Homer & the Trojan War Terminology

A long poem, usually derived from ancient oral tradition

• epic

• legend

• saga

• ode

an old story about famous people and events, but not necessarily true.

• epic

• legend

• saga

• ode

ancient two-handled pottery storage jar with a narrow neck

• dolia

• krater

• amphora

• kylix

destroyed, demolished, leveled to the ground

• sacked

• demolish

• obliterate

• razed

a plan, scheme or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy

• strategem

• strategy

• tactics

• deception

a historical age characterised by the use of cast bronze to make tools and weapons

• Neolithic Age

• Bronze Age

• Brass Age

• Metal Age

a system of wedge shaped writing on clay tablets first developed by the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia and Persia

• heiroglyphs

• Linear A

• cuneiform

• Babylonian Script

Which years was the Late Bronze Age...

• c. 3500-2000 BC

• c. 2000-1600 BC

• c. 1600-1200 BC

• c. 1200-800 BC

Bronze Age civilization of Ancient Greece

• Ionians

• Ahhiyawa

• Minoans

• Myceneans

Name used to identify the Greeks on Homer's Iliad

• Akkadians

• Ionians

• Dorians

• Achaeans