Philip II
Name the country where Philip II came from.
Macedonia
This person was his father.
Philip II
The Greek name for a city-state.
Polis
Tutored Alexander.
Aristotle
A curved opening in a wall used as a window / door, that is strong enough to support the wall above it.
An arch
Philip decimated these two Greek city-states int he Battle of Chaeroneia.
Athens and Thebes
Because it was his father's dream, and he probably wanted to outdo him, Alexander attacked this empire.
The Persian empire
Athens
Wrote the Anabasis, and is one of our main primary sources for Alexander the Great.
Arrian
A method of laying mosaic tesserae in a detailed and life-like worming pattern.
Opus Vermiculatum
This person was Philip's wife and mother of Alexander.
Olympias.
Alexander visited this place when he became king to find out if he should invade a neighbouring empire.
The Orcale at Delphi
Land form surrounded by water. Both Greece and Rome are located in this land form.
Peninsula
Wrote about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius from his home while his uncle attempted to rescue trapped civilians.
Pliny the Younger
The name of the Athenian temple dedicated to Athena.
The Parthenon
This sad event occurred at his daughter's wedding.
He was stabbed/murdered.
Alexander reached the western border of this country before his troops insisted on returning home.
India
The Sea to the South of Greece.
The Mediterranean
Wrote many plays, including Medea which was first performed in 431 B.C.E.
Euripides
The Pantheon was built (for the final time) by the Emperor ...
Hadrian
Using these two things in particular made his army successful.
The phalanx formation and the Companion Cavalry.
When Alexander became king, a second revolt occurred in Greece. Who bribed the Greeks to revolt against Alexander / Macedonia?
The Persians
This secondary source writer details the murder of Philip in his "Universal History".
Diodorus
The names of the three main parts of the Pantheon's architecture.
Porch, Vestibule, Rotunda.
In battle, but the sources say it's because the Oracle at Delphi told him he'd lose the eye with which he saw Olympias in bed with the snake.
What is the name of the cultural diffusion/exchange spread by Alexander's empire? There is even evidence of it in Roman cities like Pompeii!
Hellenism
Sea between Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece.
(East of Rome, West of Greece)
The Ionian Sea
These people started using logic and reason to explain their world instead of stories about the gods.
Philosophers.
Ancient Greek sculptures of Aphrodite inspired this 15th Century painting, which in turn has inspired everything from modern fashion to Beyonce's pregnancy photo shoots.
Boticelli's Birth of Venus
The Macedonian wife that gave birth to a "full-blooded" son who could take Alexander's place in the line of succession.
Cleopatra
Finish this quote: "The man who is preparing to cross from Europe to Asia can't even ...."
The mountain where the Greek gods are said to dwell is ...
Mount Olympus
This place collected and copied scrolls on many subjects including math, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, and engineering. It eventually burned down.
The Library of Alexandria.
The fragmentary remains of a sculpture depicting an unknown nude man / god found in Rome. This sculpture heavily influenced artists like Michelangelo, and its influence can still be seen today in things like Calvin Klein ads.
The Belvedere Torso
Philip's murderer:
Pausanius of Orestis
The date AND location of Alexander's birth.
Pella, 356 B.C.E.
The name of the narrow, treacherous waterway between Greece and what is now Turkey.
The Hellespont
Who were the three great Athenian philosophers?
Aristotle, Plato and Socrates.
The 20th Century man who planned to build an enormous building inspired by the Pantheon in the capital of his new empire, but was never able to.
Hitler
This city state used the phalanx, and one of their battles is where Philip got the idea from.
Thebes
Alexander's best friend and (probable) lover:
Hephaestion
The main river that flows through Rome is the T.....
Tiber
The writer of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Homer
The name of the hill in Athens upon which stands a temple dedicated to the city's patron goddess.
The Acropolis