A | B |
Sennacherib | Assyrian conqueror |
Athena | Goddess of War |
Homer | Writer who wrote two great epics about quest and mythology |
Zeus | Olympics were held in his honor |
Polis | Greek term meaning "city-state" |
Agora | Place where many Greeks would meet |
Socrates | Developed a method of questioning to arrive at the truth |
Plato | Founder of the "Academy" in Athens |
Phalanx | tightly spaced rows of soldiers equipped with lances |
Hellenized | to adopt Greek customs and ways of life |
Democracy | government run directly or indirectly by the people who live under it |
Theocracy | Government run by a religious leader |
Minoan | Civilization established on Crete |
Epicurius | Greek philosopher associated with the idea of "eat, drink and be merry" |
Aristotle | Alexander the Great's tutor |
Aristocrats | Members of the upper class |
Oligarchy | a few wealthy people hold power over the larger group of citizens |
Peloponnesus | A peninsula of southern Greece |
Pericles | Led Athens through the Golden Age |
Zoroaster | Persian prophet, preached the world was divided by a struggle between good and evil |