High Classical Greece
Orders and Statues
Wars with a "P"
Dark Ages and Pre
Alexander, etc.
100
This statue is known for its mathematical balance, chiastic grace (contrapposto) and latent power.
Statue name, sculptor, and year, please.
Doryphorus, Polykleitos, 450 BC
100
Name and Era
Kritos Boy, Archaic
100
What are the two main battles of Persian Wars?
Battle of Marathon (490) and Battle of Thermopylae (480)
(for the nerds out there: there is also Salamis...and for the uber-nerds, also Platea)
100
In which Pre-Dark Age civilization will we find the Minotaur?
Minoan Civilization
100
Who was Alexander's father?
King Phillip II of Macdeon
200
The of of this war officially completed the multi-decade struggle against the largest empire in the known world, and inaugurated the Greek High Classical era.
The Persian Wars
200
New York Kouros, Archaic
200
Who is the Spartan King who defended Thermopylae?
Leonidas I
200
In which Pre-Dark Age civilization may we find Agamemnon?
Mycenaean Civilization
200
Legend has it that Alex kept this book under his pillow
The Iliad
300
The Athenians founded this League to ostensibly protect themselves from future Persian attacks, but in reality to fund the architecture of their booming city.
Delian League
300
What are these wild and amazing things?
Ionic capitals
300
Who wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War?
Thucydides
300
Why do historians refer to an era as a "dark age"?
Because civil institutions collapse.
300
How did Alex win loyalty from his conquered people?
He treated them well. He didn't turn them into slaves, but integrated them into his new empire.
400
Pericles political rivals called him this term because he created jobs for the masses of unemployed Athenians. We still use this term today.
They called him a Populist.
400
Peplos Kore, Archaic
400
What are two general reasons why the Peloponnesian War began?
There is an answer on your study guide, but if you provide an alternative answer which I think is good, you get the points
(1) Athens got super powerful and annoying and wanted to form an empire; (2) other city-states thought democracy would become too popular with their populations.
400
Daily Double:
You have 60 seconds: in poetic language, describe what it might feel like to live in a world without large institutions?
Amazing, simply gorgeous work.
400
The Hellenic world is an eclectic world. What does eclectic mean?
A product of many different influences
500
Amazing, there is not one straight line in the entire Parthenon. The entablature curves outwards, the columns inwards, so it appears perfect. What is the term we use for "appears perfect."
Optically Rational
500
Doric Frieze (of the Parthenon)
500
What does “From the agents of nemesis to the embodiment of hubris" mean?
The Athenians were at the top of the world, then they got cocky, and now they are at the bottom.
500
The massive Minoan palace on Crete is located at this site.
Knossos
500
When Alexander died, who split up his empire?
Bonus points for naming the people; double bonus for naming the name of the wars
His generals.
Antigonous gets Greece; Ptolemy gets Egypt; Seleucus gets Persia
The Diadochi Wars