Early Greeks
What was Homer known as?
Blind Poet
Where is Greece located?
South Eastern Europe
How many Spartans were killed in the Battle of Thermopylae?
300 Spartans
Who were the Titans?
Giants beings before the Gods
How many books did Aristotle wrote?
200
What was the Dorian period known as?
"Dark age"
How many islands does Greece have?
Over 2,000 islands
When was the Battle of Marathon?
490 BCE
Why couldn't Persephone leave the Underworld
She ate a pomegranate
Who was Aristotle's famous student?
What year did the Trojan war start?
1250 B.C.
What is the tallest mountain in Greece?
Mount Olympus
Who made this quote? “Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
Herodotus
Midas was the king of what area?
Phrygia
Why was Socrates sentenced for death?
For 'corrupting the young'
The Iliad and The Odyssey
Name the seas in Greece
Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea
What kind type of battle was The Battle of Salamis?
Naval battle
Where did the ancient Greeks believed the minotaur lived?
Crete
What year did Alexander the Great declared as pharaoh?
332 BCE
How did the Greeks trick the Trojans?
Wooden Horse
True or False: The sea shaped Greek life just as the rivers shaped Egypt and China
True
Who won the Persian Wars?
The Greeks
What group murdered Orpheus?
Maenads
In 335 BCE Aristotle opened his own school called-
Lyceum