Golden Age of Athens

What are 2 important things Pericles did?

• Promoted Monarchy and started the olympics

• Promoted Democracy and rebuilt Athens

• Promoted Oligarchy and rebuilt Persia

• Promoted Anarchy and built a statue of Atena

Doric, Ionic and Corinthian are three types of:

• Greek food

• Greek columns

• Greek temples

• Greek gods

One of the great achievements of Greek sculptors was:

• Creating lifelike statues

• Creating statues with moving parts

• Building ships that could carry many people

• Creating statues of people's pets

What is one thing that is similar between Greek plays and modern movies?

• They cost millions of dollars to make

• Amazing special effects

• Awards for best actor and writer

• Only men were actors

Because Socrates was accused of not honoring the gods with his philosophy, he was:

• Banned from teaching

• Asked to leave Greece

• Sentenced to death

• Awarded a prize for best philosopher

On the acropolis, Athenians built

• magnificent temples as earthly homes for their gods and goddesses.

• a sports center where they held the Olympics every four years.

• a meeting place where citizens gathered to discuss issues of the day.

• all answers apply.

Greeks worshiped

• many gods and goddesses.

• only one god.

• the big three.

• only the 12 Olympian gods.

Which mountain in Greece gave its name to the twelve most important gods and goddesses?

• Mount Vesuvius

• Mount Etna

• Mount Kythnos

• Mount Olympus

What was the role of master sculptors in ancient Athens?

• They made life-size clay models, which apprentices followed when sculpting with marble.

• They added the details and finishing touches to statues that had been roughed out by apprentices.

• They applied wax and bright colors to the statue’s hair, lips, clothes, and headdress.

• They roughed out the statues in marble so that the apprentices could add the final details.

Greek plays grew out of

• songs and dances that the Greeks performed at harvest time to honor Dionysus.

• solemn religious rituals performed at the beginning of the year in tribute to Zeus.

• spring festivals that appealed to Hermes to bring forth a good crop each year.

• celebrations of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, to pay homage to Apollo.