Greek History

a short tale that teaches a lesson

• epic

• fable

• myth

• novel

The Greek poet who wrote several epic poems about heroic deeds?

• Plato

• Euripides

• Homer

• Bart

A long poem about heroic deeds is an ______

A priest or priestess who could tell the future

• Oracle

• Sophist

• Legacy

• None of the Above

Mathematics that deals with points, lines and angles

• Engineering

• Plane Geometry

• Plotting Geometry

• Geometry

The distance around the earth

• Perimeter

• Area

• Volume

• Circumference

Alexandria was the Greek capital of Egypt and was famous among scholars for its vast _________

• pyramids

• libraries

• traditions

• legacies

A traditional story about gods or goddesses

• Fable

• Tale

• Legend

• Myth

Match the following

• Aristarchus

• an Athenian sculptor whose true love was philosophy

• Socrates

• The father of medicine

• Hippocrates

• The father of history

• Herodotus

• The Greek scientist who stated that the sun is the center of the solar system and the Earth revolves around it

• Eratosthenes

• The astronomer that concluded the Earth is round

The love of wisdom

• Philosophy

• Oral tradition

• Mythology

• none of the above