Inventions/Discoveries
This used water to turn a stone that ground upgrain.
What is a water mill?
The most popular spectator sport in ancient Greece
What is chariot racing?
Comedy, satyr and tragedy.
What are the three types of ancient greek plays?
One person who has the power to rule.
What is a king or queen?
A greek term meaning wanderer
What is a planet?
This was first described as being used for measuring distance around 27 BC.
What is an odometer?
A heavy thick-centered disk thrown by an athlete, in ancient Greek games or in modern field events
What is a discus?
These dealt with the big themes of love, loss, pride, the abuse of power and the fraught relationships between men and gods.
What is a tragedy?
Governments where only a few people hold power.
What is oligarchy?
In ancient Greece, this was considered a branch of mathmatics.
What is astronomy?
Traced back to 776 BC. They were dedicated to the Olympian gods and were staged on the plains of Olympia.
What are the olympics?
A light spear thrown in a competitive sport
What is a javelin?
The first to introduce dialogue between characters
Who was Aescnylus?
A type of government where men used a variety of means to gain control, from political tactics to violence.
What is tyranny?
Discovered in an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, the Antikythera Mechanism, is the oldest surviving one of these.
What is the first astronomical calculator?
The study and practice of making map,the Greeks took what they had at their disposal and brought this into a new light.
What is cartography?
Location of many sporting events in ancient Greece.
What is the stadium of Olympia?
The first theater to have been constructed in the world and the oldest one in Greece.
What is the theater of Dionysus?
These were the four main types of government.
What are Democracy, monarchy, Oligarchy and tyranny?
Aristarchus of Samos said that this was the central fire of the cosmos and he placed all of the then known planets in their correct order of distance around it.
What is the sun?
Inventor Ctesibius added an elaborate alarm system to his clepsydras which involved pebbles dropping on to a gong, or the blowing of a trumpet by forcing bell jars down into water to create this.
What is an alarm clock?
This included running, jumping and discus throwing.
What is a Pentathlon?
He was considered to be the most famous and celebrated writers of tragedy plays in ancient Greece , having written over 100 plays.
Who is Sophocles
This word comes from the greek DEMOS, meaning people and KRATOS, meaning power
What is democracy?
This theory actually predicted the behaviour of the planets, and dominated the practice of astronomy for 1,400 years
What is the Ptolemy theory?