Gods and Myths
Who are Zeus and Hera?
Name the two most influential city-states in all of Ancient Greece.
What are Athens and Sparta?
These are the two groups that fought the war.
Who are the Greeks and the Trojans?
This is the number of Spartan soldiers who helped defend the Greeks against the Persians during the Battle of Thermopylae?
What is 300?
This goddess was thought to be born from Zeus's head.
Who is Athena?
This is the name of the messenger god.
What is Hermes?
This is what Sparta was concerned with.
What is military power?
This is the name of the woman who was "kidnapped" which helped spark the war.
Who is Helen?
While there were many different Greek city-states, all Greeks had four (4) things in common. Name one of the four things all Greeks had in common.
What is:
a. Greek language
b. Olympics
c. religion
d. fear of the Persian Empire
Other than Macedonia and Greece, name one of the places that Alexander the Great conquered and was part of his empire.
What is:
Persian Empire
Parts of Asia
Egypt
These two gods are twins; one was in charge of the sun, the other was in charge of the moon.
Who are Apollo and Artemis?
This is the kind of government Athens had.
What is democracy?
This is the name of the Trojan prince who stole a Greek man's wife.
Who is Paris?
List two specific facts that are true about only the ANCIENT Olympics.
Answers will vary.
This philosopher rarely wrote anything down and held the belief that you should question everything and everyone.
Who is Socrates?
Name two of the four purposes of Greek myths.
What are:
a. to entertain/tell about heroes
b. explain something in nature
c. teach about the gods/religion
d. teach lessons to children (and adults)
What is Athens?
This group won the war.
Who are the Greeks?
Name the three main Greek philosophers in order from earliest to latest.
Who are
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Name on of the two main texts written by Homer.
What are the Iliad and/or the Odyssey?
This is what Hephaestus is the god of.
What is fire and blacksmithing?
This is why Ancient Greece had so many different city-states and governments.
What is because it is so mountainous?
This is the name of man who came up with the idea for building the Trojan Horse.
Who is Odysseus?
This man was leader of the Macedonians and Greeks before Alexander the Great took over.
Who is Philip II?
This is the type of religion that the Greeks had. It means they believed in more than one god.
What is polytheistic?