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Exploring Ancient Greece: A Quiz on Culture and History

Test your knowledge of Ancient Greece with this engaging quiz that explores its culture, historical conflicts, and influential figures.

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1 Rapidly increasing population in the 8th and 7th centuries had resulted in emigration of many Greeks to form colonies in Magna Graecia (Southern Italy and ________), Asia Minor and further afield.

2 The rise of ________ and Sparta as pre-eminent powers during this conflict led directly to the Peloponnesian War, which saw further development of the nature of warfare, strategy and tactics.

3 Ancient Greece website from the ________

4 Forced to attack, the crippled Athenian fleet was decisively defeated by the Spartans under the command of ________ at Aegospotami.

5 The Aetolian league grew wary of Roman involvement in Greece, and sided with the Seleucids in the ________; when the Romans were victorious, the league was effectively absorbed into the Republic.

6 Although the ________ was inconclusive, the Romans, in typical fashion, continued to make war on Macedon until it was completely absorbed into the Roman Republic (by 149 BC).

7 The ________ (c.710-c.650 BC) was an ongoing conflict with the distinction of being the earliest documented war of the ancient Greek period.

8 Greece was a key eastern province of the ________, as the Roman culture had long been in fact Greco-Roman.

9 The ________, a device for calculating the movements of planets, dates from about 80 B.C., and was the first ancestor of the astronomical computer.

10 A playwright named ________ changed Western literature forever when he introduced the ideas of dialogue and interacting characters to playwriting.

šŸ’” Interesting Facts

  • the catastrophe was the final resolution of Ancient Greek tragedies, in which one or more main characters usually died.
  • the Delphic Hymns, written in stone between 138 and 128 BC in Ancient Greece, are the earliest surviving unambiguous notated music in the western world.
  • the cabriole leg (pictured) is a furniture style occurring in ancient China and Greece that re-emerged in Europe around 1700.
  • the Berlin Foundry Cup (pictured), an ancient Greek drinking cup by the Foundry Painter, depicts the operations of a bronze sculpture workshop.
  • the Battle of Lechaeum was the first battle in ancient Greek history in which heavy infantry, or hoplites, were defeated by spear throwers, or peltasts.
  • the Eurymedon vase has been cited as evidence of Ancient Greek sexual mores.
  • the Gortyn code is the largest surviving piece of ancient Greek epigraphy.
  • the sole surviving portion of the work of 4th-century musical writer Alypius is the chief source of modern knowledge of Greek musical notation.
  • through Greek trading colonies like Al Mina on the Syrian coast the Phoenician alphabet was transmitted to ancient Greece in the 8th century BCE.
  • the Sicilian cart is a colorful folk art form based on a cart design adopted from the ancient Greeks.
  • the Ravi River was known as Paruį¹£į¹‡Ä« or IrāvatÄ« to Indians in the Vedic period and as Hydraotes to the Ancient Greeks.
  • the lyre arm design (pictured) has endured from prehistory and Ancient Greece through the American Federal Period.
  • the barrel vault (pictured) was developed chiefly by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but endured to be a mainstay of medieval and even modern architecture.
  • the nipples of the Ancient Greek statue Victorious Youth (pictured) were cast in copper to contrast with the bronze of the torso.
  • Leslie Buck designed the Grecian-themed Anthora coffee cup, a cultural icon of New York City, to appeal to the city's Greek American restaurant owners.
  • St Mary the Virgin Church (pictured) in Brighton, England, stands on the site of a former churchā€”designed as a replica of the Greek Temple of Nemesisā€”which collapsed in 1876.
  • double flowers were first documented as a floral abnormality in ancient Greece and are found in many common flower varieties including impatiens (example pictured), carnations, camellias and roses.
  • climacteric years, occuring septennially, were considered critical and dangerous moments in an Ancient Greek's life.
  • chryselephantine sculptures (fragments pictured) were monumental statues made of gold and ivory that depicted the gods in Ancient Greek temples.
  • L'AnnĆ©e philologique (The Year in Philology) annually gathers scholarly work related to ancient Greece and Rome from approximately 2,000 sources.
  • in ancient Greece, small bowls, such as pateras, were used for libations.
  • the ancient Greek city of Cyme in Asia Minor was the largest and most important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians.
  • the ancient Greek city of Psophis was said to have been ravaged by the Erymanthian Boar.
  • the Greeks introduced wine to Romania around 3,000 years ago.
  • more is known about Neaira, a hetaera who lived during the 4th century BC in ancient Greece, than any other prostitute in classical antiquity.
  • in musique mesurĆ©e Renaissance composers attempted to bring back the musical traditions of Ancient Greece through the use of ancient meters and musical modes.
  • ancient Greek klismos chairs became fashionable again in the late 18th century.
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