City-States
The Greek name for city-states.
What is Polis?
The name of the king of the gods, god of lightning.
Who is Zeus?
The Athenian philosopher who recorded the constitutions of 170 different Greek city-states.
Who was Aristotle?
The style of column made famous for its ornate decorations at the top and bottom.
What is Corinthian?
The creature that Odysseus' men built to get into the city of Troy.
What is the wooden horse? What is the Trojan horse?
The city-state most famous for education and strategy.
What is Athens?
The name of the god of war and fighting.
Who is Ares?
The philosopher who created an important math theorem we use to solve triangles.
Who was Pythagoras?
The name of the literature that still inspires new creations today, including Epic: The Musical and the recent Christopher Nolan film.
What is the Odyssey?
The name of the god of victory in competition.
Who is Nike?
The city-state most famous for its army and strength.
What is Sparta?
The name of the goddess of the harvest.
Who is Demeter?
The philosopher who taught that asking questions was the best way to learn.
Who was Socrates?
The literature written by Homer that covers the Trojan War.
What is the Illiad?
The number of children Rhea and Chronos had that Chronos swallowed.
What is 11?
What is Rhodes?
The name of the goddess of spring, who is the daughter of the goddess of the harvest.
Who is Persephone?
The philosopher who was once a wrestler known by a nickname meaning "broad."
Who was Plato?
The description of how the universe works that lasted for over a thousand years but was ultimately wrong.
What is the sun revolving around the earth?
The Greek hero who was named after a goddess in the hopes she would spare him, but ended up having a tragic end where he killed his wife and children.
Who was Herakles? Who was Hercules?
The city-state that had a giant statue of Hera in it.
What is Argos?
The name of the goddess of the hearth, the oldest sister of the king of the gods.
Who is Hestia?
The philosopher who once brought a plucked chicken to a debate and called it a "man."
Who was Diogenes?
The number of miles that the Greeks thought was the circumference of the earth.
What is 28,000 or 29,000 miles?
The object that caused the Trojan War, given by the goddess of discord, Eris.