Ancient Greece Study Guide 2

A traditional story about gods and goddesses

• fable

• myth

• legend

• folktale

a Greek philosopher who introduced the scientific method

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Thucydides

a Greek historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian War

• Thucydides

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

a hill overlooking Athens; the center of religious life

• agora

• Mount Olympus

• Acropolis

• Mount Vesuvius

the highest mountain in Greece where the Greek gods lived

• Mount Vesuvius

• Mount Everest

• Mount St. Helens

• Mount Olympius

a great orator and famous leader of democracy

• Pericles

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

a Greek philosopher and teacher who asked his students thought-provoking questions

• Plato

• Socrates

• Pericles

• Herodotus

a Greek philosopher who believed the spiritual world was superior to the physical world

• Socrates

• Thucydides

• Plato

• Aristotle

a busy marketplace in the center of Athens

• Mount Olympus

• Crete

• Acropolis

• agora

Athens formed an alliance called the Delian League with many other city-states

• Event leading to the Peloponnesian War

• consequence of the war