a long narrative poem celebrating the deeds of legendary or traditional heroes
What is Epic
100
the son of a Macedonian ruler who conquered most of the known world and established the Hellenistic Age
Who is Alexander the Great
100
A famous Greek doctor and philosopher who believed disease had a natural cause.
Who is Hippocrates
100
alliance of 140 city-states that drove the Persians from the territories surrounding Greece
What is Delian League
200
a government controlled by its citizens, either directly or through representatives
What is Democracy
200
a government in which citizens rule directly rather than through representatives
What is Direct Democracy
200
An important scientist who accurately estimated the value of pi, explained the lever, invented the compound pulley to lift heavy objects as well as other inventions
Who is Archimedes
200
A blind Greek poet and storyteller credited with popularizing the Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer
200
a military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields
What is Phalanx
300
a government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility
What is Aristocracy
300
a Greek city-state—the fundamental political unit of ancient Greece after about 750 B.C.
What is Polis
300
Plato’s famous student who started the Lyceum which was a school for studying logic in all branches of knowledge – foundation for scientific method
Who is Aristotle
300
a seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete from about 2000 B.C. to 1400 B.C. and had a great impact on later Greek civilization
Who are the Minoans
300
war between Sparta and Athens in 431 B.C., in 404 B.C. Athens surrendered
What is Peloponnesian war
400
a humorous form of drama that often includes slapstick or satire
What is Comedy
400
the art of skillful speaking.
What is Rhetoric
400
A Greek-speaking people that migrated into mainland Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization.
Who are the Dorians
400
An Indo-European people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C.
Who are the Mycenaeans
400
A series of wars in 5th century B.C. in which Greek city-states battle the Persian Empire
What is Persian Wars
500
relating to the civilization, language, art, science, and literature of the Greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great to the late second century B.C.
What is Hellenistic
500
a government in which power is in the hands of a few people – especially one in which rule is based upon wealth
What is Oligarchy
500
A highly regarded Hellenistic thinker who opened a school of geometry in Alexandria
Who is Euclid
500
Greece’s greatest philosopher who said “the unexamined life is not worth living” he was later killed for corrupting the youth
Who is Socrates
500
culture that started in Greece; evolved in Europe and spread to the Americas