GOLDEN AGE OF ATHENS/PELOPONNESIAN WAR

Question 1

WHO BROKE THE TRUCE THAT TEMPORARILY STOPPED THE WAR?

Accepted Answer

ATHENS

Question 2

WHAT HISTORIAN WAS KNOWN FOR HIS ACCURATE REPORTING OF EVENTS AND HIS BOOK ON THE PERSIAN WARS?

Accepted Answer

HERODOTUS

Question 3

WHICH CITY-STATE HAD THE ADVANTAGE ON LAND?

Accepted Answer

SPARTA

Question 4

WHERE DID THE MONEY FOR THE CREATION OF THE PARTHENON COME FROM?

Accepted Answer

DELIAN LEAGUE

Question 5

WHAT GREEK WORD MEANS LOVERS OF WISDOM?

Accepted Answer

PHILOSOPHER

Question 6

WHAT SCULPTOR CREATED THE 30 FOOT TALL STATUE OF ATHENA FOUND IN THE PARTHENON?

Accepted Answer

PHIDIAS

Question 7

TRUE OR FALSE: WOMEN WERE NOT ALLOWED AT THE OLYMPICS EVEN AS SPECTATORS.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 8

WHO WROTE THE PLAY MEDEA AND OFTEN HAD STRONG WOMEN IN HIS WORKS?

Accepted Answer

EURIPIDES

Question 9

WHAT GREEK ART FORM SERVED AS BOTH AN EXPRESSION OF CIVIC PRIDE AND A TRIBUTE TO THE GODS?

Accepted Answer

DRAMA

Question 10

WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE INCREDIBLE BUILDING LOCATED ON THE ACROPOLIS AND BUILT TO HONOR ATHENA?

Accepted Answer

PARTHENON

Question 11

WHICH GREEK PLAYS OFTEN MADE FUN OF POLITICS AND RESPECTED FIGURES AND IDEAS OF THE TIME?

Accepted Answer

COMEDY

Question 12

WRITER OF THE FIRST GREAT COMEDIES WHO OFTEN MADE FUN OF PEOPLE, POLITICS, AND IDEAS IN ATHENS?

Accepted Answer

ARISTOPHANES

Question 13

WHAT KIND OF COLUMN OR ARCHITECTURAL ORDER IS THIS?

Accepted Answer

IONIC

Question 14

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS DID CLASSICAL ART NOT INCLUDE?

Accepted Answer

REALISM

Question 15

RADICAL GROUP WHO QUESTIONED TRADITIONAL BELIEFS AND VALUES AND WERE CONSIDERED A THREAT?

Accepted Answer

SOPHISTS

Question 16

WHO WROTE A TRILOGY BASED ON THE FAMILY OF AGAMEMNON THAT EXAMINED THE IDEAS OF JUSTICE?

Accepted Answer

AESCHYLUS

Question 17

THE ORIGINAL OLYMPIC GAMES WERE HELD TO HONOR WHICH GOD?

Accepted Answer

ZEUS

Question 18

WHO BELIEVED IN ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND JUSTICE AND WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CORRUPTING THE YOUTH?

Accepted Answer

SOCRATES

Question 19

ALLY OF SPARTA ATHENS UNSUCCESSFULLY ATTACKED WITH A HUGE NAVAL FLEET WHICH HELPED END THE WAR?

Accepted Answer

SYRACUSE

Question 20

WHAT IMPORTANT ATHENIAN WAS KILLED BY THE PLAGUE IN ATHENS DURING THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR?

Accepted Answer

PERICLES

Question 21

WHO WROTE OVER 100 PLAYS INCLUDING OEDIPUS THE KING AND ANTIGONE?

Accepted Answer

SOPHOCLES

Question 22

STUDENT OF SOCRATES WHO WROTE THE REPUBLIC AND GREATLY INFLUENCED PHILOSOPHY FOR CENTURIES?

Accepted Answer

PLATO

Question 23

WHAT KIND OF COLUMN/ARCHITECTURAL ORDER IS THIS?

Accepted Answer

DORIC

Question 24

WHO DECLARED WAR WHICH STARTED THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR?

Accepted Answer

SPARTA

Question 25

WHAT TYPE OF PLAY IN ATHENS FOCUSED ON COMMON THEMES LIKE LOVE, HATE, WAR, AND BETRAYAL?

Accepted Answer

TRAGEDY

Question 26

WHO BELIEVED THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF AND STUDYING THE PAST HELPS UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT?

Accepted Answer

THUCYDIDES

Question 27

WHAT TYPE OF COLUMN OR ARCHITECTURAL ORDER IS THIS?

Accepted Answer

CORINTHIAN

Question 28

WHICH OF THESE WAS NOT A GOAL PERICLES HAD FOR ATHENS DURING HIS RULE?

Accepted Answer

IMPROVE RELATIONSHIP WITH SPARTA

Question 29

WHO STRENGTHENED ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY BY INTRODUCING PAID GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS?

Accepted Answer

PERICLES

Question 30

TUTOR OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT WHO QUESTIONED EVERYTHING AND MADE METHOD FOR ARGUING USING LOGIC?

Accepted Answer

ARISTOTLE

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