Cities of Vesuvius
A town that is located closer to Mt Vesuvius than its counterpart. This town is built on a cliff overlooking the Bay of Naples. In the 79AD eruption many of the inhabitants of this town died from the intense heat produced from the pyroclastic surges.
Herculaneum
Name given to the enslaved populations of Messenia and Lakonia.
Helots
The god that gave Darius I and his descendants the throne.
Ahuramazda
Who won the Battle of Salamis?
Greece
What is the name of Herodotus' work which tells the story of the Persian Wars?
The Histories
Who began pouring plaster of Paris into the cavities found while excavating in Pompeii?
Giuseppe Fiorelli
How many ephors were elected annually from among the Spartiates?
How many immortals were there at any given time?
10,000
Which Greek leader is responsible for the development of the Athenian navy in the interwar years?
Themistocles
What is the name of the common meals or military mess that Spartan men attended?
Syssition
Political institution that made laws that were carried out by the magistrates. There were about 100 members were called decuriones and new members were admitted every 5 years but would then hold membership for life.
Ordo Decurionum
The ideal underpinning all the Lycurgian reforms that means good order and good government, emphasized by duty and obedience to the laws.
Eunomia
Name of Xerxes mother who was also Cyrus the Great's daughter.
Atossa
The Greeks formed the Hellenic League in response to the looming threat of a Persian invasion. When was this league formed?
481BC
Only one town had two storey houses (domus) and this town also had more multi-storied apartments (insulae). Which town was this?
Herculaneum
The latin term for food stalls or shops that sell food.
thermopolia
Name 2 ancient Spartan poets
Tyrtaeus and Alcman
What is the name of the inscription found at Persepolis and later at Pasargadae that provides our main source of information about Xerxes religious policy?
The Daeva inscription
What is the name of the Athenian leader who is given credit for their success in the Battle of Marathon? He is also the father of Cimon.
Miltiades
Which significant leader died at the Battle of Plataea which caused the soldiers to lose moral, leading to a Greek victory?
Mardonius
A woman in Pompeii who became priestess of Venus. Was the daughter of a bricklayer, who married into a old wealthy family and used her wealth to donate a building to the fullonnes who, in return, created a statue of her.
Eumachia
5 day religious festival of dancing that was closely linked to the Spartan training regime. The festival was held in honour of the deceased at the Battle of Thyrea.
Gymnopaedia
What is the name of Xerxes' older brother who also had a claim to the Persian throne?
Artobazanes
In 451 BC, which Athenian statesman introduced a citizenship law that decreed that ‘a person should not have the rights of citizenship unless both his parents had been citizens’.
Pericles
Xerxes is well known for his contributions to the building program at Persepolis. Name the 3 structures that he started and completed throughout his reign.
Gate of All the Nations, Palace of Xerxes, Harem