This mathematician developed a formula for calculating the length of the sides of triangles and also believed that if you lived good and pure lives you could live forever.
Who is Pythagoras?
100
This festival involved competitions between playwrights and was held to honor a god.
What is The Festival of Dionysos?
100
This children's game is very similar to the modern day game of jacks.
What is knucklebones?
100
The type of leaf of which the winner's crown was made.
What is the olive leaf?
100
This is the site where people sought advice from the gods. The priestess would consult the oracle and then communicate messages from the gods to the people.
What is Delphi?
200
This ancient Greek is considered the father of history.
Who is Herodotus?
200
This group was made up of citizens from the 10 tribes of Athens. During a play they would comment on the play's events in song.
What is the chorus?
200
This part of the house often contained an altar dedicated to the goddess Hestia.
What is the courtyard?
200
Other than javelin and discus throwing, jumping, and running, the fifth event in the pentathlon of ancient Greece.
What is wrestling?
200
She is the wife of Zeus.
Who is Hera?
300
This mathematician wrote one of the first math books and is considered the first to have truly investigated geometry.
Who is Euclid?
300
The Pythian Games, held in Delphi, were held to honor this god.
Who is Apollo?
300
This "men-only" entertainment was a drinking party.
What is a symposium?
300
This is the arena in which the chariot games were held during the ancient games.
What is the hippodrome?
300
This god is known for his bad temper and was believed to have caused earthquakes.
What was Poseidon?
400
This ancient Greek was selected to the post of general 15 times. His building program resulted in the building and repair of many of Athen's finest structures, including the Parthenon.
Who is Pericles?
400
This part of the theater, commonly known now as the auditorium, consisted of semi-circular rows of seats rising up .
What is the theatron?
400
In this city state girls typically married at 13 and married men who were at least twice their age.
What is Athens?
400
Known as one of the hardest events, this Olympic event of ancient Greece involved both boxing and wrestling skills. The only forbidden moves were biting and gouging with fingers.
What is the Pankration?
400
She is the goddess of agriculture.
Who is Demeter?
500
This philosopher believed that an ideal government was one ruled by a few, carefully chosen, wise men. He also founded the first university.
Who is Plato?
500
This stone building provided the background scenery for the play being performed on the stage.
What is skene?
500
The number of days after death after which the ancient Greeks believed the spirit was free to leave the body and travel to the afterlife.
What is 30?
500
He was the first winner of the chariot races in the original Olympic Games and his funeral ceremonies were reenacted during the ancient games' festivities.
Who was Pelops?
500
Zeus said this god was the most hated of all his children.