Greek Myth
Who was the ruler of the Gods?
Zeus
What is the form of government in which the power is in the hands of the people. (And people vote!)
Democracy
What was the cultural interests of Sparta?
Military strength/military focus
What is the architectural structure used by the Ancient Greeks that we still use today?
Greek Columns
List one of the events at the Olympics.
Wrestling, Sprinting, chariot racing, and fighting.
This is the Greek Goddess of Wisdom (and war strategy)
Athena
What were the two cultural interests of Athens? (Two things they were mainly concerned with)
Learning and the arts
What is the name of a government controlled by a few wealthy people? (the government of Sparta)
An oligarchy
What is the study of wisdom called?
Philosophy
Every how many years did the Ancient Greek Olympics take place?
four years
Where is the home of the Greek gods?
Mt. Olympus
Who were the three great Athenian philosophers?
Socrates. Plato, and Aristotle.
What is a "helot"?
Spartan slave
Name one Greek Invention
Alarm clock, catapult, crane, odometer, cartography, medicine, astronomy, etc.
The Greeks entertained themselves in many ways. What did the Greeks do for fun?
Participated in sporting events (like Olympics), performed in plays, etc. (anything we talked about in class).
This is a creature with the body of a man but the head and tail of a bull.
He was also banished to “the Labyrinth"
The Minotaur
What is the name of the Athenian temple for the goddess Athena that looks similar to the Lincoln Memorial?
The Parthenon.
Why were women trained physically in Sparta?
They believed physically strong mothers gave birth to physically strong children.
The word that comes from Greek word that means "Seeing place"
Theater
Blank was the genre of play that taught a moral lesson.
Tragedy
The "hound of Hades"
Cerberus
Which city-states' women had more power, Athens or Sparta?
Sparta
What were Spartan women allowed to participate in? What were they not allowed to do in Sparta?
They could own property and participate in business transactions. They could not vote.
This person was Alexander the Great's tutor.
Aristotle
What actors wore to allow them to play multiple parts in one play
Masks