Vocabulary
The rule of the many.
What is democracy?
The type of geographic feature that the majority of Greece is.
What is a peninsula?
The Age of this leader was considered the golden age of Athens.
Who is Pericles?
Who is Zeus?
Long poems.
What are epics?
A fortified area at the top of a hill.
What is an acropolis?
The smaller island, south of Greece, containing the city of Knossos.
What is Crete?
This ruler took over after his father and eventually conquered lands going as far as India.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The gods and goddesses live here.
What is Mount Olympus?
Traditional stories about gods and heroes?
The rule of government where a few hold the power.
What is an oligarchy?
The sea that separates the city states Athens and Troy.
What is the Aegean Sea?
Someone who takes power by force and rules with total authority.
The king of the gods' sister, who he married.
Who is Hera?
Greek plays that have a happy ending.
What are comedies?
Thinkers who pondered questions about life?
What are philosophers?
The name of a nation comprised of a group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
This philosopher created a method of questioning based on the idea that all real knowledge existed within everyone.
Who is Socrates?
Goddess of love who helped Odysseus.
Who is Aphrodite?
Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Only these people were considered citizens in early Athens.
When traveling to the city of Alexandria, this body of water would be the largest to be traveled through.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The teacher of Aristotle.
Who is Plato?
Messenger of the gods.
Who is Hermes?
Author of the iconic fables where the characters are animals and learn valuable life lessons.
Who is Aesop?