This is just one of many Etruscans tombs that show both men and women reclining happily at a banquet.
What is the Tomb of the Lions?
This is the modern country in which Carthage was founded.
What is Tunisia/Tunis?
This group of Hellenes could be found in both Athens and on the south western coast of Asia Minor.
What are Ionians?
This was the name for the highest point in a polis.
What is the akropolis?
This god is the king of all the Olympian gods
Who is Zeus?
This was the name by which the Hellenes knew the Etruscans.
What are the Tyrrhenoi/Tyrsenoi?
This was the people by whom Carthage was founded.
What are Phoenicians?
This group of Hellenes in the south of the Peloponnesus.
What are the Dorians?
This was at the foot of every high point in every polis.
What is a gathering space or agora?
This goddess is associated with wisdom, her symbol is the owl, and her patron city-state is the biggest one in Hellas.
Who is Athena?
This river valley in northern Italy was settled by the Etruscans.
What is the Po River Valley?
This is the city from which the founders of Carthage came from.
What is Tyre?
Who is Homer?
From the highest point, you could see this from nearly every Hellenic city-state.
What is the sea?
This god is associated with many things, but he is primarily known as the sun god.
Who is Apollo?
This Roman city in southern Italy is famous for the way in which it was destroyed in A.D. 79, but it was in fact founded by the Etruscans.
What is Pompeii?
Who is Dido/Elissa?
He is a revered lyric poetess from the island of Lesbos.
Who is Sappho?
Athens was one of the only three city states to have over 20,000 citizens. The other two where here.
What is Sicily?
This goddess is the sister of the sun god, and she is the goddess of the hunt, often shown with a bow and arrows, like her brother, and is sometimes associated with the moon.
Who is Artemis?
What is soothsaying?
In order to keep from being overrun by Hellenes after Tyre's fall to the Persians around 540 B.C., the Carthage joined all the remaining Phoenician colonies into a sort of sea empire and established a good relationship with this other empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
This group of Hellenes can be found in northern Hellas, in Thessaly, Boeotia, on Lesbos, and even around Troy in Asia Minor.
What are Aeolians?
To the Hellenes, the ideal city-state had this many citizens.
What is 10,000?
This goddess is the queen of the gods, and is associated with marriage, despite not having a very good one herself.
Who is Hera?