Golden Age of Athens

Select the 2 battles that the Greeks were victorious in during the Persian Wars.

• Salamis

• Thermopylae

• Marathon

• Plataea

Pericles was the leader of Athens during its Golden Age

• True

• False

Who was the Father of Medicine?

• Socrates

• Plato

• Homer

• Hippocrates

Herodotus was the Father of _______?

• Medicine

• History

• Philosophy

• Nature

Philosopher who believed in absolute truth, and was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth

• Socrates

• Phidias

• Plato

• Aristotle

Greek sculptor who created the enormous statues

• Homer

• Sophocles

• Phidias

• Euripides

What was the chief contribution that Pericles made to Athens? 

• He soundly defeated the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae.
• He directed the rebuilding of the city, which had lain in ruins.
• He destroyed a number of unwanted buildings, such as the Parthenon.
• He established democracy in Athens for the first time.

Greeks worshiped...

• many gods and goddesses.
• only one god.
• one god and three goddesses.
• only the 12 Olympian gods.

Greeks used three styles of columns. Which of the following places those styles in the correct order from simplest to most complex?

• Ionic, Doric, Corinthian
• Corinthian, Doric, Ionic
• Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
• Ionic, Corinthian, Doric

Which statement about Greek plays is true?

• In comedies, men played female characters and women played male characters.
• Men played all the characters, both male and female.   
• There were no women actors because there were no female roles in Greek plays.
• Only unmarried women could perform in Greek plays.