Ancient Greece L4

The _ created myths to explain the world.

Ancient Greek _ provides some of the world's greatest poems and stories.

• art

• literature

• film

_ literature lives on and influences our world even today.

• Asian

• Roman

• Greek

• Aegean

body of stories about gods or heroes that tries to explain how the world works

• fables

• lore

• mythology

author of two great epic poems, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"

• Aesop

• Demeter

• Homer

• Bart

the most famous lyrical poet of ancient Greece

• Saphron

• Sappho

• Aesop

author of the world's most famous set of fables

• Sappho

• Homer

• Thucydides

• Aesop

short stories that offer lessons on living

• poems

• fables

• lyrics

Instead of science, the ancient Greeks used _-- stories about gods or heroes -- to try to explain how the world works.

• tales

• epics

• mythology

The Greeks believed that gods caused natural events, from the rising of the moon to thunderstorms.

• true

• false