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Potpourri
100
The name of the body of water east of the Greek mainland.
What is the Aegean Sea?
100
In Sparta, this consisted of a group of about 15 men of mixed ages who ate and fought together throughout their lives.
What is the mess?
100
This was basically a spoken agreement between two persons: the suitor, and a young girl's kyrios.
What is the betrothal or engyesis?
100
Their appearance marked an end to the general poverty characteristic of the Middle Bronze Age period.
What are the Shaft Graves at Mycenae?
100
The term that describes the fact that what we know of Spartan society comes from outsiders i.e., non-Spartans .
What is the ‘Spartan Mirage’?
200
The main form of subsistence in ancient Greece.
What is agriculture?
200
It was the instrument on which young Athenian boys learned how to write?
What is a wooden/wax tablet?
200
The institution regarded by the ancient Greeks as a “necessary evil.”
What is marriage?
200
This is the most famous example of a Mycenaean Tholos tomb.
What is the ‘Treasury of Atreus’ at Mycenae?
200
A type of source that is not contemporary with the event or period in question.
What is a secondary source?
300
The name of one of the six regions comprising the Peloponnese.
What is Elis, Arkadia, Lakonia, Messenia, the Argolid, or Achaea?
300
One of the three essential articles which every boy had to take to the palaestra with him when he was doing his physical training?
What are a sponge, a small oil-flask alabastron , or a bronze scraper strigil ?
300
The religious festival that was exclusively for women.
What is the Thesmophoria?
300
Deciphered in the 1950s, this Late Bronze Age script proved to be an early form of Greek.
What is Linear B?
300
The cardinal direction where most altars associated with temples can be found?
What is to the east?
400
The name of the Greek defensive alliance established after the Persian Wars and headed by Athens.
What is the Delian League?
400
The relationship between an erastes and eromenos, which was a fundamental part of the male education system.
What is pederasty?
400
The duties ascribed to a special magistrate the Gynaikonomos in Athens to curb the disorder resulting from the Peloponnesian War.
What is to control the behaviour and the extravagance of women?
400
Not including Mycenae, it is the location of one of three securely identified Mycenaean palaces.
What is Pylos, Tiryns, or Thebes?
400
The people responsible for determining the length of the modern Marathon exactly 26 miles and 385 yards .
Who were the British Royal Family?
500
The types of food that comprises the ‘Mediterranean Triad’.
What are cereals, grapes, and olives?
500
This word was used to describe learned, skillful men who possessed the art of passing on their knowledge and their techniques to others.
What is Sophists?
500
The time in a man’s life when homosexual unions were considered appropriate.
What is only during his youth [i.e., before his first beard?]
500
The complex in which the ‘throne room’ in Mycenaean palaces can be found.
What is the megaron?
500
The Greek word for the crane used for special effects in ancient drama?
What is mechane?
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