Myths
This god is attributed with giving fire to man.
Who is Prometheus?
This city-state became a democracy in 508 BC.
What is Athens?
The Greek warriors hid in this beast to surprise the Trojans.
What is a wooden horse?
Peloponnesian War was primarily between these two city-states
What is Athens and Sparta?
The Illiad and the Odyssey was written by this person
Who is Homer?
When this king touched anything it turned into gold.
Who is Kind Middas?
The original Olympics were hosted in what city.
What is Olympia?
Aristotle was the teacher of this general.
Who is Alexander the Great?
What is the Persian Empire?
Student of Socrates who is known for writing The Republic
Who is Plato?
This beautiful princess who was seduced by Zeus was turned into a cow by Hera.
Who is Io?
This temple in Athens was dedicated to Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
This doctor lived in Cos and is considered the father of medicine.
Who is Hippocrates?
The movie 300 was based off this battle
What is the Battle of Thermoplyae?
Female poet from Lesbos that has become a symbol for love and desire between women
Who is Sappho?
Tribe of independent warrior women. They fought in the Trojan War.
What are The Amazons?
This famous philosopher was ordered to death by the Athenian State.
Who is Socrates?
The first victim of The Brazen Bull torture device was this man.
Who was Perilaus of Athens? (or the inventor of the sadistic execution device)
Battle during the First Persian Invasion of Greece that the Greeks were able to win. After the win a man ran to Sparta to tell the news.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
Playwright who wrote The birds, The Frogs, The Clouds, and Lysistrata
Who is Aritophanes?
The name given to the men who followed Jason on his quest.
What is the Argonauts?
The Colossus was approximately 33 meters tall and in what city.
What is Rhodes?
Method invented by a Greek for determining the volume of an object with an irregular shape.
What is the Archimedes' Principle?
This League of Greek city-states fought the Roman Republic and lost
What is the Achaean League?
Hesiod, who lived at the time of Homer, wrote this piece of literature.
What is the Theogony or Works and Days?