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Chapter 2 (Lecture 1)
Intro/Historical Background
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Classics
Undergraduate 1
01/20/2016

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Wilhelm Dörpfeld
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Who was the contemporary of and successor to Schliemann at Troy?
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Cyclopean
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What name has been given to the type of walls found at Mycenae?
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Wilusa
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What seems to have been the Hittite name for Troy?
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Asia Minor
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In what region is the origin of Homer likely to be found?
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The Dorians
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In a widely held theory, to whom was the destruction of Bronze Age settlements attributed?
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The Greeks
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Who is responsible for the creation of the first true alphabet?
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The eighth century B. C.
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When can we locate the emergence of Homer's epics?
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Troy VIIa
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In which layer of settlements did Carl Blegen locate Homer's Troy?
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Nine
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How many settlements were located on the hill of Hissarlik?
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Michael Ventris
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Who is principally credited with unlocking the mystery of Linear B?
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Carl Blegen
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Who is responsible for excavating at Pylos?
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Mycenae
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Which palace contains the famous Lion Gate?
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"rich in gold"
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What is a common Homeric epithet for Mycenae?
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1600-1100 B. C.
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When can we date the Late Bronze Age?
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Sir Arthur Evans
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Who unearthed the Palace of Minos at Cnossus?
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Their great walls
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The Mycenaean Civilization was known for...
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Minoan art did not depict violence whereas Mycenaean art did
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What is the main difference between Minoan and Mycenaean art?
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An early form of Greek
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The Linear B tablet was...
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Gods
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The Linear B tablet lists many...
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1100 - 800 BC
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The Dark Age was from...
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Word of mouth
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How were myths transmitted in the Dark Age?
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In the Dark Age
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When did iron technology come to Greece?
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Taking the Phoenician script from the East and using it to develop it
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The Greek Alphabet was established by...
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480 - 323 BC
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The Classical Age was from...
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480 - 404 BC
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When was the Golden Age of Athens?
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Herodotus
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The earliest historian whose writings survived was...
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323 - 31 BC
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The Hellenistic age was from...
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480 BC
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When did the Persian Empire invade Greece?
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Homer and Hesiod
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The first writers of myths were...
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1200 BC
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The Mycenaean civilization deteriorated around...
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30 BC onwards
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The Roman Era was from...
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1400/1500 BC
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When did the Mycenaeans invade Crete?
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The Trojans who beat the Greeks
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Who did the Romans say they descended from?
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43 BC - 17 AD
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Ovid, a Roman writer, lived from...
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Livy
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Urbe Condita was written by...
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Ovid
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Metamorphoses was written by...
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70 - 19 BC
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Virgil lived from...
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Warlike and practical than the Greeks
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In general, the Romans were more...
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They believed him to be more tricky and preferred straightforwardness
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The Romans disliked Odysseus because...
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Apollodorus
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Bibliotheca was written by...
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Latin
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What language did Roman writers write in?
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Apollonius of Rhodes
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Argonautica was written by...
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Apollonius of Rhodes
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Generally, which Roman writer made a mockery of the gods?
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The religious calendar
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What was Fasti?
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Ovid
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Ars Amatoria was written by...
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Ovid
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Fasti was written by...
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Jason and the Argonauts
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The work "Argonautica" was a story about...
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750 BC
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Homer wrote about...
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700 BC
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Hesiod wrote about...
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Homer
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The last author of the Dark Ages was...
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2000 - 1100 BC
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The Bronze Age was from...
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Pindar
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Who wrote fancy poems or songs for victors in Olympian games?
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Pindar
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In terms of lyrical poetry, who's works survived in large fragments?
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His accounts were very mythological
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Herodotus was known as the Father of Histories but some people called him the Father of Lies because...
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Calling upon their muses
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Poets often introduced writing by...
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Centre of civilization
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Knossos was the...
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Cyclopean masonry
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What kind of art were the walls of the Mycenaeans known as?
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