Ancient Greece Vocabulary

a government in which citizens make political decisions, either directly or through elected representatives

• Democracy

• Tyrant

• Helot

• Peninsula

a ruler who has taken power illegally and rules without restriction

• Tyrant

• Helot

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

an ancient Greek city-state of the Peloponnesus, noted for its militarism

• Oligarchy

• Sparta

• Athens

• Polis

a city-state of ancient Greece, which reached its greatest cultural achievements in the fifth century B.C. It is the capital and largest city of modern Greece

• Athens

• Oligarchy

• Sparta

• Polis

an ancient Greek festival in honor of the god Zeus, which took place every four years and featured competitions in athletics and poetry

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Sparta

• Olympics

a long poem that tells a story of heroes

• Democracy

• Myth

• Epic Poem

• Oligarchy

a narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses.

• Sparta

• Athens

• Alphabet

• isthmus

A greek city-state, such as Athens or Sparta

• Athens

• Helot

• Polis

• Sparta

the ruler of the gods in Greek mythology.

• Zeus

• Tyrant

• Myth

• Citizen

a peninsula forming the southern part of Greece.

• Athens

• Peloponnesus

• Mt Olympus

• Democracy