Famous People
Was known for a question based teaching method
Who is Socrates?
Stories to explain everyday events such as the rising of the sun?
What are myths?
The place where the Greek gods and goddesses are said to live
What is Mount Olympus?
A government in which one individual in possession of power takes control
What is a tyranny?
Life in Sparta was based around this
What is the military?
Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
Famous Greek hero who defeated the hydra
Who is Hercules?
A person able to participate in any government position
What is a citizen?
A type of government where the people vote for representatives
What is a democracy?
Women in Sparta had this, while most other women did not
What are rights?
Everything this man touches turns to gold
Who is Midas?
Are the two most famous Greek epics
What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
A short story, usually involving animals, that teaches a good moral
What is a fable?
A type of government in which power is held by nobles or rich men
What is an aristocracy?
A war between the Greek city-states, Athens and Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War?
Is known as the greatest Greek thinker
Who is Aristotle?
The two types of dramas
What are comedies and tragedies?
Greek thinker who thought people could understand everything
What is a philosopher?
A type of government in which only a few people have control
What is a oligarchy?
Life in Athens is based on training the ___________ and ________.
What are the body and the mind?
Said to be the greatest Greek doctor
Who is Hippocrates?
The first two deities
Who were Gaea and Uranus?
A gymnasium, created by Aristotle, in which physical activity as well as philosophical meetings occurred
What is the Lyceum?
Ancient Greeks were the founders of this type of government
What is democracy?
They won the Peloponnesian War
Who are the Spartans?