JCL: GREEK LIFE AND LITERATURE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
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What is a "chiton"? - ANSWER A draped garment on the shoulders worn by both sexes but more so men.
Basic garment of clothing.
What were the wooden walls of Athens made of? - ANSWER Her ships
What is a "megaron"? - ANSWER Was the great hall in ancient Greek palace complexes. It was a
rectangular hall, fronted by an open, two-columned porch, and a more or less central, open hearth
vented though an oculus in the roof above it and surrounded by four columns. Had a ceremonial hearth
and thrones.
What is the title "potnia" used for? - ANSWER Mistress, lady. Generally for a goddess.
What is the simplest order of architecture? - ANSWER Doric
What is the most complex order of architecture? - ANSWER Composite
What does "arete" mean? - ANSWER Moral virtue or excellence.
What were the central events of Greek religious rituals? - ANSWER Sacrifices
Who did Hesiod say was the "fount of Justice" in his Works and Days? - ANSWER Zeus
During the Archaic Age, the Greeks developed what political form thing that spread hard? - ANSWER
City-state
In most Greek houses, how were their slaves attained? - ANSWER From war
,What were "metics"? - ANSWER Resident foreigners
What type of literature did Alcaeus write? - ANSWER Poetry
What type of competition came down from both the Minoans and Myceneans? - ANSWER Boxing
What did Praxiteles mainly do? - ANSWER Create sculptures
Who wrote "Trachinian Women"? - ANSWER Sophocles
What was a "boule"? - ANSWER A council appointed to run daily affairs of a city
What did the Greeks not know how to use? - ANSWER Lemons
What did the basic curriculum at school not teach? - ANSWER History
What was the chief garment of women in Athens? - ANSWER The peplos
Who wrote "Aphorisms", "Prognostics", and "Regimen in Acute Diseases"? - ANSWER Hippocrates
Who is the father of logic before Socrates? - ANSWER Zeno
Who began their career with the speech "Against the Sophists"? - ANSWER Isocrates
What does the number 41 allude to? - ANSWER The Clouds, a play.
Who came to Greece around 522 B.C. from Thebes and was taught by Lasus, Agathocles, and Corrina as
teachers? - ANSWER Pindar
,"Ecclesiazusae" depicts what Greek playwright? - ANSWER Euripides
Who did Sophocles defeat at the Dionysian Festival in 468 B.C.? - ANSWER Aeschylus
What does Sophocles' name mean? - ANSWER The wise and honored one
What did Corrina write? - ANSWER Poetry
In which lost play of Aristophanes did he ridicule Cleon? - ANSWER The Babylonians
What does the painting "Aphrodite Anadyomene" portray? - ANSWER Aphrodite rising from the sea
Who painted "Aphrodite Anadyomene"? - ANSWER Apelles
What was the smallest Athenian coin? - ANSWER Obol
What was a "Hymenaeus"? - ANSWER A marriage song sung as the bride went to the groom's place.
Who, born in Athens, wrote the "History of the Peloponnesian War"? - ANSWER Thucydides
Who was the father of tragic acting? - ANSWER Thespis
What is the highest art at Mycenae? - ANSWER Metal
Order of teaching for Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates?(Hint, reverse it) - ANSWER
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great.
Who was the pupil of Socrates and participated in the "Retreat of the Ten Thousand" and also wrote
"Anabasis"? - ANSWER Xenophon
, What were "chitons" and "peplos" made of? - ANSWER Wool
Which sculptor either oversaw or did the carvings on the Parthenon? - ANSWER Pheidias
What was special about a typical Greek theatre? - ANSWER It was open to the sky
Who wrote the "Poetics"? - ANSWER Aristotle
What society did the earliest of Greek lyrics poems describe? - ANSWER Aristocratic
Aspasia taught what in her school in Athens? - ANSWER Rhetoric and philosophy
What is an "aule"? - ANSWER An uncovered court paved with stones
What meal was "deipnon"? - ANSWER Dinner
How did the Greeks feel towards old age? - ANSWER Feared and mourned it
What was the name for the drinking party after dinner? - ANSWER Synposion
At what age do Athenian boys enter the 4 stages of Athenian life? - ANSWER 18
Who was Thales? - ANSWER A philosopher and a scientist
What was the color of mourning for the Greeks? - ANSWER Black
Who wrote the "Oresteia" trilogy? - ANSWER Aeschylus
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