Ancient Greece Vocabulary Practice

A group of 5 leaders in Sparta who were chosen to oversee the Spartan kings. They were elected annually.

• oligarchy

• peninsula

• ephors

• city-state

An area within a country that is small like a city but acts like a country.

*Has their own laws, language, army, culture.

• ephors

• oligarchy

• city-state

• Odyssey

A government ruled by a few wealthy, powerful people

• oligarchy

• city-state

• ephors

• democracy

written by Homer; tells of the long journey of a hero's attempt to return to Ithaca to rule as king

• tyrant

• Mycenaean

• tragedy

• Odyssey

Flourished in late Bronze Age, a civilization that arose after the Minoan civilization

• Odyssey

• tragedy

• Mycenaean

• peninsula

Society located on the island of Crete that influenced the early Mycenaeans

• city-state

• ephors

• oligarchy

• Minoan

A system of government where the power is vested in the people.

• peninsula

• immortal

• Mycenaean

• democracy

someone who used reason to understand the world

• peninsula

• tyrant

• philosopher

• immortal

someone or something that lives forever

• peninsula

• immortal

• comedy

• philosopher

A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides

• polis

• Iliad

• peninsula

• tyrant