Name the author
"The unexamined life is not worth living for a person"? (two possible answers)
Socrates (or Plato)
This Athenian philosopher was forced to take his own life by drinking hemlock poison after his trial for 'unholiness' and 'corrupting the youth' in 399 BCE.
Who is Socrates?
This Athenian temple was rebuilt on the Acropolis in the 450s as a monument to their victory over the Persians.
What is the Parthenon?
This Greek doctor & philosopher was credited with developing the basic ideas of the Scientific Method?
This Athenian general and politician wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Thucydides?
"Sing to me, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus"?
Who is Homer?
This is the year in which the Greeks first repulsed the Persian invasion at the Battle of Marathon.
What is 490 BCE?
This is the name for the main sculpture group at the top of a Greek temple, just below the roofline.
What is pediment?
Aristotle believed that the universe revolved around this planet, rather than the sun, and that its motion was due to a series of concentric spheres that rotated.
What is the Earth? (geocentric)
These were built during the 450s BCE to make it impossible to besiege Athens unless the invading force also controlled the approach by sea.
What were the Long Walls of Athens?
Who is Thucydides? (or Pericles)
This year was the one in which the Persian invasion was turned back for a second time at the Battle of Salamis.
What is 480 BCE?
This is the name for the earliest style of column capital that is plain-looking, with straight lines at the top.
What is Doric style?
This Greek doctor gave his name to the physician's oath, which has become an ethical touchstone for doctors today.
Who is Hippocrates?
This peace treaty in the middle of the Peloponnesian War only lasted for six years before it was broken (421-414 BCE).
What is the Peace of Nicias?
"The Spartans have a special epitaph; it runs:
Go tell the Spartans, you who read,
We took their orders, and here lie dead."
Who is Herodotus?
This is the name for the province around Athens.
This long band of sculptures runs below the pediment, found on Ionic style temples, but above the architrave.
What is a frieze?
These are the four elements, of which ancients believed the world was made.
What are fire, water, air, & earth?
This Dorian outpost was established in 413 to resupply the Spartan and allied forces who were raiding and destroying farms in Athenian territory.
What is Decelea?
Euripides (or Medea)
This is the name for the province around Sparta.
What is Lacedaemonia or Laconia?
These smaller, rectangular sculptures would fit between the triglyphs on Doric-style temples.
What are metopes?
These are the four bodily humors that ancient doctors believed would control human health by being in-balance (healthy) or out-of-balance (unhealthy).
What are phlegm, blood, black bile, yellow bile?
This infamous group of leaders was put in place by the Spartans when they conquered Athens in 404 BCE, but a democratic counter-revolution toppled their rule the next year in 403 BCE.
Who were the Thirty Tyrants?