| A | B |
| tyrant | a person who gains power by force |
| ostracism | banishing a public figure |
| Parthenon | a Greek temple dedicated to the goddess Athena |
| Homer | the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| Hippocrates | the Greek physician who set ethical standards for doctors |
| Herodotus | the Greek historian often called the "Father of History" |
| citizen | a free resident of a Greek city-state |
| Pericles | an Athenian statesman who expanded democracy |
| Alexandria | the Egyptian cultural capital of the Hellenistic world |
| polis | a Greek city-state, consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside |