Ancient Civilization Calvert 6
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- Olympics
- Greek athletic competition
- oracle
- People who gave predictions and interpreted messages of the gods
- Olympia
- Where the Olympic games were played-Greeks believed that Zeus sat on a golden throne atop Mount Olympus
- Eleusis
- The site of a sanctuary to Demeter-the goddess of grain
- tragedy
- a sad story without a happy ending
- comedies
- funny plays
- Delphi
- A sanctuary to worship Apollo
- sanctuaries
- places where the Greeks worshipped their gods
- Delos
- A place the Greeks believed to be Apollo's birthplace
- Coroebus
- The very first recorded winner at the olympic games
- Hera
- Zeus's wife, the goddess of marriage
- Apollo
- One of Zeus's sons-the god of light, health, herding, and prophecy
- Zeus
- Most respected Greek god-he set standards for gods and humans to follow.
- Ares
- One of Zeus's sons, the god of war
- Demeter
- the Greek goddess of grain
- Poseidon
- Brother of Zeus, god of the sea
- Dionysus
- One of Zeus's sons-the god of wine
- Sophicles
- A play writer who wrote a Greek play called Antigone
- Marathon
- The place where the Persians and the Athenians fought.
- ephors
- Five government leaders elected by the assembly.
- helots
- state slaves assigned to a particular plot of land
- Phidippides
- (according to legend) The man who gave messages from both Athens and Sparta and died from running so long and fast
- Dorians
- The people who took over Sparta
- Thermopylae
- a mountain pass on the Greek mainland where the Persians and Greeks fought
- Salamis
- The place where a major battle between the Persians and the Greeks fought-- the Greeks won.
- Plataea
- A place where the Persians and the Greeks fought, and the Greeks won
- Darius
- A ruler of the Persians who wanted to punish the Athenians for rebelling
- Xerxes
- Darius' son who fought many times with the Greeks
- Acropolis
- A flat-topped, fortified hill in Athens
- Parthenon
- A temple dedicated to Athena
- agora
- An Athenian marketplace
- metics
- People in Athens who came from a different country and couldn't become a citizen
- Pericles
- An Athenian who helped rebuild Athens after it had been burned by the Persians
- Plutarch
- A Greek historian who wrote that Pericles voice was like thunder
- Nike
- The goddess of Victory
- Pasion
- An Athenian slave who became a citizen because he skillful--he was also rich
- Demosthenes
- A famous Greek speaker who wrote that a person would not be able to tell the differences between the homes of the rich and the homes of the poor
- alliance
- agreement
- Delian league
- Athens's alliance with other city-states
- Aegospotami
- A port where the Athenians sailed their fleet.
- philosopher
- a person who searches for the truth and meaning of life
- hemlock
- the juice from a poisonous plant that Socrates died from
- Thucydides
- A greek historian who wrote about the plague spreading in Athens
- Xenophon
- A greek historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian war
- Socrates
- A Greek philosopher
- Plato
- A student of Socrates