Greek Stuff

THE ANCIENT HellenicS NAME ___Harrison Funk_________________________________ To come up along this worksheet use the information found on the following website http//www. mythologyteacher. com/GreekIntro. html GREEK INTRO 1. At roughly what time period was the prosperous era of past Greece? 500 B. C. 2. Who was an old-fashioned Greek writer of fables? Homer 3. Who was a Greek mathematician? Pythrogras 4. Why should Americans study ancient Greece? We oew everything to ancient Greece. GREEK CITY-STATES 5. How is a city-state more than just a city? It had no desire to join forces a larger country. 6.What term was not in use during the golden age of Greece? Why not? They did not say greece so it was dashed with city-states 7. What is an agora? Assembly of the people/ town meeting THE animateness OF A GREEK GIRL 8. How were wowork force oppressed in ancient Greece? Treated with disregard 9. What would happen if a family did not apply a male heir? All wealth would go to the clo sest male relative 10. At what age did most girls get married? 14 11. What is a serving? Money goods estate 12. What was the goal of every Greek wife? To get under ones skin male heir 13. When was murder totally legal in ancient Greece?When someone was caught in a affair with a married women. THE LIFE OF A GREEK BOY 14. What is a Greek adage slightly their newborn children? If its a boy keep it and if its a girl erupt it 15. What ceremony did boys go through to begin with becoming men? They take their hair 16. Boys were sent to do what at the age of eighteen? left field for two years for military purposes. 17. What does the word gymnos wet? Means corrosion no clothes 18. How long were men subject to the military outline? Two years 19. What is a lyre? harp 20. What is rhetoric? Is persuasive language 21.What was the Greek word for one who participates in sport rivals? 22. What was a sophist? 23. What was the most dangerous Greek sport? 24. What is the bible of the Greeks ? 25. The gymnasium was the ancient predecessor of what modern institution? 26. What were the two tools teachers used to teach discipline and writing? 27. When did education end for most boys? 28. Why were Greek men expected to keep their bodies in shape? GREEK RELIGION 29. tally to the Greek moral code, what two crimes were capital offenses? 30. Explain how Greece did not have a strict religious code 31.Spotting what kind of bird during the tight solar day foretold death? 32. What could priests tell from an animals organs? 33. What does fortuitous mean? 34. What is a pantheon? 35. What is augury? 36. What usually occurred after a Greek give up? 37. Where did the Oracle of Delphi sit? 38. Which god or goddess was most honored in capital of Greece? 39. Whom did kings consult to learn their future? GREEK DEMOCRACY 40. How did citizens pick out sometimes vote in Athens? 41. What groups were excluded from Athenian citizenship? 42. What causa of country did Athens have? GREEK OLY MPICS 43. When did the first Olympics occur? 4. What Olympic contest was held at the Olympian hippodrome? 45. Were the Olympics the only games held in ancient Greece? 46. What was the Heraia? 47. What ar the quintuplet sports in the pentathlon? SPARTA 48. How were the lives of Spartan women different from the lives of Athenian women? 49. Sparta was one of the few societies to green groceries no _______. 50. Spartan boys started their training at what age? 51. Spartan boys were per year flogged for what reason? 52. What did an apprenticeship of a young boy to an older boy attain? 53. How were Spartan boys taught stealth? 54.What did the Spartans do with their unwanted children? Toss them of a falling off 55. What story demonstrated the Spartan discipline? 56. What was a Spartan spousal relationship night ritual? 57. What word is a synonym for gorge? 58. Sparta was completely dedicated to the art of what? HIPPOCRATES 59. Hippocrates is often called 60. How more children died in ancient Greece before the age of ten? 61. What is leeching? 62. Write one line from the Hippocratic profanity ALEXANDER THE GREAT 63. How old was Alexander the Great when he became the queen mole rat of Macedon? 64. What did Alexander spread around the world? 65.What empire did Alexander seize? 66. What did Alexander the great die of? 67. Why was Alexander a undefeated conqueror? SOCRATES & PLATO 68. How was Socrates different from the sophists? 69. Who were the scientists of ancient Greek? 70. What does philosophy mean in Greek? 71. What poison did Socrates drink? 72. What is the Socratic Method? 73. What was Platos honorary society named for? 74. What was the charge brought against Socrates? HOMER, THE ILIAD & ODYSSEY 75. How was the dark age of Greece different from the golden age of Greece? 76. What are three rumors concerning Homer the poet? 77.What is an epic poem? 78. What is the plot of the Odyssey? 79. What started the Trojan struggle? 80. When did the real Trojan War probably occur? 81. Which did the Greeks like meliorate the Iliad or Odyssey? Why? HERODOTUS 82. Herodotus is often called 83. What wars did Herodotus write about(predicate)? 84. What else did Herodotus write about? 85. What is western civilization? GREEK SLAVERY 86. Most Greek households had how numerous slaves? 87. What does humane mean? 88. What is the rack? 89. What were lawyers allowed to do to slaves in order to get information? 90. What were three jobs a slave might receive? 91.Where did the Greeks draw their slaves? DEATH & BURIAL 92. Greeks believed your spirit would never be at equilibrium if 93. What were two capital offenses in ancient Greece? 94. What is a garland? 95. What is a libation? GREEK WARFARE 96. How did one warship defeat an otherwise? 97. How did the rowers on a warship keep in time with each other? 98. Sparta was known for its infantry Athens was known for its ________. 99. What is a hoplite? 100. Where did Sparta and Athens haul King Xerxes march in to Greece? 101. What is a phalanx? GREEK THEATER 102. How many spectators could be seated in the theatron? 03. What amplified the voices of Greek actors? 104. What are satyrs? 105. What does obscene mean in Greek? 106. What innovation did Sophocles create? 107. What is a let out? 108. What is abreaction? 109. What theatrical innovation did the plywright Aeschylus come up with? 110. What type of play is a crude parody? 111. What type of play tells the downfall of a noble character? 112. Who was the patron god of the theater? 113. Whose opinion did the chorus represent in Greek plays? 114. Why are modern actors called thespians? 115. Which type of play made fun of daily life in Athens?