Greek A&A QUIZ 1

Question 1

Wrote The History of Art and Antiquity in 1764

Answer 1

Johann Winkelmann

Question 2

Attributed to the finding of Troy and Mycenae

Answer 2

Heinrich Schliemann

Question 3

Discovered Knossos and the Minoan Civilization

Answer 3

Arthur Evans

Question 4

Excavated Gournia on Crete

Answer 4

Harriet Boyd

Question 5

Name the ways short time was measured

Answer 5

Klepsydra (water thief)

• 6 minutes
• Used to measure the length of lawyers’ speeches

Water Clock
-17 hours to empty

Question 6

What about months?

Answer 6

The Attic calendar

-Starts in June/ July with Hekatombion (month of Panathenaic festival)

Question 7

Name the local ways for keeping track of the year

Answer 7

• For democratic states, used the city’s magistrate

- For cities with tyrants, used “In the X year of the reign of…”

Question 8

National way to track the year?

Answer 8

The Olympiad

• Every 4 years
• “In the 3rd year of the 1st Olympiad”

Question 9

What was the year of the first Olympics?

Answer 9

776 BCE

Question 10

How do archaeologists date the objects they find?

Answer 10

• Absolute Chronology
• -Calendars
• -Dendrochronology (using tree rings)
• -Radiocarbon Dating
• -Archaeomagnetism

-Relative Chronology

• Stratigraphy
• -Uses layers of soil

Question 11

Neolithic Figurines

Answer 11

• Terracotta/stone
• Wide hips
• Schematic

Question 12

Lerna

Answer 12

• Located across from Franchthi Cave
• Had a wall around it used for defense
• 3000-2000 BC
• Many terra-cotta seals found

Question 13

What was the House of Tiles?

Answer 13

• Type: Corridor House
• Complicated layout
• Terracotta roof tiles