Vocabulary 1
A long poem that tells the deed of a hero
what is an Epic Poem?
Commander in Chief
What is an Imperator?
The people of the Crete land
What is a Minoan?
People of the Mycenae land
What is a Mycenaeans?
Arete represented the highest human potential
Why is arete so important to Greek Culture?
An absolute ruler
What is a Dictator?
Consisting of a city or town and its surrounding territory
What is a Polis?
The capital of Greece
What is Athens?
The author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
Male citizens who had special rights
Who lived in a Polis?
The leader is not a king and certain citizens have the right to vote
What is a Republic?
A system of government in which the people participate in government decision making through mass meetings
What is Direct Democracy?
Rome's first code of laws.
What are the Twelve Tables?
A Roman historian, writer, and philosopher
Who was Livy?
How did the Roman Republic gain control of the lands of the Mediterranean?
The won the Punic war
A government made up of three people with equal power
What is a Triumvirate?
An official Roman Republican in charge of enforcing civil law
What is a Praetor?
a philosopher known for the Socratic Method
Who is Socrates?
A Greek philosopher who is the first genuine scientist in history
Who is Aristotle?
Why was the Dark age of Greece considered so "dark"?
Because few records of what happened exist.
A social class made up of minor landholders, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers.
The form of drama that portrays a conflict between protagonist and a superior force.
What is a tragedy?
A popular assembly for plebeians
What is the Consul of Plebs?
Natural Law based on reason?
Citizens can vote on specific issues