No10 Y2 Classics Weekly Mix-Up Quiz

What was the name of the building at Eleusis, where the 'revelation' was believed to have occurred?

• Telesterion
• Bouleterion

• Ploutonion

• Propylaea

What was the name of the famous Athenian statesman who was accused of 'profaning' the Eleusinian Mysteries?

• Pericles
• Socrates
• Alcibiades
• Thucydides

Which term means 'initiate'?

• mystes

• epoptes

• kykaeon

• pythia

Which 2 locations are the main sanctuaries of Asclepius?

• Rhodes, Delphi
• Epidaurus, Kos
• Athens, Corinth
• Delphi, Olympia

What is the term for sleeping overnight in a sanctuary?

• incubation

• recuperation

• defenestration

• innoculation

Which scholar advises us "it is pointless to try and filter out the imaginary healing stories from the reality. What counts is the almost limitless faith in the power of the god"?

• Fritz Graf

• Robert Parker

• Esther Eidinow

• Edith Hall

What was the location near Athens of a healing cult to the hero Amphiaraus - similar rituals occurred here as at an Asclepion?

• Attica

• Dodona

• Eleusis

• Oropos

Who tells us the story of King Croesus of Lydia's wrong interpretation of the Delphic Oracle?

• Plutarch

• Pausanias

• Thucydides
• Herodotus

What did the Delphic Oracle tell Themistocles, according to Herodotus?

• Themistocles was advised to abandon Athens.
• Themistocles was told to trust in the wooden walls.
• Themistocles was told to ally with Sparta.

• Themistocles was told to seek peace with Persia.

What other god/goddess was worshipped at Dodona alongside Zeus?

• Dione
• Apollo
• Athena
• Hera