Geography
Greece located on the coast of this sea.
What is the Mediterranean?
Everything that this egotistical king touched turned to gold - including his food and even his own daughter!
Who is King Midas?
This god is known as the King of the Gods.
Who is Zeus?
Epic poems and myths started out as these in Ancient Greece.
What are oral traditions?
This mountain is one of the tallest in Europe and is the home of the gods in Greek Mythology.
What is Mount Olympus?
What is the Minotaur?
This god is in charge of the sea and of storms (and...horses?)
Who is Poseidon?
Homer's epic poems were about this war.
What is the Trojan War?
This island is the largest in the Aegean Sea and the location of the first ever ancient Greek civilization.
What is Crete?
What natural phenomenon did the goddess Demeter threaten the world with when Hades kidnapped Persephone?
What is winter?
These twins are the god and goddess of the sun and the moon (please name both of them).
Who are Apollo and Artemis?
If he existed, Homer wrote these two epic poems (name both of them).
What is The Illiad and The Odyssey?
These two city-states were famous for their rivalry in ancient Greece. One was named after the goddess of intelligence, and the other was known for its powerful military.
What are Athens and Sparta?
This legendary hero was slain during the Trojan War when an arrow hit him in the heel.
Who is Achilles?
This god - the god of the forge - was thrown off of Mt. Olympus as a baby because Hera was a terrible mother.
Who is Hephaestus?
This library in ancient Egypt burned down - and with it, numerous ancient artifacts were destroyed (Mx. Hunt is real sad about it).
What is the Library of Alexandria?
Name 3 modern-day countries that are near Greece.
Mx. Hunt will check your answers!
This father and son duo were trapped in a maze and engineered wax wings in order to escape. (Name both for full points!)
Who are Daedalus and Icarus?
This goddess shares a name with a flower and is in charge of creating rainbows.
Who is Iris?
This century BCE is when the actual Trojan War took place.
What is the 12th century BCE?