Ancient Greek Vocabulary

Greek word for city-state

• polis

• acropolis

• oligarchy

• citizen

High hill that a fortress was built on

• democracy

• aristocrats

• tyrant

• acropolis

Person who had the right to participate in government

• fable

• citizen

• alliance

• phalanx

Athenian leader who encouraged the spread of democracy

• fable

• tyrant

• Pericles

• reason

Powerful empire in Southwest Asia that tried to conquer Greece

• Persian Empire

• Alexander the Great

• Roman Empire

• Peloponnesian War

Unit of soldiers that ride horses

• cavalry

• alliance

• phalanx

• fable

A series of wars between Persia and Greece

• Peloponnesian War

• Persian Wars

• Alexander the Great's Wars

• Hellenic Wars

Famous temple of the goddess Athena and great example of Greek architecture

• Socrates

• Zeus

• Parthenon

• Fable

Poet who wrote epic poems like the Iliad and the Odyssey

• Homer

• Socrates

• Alexander the Great

• Zeus

A group of warriors that stood close together in a square

• alliance

• league

• phalanx

• parthenon