Geography
This sea was the heart of the Ancient Greek world. Today is exists between the coastlines of Greece and Turkey.
What is the Aegean Sea?
This city is famously the place where Democracy was first organized.
What is Athens?
This blind man supposedly wrote the epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
This Athenian philosopher was put to death for corrupting the youth of Athens. His appearance was famously mocked during his lifetime.
Who is Socrates?
These people were neighbors of the Greeks to the northwest. Their most famous ruler would go on to conquer an empire stretching from Egypt to India.
Who are the Macedonians?
According to myth and legend, the Spartan people invaded southern Greece from the north. Historically, they occupied the southernmost point of this peninsula.
What is the Peloponnese
Philip II supposedly spent his early years as a child hostage in this city.
What is Thebes?
This famous epic poetic character at one point referred to himself as "nobody" leading to a lifelong conflict with Poseidon, the god of the seas.
Who is Odysseus?
This Athenian nobleman is often credited as the founder of Democracy. He legitimized his rule by supposedly being associates with the Goddess Athena.
Who is Cleisthenes?
This empire was one of the first superpowers and the most powerful country of its time. In this society women had equal rights to men and slavery was illegal.
What is the Persian Empire?
The Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian empire conquered many of the Greek cities on this peninsula, which is alternatively called Anatolia?
What is Asia Minor?
This city practiced a form of public slavery. Their aristocracy and royalty claimed to be descended from Herakles.
What is Sparta?
The author of these two plays, The Birds and The Clouds, was one of the most famous entertainers of his time. He was most popular in Athens, where many of his plays were centered.
Who is Aristophanes?
This highly respected Athenian military commander presided over the Golden Age of Athens. His death was the result of him ending his own life.
Who is Pericles?
This society was patriarchal and dominated the Peloponnese during the Bronze Age. During times of war, their men wore helmets made from boars' tusks.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
Alexander the Great burned down this city, which was the capital of the intercontinental empire which he conquered in the final decade of his life.
What is Persepolis?
Alcibiades lead a disastrous military campaign against this city in Magna Graecia, now Sicily.
What is Syracuse?
Because it was destroyed as a result of volcanic and seismic activity, and predated the classical Greeks by at least five hundred years, some scholars consider this site to be the inspiration for Atlantis in Plato's dialogues.
What is Crete?
Often considered to be the first Historian, this classical Greek writer is known for his text, The Histories, which describes the customs, histories, and traditions of the various peoples of the world.
Who is Herodotus?
This society was Matriarchal. They lived on the island of Crete and may have been the inspiration for the story of the Minotaur.
Who are the Minoans?
This city was bombed by the United States throughout the early 2000's and was also designated by Alexander the Great as the capital of his empire.
What is Baghdad?
This city housed one of the most important Greek religious figures of the classical period, the Oracle, who, according to myth and legend, could communicate directly with the God Apollo.
What is Delphi?
Alexander the Great wished to live up to the memory of the tragic hero, known for his near invincibility and blinding rage as he describes himself in the first stanza of Homer's The Iliad.
Who is Achilles?
This monarch ruled over an ancient kingdom in the fourth century B.C.E.. His son ascended to the throne at the age of 21 after this monarch was assassinated under mysterious circumstances?
Who is Phillip II?
These people came from north of Greece. They invaded and conquered during the Greek Dark Age. Their descendants include the Spartans.
Who are the Dorians?