No17 Y2 Classics Monday Mix-Up

How tall was the ash altar at the temple of Zeus at Olympia?

• 3m

• 5m

• 7m

• 9m

Which hero supposedly started the ash altar?

• Herakles

• Theseus

• Pelops

• Odysseus

Which competition was held in the echo stoa on the first day of the Olympic Games?

• Foot race

• Trumpet

• Euandrion

• Wrestling

What was depicted on the temple of Apollo at Delphi’s east pediment dating to the classical period?

• Apollo sat on a tripod with his mother, sister and the muses

• Apollo wrestling Python with the help of Herakles

• Dionysus’ birth

• Apollo presiding over the centauromachy

What was the name of the King of the Lydians who asked the Pythia about his choice to invade Egypt?

• Agisilaos

• Croesus

• Leonidas

• Thucydides

Which ancient literary source tells us about what type of questions individuals asked the oracle at Delphi (hint = he worked as a priest there)?

• Pausanias

• Herodotus

• Plutarch

• Thucydides

Which god is depicted on the far left of this image?

• Poseidon

• Ares

• Hermes

• Dionysus

What is the term for the 2 young girls aged 7-12 who oversaw the creation of the peplos for Athena on the Acropolis?

• Ergastinai

• Arrephoroi

• Promanteia

• Nekyia

In what part of Athens did the Panathenaic Procession begin?

• Kerameikos (cemetery)

• Agora (marketplace)

• Areopagus (meeting place)

• Bouleterion (council house)

What is the date of this object?

• 460-450 BC

• 555-554 BC

• 333-332 BC

• 478-474 BC