| A | B |
| fresco | artwork created on wet plaster |
| labyrinth | a maze of twisted paths |
| Crete | an island of ancient Greece |
| Minotaur | a monster with the head of a bull and a body of a man |
| Pericles | Greek leader who spread democracy |
| democracy | a Greek word meaning power to the people |
| Attica | a peninsula of Greece |
| Phoenicia | a culture that developed an alphabet that was copied by the Greeks |
| Aegean | a sea bording Greece |
| Athenian | describes a person, place, or thing from the Greek city-state once ruled by Pericles |
| agora | marketplace |
| Acropolis | a hilltop or high city |
| Parthenon | a temple built for Athena |
| Zeus | king of the gods |
| Socrates | a Greek teacher |
| philosophy | the love of learning and wisdom |
| Demeter | goddess of the crops |
| myth | story of the gods and goddesses |
| epic | a long poem |
| Aristophanes | a Greek writer of comedies |