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Go to GEOGRAPHY
1.
What landform covers Greece?
What surrounds Greece?
2.
How many islands are included in the country of Greece?
3.
Where, besides Greece itself, were Greek cities established?
Go to STORY
4.
Who wrote The Odyssey?
What does this story describe?
5.
Where was Troy located? (look at the note)
6.
Where does the note suggest that Odysseus’s ships might have been wrecked by a storm? (the note mentions a proverb
about a place especially dangerous to ships).
7.
What effect did the fruit in the “Land of the Lotus Eaters” have on Odysseus’s men?
Where do some historians think this land was located?
8.
Who was Polyphemus? Where to historians think the home of Polyphemus may have been?
9.
What was strange about the days and nights in the land of the Laestrygonians?
Where do some historians think this land may have been? Why?
10. What did the witch Circe do to some of Odysseus’s men?
11. Where do some people think the land of the Cimmerians may have been located? Why
12. Who were the Sirens?
Where do many people think the Sirens may have been?
13. What was Scylla?
What was Charybdis?
14. Where do most people think Scylla and Charybdis were located?
What do people think Scylla’s mountain could be?
15. Why Odysseus’s ship and men destroyed? What is shown on the vase?
16. Who was Calypso?
Where might her island have been located?
17. Why was Poseidon angry with Odysseus?
18. What island was Odysseus’s home?
Where was it located?
19. Where is it traditionally believed that the land of the Phaeacians were located?
20. Did Odysseus reach his home?
EXPLORE
Look at the map – Important Religious Sites. Click on Delphi. Answer:
a.
b.
c.
Delphi was the site of an important oracle (a person who foretold the future). Which God was associated with
this oracle?
What was the priestess called?
What did the priestess sit upon? What did the priestess do?
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2.
Pick one other religious site and describe it.
3.
Go to the Colony map in “explore”. Name 2 of Athen’s colonies.(They flash when you click on the name “Athens”).
Include one in Italy and one in Asia Minor.
4.
Colony map. Name of Corinth’s colonies on your map. Include one in Italy and on in Asia Minor.
5.
Colony map. Name and place 2 of Sparta’s colonies.
6.
Which of these 3 – Athens, Corinth, Sparta – had the most colonies? Which had the least colonies?
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Go to the Myth map.
a.
What mountain was the home of the gods>
b.
Where was the home of the Minotaur?
c.
Where was Persephone captured by Hades?
d.
Where were Apollo and Artemis born?
e.
Where was the favorite watering hole of the winged horse Pegasus?
f.
Where was Aphrodite born?
g.
Of what city was Europa a princess? To what place did Zeus carry her?
h.
Where are the 2 rocks located that were created by Heracles?
i.
Where did the Amazons live?
j.
Of what city was Helen originally the Queen?
CHALLENGE:
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Describe the route of the ancient ship before it sank.
Go to ATHENS
1. What political form was Athens the first city in Greece to develop?
1.
What did Pericles say about men who took no interest in public affairs?
2.
Who could vote in Athens? Who could not vote?
STORY
1.
Who drove the chariot of the sun across the sky?
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Who is Diocles, and where is his shop located?
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Who is Lydos, and where does he live?
4.
What is a metic? Which character in the story is a metic?
5.
Why does Aristophon, the farmer from the country, rise early and come to Athens today?
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What does Ampharete do to get water? How does she earn her living?
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Where does Eleutheros go in early morning after breakfast? What does he see there?
8.
What does Diokles make from a couple of gold coins?
9.
Who is Lydos, and what does he see?
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10. What is a paedagogus? Which character has one?
11. What is Eirene’s profession?
12. What did Pericles say about a man who did not participate in pubic affairs?
13. Why do some men through scornful looks at Ampharete? (hint-what did Zenophon say a woman should do?
14. What was the Academy? Who went there?
15. What happens to the painted parts of a pot when the pot is fired?
16. What does Ampharete hurry home in late afternoon to do?
17. What does Ampharete do in the evening?
18. What does Diokles do in the evening?
19. Where is Eleotheros going in the evening? What famous person is also going there?
20. Where is Eirene going in the evening?
21. What was a symposium?
22. **What game does Lydos play with his master’s son?
23. What farm work is Aristophon planning to do the next day?
24. What do the guests at the symposium put on their heads when the wine is served?
25. When (approximately) do both Eleutheros and Eirene return home?
26. Which character do you most identify with? Why?
EXPLORE:
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What was the agora? What did people do there?
2.
What could people buy from the stalls and tables in the agora?
3.
What was the name of the street that ran through the agora?
4.
(mint) What was pictured on Athenian coins? Side 1___________; side2______________
Draw each side:
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(prison) Who was kept in the prison?
What was the most common punishment for a crime?
What was the punishment for very serious crimes?
What punishment, that is common today, did Athens NOT have?
6.
What was the shape of the Tholos?
What was the purpose of the Tholos?
7.
What was the purpose of the Bouleuterion?
What were the duties of the Council of 500?
How were the members of the Council of 500 chosen?
How often did the members of the Council of 500 change?
8.
What was the Hephaisteion?
9.
What was a stoa?
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Who had his office in the Royal Stoa?
What was an archon?
10. Which building was covered with paintings by some of Athen’s most famous artists?
11. LAWCOURT
a.
What were the people on jury duty given?
b.
What was a kleroterion?
c.
What did each person do with his token?
d.
Where were the tokens put next?
e.
Go through the demonstration. Explain how the Kleroterion determined who would and would not be on jury
duty.
f.
Who is Eirene? What is she accused of? Why do you think she is not at the trial?
g.
What does Apelleas (Eirene’s step son) say happened?
h.
What does Gorgias (Eirene’s son) say happened?
i.
What type of ballot indicates the juror thought the defendant was guilty?
j.
What type of ballot indicated the juror thought the defendant was innocent?
12. What does the word “acropolis” mean?
What types of buildings were on the Athenian acropolis?
13. Who came to the Asklepieion? What did the people who came do there?
14. What happened at the City Dionysia (click on theatre)?
15. What was Piraeus?
How was it connected to Athens?
16. What 7 items are listed as typical imports?
17. What 3 items are listed as exports? What was the importance of each?
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2)
3)
17. What was the Pnyx? Who went there, and happened there?
18. What did the Athenian assembly do? How many men had to vote on important decisions?
What was the significance of the red paint?
20. Countryside
1)Could the people who lived in the rural area around Athens qualify as citizens?
2)Why was the countryside important?
3)What were the most common farm animals?
4)What animal pulled the ploughs?
5)What were the most typical crops?
21. Academy
1) What was the Academy?
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2) How old did a boy have to be to go there?
3) What two sports are shown on the vases? Sketch the shape of the vases.
4) What did the boys wear while practicing sports?
5) What did boys do at the Academy besides practicing sports?
6) What famous person set up a school at the Academy?
21. What was the Kerameikos? What 3 areas were contained in it?
22. What was the smoky, dirty part of town? What was made here? Where did the smoke come from?
23. Cemetery:
1)
Where was the cemetery located?
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CLICK ON THE PICTURES. What did Athenian grave stones often show?
3)
What is the “mourning woman” doing to express her grieve? What does her body show she has done to herself?
4)
What did the women in the 3rd picture probably die from?
5)
What did women do to their hair to express mourning?
6)
What did Greeks put under the tongue of a dead body? What was it for?
7)
What was buried with the young girl in the 5th picture?
24. CHALLENGE: Explain what the “red robe” was for. Describe the game in a short paragraph. Use complete sentences.
GO TO SPARTA
1.
What were the 3 parts of the government of Sparta?
2.
Why was Sparts so powerful in the 5th Century BC?
Go to STORY
1.
What does the word “austere” mean?
2.
How was Sparta before about 500BC different from Sparta after about 500BC
3.
How would the boy in the story’s life change when he turned 7?
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What was the “agoge”?
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Who were the helots?
6.
What neighboring land did Sparta decide to conquer? What did Sparta do to the people of this land?
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What did the Helots do that caused the Spartans to distrust them?
8.
What kinds of crafts did the Spartans produce, before they became so obsessed with military strength?
9.
Why did Sparta decide that it always had to be ready to fight?
10. How did Sparta’s attitude toward craftsmanship change?
Go to EXPLORE
1.
Open the “women” drawer. Why did Sparta make its girls exercise and participate in sports?
2.
Open “mythology” drawer. Who were the Gorgons?
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Open warfare drawer:
1.
What type of object is pictured that is “found all over Greece”?
2.
What were Greek soldiers called? What did the name come from?
3.
Why was cavalry not very important in Greek military?
Open “food & feasting” drawer
1)
What did Greeks do to their wine before drinking it?
2)
What was a symposium?
3)
Where did Spartan men eat? What was their most common food?
4)
Draw one of the drinking cups.
Open “crafts” drawer:
1)
What crafts are represented by these figures?
2)
What does it say that people often did with the small figurines?
Open the “religion” drawer”
1.
Who probably wore the masks?
2.
What was done with the small figurines shown, the miniature vases, the ivory lion, the bronze dog, the tiny
bronze pot, the lead figure of Athena?
3.
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What was the inside the temple? What was outside the temple?
Open the “daily life” drawer. Who were the Perioikoi?
What was their status in Sparta? Where did they live, and what did they do?
Go to CHALLENGE:
1.
What was the agoge?
2.
What happened to a boy at age 7? What happened at age 20?
3.
Describe the parts of the training of a Spartan boy that the games represent:
1)
2)
3)
4)
Go to DAILY LIFE:
1. In general, how were expectations different for men and women in Ancient Greece?
2. In general, what was the role of slavery in Ancient Greece?
3. How was life different for women in Sparta, from women in other parts of Greece?
4. How was slavery different in Sparta from in other parts of Greece?
STORY:Compare: Spartan female to Spartan male
1.
What happened to a Spartan female at birth? What happened to a Spartan male at birth?
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2.
What was done with weak or misshapen babies in Sparta?
3.
Where did a Spartan girl live, and what were her activities?
4.
Where did a Spartan boy live, and what did he do, after age 7?
5.
What was the Heraia?
6.
What were living conditions like for Spartan boys in the barracks?
7.
What was marriage like in Sparta, for a young married couple?
8.
At what age could young Spartan men join the “Secret Service Brigade”? What did the young men in it do?
9.
What was the 1st duty of a Spartan woman?
10. What new developments happened to a Spartan men at age 20? What was a “mess” ?
11. How did the Spartan couple’s married life begin? Where did she live? Where did he live?
12. How did the Spartan man’s life change at age 30?
13. What did the Spartan mother tell her son when he went to war?
COMPARE: Athenian female-Athenian male
1.
How was an Athenian girl’s birth announced? Why?
2.
How was an Athenian boy’s birth announced? Why?
3.
What was done with unwanted babies in Athens?
4.
What ceremonies were carried out for boy babies?
5.
Where did a girl receive her education? What did she learn?
6.
Where did a boy receive his education, after about age 6? What did subjects did he study?
7.
How was a girl supposed to act, and where was she supposed to spend most of her time?
8.
What political rights did a young man have that a young woman did not have?
9.
What happened when a girl turned 13?
10. At about what age did a girl often get married? At about what age did a man often get married?
11. What happened at an Athenian marriage ceremony?
12.
What were the jobs and activities of a married woman of a well-to-do family?
13. What was the Thesmophoria?
14. What was a symposium? What was the game kottabos?
15. What did women do to show respect for the dead?
16. What did a man do as a part of an Athenian jury?
17. About what fraction of babies died?
18. Who was Asklepios?
EXPLORE:
1. Why are Greek pots important to historians today?
Pot shapes:
3.
Choose 3 pot shapes. Draw the shapes and tell what each type of pot was used for.
4.
Click on Agriculture. What is a kylix. What do you see on this Kylix?
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Click on Children.
1)
What was a chous?
2)
What happened to unwanted babies?
3)
At what ages did Athenians (female and male) often marry? How was the age of marriage different in Sparta?
Death and funerals
1.
What role did women play in the burial of the dead?
2.
What role did men play in the burial of the dead?
3.
What was their believe about when the soul left the body after death?
Education
1)
What was the role of music in education?
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What was a lyre? What was an aulos?
2)
Who were the only females present at a symposium?
3)
What was knuckebones?
Music
religion
1.
What was a krater and what was it used for?
2.
What could male priests do that priestesses could not do? What did priestesses do?
10., Slavery
1. What was the role of slavery in Greek life?
2. Describe or draw the first pot, farthest to the left.
3. What was a wet-nurse?
11. Spinning
1) Who did the job of spinning and weaving in Greece?
2) How was Sparta different in regard to spinning and weaving?
CHALLENGE:
1.
List and briefly describe the rooms in the Greek house. Tell which people would be likely to spend time in each room:
1) Gynaikon
2)bedroom
3)slave’s room
4)kitchen
5) bathroom
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6)Andron
7)Storeroom
8)workroom
9)Courtyard
Go to WAR
1. What Persian king attacked Greece in 490BC?
2. At what battle was this Persian King defeated by a mostly Athenian force (490BC)
3. When did Persia next attempt to conquer Greece?
4. What Persian king attacked Greece in 480BC?
5. What was the result of this second Persian attack on Greece?
6. How did the Athenians respond to the destruction of the buildings on their acropolis during the 2 nd Persian
invasion?
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WAR-STORY
When did the battle of Thermopolae take place? Which Persian invasion was this, the 1st or the 2nd?
2. Why was Greece in fear?
3. Which city did the Greeks choose to lead their united Greek army?
4. What Greek historian wrote about the Persian wars in his “Histories”?
5. What place did the Greeks choose to make their stand to defend Greece from the invasion?
6. How many Greeks were there, and where were they from? Who was their leader?
7. How many Persians were there?
8. Draw a Greek war helmet.
9. What did the Persian scout see the Spartans doing?
10. How did Demaratus explain the Spartan’s behavior to the Persian King?
11. What advantage did the narrowness of the pass give the defending Greeks?
12. How many days passed with the Spartans holding the Persians back?
13. Who showed the Persians the other pass?
14. What did this 2nd pass allow the Persians to do?
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15. What did the Spartan King Leonidas do when he realized they were betrayed and the Persians were going to
surround them?
16. How did the Spartans fight once their weapons were broken?
17. What finally happened to the Spartans?
18. How did the defeat of these Spartans at the pass affect the other Greeks?
WAR-EXPLORE
1.
What battle is portrayed in this activity? When did it take place?
2. Draw a map of the layout of the battle.
3. What 2 types of troops was the Persian force made up of? Define each term.
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2)
4. About how many Persian cavalry were there? About how many Persian infantry?
5. What Greek city had soldiers there to fight for the Persians?
6. What position did the Spartan occupy? What type of soldier did they have?
7. How many Spartans were there, and from what 2 social groups?
8. Who were the Peloponnesians, and where they positioned?
9. What small Greek city sent 600 hoplites?
10. Where the Athenians positioned? What type of soldier did they have, and how many?
11. What was the outcome of this battle?
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WAR-CHALLENGE-play this one. It’s fun.
What sea battle is featured in this game?
What were Greek ships called?
What do the ships try do? (what is the object of the game)
What was the outcome of your game?
What was the outcome of the real battle?
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