Year 3 Recap Chp 1

Agamemnon and the other Greeks who attacked Troy were called _________.

• Achaeans

• Trojans

• Athenians

Invaders from the north called _______ drove thee Achaenas from the Peloponnese, the southern part of Greece.

• Trorians

• Dorians

• Hellenes

People who didn't speak Greek were referred to as _________ from which the English word 'barbarian' is derived.

• Hellenes

• nymphs

• barbaroi

In the countryside lived ____, a goat-like creature who frightened lonely travellers (and gave us the word panic).

• Pan

• Fan

• Ban

Important gods and goddess were thought to live in ________, the highest mountain in Greece.

• Mount Everest

• Mount Zeus

• Mount Olympus

Who was the king of gods?

• Zeus

• Hades

• Poseidon

Who was the god of the underworld?

• Zeus

• Hades

• Hera

Who was the god of war?

• Ares

• Demeter

• Hermes

What is a myth?

• a story which was told to explain things which people at the time would not have understood.

• stories about heroes who saved the world.

• a fairytale told to children.

Hades kidnapped Demeter's daughter so that he can make her the queen of the underworld. What was her name?

• Aphrodite

• Persephone

• Athene