Ancient Greece Vocab

A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

• epic poem

• polis

• oligarchy

• tragedy

athletic contests held to honor Zeus and the other gods

• Ephors

• Iliad

• Olympic games

• Odyssey

a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece.

• Mycenaean

• Minoan

• Helots

• Hoplites

a person who searches for wisdom

• philosopher

• Democracy

• Tragedy

• Peloponnesian War

A city-state in ancient Greece.

• Minoan

• Polis

• immortal

• Sparta

A Bronze Age society located on the island of Crete.

• Mesopotamian

• Creten

• Mycenaean

• Minoan

living forever

• immortal

• mortal

Conflict between Athens and Sparta

• Athenian War

• World War I

• Peloponnesian War

• Ancient Civil War

the capital and largest city of Greece

• Crete

• Las Vegas

• San Francisco

• Athens

A powerful Greek miliary polis that was often at war with Athens.

• Sparta

• Athens

• Minoans

• Americans