Greek Roots
This Greek root means "city-state" or relating to "city."
What is "-polis"?
This Greek root means "earth" or "ground."
What is "geo-"?
This is the type of story that explains a natural phenomenon and/or aspects of Greek culture and religion. Characters include gods, humans, and monsters.
What is a myth?
These are names of three styles of Greek columns.
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
This is the name for military formation. Soldiers marched together in a square carrying shields, swords, and spears.
What is a phalanx?
This Greek root means "people."
What is "demo-"?
This Greek Root means "study of"?
What is "-ology"?
This is a type of story that teaches a moral (what is right and wrong behavior) and has animals with human traits for characters.
What is a fable?
This is name of the games that were held every four years in Olympia. Athletes from different city-states would compete.
What are the Olympic Games?
These are the names of three battles during the Greco-Persian War.
What are Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis?
This Greek root means "power" or "rule."
What is "-cracy," or "-crat"?
What is the name of a body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides?
What is a peninsula?
12 gods live on this mythological and real mountain, including Zeus. This is a common setting in Greek myths.
What is Mount Olympus?
These are four examples of Olympic sports performed in Ancient Greece.
Pankration, boxing, javelin, sprinting, chariot racing, discus...
This is the name of a demigod who was forced to do 12 labors or tasks by his vengeful step-mother Hera.
Who is Heracles?
This Greek root means "top" or "high."
What is "acro"?
These are three geographical features found in Greece (not including peninsula).
What are archipelagos, rivers, mountain, islands, seas? (Any of these three)
This is what the Greek number system is based on.
What is the Greek alphabet?
This is the name of a famous Greek doctor. Doctors today take a pledge or oath inspired by his ideas.
Who is Hippocrates?
In Greek mythology, this is term for when a human's destiny or future is already decided for them.
What is fate?
This Greek root means "to write" or "to draw?"
What is "-graphy"?
This reason makes mountains a good place for settlement.
What is protection? Elaborate on your answer. Other answers are possible.
This is the term for a central struggle or problem in a story. Name two types of this in Greek mythology.
What is conflict? Examples include character vs. character, character vs. society...
This is the name of the poet who wrote a myth about the Trojan War.
Who is Homer?
What is a navy and trireme?