Wars
Athens and its allies formed this organization before the Peloponnesian War.
BONUS (+100): Sparta and its allies formed this.
What is the Delian League?
BONUS: What is the Peloponnesian League?
He cursed his family line through his desire to show off his wife in the buff.
DAILY DOUBLE (x2): The name of his unfortunate servant.
Who is Candaules?
BONUS: Who is Gyges?
You might feel pretty cool being invited to a symposium in ancient Greece. But if you were an ignoramus, you might not know exactly what you were invited to. Good thing you know that a symposium is ______________.
What is a drinking party?
At the request of Philip II, this Greek philosopher tutored Alexander the Great before founding a school (the Lyceum) that lasted from 334-86 B.C.E.
Who is Aristotle?
Of these options, the farthest east on a map: the Peloponnesian Peninsula, Ionia, or the Aegean Sea?
Where is Ionia?
The cause of the Peloponnesian War.
What is Spartan resistance to Athenian imperial ambitions?
BONUS (+200): What caused the Persian Wars?
This man led Athens in its so-called Golden Age, gave a famous speech, and then died of the plague.
Who is Pericles?
Your friend has an appointment with a gynecologist. At first you do not think you know anything about what that means. But then you remember that it is etymologically connected to the Greek word gynaeceum meaning ___________.
What is the room or part of the house reserved for women?
Who are the Sophists?
The Greek god of wine and other festivities.
Who is Dionysus?
Where is the Battle of Salamis?
One of the two penalties proposed by Socrates after he was pronounced guilty by the Athenian jury in Plato's Apology.
What are dinners in the town hall or 30 minas of silver?
A big religious and cultural festival held every four years in Athens.
What is the Great Panathenaea?
Who is Plato?
The most "humorous" of all Greek thinkers. (Dang, I'm funny today).
Who is Hippocrates?
BONUS (+100 each): List the Four Humors.
Due in part to the rabble-rousing of Athens's most handsome man, the Peace of __________ was brought to an end in 413 B.C.E.
BONUS (+400): Name this handsome man's legal wife.
Who is Nicias?
Who is Hipparete?
Speaking about this Halicarnassus-born naval general, Xerxes famously said, “My men have become women, and my women men” (Herodotus).
Who is Artemisia?
You are an ancient Greek grandmother and charged with planning a meal for tomorrow's family gathering. You send me (your slave) to the market with a list of items for the meal. These are the sorts of foods you request.
Answers may vary.
You want to seek truth, knowledge, and virtue. Describe how the philosopher Plato might advise you to do so.
The stated goal of Herodotus at the beginning of The Histories.
What is :
"This is the display of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that things done by man not be forgotten in time, and that great and marvelous deeds, some displayed by the Hellenes, some by the barbarians, not lose their glory, including among others what was the cause of their waging war on each other."
Athens debated what to do, but ultimately the siege of this Greek polis ended with all the men being executed and the women and children being enslaved.
Where is Melos?
Who is the happiest (or most blessed) man alive according to the Athenian lawgiver Solon?
Who is Tellus of Athens?
BONUS (+200): What doesn't Solon say that Croesus of Lydia is happy?
YOU MAY CHOOSE TO GO "DOUBLE OR NOTHING" ON THIS ONE.
Held to honor Zeus, the ancient Greek Olympic games were held here every four years.
This Greek tragedian wrote Oedipus Rex.
Who is Sophocles?
BONUS (+500): This Greek comedian wrote a play called The Clouds.
YOU MAY CHOOSE TO GO "DOUBLE OR NOTHING" ON THIS ONE.
The average salary of a Tempe Prep teacher in 2023 according to TPA's website.