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F'07 Dr. J.A. Turner
Quiz # 2
(take home 20 pts.)
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DUE @ END of class Tues., Oct. 2. NO QUIZZES ACCEPTED AFTER 2:30 P.M Oct.2.
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Quiz # 2 Answer Sheet. Also, be sure to check the Midterm Study Guide.
1. .(1/3pt.ea.)List 3 main characteristic(s) of the following art styles:
Geometric: ______designs concentric circles; abstract ________________;
"Orientalizing"___mythological or ‘fantastic animals’; griffins; harpies_;
Archaic___ over life/monumental size; rigid ‘stance’; ‘smile’ =sim.to Mona Lisa ;
2-4.(1/4pt.ea.)
MATCHING: Put letter of best answer in appropriate blank.
__E__clans (arist. families, traced ancestries to a god)
A) Krete
__M__soc./polit./mil."brotherhoods" (men enrolled at 18)
B) Lydia
__N__famous female Greek Lyric poet
C) Miletos, Ionia
__H__a major contribution of the Dark Age (besides
D) shrine of Helen, near Sparta
the development of the polis, phratries )
E) genē (pl.);[ genos (sing.)]
__K__approx. # of colonies Greece sent out (750-550B.C.)
F) timē
__I__ main reason for Gk. colonization 750-550B.C.
G) grain
__P__lst known Dark Age pot with human figures
H) hoplite armies
depicts this scene
I) overpopulation
__B__source of Greeks' ideas of alphabet & coined money
J) colonization
__C__ bec. of 1st wave of colonization to this place, Athenians
K) 1500
later believed that they had ‘kinship’ ties with Greeks there
L) 600
__G__ imp. reason for Greek colonization of Black Sea area
M) phratries
__D__ ex. of a Greek belief from 8th cent. on that Late Bronze
N) Sappho
Age heros had power in death to protect/help people
O) harvesting olives
__F__ imp. Greek ‘value,’ meaning honor, respect, special skills
P) burial, funeral
5-6.(1/4 pt.ea.)Fill in the blanks:Greeks of the 1st wave of colonization, supposedly were 2nd generation
refugees who had fled to Attica (Athens) from the _Dorian__ invasion. This "wave", ca. 1050 B.C., went
to the _East__ (give dir.) & settled along the coasts of modern-day __Turkey__. Evidence for this
migration is legends & linguistic because the Greek dialects spoken were _Aeolic_ in the North, __Ionic__
on the central coast, & __Doric_ on the Southern coast & in islands such as Rhodes & Kos. The 2nd
colonization wave produced heavy Greek colonization in S. Italy & Sicily, causing that area to be called
_Magna Graecia___. Most colonized for land, but Phokian Greeks (prob. attempting to challenge
Carthage/Phoenician trading) founded a colony named _____Massilia__ in S. France.
7-9. (l/4pt.ea.). MATCHING: Put letter of best answer in appropriate blank..
_J__ this Greek deity had 2 versions: a ‘fertility’ version and
A) Brauron
a ‘tomboy/huntress/protector of animals’ version
B) Messenia
_G__ site of earliest known ‘oracle’ in Greece
C) Athena Polias
_K__poet who wrote "victory poems" for athletes
D) Athena Lindia
_O__main initiation hall of Eleusinian 'Mysteries"
E) Heraia
_E__athletic festival celebrated by Spartan girls
F) hoplite race
_L__imp. "Games” which included musical contests
G) Dodona
_M_site of "Treasuries" & other monuments at Dephi
H) Solon
_D_ cult wh/had a "boy-priest" of Athena at Rhodes
I) Lykourgos
_C__this cult had a hereditary priestess
J) Artemis
_A__ to symbolize political unification, a "satellite" branch of
K) Pindar
this Artemis cult (w/"bear" girls) was set up at Athens' Akropolis
L) Pythians
_I__ Spartans attributed their ‘System’ to this ruler
M) Sacred Way
_B__ Sparta didn’t need to colonize bec. they conquered, enslaved
N) bouletērion
as helots neighboring people from this area in early 7th cen.B.C. wars
O) Telestērion
10. Transliterate into ancient Greek: (1/4 pt. ea. word)
philosophia : _____; Anaximandros _________________;
metempsychōsis ___metemycwsij_________; mystērion ___________________________
11. Write a brief paragraph discussing why Archilochos was 'representative' of his era (background,
occupation(s), lifestyle, attitudes.
1) Colonized Thasos; was part of general ‘colonization’ efforts of his era (750-550 B.C.;______
2) Was a mercenary soldier by profession—typical of many landless, rootless ‘younger’ or
illegitimate sons (no inheritance) in Archaic Greece, when ‘overpopulation’ was a major
problem.
3) Was a ‘Lyric’ = ‘personal’ topics, poet; the 1st of the known Lyric poets, who broke with
Homeric Epic poetry style to write of their own lives, experiences, feelings, attitudes. Other sig.
Lyric poets included Sappho, Alkman, etc.
12.Matching (1/4 pt. ea.) Write NAME of tyrannos (tyrant) associated with each of following poleis:
Samos __Polykrates_____;
Korinth _Kypselos/Cypsselus___________;
Athens ___Peisistratos or Hippias_____;
Argos ____Pheidon__________
13-14.(1/2 pt.ea.) ‘Big 4’ athletic festivals: List sites/names, date each began, god honored @ each site:
1)__Olympics @ Olympia, 776 B.C., Zeus _____;
2) __Pythians @ Delphi, 582 B.C., Apollo_______;
3)___Isthmians @ Korinth, 580 B.C., Poseidon________;
4)___Nemeans @ Nemea, 573 B.C., Zeus _____.
15-16. Fill in the blanks: (1/4 pt.ea.) The Homeric view of the Afterlife saw the deceased as a "shade"
(Gk= __šidwlon_______) --in contrast w/ mystery religions wh/ promised that the deceased would go to a
place called _Isles of the Blessed__. In the Odyssey, Bk.11, Odysseus goes to the Underworld and talks
w/dead Greek heros, esp. the hero named __Achilles___ -who describes Hades as a dreary place. The god
of Healing named __Asklepios___ had a famed spa at Epidauros. Herodotos says priests told him that
most Greek gods came from __Egypt___ . Due to ecstatic worship in Mysteries for the god
__Dionysos___ Greeks saw him as imported, despite his name’s mention in Linear B tablets. As Greece
emerged from the Dark Age, monarchy generally was replaced by the form of gov't. known as
_oligarchy___. In many poleis, class warfare (the "few" rich vs. the "many" poor) caused a chaotic
political situation known in Greek as _stasis___. Often a tyrannos (w/help of the masses) grabbed power,
typically did "good works," & set up short-lived dynasties.
17-18. (1/5 pt.ea.) True/False. Put T or F in appropriate blanks.
_T__ For Greeks, failing to tend to graves of one’s ancestors was a terrible sin.
_T__ Demokritos is credited w/ a primitive notion of an ‘atomic theory.’
_F__ Thales was the first famous geologist. (astronomer)
_F__ Pythagoras left Samos & moved to Milan, in Italy, for political reasons. (Kroton,Italy)
_F__ Xenophanes supposedly said,” You can’t step in the same river twice.” (Herakleitos)
_T__ Pythagoreans believed in metempsychōsis (= transmigration of souls).
_T__ Ionian and Italian pre-Sokratics all rejected the ‘Homeric view’ of the universe.
_F__ Herakleitos wrote, “Mortals made their gods, and furnished them with their own body…a horse
would make his god a horse…” (Xenophanes, Diehls, Fr. 14)
_T_ Spartan women were the best educated women (other than hetairai [=prostitutes]) in all Greece.
_T__ Spartan men lived in their barracks, not with their wives, until the men were about 30 years old.
19-20. MATCHING: Put letter(s) of reforms in blank beside appropriate 6th cent. B.C. Athenian reformer.
Solon (1pt.) _B, _D, _F, G__(1/4pt.ea.)___; Kleisthenes (1 pt.)_A,_C, _E,_(1/3pt.ea.)_____.
A) made the deme, not the clan (genos) the basic unit of civic life
B) Forbade enslavement of Athenians for debts they owed
C) created l0 new tribes to supercede the original 4 tribes
D)
E)
F)
G)
gave vote in Ekklesia (Assembly) to all adult male citizens
created a Council of 500 (50 elected annually from each tribe)
divided Athenian citizens into 4 classes, on basis of wealth
standardized weights and measures --which helped commerce.