Midterm Review

Who wrote the Iliad

• Homer

• Hesiod

• Virgil

• Sophocles

Who discovered Troy?

• Heinrich Schliemann

• Arthur Evans

• Howard Carter

• Leonard Wooley

Who is Agememmnon?

• A Greek king and lead of the Greek forces in the Trojan War

• An ancient Greek philosopher

• A Trojan warrior

• A Greek poet

What did Arthur Evans do?

• Founded the city of Athens

• Wrote about the Hittites

• Discovered Troy

• Excavated the palace of Knossos

Trojan Prince and Hero killed by Achilles

• Priam

• Hector

• Paris

• Aeneas

Name of the Cycladic Bronze Age site on the volcanic Greek Island of Santorini?

• Pylos

• Knossos

• Akrotiri

• Delphi

The largest Minoan major palatial centre

• Pylos

• Knossos

• Mycenae

• Thera

What site is associated with Troy?

• Wilusa

• Thera

• Ephesus

• Pylos

Basileus

• village "chief," later Greek king

• type of script

• Dark age house

• military commander

What is a wanax?

• Tribal leader, chief, king

• a Greek god

• Major waterway between Greece and Turkey

• a Greek cloak