Summative_Golden Age of Athens

During the Golden Age, _________________ is best known for leading the rebuilding of Athens.

• Socrates

• Cleisthenes

• Pericles

• Phidias

The Greeks excelled in philosophy, art, architecture, and ___________________.

• theater

• map making

• electronics

• transportation

During the Golden Age, the (a)   , a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena, was rebuilt.

• Parthenon
• Acropolis
• Oracle of Delphi
• Erechtheion

What does the word "Philosophy" mean?

• Love of Greece

• Love of ancient history

• Love of wisdom

• Love of Philosophy

Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian are three types of:

• Greek food

• Greek columns

• Greek temples

• Greek gods

Some of the sports the ancient Greeks competed in included:

• dance competition

• an early form of soccer

• races and combat sports

• an early form of basketball

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

The hill above a Greek city, on which temples were built was called

• a myth

• the Panathenaic Games

• the Parthenon

• the acropolis

Greeks worshiped

• many gods and goddesses.

• only one god.

• the big three.

• only the 12 Olympian gods.

How did the sculptor Phidias make sure that Athens would remember him?

• He used his own face on every statue of gods that he created on the acropolis.

• He carved his name in large bold letters on every sculpture that he made.

• He destroyed statues in Athens made by other sculptors and replaced those statues with his own.

• He put his own face on the shield carried by the statue of Athena in the Parthenon.