Greek Mythology and Customs
All aspects of Greek culture reflected belief in the
Olympian gods.
who was the king of the gods and ruler of the heavens
Zeus
The world of ancient Greece included the Greek mainland, dipping down from continental Europe, and
western Asia Minor.
Complete the sentence:
The Odyssey were created by Homer almost__________years ago
3000
Who was the king of the gods
Zeus
Who was Hera?
Zeus' wife and goddess of married women
What is the Asian part of present days that included hundreds of islands
Turkey
Homer was born in lonia in western Asia Minor,
perhaps on the island of Chios, and he was______
a)blind
b)deaf
c)dumb
blind
The tallest mountain in Greece where the gods dwell is:
a)Mount Olympus
b)Mount sparta
c)Mount Ionia
Mount Olympus
Who was the god of the sea
Poseidon
According to the Historical context Who was the ruler of Ithaca?
Odysseus
Homer is accredited with writing the
a)Iliad
b)Radii
c)Virgil
Iliad
The early poet Hesiod wrote a mythic account of the origin of the gods in Theogony. According to that origin myth, first there was...
a)Chaos, a dark, empty void.
b)The Earth that generated the skies.
c)The Giant gods
Chaos, a dark, empty
void.
Who was Aphrodite?
goddess of love and beauty
Minoans developed a writing system, preserved on
clay tablets on which they wrote
The Odyssey is about
a)Alexander Hamilton
b)Odysseus
c)Beyonce
Odysseus
Complete the sentence:
The Greek gods were powerful, but they were not all powerful: even_____________had to bow to fate
Zeus
Who was Athenea?
goddess of wisdom, skills, and war
Minoan civilization in about 1450 b.c. collapsed perhaps due to
Earthquakes and invasion.
When Homer created his poems He was inspired in
The Trojan War