Ancient Greeks prized this character trait, which means the search for excellence.
What is arete?
100
Greek architecture is built using this kind of construction technique.
What is post and lintel?
100
Like all Greek city-states, Athens had a public area for shops, fountain houses, and homes. What is it called?
What is the agora?
100
The Acropolis is a good example of a sacred place, called in Greece a what?
What is a sanctuary?
100
The Athenians invented a limited form of this kind of government.
What is democracy?
200
The idea of a human centered universe comes to a high point in 5th century Athens.
What is humanism?
200
Greek temples from the 5th century on were built using this material.
What is marble?
200
Two gods fought for the honor to be the patron deity of Athens. Who were they?
Who are Athena and Poseidon?
200
The largest building on the top of the Acropolis is Athena's house. What is it called?
What is the Parthenon?
200
The study of wisdom.
What is philosophy?
300
Greek art and architecture is frequently made to appear perfect, which this term encapsulates.
What is idealism?
300
Greek temples had more decoration where?
What is the exterior?
300
Every four years all of Athens celebrated Athena's birthday in this large multi-day festival.
What is the Panathenaic Festival?
300
This building acted as the large gateway to the Acropolis.
What is the Propylaia?
300
Acting and plays.
What is drama?
400
Greek thinkers and intellectuals believed that this quality, found in nature, was put there by the gods, and when applied by humans to works of art and architecture, could create perfect works of art.
What is mathematical harmony?
400
Greek architecture has what three styles?
What is the Doric, the Ionic, and the Corinthian?
400
The Acropolis was destroyed in 480 BCE by these people.
Who are the Persians?
400
Greek architectural styles still used today.
What are Greek columns?
500
Ancient Greeks believed themselves to be superior to non-Greeks like the Persians, whose language sounded like ba ba ba to the Greeks, and so they called them this.
What is barbarian?
500
There are three main differences between the Doric and the Ionic style.
What are the base, the column capitals, and the lintel?
500
Group that had the most power in the Spartan government.
What is the ephorate (or ephors)?
500
This building is the most sacred one on the top of the Athenian acropolis because it held the relics of contest between Athena and Poseidon.