Greece Vocabulary

A ruler who takes power illegally

• truce

• tyrant

• agora

a long poem about ancient heros

• truce

• myth

• epic poem

an easily spread disease causing a large number of deaths

• plague

• polis

• phalanx

a rocky hill in Athens, Greece, that served as a fortress for the ancient city's most important buildings.

• acropolis

• polis

• aristocracy

the Greek word for city-state

• agora

• tyrant

• polis

a military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields

• phalanx

• labyrinth

• catapult

a story that people tell to explain beliefs about the world

• epic poem

• myth

• plague

an agreement to stop fighting

• hellenistic

• cosmopolitan

• truce

ruled by the upper class

• aristocracy

• tyrant

• peninsula

the study of basic truths and ideas about the universe

• cosmospolitan

• Hellenistic

• philosophy