Mythology - Quiz 2

1. The central room with an open hearth of a Mycenaean palace is called a _____. a. Megaron 2. The pioneer German archaeologist Heinrich _____ excavated Troy, Mycenae, and Tiryns. a. Heinrich Schliemann 3. Troy VI-VIIa has been identified as the city of King _____. a. Priam 4. The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans excavated the palace of King _____ at Cnossos on Crete. a. Minos 5. Archaeologists refer to the Bronze Age civilization on Crete with the adjective _____. a. Minoan 6. The Late Helladic period is more commonly referred to as the _____ Age. (The answer is not Late Bronze.) a. Mycenaean 7. In some respects, the layout of the palace at Cnossos resembles the legendary _____. a. Labyrinth 8. The word "_____" may have originally meant "home of the double ax." a. Labyrinth 9. The Homeric epithet describes Mycenae as "rich in _____." a. Gold 10. Because of the size of the stones, the walls of Mycenaean fortresses are called _____. a. Cyclopean 11. The _____, a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena, was built on the Acropolis of Athens between 447 and 438 B.C. a. Parthenon 12. At Mycenae, the archaeologist _____ excavated shaft graves and tholos tombs. a. Schliemann 13. The text found on clay tablets at many Mycenaean sites is called _____. a. Linear B 14. Schliemann determined that Hisarlik was the site of the ancient city _____. a. Troy 15. Shortly after the destruction of Troy around 1184 B.C., Greece entered a Dark Age associated with the metal _____. a. Iron 16. The Aeneid of _____ and the Metamorphoses of Ovid were written during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus a. Vergil