Minoa and Mycenae
An elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos
What is a labyrinth?
This Greek city-state focused on mental pursuits (philosophy, drama, art, music, and architecture) during the Golden Age.
What is Athens?
This is a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar
What is a caryatid?
The word philosopher literally translates to "lovers of _______".
What is wisdom?
This is the type of religions the Greeks practiced (honoring multiple gods)
What is polytheism?
This creature was believed to be housed in a labyrinth in Minos
What is the Minotaur?
The rule of the people
What is democracy?
A type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly against each other in storage rooms and packages. Often had scenes form stories painted on the side
What is an amphora?
This philosopher authored The Republic and compared being a normal human to being a prisoner in a cave; and reality to shadows on the cave wall.
Who is Plato?
This was the goddess of war and battle strategy. The city-state Athens is named after her.
Who is Athena?
Later Greeks believed that these creatures built the walls at Mycenae
What are Cyclops?
The rule of a few (In Sparta: 5 elected officials)
What is oligarchy?
The three types of Greek pillars
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
This philosopher is known for his ideas about forms (lowercase f), Poetics, and The High-Minded Man
Who is Aristotle?
This is the name of the poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey (He also may have been blind, a group of poets, or not have existed at all, depending on whom you ask).
The war between the Myceneans (Greeks) and the Trojans inspired this work by Homer
What is the Illiad?
The Olympic games were held every 4 years in honor of this Greek god.
Who is Zeus?
Refers to "excellence" in Greek art
This is the philosophical belief that all knowledge is relative. By extension, it means that all truths and ideas are equally good
What is relativism?
This terms refers to a byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage.
What is an epithet?
A fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city.
What is a citadel?
The Athenian statesman who promoted democracy, and helped to create the Delian league, a group of city-states banded together to support each other militarily in times of war
Who is Pericles?
The Parthenon utilized this type of pillar
What is Doric?
This philosopher said that you can't step in the same river twice because the river is always moving.
Who is Herclitus?
This age, including the time of the Trojan War, is when the semi-divine and human heroes supposedly lived.
What is the Heroic Age?