Ancient Greece

What was the name of the Greek commander at the failed Sicily Campaign between 415 and 413BCE

• Alcibiades

• Lysander

• Nicias

• Pericles

The Peloponnesian War was between which two states

• Thrace and Athens

• Athens and Sparta

• Athens, Thrace and Sparta

• Confusion and Sanity

Which of these is not one of the three types of play performed at the City Dionysia?

• Satire

• Comedy

• Tragedy

• Satyr

• Sitcom

What comedy technique is being used when a character trips over a broom?

• Scatalogical

• Breaking the 4th Wall

• Parody

• Slapstick

• Pun

Between 489 and 480 BC Athens expanded their fleet from 40 to 200 triremes. What made this possible?

• The Persian army had been defeated in Iran

• Athens had created a naval tax to raise funds to build the ships

• Silver had been discovered at Laurion near Athens.

• The sacking of all valuables at Troy

• Pericles left money in his will to build the new ships.

This city was first to rebel against its Persian overlords in 499BCE.

• Anatolia

• Ephesus

• Thrace

• Plataea

• Miletus

Which Greek Commander jumped overboard with his dog having learnt Athens intended to place him on trial?

• Nicias

• Pericles

• Alcibiades

• Xerxes

• Darius III

What was the first set back of Darius' campaign against Athens?

• A plague spread in Persepolis

• A storm broke his fleet off Mt Athos

• Athens and Sparta defeated him at Salamis

• The Macedonians outflanked his army and destroyed his food supplies

How did Syracuse defeat the Athenian Navy in Sicily?

• They ambushed them in a valley near the Grand Harbour

• They used Greek Fire against the ships.

• There was a fog and they attacked them whilst they were blind

• They placed a chain across the harbour mouth and trapped them.

What name is given to the entrance on both sides of the stage?

• The Skene

• The Passagarium

• The Parados

• The fluvium exitus