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THE ANCIENT GREEKS
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http://www.mythologyteacher.com/GreekIntro.html
Section 1-----HOMER, THE ILIAD & ODYSSEY
1. How was the dark age of Greece different from the golden age of Greece?
2. What are three rumors concerning Homer the poet?
3. What is an “epic poem”?
4. What is the plot of the Odyssey?
5. What started the Trojan War?
6. When did the “real” Trojan War probably occur?
7. Which did the Greeks like better: the Iliad or Odyssey? Why?
Section 2---GREEK CITY-STATES
1. How is a city-state more than just a city?
2. What term was not in use during the golden age of Greece? Why not?
3, What is an agora?
GREEK DEMOCRACY
4. How did citizens vote sometimes vote in Athens?
5. What groups were excluded from Athenian citizenship?
6. What type of democracy did Athens have?
Section 3 ----GREEK RELIGION
1. According to the Greek moral code, what two crimes were capital offenses?
2. Explain how Greece did not have a strict religious code:
3. Spotting what kind of bird during the daytime foretold death?
4. What could priests tell from an animal’s organs?
5. What does fortuitous mean?
6. What is a pantheon?
7. What is augury?
8. What occurred after a Greek sacrifice?
9. Where did the Oracle of Delphi sit?
10. Which god or goddess was most honored in Athens?
11. Whom did kings consult to learn their future?
Section 4--- SPARTA
1. How were the lives of Spartan women different from the lives of Athenian women?
2. Sparta was one of the few societies to produce no _______.
3. Spartan boys started their training at what age?
4. Spartan boys were yearly flogged for what reason?
5. What did an apprenticeship of a young boy to an older boy accomplish?
6. How were Spartan boys taught stealth?
7. What did the Spartans do with their unwanted children?
8. What story demonstrated the Spartan discipline?
9. What was a Spartan wedding night ritual?
10. What word is a synonym for gorge?
11. Sparta was completely dedicated to the art of what?
Section 5 THE LIFE OF A GREEK GIRL
1. How were women oppressed in ancient Greece?
2. What would happen if a family did not have a male heir?
3. At what age did most girls get married?
4. What is a dowry?
5. What was the goal of every Greek wife?
6. When was murder completely legal in ancient Greece?
THE LIFE OF A GREEK BOY
7. What is a Greek adage about their newborn children?
8. What ceremony did boys go through before becoming men?
9. Boys were sent to do what at the age of eighteen?
10. What does the word gymnos mean?
11. How long were men subject to the military draft?
12. What is a lyre?
13. What is rhetoric?
14. What was the Greek word for one who participates in sport contests?
15. What was a sophist?
16. What was the most dangerous Greek sport?
17. What is the “bible of the Greeks”?
18. The gymnasium was the ancient predecessor of what modern institution?
19. What were the two tools teachers used to teach reading and writing?
20. When did education end for most boys?
Section 6--- ALEXANDER THE GREAT
1. How old was Alexander the Great when he became the King of Macedon?
2. What did Alexander spread around the world?
3. What empire did Alexander conquer?
4. What did Alexander the great die of?
5. Why was Alexander a successful conqueror?
GREEK WARFARE
6. How did one warship defeat another?
7. How did the rowers on a warship keep in time with each other?
8. Sparta was known for its infantry; Athens was known for its ________.
9. What is a hoplite?
10.Where did Sparta and Athens stop King Xerxes’ march into Greece?
11. What is a phalanx?
Section 7---GREEK INTRO
1. At roughly what time period was the golden age of ancient Greece?
2. Who was an ancient Greek writer of fables?
3. Who was a Greek mathematician?
4. Why should Americans study ancient Greece?
GREEK OLYMPICS
5. When did the first Olympics occur?
6. What Olympic contest was held at the Olympian hippodrome?
7. Were the Olympics the only games held in ancient Greece?
8. What was the Heraia?
9. What are the five sports in the pentathlon?
HIPPOCRATES
10. Hippocrates is often called:
11. How many children died in ancient Greece before the age of ten?
12. What is leeching?
13. Write one line from the Hippocratic Oath:
SOCRATES & PLATO
14. How was Socrates different from the sophists?
15. Who were the “scientists” of ancient Greek?
16. What does philosophy mean in Greek?
17. What poison did Socrates drink?