Ancient Greece Vocabulary

foreigner in a Greek city-state

• tenant farmer

• ephor

• metic

• citizen

form of government in which citizens hold political power

• representative democracy

• direct democracy

• tyranny

• democracy

logical guess

• reason

• hypothesis

• obtain

• maintain

in ancient Greece, an athletic competition held every four years in honor of Zeus

• democracy

• Olympic games

• politics

• acropolis

to get or to receive something

• obtain

• exclude

• eventual

• cease

school of philosophy founded by Plato

• mythology

• phalanx

• symbolize

• Academy

slave forced to work as a farmer

• helot

• citizen

• metic

• tenant farmer

military housing

• helot

• slavery

• military state

• barracks

art and practice of government

• acropolis

• politics

• democracy

• representative democracy

to represent

• symbolize

• submission

• reason

• concept