Parthenon
Temple built in honor of this God/Goddess
Who is Athena?
This feature provided light and ventilation to the communal toilets.
What is the opening in the roof?
A type of government led by people through elected officials that originated in ancient Greece.
What is democracy?
This invention uses the shadow cast by the sun to tell time.
What is a sundial?
The Corinth Canal has been cut through this type of rock.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
The Parthenon is built out of this material
What is white marble?
Ducks and Frogs were sometimes placed in the pond at the center of the public latrine to fill this purpose.
What is covering farty noises?
The Peloponnesian wars pitted these two groups against one another.
Who is Sparta and Athens?
This theory is used to calculate the hypotenuse of a triangle.
What is Pythagorean theory? or Who is Pythagorus?
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses.
What is an isthmus?
The rectangular panels above the columns contain metopes depicting scenes from mythology related to the city of Athens. These include: Gigantomachy, Amazonomachy, Centauromachy, and battle scenes from this war.
What is the Trojan war?
This was used to clean the Roman bums after doing their business.
What is a sponge on a stick?
This Macedonian prince grew up in Greece, loved Greek culture, was trained by Aristotle and stretched the Greek Empire from India to Egypt.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The first of these was invented by Eupalamas and it was made of wood. In 592 B.C. Anacharsis invented the first metal one of these. We use it almost every day when we are sailing.
What is an anchor?
The entrance and exit to the canal each contain a bridge that is moved to this position to allow marine traffic through.
What is submerged or moved down?
The Parthenon was home to a 12 metre high statue of Athena made of these two materials.
What are ivory and gold?
Beneath the toilets, this would serve to flush the waste away.
What is running water?
When Alexander the Great died in 146 BC, this was the end of the Hellenistic period as Greece was conquered by this empire.
Who are the Romans?
This invention thought up by Ctesibius in 200 BC had a dial and a pointer and would drop pebbles into a gong at a pre-set time.
What is an alarm clock?
The length of the Corinth Canal rounded to the nearest km.
What is 6km (6.4km)?
The two triangular pediments at either end of the Parthenon contained sculptures of Gods and Goddesses. One was the birth of Athena, and one was the battle between these two Gods/ Goddesses for the city of Athens.
Who are Poseidon and Athena?
The Roman toilets were built in this century.
What is the 1st century AD?
These are the three periods of Ancient Greece.
What are the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic?
An Archimedes screw is used to move this substance vertically upwards.
What is water?
The Corinth Canal joins these two bodies of water.
What is the Gulf of Corinth/ Ionian Sea and the Saronic Gulf/ Aegean sea?