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The Most Famous Poet from Ancient Greece and wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
What is Homer?
Tutored Alexander the Great and identified around 500 different species
What is Aristotle?
This war lasted 27 years
What is the Peloponnesian War?
God of War
What is Ares?
Describe three innovations of the Greeks in terms of the theater
What is -- padded clothing to make the actors look bigger
-- masks with megaphone mouths
--10 inch platform shoes
-- excellent acoustics in huge semi-circular amphitheaters (18,000 person seating capacity at the theater of Dionysus at base of Acropolis)
-- special effects of thunder (boulder underneath) and cranes (mechane) to fly in actors to be gods/goddesses
-- Orchestra at bottom with raised stage (proscenium) with a building behind it called a skene (scene plus dressing room)?
Father of Alexander the Great
What is Phillip II?
Wrote The Elements
What is Euclid?
This war lasted 10 years. The Iliad's time period is throughout this war
What is the Trojan War?
Father of Ares, Apollo, Persephone, and Artemis
Brother of Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Demeter
What is Zeus?
What were the three types of Greek columns?
What is Doric Ionic and Corinthian?
Was apparently the most beautiful woman
What is Helen?
One of the most famous Athenian sculptors
What is Phidias?
What caused Sparta to win the Peloponnesian War?
What is "-plague
- Athenians under Alcibiades attacked the city of Syracuse on the island of Sicily in hopes of gaining a new source of grain and cattle and also wanted control of the trade routes in the western Mediterranean; was planned poorly – many Athenians killed and many surviving soldiers enslaved – Athenian fleet sustained a lot of damage – lost mastery of the seas – the Spartans now had a fleet created from supplies from the Persians and so now could cut off the port of Piraeus after ambushing what was left of the Athenian ships off the coast of Ionia and laid siege to Athens – Athens no choice but to surrender – had to tear down all fortifications and surrender any surviving ships – Thirty Tyrant system set up to govern Athens by Sparta but only lasted one year"?
Father of Polyphemus and the Earthquake God
What is Posieden?
Journey home took ten years
What is Odysseus?
HQ is The Underworld
What is Hades?