Vocabulary 1
A large jug with wide mouth used for carrying water.
What is a ewer?
A wide, decorative strip of material sewn on a skirt or dress.
What is a flounce?
The chief city of Crete
What was Knossos?
Time of Greece after Homeric Age.
What is historic Greece?
The main body of water south of Greece
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
An image given to a god to fulfill a vow.
What is a votive offering?
Attacking and robbing ships at sea.
What is piracy?
Ancient Greek historian
Who is Thucydides?
Chief goddess of Cretan religion.
Who is Mother Earth?
Largest island in the Aegean Sea
What is Crete?
A skilled craftsman or inventor.
What is an artificer?
A group of people living in an ordered community,
What is society?
Poem about the Trojan War
What is the Iliad?
Time of Greece described in the writings of Homer, characterized by great heroes, kinds, and chiefs.
What is the Homeric Age?
He said, "Currents have more than one way of running through a strait."
Who was Strabo?
A watercolor painting done on a wall or ceiling.
What is a fresco?
A soldier stationed to guard a palace.
What is a sentry?
Discoverer of the ancient city of Troy?
Who is Henry Schliemann?
Ancient Greek poet, author or the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who was Homer?
One of three most important products to the Greeks.
What is corn, wine, or oil?
A belt for a sword.
What is a baldric?
What is a freize?
Famous king of Crete
Who was Minos?
Greek traveler who wrote down his journeys
Part of the Mediterranean, between Greece and Asia Minor.
What is the Aegean Sea?