It's Greek to Me
This is the Greek name for a city-state.
What is a polis?
This famous couple are the king and queen of the Greek gods.
Who are Zeus and Hera?
This is a city that is also a country.
What is a city-state?
This is the island to the south of mainland Greece.
What is Crete?
This is the author of the Odyssey and the Iliad.
Who is Homer?
These were the responsibilities of Athenian women.
What are childcare and housework (domestic duties)?
This is the Greek god of the sea.
Who is Poseidon?
This is the age at which Spartan boys were separated from their families.
What is seven years old?
This is the large sea that touches Italy, Greece, the Levant, and Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is the author of the Theogony.
Who is Hesiod?
He's the father of western philosophical ethics.
Who is Socrates?
This deity won a competition to become the patron deity of Athens.
Who is Athena?
This is the political system where everyone in society gets to vote on every issue.
What is direct democracy?
This is the region to the east of Greece in what we would now call Turkey.
What is Anatolia?
The Minoans engaged in this odd sport.
What is bull leaping?
This war between Athens and Sparta ended in a truce.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This is the patron god of Sparta.
Who is Ares?
These were the special kind of slaves that existed in Sparta.
What are Helots?
Sparta is located on this peninsula in the southern part of mainland Greece.
What is Peloponnesus?
This is the language spoken by the Mycenaeans.
What is Greek?
This Athenian philosopher wrote The Republic and advocated for a group of philosopher-kings ruling society.
Who is Plato?
This is Hades' wife, whom he kidnapped and took to the underworld. Her story explains the change of seasons.
Who is Persephone?
In this battle, 300 Spartans and 6,700 other Greeks fought off 200,000 Persians for three days.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
This trading center, strategically located between mainland Greece, Egypt, and the Levant, was the biggest Minoan city.
What is Knossos?
These are the two kinds of drama Athenians wrote and performed.
What is comedy and tragedy?