Greek Achievements Pt. 1

The Athenian Golden Age is also known as the Golden Age of -

• Solon

• Plato

• Pericles

• Draco

Match the following works of literature to its correct description.

• Greek city-states go to war against Troy

• Oedipus Rex

• Agamemnon is murdered by his wife.

• The Iliad

• Man is destined to marry Mother.

• The Odyssey

• Odysseus attempts to get back home

• Oresteia

Organize these characteristics under the correct historian

Groups:

(a) Herodotus

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(b) Thucydides

• Wrote about the Peloponnesian Wars

• Father of History

• Did not include Greek gods

• Checked reliability of sources

• Wrote about the Persian Wars

• Examined Cause & Effect

Match the following Greek Men by their achievement.

• Poet - The Iliad & the Odyssey

• Aeschylus

• Historian - The Historia

• Herodotus

• Historian - Peloponnesian War

• Homer

• Playwright- Oresteia

• Thucydides

• Playwright - Oedipus Rex

• Sophocles

Name the sculptor and sculpture.

• Alexandros - Venus de Milo

• Myron - Discus Thrower

• Pythocritos - Winged Victory of Samothrace

• Phidias - Athena

Name the sculptor and sculpture.

• Myron - the Olympian

• Myron - the Discus Thrower

• Chares - Colossus of Rhodes

• Pythocritos - Winged Victory of Samothrace

Drag the Column styles in the correct order of their creation.

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