CLASSICS 2300 MIDTERM 2 | ACTUAL 231 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE |
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Philostratus, Life of Appolonius; Explaining Hellandikai - (answer)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 - (answer)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 - (answer)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 - (answer)
Ribbon Tying/Throwing -- First Crowning - (answer)Phyllabolia
Cthonic Blood Sacrafice to pelops - (answer)Conclusion of Day 2 of Olympic Festival
Naked events - (answer)Gymnikoi Agones
Triumphal return home - (answer)Eiselasis
Victory table - (answer)
In honour of Apollo; Began 586 BCE - (answer)Pythian Games
League that controlled sanctuary of Delphi - (answer)Amphictyonic League
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Thucydides; Story of Cylon - (answer)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 - (answer)
athenian treasury - (answer)
bronze charioteer, dedicated to polyzalos - (answer)
Agias (Dedication of Dachous) - (answer)
Kleobis and Biton (Dioscouri) - (answer)
Apollodorus; 1st Foundation Myth, In honour of Melicertes/Palaimon - (answer)Hermes took him [the
infant Dionysos] to Ino and Athamas, and persuaded them to bring him up as a girl. Because she was
angry, Hera inflicted madness on them, so that Athamas stalked and killed his elder son Learkhos on the
conviction that he was a deer, while Ino threw Melikertes (Melicertes) into a basin of boiling water, and
then, carrying both the basin and the corpse of the boy, she jumped to the bottom of the sea. Now she
is called Leukothea (Leucothea), and her son is Palaimon (Palaemon): these names they receive from
those who sail, for they help sailors beset by storms. Also, the Isthmian games were established by
Sisyphos in honor of Melikertes.
Plutarch; 2nd Foundation Myth, Founded by Theseus in Honour of Poseidon - (answer)Theseus
establishes the Isthmian Games in honor of Poseidon, in emulation of Heracles who established the
Olympic Games in honor of Zeus.
Theseus discovering
The tokens of his father Aigeus - (answer)
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Philostratus, Life of Appolonius; Explaining Hellandikai - (answer)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 - (answer)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 - (answer)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 - (answer)
Ribbon Tying/Throwing -- First Crowning - (answer)Phyllabolia
Cthonic Blood Sacrafice to pelops - (answer)Conclusion of Day 2 of Olympic Festival
Naked events - (answer)Gymnikoi Agones
Triumphal return home - (answer)Eiselasis
Victory table - (answer)
In honour of Apollo; Began 586 BCE - (answer)Pythian Games
League that controlled sanctuary of Delphi - (answer)Amphictyonic League
, CLASSICS 2300 MIDTERM 2 | ACTUAL 231 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE |
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS.
Thucydides; Story of Cylon - (answer)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 - (answer)
athenian treasury - (answer)
bronze charioteer, dedicated to polyzalos - (answer)
Agias (Dedication of Dachous) - (answer)
Kleobis and Biton (Dioscouri) - (answer)
Apollodorus; 1st Foundation Myth, In honour of Melicertes/Palaimon - (answer)Hermes took him [the
infant Dionysos] to Ino and Athamas, and persuaded them to bring him up as a girl. Because she was
angry, Hera inflicted madness on them, so that Athamas stalked and killed his elder son Learkhos on the
conviction that he was a deer, while Ino threw Melikertes (Melicertes) into a basin of boiling water, and
then, carrying both the basin and the corpse of the boy, she jumped to the bottom of the sea. Now she
is called Leukothea (Leucothea), and her son is Palaimon (Palaemon): these names they receive from
those who sail, for they help sailors beset by storms. Also, the Isthmian games were established by
Sisyphos in honor of Melikertes.
Plutarch; 2nd Foundation Myth, Founded by Theseus in Honour of Poseidon - (answer)Theseus
establishes the Isthmian Games in honor of Poseidon, in emulation of Heracles who established the
Olympic Games in honor of Zeus.
Theseus discovering
The tokens of his father Aigeus - (answer)
