Mythology
A culture that worships a group of gods and goddess.
What is Polytheism.
When was the first Olympic games held?
What is 776 B.C.E.
What is the god of light, art, music, medicine, and prophecy.
What poet do historians believe wrote the epic poems, "The Iliad," and "The Odyssey?"
Who is Homer.
Who is Greek cities of Sparta and Troy.
Greek storytellers wrote about what?
What is they wrote myths about gods, goddesses, monsters, and heroes.
Olympic Games were a part of what type of ceremony?
What is religious ceremony.
What is a prophecy?
What is a prediction about the future.
Which poet is it that may not exist at all?
What happened during the visit between the son of the King of Troy and the king of Sparta?
What is during the visit, the young son named Paris kidnapped Menelaus's wife, Helen.
Where was the home to the gods and goddesses?
What is Mount Olympus.
Greek athletes competed in what type of events?
What is running, boxing, discus throwing, javelin throwing and chariot racing.
Who is Artemis.
What is a fable?
What is a short story with a lesson.
Spartans came up with a trick after many years of war, what was the trick?
What is they left a huge wooden horse outside of the Troy's city walls.
Greeks used stories to explain the world and ____?
What is why people behave the way they did.
Who was not allowed to attend the Olympics?
Who is women.
Who was the Titan that was the creator and protector of mankind?
Who is Prometheus.
Aesop's fables include what?
What is animals as main characters?
What did one of the Spartans say the horse was, to one of the Trojans?
What is that the huge wooden horse was a peace offering and they didn't want to fight anymore.
Greek myths tell that Poseidon was the reason for what kind of natural mystery?
What is he created Earth Quakes.
Greek women competed in their own games called what?
What is Heraea Games.
Who did the gods fight against for a long time?
Who is the Titans.
Why did Aesop use animals in his fables?
What is at the time animals were thought to be a lower form of life, used for food or to do work; this meant Aesop could use them for characters without making anyone upset.
What was inside of the horse?
What is Spartan soldiers.