Vocabulary
A gathering place or marketplace in Ancient Greece.
What is an agora?
What is a comedy?
Through mythology, Greeks expressed their religious beliefs.
What is the importance of mythology to the Ancient Greeks?
Almost exclusively on physical fitness and military training.
What was the Spartan lifestyle centered on?
A free native-born man who owned land.
Who was considered a Greek citizen in Ancient Greece?
A sacred shrive where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess.
What is an oracle?
One type of Greek drama that ends unhappily.
What is a tragedy.
The gods in Greek myths have great powers and act like human beings.
What is a description of the gods in Greek myths?
Education, physical activity, discussions of politics and philosophy, and the exploration of new ideas.
What were the Athenians focused on?
To find out about their future.
Why did the Greeks visit oracles?
An Ancient Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
A short story, often told orally by the Ancient Greeks, that includes talking animals and ends with a moral lesson.
What is a fable?
The king of the Greek gods and goddesses.
Who is Zeus?
They used iron bars.
What did the Spartans use for currency?
What is a peninsula?
A story written in the form of a play.
What is a drama?
A long story written by the Greeks that are believed to be true and often feature a hero on some sort of journey.
What is an epic?
Where the Greek gods and goddesses lived.
What is Mount Olympus?
Helots
What did Spartans call their captive slaves?
The custom of passing along stories by speech.
What are oral traditions?
A government in which a small group has control vs. a government by the people.
What is an oligarchy vs. a democracy?
Both The Iliad and The Odyssey written by Homer.
What are two examples of Greek epics?
Through conducting rituals, religious ceremonies, and the Olympics every 4 years.
How did the Greeks honor their gods and goddesses?
Close to the Aegean Sea.
Where was Athens built?
Reason, balance, and harmony.