To worship many gods is called.....

The ancient Greeks developed and shared many stories about their gods. These stories are called __________.

The king of the gods is.........

Who is Queen of the gods?

The ancient Greeks believed the gods were very much like humans in their actions and emotions.

According to Greek mythology, the gods never interacted with humans, helping or punishing them as needed.

Myths involving gods helped the Greeks explain events of everyday life.

Short tales that include animals as characters and focus on delivering a simple, moral message are called.......

Aphrodite: goddess of __________

Greek dramas (plays designed for the theater)

included both ______ and _______.

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Stories used the lives of gods to explain events in everyday life.

Stories often included a character with a tragic flaw that led to their downfall.

Stories might make fun of a person the audience would know.

One of ancient Greece’s most famous literary figures was the poet __________.

Homer created two of Greece’s most famous __________ the Iliad and the Odyssey.

The Iliad and the Odyssey are based on a war between Greece and the city of Troy.

The Iliad details the events of the war, while the Odyssey focuses on the 20-year journey home of ___________,

the Greek king of Ithaca, after the war.

Ancient Greek literature, like Homer’s poems, was not written down because the Greeks

did not have _____________at that time.

In the Iliad, a gift of a Trojan Horse is used to disguise an attack.

Now, people use the phrase “Trojan Horse” to mean something or someone

that appears good or useful but is really meant to harm.

The god of the sea is.......