Mythology
Who is the king of the Greek gods?
Zeus
What was the war between Athens and Sparta called?
Peloponnesian War
Who wrote two of the major Ancient Greek epic poems and what are they called?
Homer/Iliad and Odyssey
What is the name of the famous temple dedicated to Athena in Athens?
Parthenon
What type of democracy did Athens have?
Direct democracy
Who was the Greek god of wine?
Dionysus
What wars were fought before the Peloponnesian War?
Greco-Persian Wars
Who is considered the father of Western philosophy?
Socrates
What are the three styles of Greek columns?
Corinthian, doric, ionic
How were most offices in Athens filled?
By lottery
Who is the Queen of the Underworld and how did she become queen?
Persephone/Hades kidnapped her and tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, which bound her to the underworld so she had to spend part of the year in the underworld
Which city-state demanded intense military training in boys from a young age?
Sparta
Which famous Ancient Greek philosopher was a teacher of Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
On the sides of pottery
What was the council of 500 citizens in Athens that proposed laws called?
Boule
Who is the Greek goddess of wisdom and war and what animal is her symbol?
Athena/owl
Who won the Peloponnesian War and who were they led by?
Sparta/Lysander
Which philosopher was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle?
Plato
What were most Greek plays based on?
What 3 groups of people were not considered citizens and therefore were not included in the lottery?
Women, slaves, and metics (foreigners)
Who was the Greek hero that fought in the Trojan War and is the main character in the Illiad?
Achilles
What were ancient Greek soldiers called?
Hoplites
Which Greek politician and general led Athens during the first part of the Peloponnesian war before dying of plague in Athens in 429 BC? Also named the "first citizen of Athens" by the historian Thucydides
Pericles
Who was the famous sculptor that created the statue of Zeus at Olympia and the statue of Athena in the Parthenon
Phidias
Who is known as the father of Athenian democracy?
Cleisthenes