CLASSICS 2300 MIDTERM 2 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
VERIFIED.
Philostratus, Life of Appolonius; Explaining Hellandikai - ANS If you have worked so as to
be worthy of going to Olympia, if you have done nothing indolent nor ignoble, then take heart
and march on; but those who have not so trained may leave and go where-ever they like.
Epictetus; Spectator Labours - ANS There are unpleasant difficult things in life. But don't
they happen at Olympia? Don't you suffer from the heat? Aren't you cramped for space? Don't
you bathe badly? Don't you get soaked whenever it rains? Don't you get your fill of noise and
shouting and other annoyances? But I suspect you compare all this to the value of the show and
endure it.
Pausanias; Zeus Horikos - ANS Of all the images of Zeus, the Zeus in the Bouleuterion is
the one most likely to strike terror into the hearts of sinners. This Zeus...holds a thunderbolt in
each hand. Beside this statue it is established for athletes, their fathers and brothers, and their
trainers to swear an oath on slices of the flesh of wild boars that they will do nothing evil
against the Olympic Games.
Gold Ring with Zeus Horkios - ANS
Ribbon Tying/Throwing -- First Crowning - ANS Phyllabolia
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, Cthonic Blood Sacrafice to pelops - ANS Conclusion of Day 2 of Olympic Festival
Naked events - ANS Gymnikoi Agones
Triumphal return home - ANS Eiselasis
Victory table - ANS
In honour of Apollo; Began 586 BCE - ANS Pythian Games
League that controlled sanctuary of Delphi - ANS Amphictyonic League
Thucydides; Story of Cylon - ANS An Athenian named Cylon, an Olympic victor, of good
birth and an able man. He married the daughter of Theagenes of Megara, tyrant of Megara.
When Cylon inquired of the Delphic oracle, the oracle told him to seize the Acropolis during the
"greatest festival of Zeus." He thought that the games must be the "greatest festival of Zeus"
and that the fact that he had won at those games would be to his advantage.
siphnian treasury - ANS
athenian treasury - ANS
bronze charioteer, dedicated to polyzalos - ANS
Agias (Dedication of Dachous) - ANS
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
VERIFIED.
Philostratus, Life of Appolonius; Explaining Hellandikai - ANS If you have worked so as to
be worthy of going to Olympia, if you have done nothing indolent nor ignoble, then take heart
and march on; but those who have not so trained may leave and go where-ever they like.
Epictetus; Spectator Labours - ANS There are unpleasant difficult things in life. But don't
they happen at Olympia? Don't you suffer from the heat? Aren't you cramped for space? Don't
you bathe badly? Don't you get soaked whenever it rains? Don't you get your fill of noise and
shouting and other annoyances? But I suspect you compare all this to the value of the show and
endure it.
Pausanias; Zeus Horikos - ANS Of all the images of Zeus, the Zeus in the Bouleuterion is
the one most likely to strike terror into the hearts of sinners. This Zeus...holds a thunderbolt in
each hand. Beside this statue it is established for athletes, their fathers and brothers, and their
trainers to swear an oath on slices of the flesh of wild boars that they will do nothing evil
against the Olympic Games.
Gold Ring with Zeus Horkios - ANS
Ribbon Tying/Throwing -- First Crowning - ANS Phyllabolia
1
, Cthonic Blood Sacrafice to pelops - ANS Conclusion of Day 2 of Olympic Festival
Naked events - ANS Gymnikoi Agones
Triumphal return home - ANS Eiselasis
Victory table - ANS
In honour of Apollo; Began 586 BCE - ANS Pythian Games
League that controlled sanctuary of Delphi - ANS Amphictyonic League
Thucydides; Story of Cylon - ANS An Athenian named Cylon, an Olympic victor, of good
birth and an able man. He married the daughter of Theagenes of Megara, tyrant of Megara.
When Cylon inquired of the Delphic oracle, the oracle told him to seize the Acropolis during the
"greatest festival of Zeus." He thought that the games must be the "greatest festival of Zeus"
and that the fact that he had won at those games would be to his advantage.
siphnian treasury - ANS
athenian treasury - ANS
bronze charioteer, dedicated to polyzalos - ANS
Agias (Dedication of Dachous) - ANS
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