Neolithic Greece to the Dark Ages
Who is a mythical hero from Athens who killed the Minotaur?
Theseus
Who is the King of Mycenae who led the battle of the Trojan War?
Agamemnon
Taurokathapsia is the Greek Word for what sporting event?
Jumping over bulls
What is the name of the volcano that led to the collapse of Crete?
Santori
Who are the mythical heroes of Homer’s The Iliad?
Achilles and Odysseus
What is the name of the era when man began to farm and traveled from Asia to the West?
Paleolithic Era
What is the name of the poet who wrote the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” about the Trojan War?
Homer
What is the word that explains a person who indulges in excess of passion, pride, outrage, or crime, opposed to reason or logos, meaning the Word of God, or principle of divine reason?
Hubris
What is the era called when man traveled by sea, farmed, stock-herded, built permanent homes, used stone, and created elaborate art?
Neolithic Era
Who was the man who named the people of Crete, who were proposed to have migrated from North Africa?
Author Evans
Name the people who occupied Crete and wrote down a language that evolved into Linear B.
Minoans
What is the name of the beast from the Mythical story of a half-man, half-bull prisoner in the Labyrinth?
Minotaur
What is the name of the legend of people turning to immoral pursuits, which resulted in a flood that sank the culture?
Legend of Atlantis
Who is the mythical hero from Athens who killed the Minotaur?
Theseus
What does Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, give to Theseus?
A sword and a ball of thread
Who is the Androgeus in the myth that was killed by the Athenians, which resulted in 14 young children being sent every nine years for the Minotaur to devour?
King Mino's son
What is the name of a fortress on top of a hill?
Citadel
What is the word that Historians say the name means, King who served as consort (husband of a reigning monarch) - the queen.
Minos
What is the name of the King of Sparta? and his wife's name, who was abducted by the Prince of Troy, which led to the Trojan War?
Menelaus/ Helen
What culture dominated Crete, mainland Greece, and several islands in the Bronze Age?
Mycenaean Culture
What is the name of the age of the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, which led to the loss of the Linear B writing system, and economic decline?
Dark Ages of Greece
What is the name of the myth where Zeus, in love with a Phoenician princess, turns himself into a white bull and carries her to Crete? She married King Minos and gave birth to the Minotaur.
The Zeus myth of the Minotaur
What is the name of the myth where the Cretan queen became pregnant by a foreigner on her way to Crete? The child was born with blonde hair and blue eyes. Different from the dark eyes and hair of Minoans, the child was outfitted with the headdress of a bull and kept in the prison labyrinth.
Nordic Minotaur myth
What's the name of the myth of Daedalus, inventor of the labyrinth, who makes wings from feathers and wax to escape Crete? His son flies too close to the sun, plunges into the sea, and drowns.
Myth of Icarus
What was the name of the period of the Bronze Age that saw the development of an alphabetic script and the rise of the city-states of ancient Greece?
Archaic Period