Ancient Greek culture. Of or related to Greece, its people, or its language.
Hellenic Greece
100
Greek plays based on the suffering of a hero and usually ending in disaster, sometimes presented in a trilogy (set of 3)
Tragedy
100
Government in which citizens elect representatives to make laws
representative government
100
Greek philosopher and teacher. Taught using the Socratic Method, he would ask his students questions, when they would answer the question, he would ask them more questions.
Socrates
100
Greek-like; a cultural blend, under Alexander the Great's policies, of Greek, Persian, Indian, and Egyptian.
Hellenistic Greece
200
A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
city-state (polis)
200
Plays that made fun of people and ideas, especially politics.
Comedy
200
A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives
direct democracy
200
Greek philosopher and student of Socrates. Started a school called The Academy and wrote the Republic which explained his ideal society where there would be fairness and justice for all.
Plato
200
He conquered most of the ancient world from Asia Minor to Egypt and India, which began the Hellenistic culture which was a blending of Greek, Persian, Indian, and Egyptian influences.
Alexander The Great
300
A fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city
acropolis
300
A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works
mythology
300
Absolute power of one ruler that is often cruel
tyranny
300
Greek philosopher and student of Plato. He discovered logic and reason (clear and ordered thinking). He thought people should live a life of balance.
Aristotle
300
(Greek architecture) a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used to support a structure, spread during the Hellenistic Period
columns
400
Alliance among Greek city-states to protect against the Persians
Delian League
400
Greek epic poems (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy and the Trojan War.
Iliad and the Odyssey
400
Birthplace of democracy
Athens, Greece
400
A Hellenistic mathematician and engineer who invented simple machines such as the water screw and pulley.
Archimedes
400
Myths and legends of the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, spread during the Hellenistic Period
Greek mythology
500
A large temple dedicated to the goddess Athena on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
Parthenon
500
The war between Athens and Sparta that in which Sparta won.
Peloponnesian War
500
Citizen of Athens
Male property owners only- Not women, children, slaves, or very poor.
500
Hellenistic mathematician who developed many basic geometric theorems which are still in use in geometry today.
Pythagoras
500
the modern culture of western Europe and North America