It's All Greek to Me
This government type literally means "people of the people."
What is democracy?
The Greeks defeated invasions from this empire in the Persian Wars.
What is the Persian Empire?
Known for its lighthouse and library, this city had many similarly named sisters.
What is Alexandria?
Considered the Father of Greek Philosophy, this man was put to death by the government of Athens.
Who is Socrates?
In math, this Greek letter represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is pi?
Today, people use this Greek word to mean "a cruel and oppressive ruler."
What is a tyrant?
This battle had a casualty after the fighting ended - a runner sent to Athens died after delivering news of victory.
What is Marathon?
In this city you could find the Academy and the Lyceum, the greatest schools of the ancient world.
What is Athens?
Considered the "Father of History," this man wrote a history of the Persian Wars using eyewitness testimony.
Who is Herodotus?
This mathematician began the modern study of geometry.
Who is Euclid?
This government type means "rule by the few."
What is oligarchy?
This young leader conquered as far east as the Indus River.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Literally meaning "goat-song," this popular drama genre tells serious stories that end in death and suffering.
What is tragedy?
Aristotle taught that people should live by this "metallic average."
What is the golden mean?
This scientific theory puts the sun at the center of the solar system.
Heliocentric theory.
Greeks called their city-states by this Greek word.
What is a polis?
This Athenian general and politician died of the plague during a siege.
Who is Pericles?
This city-state's women had the highest level of freedom in the Greek world.
What is Sparta?
According to Plato, these would rule in the ideal government.
Who are philosophers?
Archimedes used his "Eureka moment" to answer a king's question about this item.
What is a crown?
What was the fighting formation of heavily armed Greek soldiers called?
What is the phalanx?
This Greek woman probably was involved in the assassination of her husband, the man who had conquered Greece.
According to Aristotle, this feeling was the goal of Greek tragedy.
What is catharsis?
With a name meaning "Glory of God," this historian wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Thucydides?
Archimedes was from this Greek city in modern-day Sicily.
What is Syracuse?