Greece
This is a country in Europe that is a peninsula, has poor soil for growing, and is very mountainous.
What is Greece?
This is a large, irregular maze that it can be hard to find your way out of.
What is a labyrinth?
Greeks could not originally write down their stories, so they did this instead.
What is say them to each other / sing them?
The Trojan War began to get this woman back to Greece; she was husband to Menelaus.
Who is Helen?
This is the male god of war.
Who is Ares?
After intermarrying with the Dorians, this warrior-like group of people formed what we today call the Greeks.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
This is an invented story to explain a truth about the world.
What is a myth?
He was a very famous ancient Greek poet, who composed the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
The Trojan War ended with this trick by the Greeks, involving a lot of wood and some hiding.
What is the Trojan Horse?
This is the king of all the gods.
Who is Zeus?
This was a time when there was no writing in Greece.
What are the Greek Dark Ages?
This was considered the home of the Greek gods.
What is Mount Olympus?
This ancient Greek poem is about the Greeks attacking and conquering the city of Troy.
What is the Iliad?
These people hid inside the Trojan Horse, waiting to be dragged into the city of Troy so they could burst out and conquer the city.
Who are the Greeks?
This is the goddess of love.
Who is Aphrodite?
This is the queen of the gods.
Who is Hera?
To worship their Gods, Greeks would perform dramas and where these costume pieces.
What are masks?
This ancient Greek epic poem is about Odysseus returning home after the Trojan War.
What is the Odyssey?
This is the god of knowledge and light?
Who is Apollo?
This is the messenger god.
Who is Hermes?
This is the goddess of grain and the harvest.
Who is Demeter?
Unlike the Jewish or Christian understanding of the one, almighty God, these beings were imperfect, immoral, and not all-powerful.
Who are the Greek gods?
Ancient Greek stories, when finally written down, were typically this form of writing.
What is a poem / epic poem?
This man was the one who came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse.
Who is Odysseus?
This is the god of wine.
Who is Dionysus?