4 The Ancient Greeks

Which Greek playwright wrote Oedipus Rex?

The word spartan has come to mean

Socrates’ most famous student was named ____________________.

In Athens, during the Age of Pericles, every male citizen

heavily armed foot soldiers

According to Plato, a good life can only be achieved if a person

The god associated with the most famous oracle in ancient Greece was

a writer of comedies during the Hellenistic era

elected members of Sparta’s oligarchy

The astronomer Eratosthenes determined that

Greek history was influenced by Greece’s

The ancient Greeks considered religion

During the Dark Age, some Greeks settled

Athenian reformer who came to power in 594 B.C.

According to the legend, the messenger __________ began his twenty six mile run in Marathon.

home of Alexander the Great

The alliance formed by Athens to help defend Greece from the Persians was called the

Two major groups that settled within Greece itself were the

One of the subjects that Aristotle wrote about was ____________________, or moral principles.

According to one story, a young Spartan warrior was told by his mother to return from the war

After losing the battle of Thermopylae to the Persians, the Athenians

What factors caused Athens to establish itself as a leading trade center?

The Persian leader who presented the greatest threat to the Greek empire was named ___________.

fortified area on a hilltop

Which four kingdoms emerged following Alexander the Great’s death?

The ancient Greeks strove for a kind of ____________________ that they called arête.

The teachings of Homer promoted

The Peloponnesian War, which began in 431 B.C., was a result of

site of an early battle between the Greeks and the Macedonians

people captured by the Spartans and forced to work as serfs

The tyrants of ancient Greece were

The governing assembly of Athens met every ten days on a hillside east of the ____ .

During the eighth century B.C., the Greeks adopted a new system of writing based on the ______

About 80 percent of the geography of Greece is ____________________.

The Iliad and the Odyssey are examples of ____________________.

____ spoke about his hopes and ideals for Athens during a public funeral.

By 750 B.C., the ____, or city-state, became the central focus of Greek life.

The conquests of Alexander the Great gave rise to the

The major gods and goddesses of the Greeks were believed to live on ____________________.

According to the philosophy of Epicurus, happiness is the goal of life

Herodotus wrote what is considered to be the first

imitating the Greeks

The most famous building on the Acropolis in Athens is the ____________________

In 479 B.C., a large and unified Greek army

The poet who wrote the Iliad was named ____________________.

Which of the following was the first Greek state?

The Greek sculptor Polyclitus believed the idea human form could be produced by using

king who conquered the Greeks

The reforms of Cleisthenes

At its height, Alexander’s empire extended as far east as