Great Men
This Macedonian king conquered so much land his empire extended all the way to India.
Alexander the Great
The famous battle between 300 Spartans and 100,000 Persians.
Battle of Thermopylae
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta
He never wrote anything down. He was the teacher of Plato.
Socrates
Author of the two epic poems about the Trojan War.
Homer
Pericles
The first Persian king to attack Greece.
Darius
The group of city-states loyal to Spartans.
Peloponnesian League
This school was founded by Plato.
Academy
(Daily Double)
The Iliad and the Odyssey are both examples of what type of poetry?
epic
This man is responsible for building Athen's great navy and saving her during the Battle of Salamis.
Themistocles
The Oracle told the Athenians to trust in these during the final battle with Xerxes.
Wooden Walls
This man was originally Athenian, but he betrayed Athens and allied himself with both Sparta and Persia at different points during the Peloponnesian War.
This school was founded by Aristotle.
Lyceum
This playwrite added a third actor to the stage.
Sophocles
The "Good Tyrant"
Pisistratus
Leonidas
This man wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
This philosopher taught Alexander the Great to love all things Greek.
Aristotle
Author of the Oresteia.
This Spartan king is credited with having made Sparta what it was. He made radical reforms to the Spartan way of life that made it more warlike.
This Athenian former tyrant turned traitor and helped Xerxes attack Athens.
Hippias
This group of city-states was loyal to Athens.
Delian League
These teachers of oratory were more concerned with getting recognition than speaking the truth.
Remember the....
Thespians!