PARTICIPATION QUESTIONS

1.What is the name of the palace where the Minotaur was believed to have been kept?

2.What is the name of the king who built the maze for the Minotaur and searched for Daedalus after he escaped?

3.What is the name of the island where we find the Minotaur and the palace where it was believed to live?

4.Who supposedly built the huge masonry walls in Tiryns?

5.What is the term used for a beehive shaped tomb?

6.What is the name for the passage leading to the beehive shaped tomb?

7.What famous objects were found in the Mycenaean grave circle by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann?

8.What is the name of the famous gate in Mycenae leading through the walls of the citadel? What do we find on this gate?

1.What is the technique of Greek stone carving that makes the edges “like the frame of a door”

2.What material was a Greek temple supposedly originally constructed with before it was built in stone?

3.What were the triglyphs intended to represent?

4.What were the guttae intended to represent?

5.What is the name of the most rough simple column?

6.What is the name of the tall slender column with volutes?

7.What is the ratio of this column in width and height?

8.What is the most fancy Greek column?

9.What architect supposedly invented this columns? What was his idea based on?

  1. What does acropolis mean? What is the original meaning of the acropolis and what did It also become?
  1. What city in ancient Greece had the best army?
  1. What is the significance of salt springs and olive trees to the Greeks?
  1. What was the Panathenaia? What would happen on the Panathenaia? What is the peplos? What were the prizes that athletes received?
  1. Why was accuracy and regularity desirable in the projects undertaken by the Greeks?
  1. What refinements were made to the shape of the shaft of a Doric column?
  1. What military event did the Parthenon commemorate?
  2. Who was the architect that carved the frieze of the Parthenon?
  3. Who were the two architects that constructed the rest of the Parthenon?
  4. Who as the statesman that sponsored the building of the Parthenon from contributions from the Delian League?
  5. Why is the Parthenon so architecturally important?
  6. What was the Greek city center called?
  7. What are the three orders of columns in Greece in chronological order?
  8. What is the name for the stone cutting method that looks “like the frame of a door”?
  9. What is the name for the tiles that are used to cover the ends of the roofing tile?
  10. How were stone blocks in a Greek temple joined together?
  11. What did Lord Elgin do?
  12. Where was the famous Greek oracle located?
  13. Who was a famous Greek city planner?
  14. How were stone blocks in a Greek temple joined together?
  1. In what ancient city do we find old temples of Magna Graecia?
  2. What was the Greek name of the city?
  3. What was the Roman name of the city?
  4. What three temples are located here?
  5. What was considered to be the center of the world in Greece?
  6. Who was the Pythia?
  7. Where did she sit?
  8. Who could be elected to serve as Pythia?
  9. What was believed to be in the crevasse where the Pythia sat?
  10. What was the relation of the dolphin to Delphi?
  11. What god was associated with a dolphin and Delphi?
  12. What special rhythm was used by the Oracle to communicate the prophecies?
  13. What god was the temple at Delphi dedicated to?
  1. What are the three orders of columns in Greece in chronological order?
  1. Where was the famous Greek oracle located?
  1. What temple on the Acropolis is dedicated to the king-god Erechtheus?
  1. What markings do we find on the ground at this temple?
  1. What is the significance of salt springs and olive trees to the Greeks?
  1. What porch is supported by Caryatid statues on this building?
  1. What is the name of the gates leading to the acropolis
  1. What small temple overlooks the entrance of the acropolis?
  1. What tombs are cut into the rock in Naqsh-e Rustam, Iran?
  1. What is the great palace in Persia that is now a ruin?
  1. Who destroyed this palace?
  1. What material was a Greek temple supposedly originally constructed with before it was built in stone?
  1. What were the triglyphs intended to represent?
  1. What were the guttae intended to represent?
  1. What is the name of the most rough simple column?
  1. What is the name of the tall slender column with volutes?
  1. What is the ratio of this column in width and height?
  1. What is the most fancy Greek column?
  1. What architect supposedly invented this columns?
  1. What was his idea based on?

MULTIPLE CHOICE

  1. Who constructed the labyrinth for the Minotaur?
  1. Theseus
  2. Daedalus
  3. Ikarus
  4. Kallicrates
  1. In what building was the labyrinth believed to have been located?
  1. The fortress of Tiryns
  2. The Bouleterion
  3. The Tholos
  4. The Palace of Knossos
  1. Who escaped from the labyrinth and killed the Minotaur?
  1. Theseus
  2. Kallicrates
  3. Democrates
  4. Phideas
  1. What is a beehive shaped structure in the Aegean or Mediterranean area called?
  1. Tumulous
  2. Mastaba
  3. Tholos
  4. Pantheon
  1. Who constructed the huge stone walls at Mycenae?
  1. Theseus
  2. The Minotaur
  3. Daedalus
  4. The Cyclops
  5. Merlin
  1. Who destroyed Persepolis?
  1. Alexander the Great
  2. Darius III
  3. Darius I
  4. Pergamon
  1. Where do we find the Gate of all Nations?
  1. Magnae Gracea
  2. Agrigentum
  3. Persepolis
  4. Knossos
  1. Who was the general and statesman who commissioned the construction of the Parthenon in Greece?
  1. Phidias
  2. Pericles
  3. Callimachus
  4. Iktinus
  1. Who carved the frieze of the Parthenon and was chief architect?
  1. Pericles
  2. Callimachus
  3. Iktinus
  4. Phidias
  1. Who were the two architects of the Parthenon in Greece?
  1. Iktinus and Kallicrates
  2. Hippodamus and Democratus
  3. Theseus and Daedalus
  4. Ikarus and Callimachus
  1. Who removed the marble statues from the Parthenon and brought them to England?
  1. Lord Elgin
  2. Lord Elvin
  3. Sir John Soan
  4. Sir Walter Raleigh
  1. What was the name of the gate leading into the Acropolis?
  1. Thermopylae
  2. Propelaea
  3. Gate of All Nations
  4. Ishtar Gate
  5. Processional Way
  1. What temple in Delphi housed the oracle?
  1. Temple of Apollo
  2. Temple of Diana
  3. Temple of Jupiter
  4. Temple of Neptune
  1. What is printed over the gates of the Temple of Apollo?
  1. Know thyself
  2. Nothing in excess
  3. “E”
  4. All of the above
  1. What god was said to have fallen into the crevice in Delphi?
  1. Neptune
  2. Python
  3. Athena
  4. Delphia
  1. What two natural elements were sacred to the Greeks and are also found at the Erechtheum?
  1. An olive tree and a salt spring
  2. Olive Oil and Pentelic Marble
  3. The Laurel leaf and the Hibiscus
  4. Spanakopita and Dolmades
  5. Olive branch and hot springs
  1. What gift was given to the goddess Athena as a present from the Greeks?
  1. Olive Oil in Amphorae
  2. Laurel leaves
  3. Pentelic Marble Statues
  4. Votive offerings
  5. The Peplos Dress
  1. What type of columns are found in Paestum?
  1. Archaic
  2. Doric
  3. Ionic
  4. Composite
  1. What three temples were found in Paestum?
  1. Temple of Hera I, Temple of Hera II, Temple of Athena
  2. Temple of Nike, Temple of Apollo, Temple of Mars
  3. Temple of Neptune, Temple of Jupiter, Temple of Mars
  4. Temple of Hera I, Temple of Hera II, Temple of Hera III
  1. In what unusual temple on the Acropolis would you find the Porch of the Maidens?
  1. Erechtheum
  2. Propoleae
  3. Temple of Athena
  4. Temple of Nike
  1. What were the three other uses of the Parthenon in history?
  1. An arsenal, bouleterion and agora
  2. A mosque, theater and council house
  3. An arsenal, church and a mosque
  4. An arsenal, agora and stoa
  1. Who attacked the Greeks at the battle of Marathon?
  1. The Turks
  2. The Venetians
  3. The Ottomans
  4. The Persians
  1. True or False: The Parthenon was originally painted different colors.
  1. What is the name for a curve or bulge found in a column?
  1. Entasis
  2. Echinus
  3. Abacus
  4. Synokoiosis
  1. What is a stylobate?
  1. A debate about style
  2. The back porch of a temple
  3. The front porch of a temple
  4. The steps of the temple
  1. What is the naos?
  1. The inside sanctuary of a temple
  2. The entry to the temple
  3. The back porch of the temple
  4. The front porch of the temple
  1. What are triglyphs?
  1. Carvings with three grooves made of stone
  2. Disks and other patterns made of stone
  3. Three columns in a row
  4. Three hieroglyphics in a cartouche
  1. What is the slender column associated with the goddess Diana featuring volutes?
  1. Archaic
  2. Doric
  3. Ionic
  4. Corinthian
  5. Composite
  1. What column is rough and simple and associated with Mars, the god of war?
  1. Archaic
  2. Doric
  3. Ionic
  4. Corinthian
  5. Composite
  1. What column was designed by Kallamachus after looking at a basket in a cemetery?
  1. Archaic
  2. Doric
  3. Ionic
  4. Corinthian
  5. Composite
  1. What is the name of a column that looks like a statue of a woman that holds up the roof?
  1. Caryatid
  2. Kuroi
  3. Kuros
  4. Shedu
  5. Sabine
  1. What is the name for the spirals on an Ionic column?
  1. Volutes
  2. Flutes
  3. Guttae
  4. Echinus
  1. What is the social center of the Greek city?
  1. Agora
  2. Bouleterion
  3. Stoa
  4. Tholos
  5. Forum
  1. What is the meaning of the word acropolis?
  1. City of the Polis
  2. High city
  3. City of the Greeks
  4. City of the gods
  1. Who was known for Greek town planning?
  1. Callimachus
  2. Daedalus
  3. Hippodamus
  4. Pericles