Ancient Greek Terms
A busy outdoor market in the center of Athens
What is an agora?
Rule by king or queen.
What is monarchy?
This type of story was designed to teach a lesson.
What is a fable?
Father of medicine.
Who was Hippocrates?
In this city state women were rarely seen outside their homes.
What was Athens?
Group of nine godesseswho presided over the arts.
Who are the Muses?
Government ruled by the people.
What is democracy?
This traditional type of story explains a part of nature and was often about gods and godesses.
What is a myth?
He was the writer of both the Illiad and the Odysee.
Who was Homer?
In this city state women often had to do the work of men.
What was Sparta?
A wooden frame with moveable beads to use for math.
What is an abacus?
Rule by a few, usually those from the rich upper class.
What is oligarchy?
This literary art form was written to use for drama.
What are plays?
He was a Greek slave who wrote fables.
Who was Aesop?
In ancient Greece these were a group of people who met together to make laws. (No women allowed)
What was the asembly?
An outdoor theatre
What is an ampitheatre?
Powerful man who rules with complete authority.
What is tyrant?
These were lengthy poems about heros.
What is an epic?
He was a great military genius.
Who was Alexander the Great?
This is the highest mountain in Greece where the ancient Greeks believed the gods and godesses resided.
What is Mount Olympus?
A hill overlooking Athens and the center of religious life.
What was the Acropolis?
By the end of the dark ages both Athens and Sparta had what type of government.
What is oligarchy?
The two types of plays written in ancient Greece.
What are comedy and tragedy?
He wrote the first geometry book.
Who was Euclid?
He was a Greek historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian War.
Who was Thucydides?