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Category: People - (11 questions) When was Classical archaelogy born October 22, 1738, when Roque Joaquin Alcubierre lowered himself into a well that led to Herculaneum - town covered by Mount Vesuvius explosion When did Mt. Vesuvius erupt burying 79 AD Johann Joachim Winckelmann's contribution studied all known statues and divided them to into 4 periods archaic, high / sublime, beautiful period and degenerate period Main archaeologist at Pompeii that Giuseppe Fiorelli - used plaster technique to revolutionized field reveal human shapes in ruins, layed open city for visitors, left paintings and mosaics in place Who was Heinrich Schliemann dug up and Mycennae "tomb of Agammemnon" Define: thermoluminescent dating technique was of dating clay items by the amount of light they emit when fired to 400 degrees centigrade Identify: suit of Mycenaen armor found at Dendra found in warrior tomb Greek god for grain and bread Demeter Identify: Antikythera device - built to analyze astronomical movements What emperor scattered Jews across Roman Emperor Hadrian empire What was the agape tradition of "love feast" Pagan tradition in which people imagined they were feasting with their dead loved ones Category: Art - (9 questions) Identify: Laocoon - located now in gardens of Vatican. Portrays priest of Troy being killed by serpents to prevent him telling Trojans not to accept Trojan horse Identify: Apollo Belvedere - named so because it stood in the pope's belvedere. Shows Apollo just after letting arrow fly Who developed grid method of excavation in Mortimer Wheeler and Tessa Verney archaeology (married archaeology team) Identify: The Charioteer - found by French at Delphi Identify: Phaistos disk - found in Minoan palace of Phaistos of south coast of Crete Identify: fresco from Crete town Akrotiri from Admiral's House Identify: fresco from Crete town of Akrotiri from Delta House Identify type of pottery: Samian ware - used by Romion legions in mess kits

Identify: statue of Roman Emperor Hadrian found at Troy in Turkey Category: Events - (1 questions) What initial act set off the Jewish rebellion a group of young men who performed a from Rome in 66 AD pagan sacrifice outside the door of the synagogue Category: Culture - (11 questions) Identify type of structure: stoa - a place with a colonnade and covered porch behind it Identify: mosiac of the 9 muses from Torre de Palma in Portugal - was a Roman villa Another name for Greek god Persephone Kore - "the maiden" What happened in Greek legend at city where Demeter learned what happened to Eleusis daughter Persophone, and where Kore returned through a fissure in earth 4 sites for ancient pan-Hellenic athletic Olympia - in honor of Zeus games Delphia - site of Pythian Games in honor of Apollo Isthmus near Corinth - in honor of Poseidon Nemea - in the Peloponnese - in honor of Zeus Where does the invention of pipe organ go inventors at the library of Alexandria in Egypt back to especially Ktesibios (270 BC) What great engineering project did build a tunnel through a mountain to bring Polycrates do at Samos in ancient Greece water to city Who were the police in ancient slaves, Scythian archers How did Hadrian rise to Roman Emperor was raised by Emperor Trajan after parents died, adopted after Trajan had no children Who was the young companion of Roman Antinoos Hadrian What was the god Mithras came from Persian culture very popular with Roman legionnaires, represented a struggle between good and evil Category: Architecture - (7 questions) What was the standard agricultural calendar grain is planted in fall and harvested in the in Classical era of Mediteranean early summer (June) Type of vessel: krater - ceremonial vessel in which wine and water would have been mixed in Classical era What was a Roman circus racetrack for chariot races What was the largest circus in Rome Circus Maximus - could hold 250,000 people Indentify building: Roman Colosseum How many elevators were built into Rome's 30 Colosseum Identify: The Pantheon in Rome