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Architecture
Architecture
The "Temple of the Maiden" in Athens, which uses the mathematical properties of the golden ratio throughout its architecture.
This city-state trained boys to run, jump, steal, wrestle, fight, sing military songs and speak as little as possible.
What is Sparta?
This blind Greek poet gave us the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
What is an epic?
The Greek Gods were said to live on this mountain.
What is Mount Olympus?
This city-state was named after the Greek goddess of wisdom, to whom the Parthenon was dedicated.
What is Athens?
The Athenian lawgiver who forbade fathers to sell their children into slavery, and gave every citizen a vote in the "assembly".
Who is Solon?
The Greek games in which representatives of city-states competed to win a crown of wild olive leaves.
The city of Knossos is on this Greek island.
What is Crete?
The topmost part of a Greek column, which may be very plain (Doric), curled (Ionic), or fancy and leaf-like (Corinthian).
What is a capital?
Spartans would not go to battle except when this astronomical condition was met.
What is a full moon?
This Spartan King defended the pass of Thermopylae against the Persians, to the bitter end.
Who is Leonidas?
This man, whose father was king of Macedonia and whose tutor was Aristotle, conquered a vast territory and spread Greek culture far and wide.
Who is Alexander the Great?
St. John the Apostle spent the final years of his life on this Greek island near the city of Ephesus.
What is Patmos?
The most important part of any Greek city, a fortified (walled-in) area on a hill.
What is an acropolis?
This city-state's founders supposedly arose from a dragon's teeth, sown in the ground.
What is Thebes?
This Athenian guided and advised Athens during her Golden Age.
Who is Pericles?
When an Athenian boy turned eighteen, he received this status, which allowed him to vote, and which also required him to fight to defend his country, to leave it better than he found it, and to uphold its religion.
What is a citizen?
This city in Greek region of Ionia serves as the setting in Homer's Iliad.
What is Troy?
The post-like, middle part of a Greek column.
What is a shaft?
This city-state, to the west and south of Marathon, would later receive two letters from the apostle Paul, both included in the Bible.
What is Corinth?
This outspoken Athenian philosopher tried to teach people about justice and honour by asking them questions.
Who is Socrates?
The form of self-government which originates from ancient Athens. (It is contrasted especially with monarchy - rule by one royal leader - and oligarchy - rule by a few distinct men.)
What is democracy?
Iolkos and Mt. Olympus are located in this region of Greece, north of the Peloponnese peninsula.
What is Macedonia?