Ancient Greece Vocabulary

the Greek word for a city-state

• Polis

• Acropolis

• Classical

• Aristocrats

an age marked by great achievements

• Polis

• Acropolis

• Classical

• Aristocrats

a high hill upon which a Greek fortress was built

• Polis

• Acropolis

• Classical

• Aristocrats

a rich landowner or noble

• Polis

• Acropolis

• Classical

• Aristocrats

a type of government in which people rule themselves

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Citizens

• Tyrant

a government in which only a few people have power

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Citizens

• Tyrant

a person who has the right to participate in government

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Citizens

• Tyrant

an ancient Greek leader who held power through the use of force

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Citizens

• Tyrant

a brilliant leader who ruled Athens from about 460 BC to his death in 429 BC

• Pericles

• Homer

• Sappho

• Aesop

a Greek blind poet in the 8th century BC who wrote The Iliad (the story of the Trojan war) and the Odyssey (the story of the Greek Odysseus)

• Pericles

• Homer

• Sappho

• Aesop