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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 Achilles

B Odysseus

C Agamemnon

D Paris

Question #2

What is areté?

A an eight line poem

B a cocept of virtue, excellence and goodness

C a kind of paint

D a musical instrument

Question #3

What is an hellanodikai?

A an Olympic judge

B a vessel for holding oil

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

B They construct wings and fly away.

C They tie themselves underneath sheep.

D THey masquerade as guests at a wedding party.

Question #6

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

A hand restraints

B a wheeled vehicle

C foot restraints

D a blindfold

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 rescue soldiers in battle

C try to fly

D try to dance

Question #8

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

A warning

B night

C covering

D uncle

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 Socrates

D Aristophanes

Question #11

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

A Sophocles

B Homer

C Horace

D Virgil

Question #12

What is post and lintel?

A a method for creating sculptures in human

B an architecture term

C a pottery term

D an ancient Olympic sport

Question #13

What is a krater?

A a vessel used for mixing wine and water

B a carving tool

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

D a kind of brick

Question #14

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

A “literacy”

B “the human body and human experience”

C “meditation”

D “deep religious beliefs”

Question #15

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

A Sculpture found in King Tut’s tomb

B A document ending a war

C The first marble sculpture known to exist

D Hellenistic sculpture

Question #16

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

A Augustus

B Julius Caesar

C Alexander the Great

D Pericles

Question #17

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

A his daughter

B his wife and mother

C only his wife

D only his mother

Question #18

Lydian mode is:

A an architectural term

B a poetry/literary term

C a musical term

D a sculpture technique

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 Aristophranes

B Socrates

C Aristotle

D Sophocles

Question #20

In architecture, what is a frieze?

A a type of canopy

B a doorway

C a sculptured or ornamental band

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

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 Tital

B Dionysus

C Athena

D Apollo

Question #23

According to Fiero, with what were the Spohists cocnerned?

A forming a society that beleived in only one god

B developing theories of the solar system

C defining the limits of human knowledge

D judging sculpture

Question #24

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

A Augustus

B Aristotle

C Sophocles

D Plato

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 dogs

B a charging bull

C lions

D horses

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