Ancient Greece Vocabulary

A Greek city-state is called?

• Plains

• Polis

• Philosopher

• Peninsula

Central marketplace in ancient Greece

• Agora

• Oracle

• Mall

• Acropolis

Hill or high point in a city as a last area of defense

• Acropolis

• Peninsula

• Polis

• Trireme

Boat used in Ancient Greece. It had three rows of oars

• Long Boar

• Trireme

• Canoe

• Galley

A play that is funny and usually has a happy ending

• Tragedy

• Theater

• Epic

• Comedy

Study of nature and the purpose of life

• Philosophy

• Geography

• Archeologist

• geometry

A play that is serious and usually has a sad ending

• Sad

• Tragedy

• Comedy

• Drama

Government system run by the people, in which citizens make the laws

• Democracy

• Republic

• Tyranny

• Oligarchy

Land surrounded by water on three sides

• Island

• Atoll

• Peninsula

• Gulf

A long poem celebrating gods, hero's, or events in people's past.

• Myth

• Hokku

• Fables

• Epic