Vocabulary
A story told to explain the reasons for an event
a. truce
b. myth
c. moral
B. myth
Which type of Greek drama has a happy ending?
This was an athletic competition that started in ancient Greece to honor Zeus.
The Olympics.
Enslaved people in Sparta
a. metics
b. citizens
c. warriors
d. helots
d. helots
Which type of Greek drama has a sad ending?
Tragedy
True or false: the Olympic Games were a time for peace, negotiations, and truces.
True
Land that you can settle for your home country that is far away.
a. colony
b. moral
c. myth
d. truce
a. colony
True or false: Greeks built the Parthenon to honor Athena.
True
“We need friends when we are young to keep us from error, when we get old to tend upon us and to carry out those plans which we have not strength to execute ourselves, and in the prime of life to help us in noble deeds.”
—Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
When does Aristotle think it is important to have friends?
In every part of your life
During the Olympic Games, people had a _________, or agreement to stop fighting.
a. myth
b. truce
c. moral
b. truce
Ancient Greeks believed Poseidon was god of _____
the sea
Which philosopher's death scene was shown in a painting by a French artist?
a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. Socrates
d. Euripides
c. Socrates
Socrates thought a lot about ________ problems. He wanted people to think about right and wrong.
a. moral
b. truce
c. myth
a. moral
What did ancient Greeks call themselves?
a. hellenes
b. grecians
c. acropolis
d. corinthians
a. Hellenes
"The Republic" by Plato focused on organizing a just ____________.
society