The Epic Cycle
Iron to Archaic
Religion & Myth
KATegory
Art and Architecture
100

The supposed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey 

Who is Homer!

100

The emergence of this is what past historians view as the marker for the beginning of Greek culture

What is the Greek language

100

We do not know much about these types of cults

What are Mystery Cults

100
This is your instructor's full name. 

What is Katarina Humphrey?

100

A temple needs this in order to be considered a temple.

What is an altar?

200

We have many epithets for the same character in epic poems to act as

Ex) Tricky, Suffering, Of Many Turns, of many tricks, Master of Men, Sailor (all of Odysseus)


What is a memory tool?

200

There is no one, agreed-upon, definition for this development in ancient Greece

What is the polis

200

These gods could be considered the Universal gods of the ancient Greek world

What are the Olympians

200

She got kicked out of this museum.

What is the British Museum?

200

This is the name of the column heads that look like two scrolls?

What is Ionic Columns?

300

Achilles son uses this to beat King Priam to death during the siege on Troy.

What is Priam's grandson.

300

Athena and Poseidon offered these two gifts to the people of Athens to try to gain their favor

What is an olive tree and a salt-water spring

300

The Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis did not allow these animals on the road

What are goats

300

She does this to columns when traveling in Europe.

What is lick them?

300

This is the best place to find Greek temples.

What is Italy?

400

Athena pretends to be who to trick Hector into fighting Achilles?

What is one of Hector's brothers

400

What Greek Lyric poet wrote:

"a thousand men may stand before me strong, with dark shining spears encircling you. Keeping you from me..."

(hint my Classics teacher's vows)

Who is Sappho?

400

The duality of many members of the Greek pantheon is called this

What is binaturalism

400

During her trip to Greece, she cried here in an underground, fortified, aqueduct due to this fear

What is the stairwell of a Myceanian aqueduct because of the fear of an ancient skeleton grabbing her and dragging her into the muddy depths

400

The curvature to all Greek temples is called this.

What is entasis?

500

The Epic Cycle is 

What is a collection of poems spanning the Iron and Archaic ages that focus on the tale of the Troy and its aftermath

500

These four physical features make up the polis

(what do we need to have to qualify as a polis)

What is the Acropolis, Astu, Chora, and Agora

(citadel, cityscape, agriculture, marketplace)

500

It is speculated that the Greeks would reenact this scene for the new initiates at the Eleusinian Mysteries

What is the kidnapping of Persephone

500

This is the light of her life?

Her brother

500

This is where the Athena Parthenos is located today.

What is IT'S MISSING?

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