Science and Philosophy
The man who was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer, and developed the water pump for the irrigation system.
Who was Archimedes?
The God of the sea who is commonly pictured with a trident.
Who is Poseidon?
This more difficult style of pottery done by making figures by painting around them.
What is red-figure pottery?
These plays included some type of moral or political message.
What are tragedies?
This person opens the Greek assembly that takes place to make decisions in Athens.
Who is the Preceding Officer?
This Greek weapon was used to hurl large bolts at enemies up to 500 yards away.
What is the Ballista?
The God of Thunder.
Who is Zeus?
The three types of pillar styles in Greece.
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian pillars?
The most successful Athenian Playwrite.
Who was Sophocles?
The age boys went to school in Athens or the Barracks in Sparta.
What is the age of 7?
His teachings were considered so outrageous that officials blamed him for corrupting the minds of young Athenians.
Who was Socrates?
The god of Strategic Warefare.
Who is Athena?
These columns were the simplest columns used in ancient Greece which can also be found on the Lincoln Memorial, and had no base.
What are Doric pillars?
These people would ofter sing the story and wear very silly costumes
What was the chorus?
This man was responsible for many buildings on the Acropolis including the Parthenon.
Who was Pericles?
The four most prominent Greek philosophers
Who were Thales, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle?
The god of wine and theater.
Who is Dionysus?
More slender and more ornate than the earlier Doric style, an Ionic column has scroll-shaped ornaments on the top.
What are Ionic columns?
The first person to ever be considered an actor
Who was Thespis?
The two Greek goddesses in the Parthenon.
Who are Athena and Nike?
The sign above this person's academy was said to have read "No one ignorant of geometry enter here."
Who is Plato?
The god of Victory.
Who is Nike?
The place where Greek towns kept, made, and sold their pottery.
What are the Kerameikos?
The three types of plays in ancient Greece.
What are tragedies, Comedies, and satyrs?
The principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens.
What was the Ecclesia?