of the status of women in Minoan society is the famous “Toreador fresco” in which young women, shown with the conventional white skin, and darker-skinned men, engage in the dangerous sport that appears to involve somersaulting over the back __________.” The back of what?

A lions

B a charging bull

C horses

D dogs

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