Exam 2: The Cultural Context of Classical Myth

Between the ages of eighteen and twenty a Greek male was called an _______, "one who had come of age."

Which ancient script was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952 and proved to be an early form of Greek?

Which of the following words signify a stage in a Greek female's development?

The ancient Greeks had access to excellent deposits of which of the following two natural resources?

Which of the following were among the principal occupations of a Greek woman throughout her life?

Later Greeks attributed the destruction of the Mycenaean world to an invasion by Greek-speaking peoples form northwest Greece whom they called the _______.

What are the two principal groups of Greek islands?

What was the name of the remarkably good-looking man who drowned trying to grasp his own reflection in a spring?

The Greek alphabet was invented by adapting the writing of which ancient people?

According to Aristotle, "man is by nature a _______ animal."

The people later called the Greeks belonged to a cultural and linguistic group known as the _______.

Slaves made up an estimated _______ of the population of the workforce of classical Athens.

We date the start of which period at 323 BC, when Alexander the Great died of fever in Babylon?

North of Rome lived the powerful _______, who, like the Greeks, lived in independent city-states.

At which remote oracle in northwestern Greece did servants of Zeus and Dionê interpret the rustling of the wind in an oak tree?

Which Greek historian coined the word history, which means "inquiry"?

This is a representation of a _______.

Between 650 and 500 BC, many Greek city-states were ruled by strong men known as _______.

How many people does Greece support today?

The early period of Rome, when Rome was ruled mainly by the aristocrats in the Senate, is known as the _______.