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GreekStudyQuestions
Test Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Spartan army was made up of______, young men between the ages of 20 and 30 who were obligated to serve. | Hoplites |
| Many heroes of Greek stories were brought to tragic end by their _______, or great pride. | Hubris |
| The ________ was an alliance of several Greek city-states led by Athens. | Delian League |
| The __________ was an alliance of several Greek city-states led by Sparta. | Peloponnesian League |
| Aristotle helped develop the field of _____, which emphasized using what one already knows to infer new facts. | Logic |
| _________, such as those written by Sappho, were accompanied by music and dealt with emotions and desires. | Lyric Poems |
| ______, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, is probably the most famous Greek poet. | Homer |
| _________, was the greatest Greek writer of comedy. | Aristophanes |
| The _______ taught that people should seek out pleasure and try to avoid pain. | Epicureans |
| The historian ________ lived during the Persian Wars and wrote about about the major events of the wars. | Herodotus |
| Historians consider the ___________ to be the first Greeks because they spoke a form of the Greek language. | Myceneans |
| A typical Greek city-state included a(n) _______ where people shopped, did business, gossiped, and discussed politics. | Agora |
| The assembly in Athens, in which all people eligible to take part in government voted directly on an issue, was an example of ______ democracy. | Direct |
| In the ______________ Athens surrendered to Sparta in 404 BC. | Peloponnesian War |
| Since _________ believed that only philosophers should lead governments, he did not support Athenian democracy. | Plato |
| Aeschylus, Sophocles, and _________ were three great writers of tragedy who lived in Athens. | Euripides |
| The artists of the _____________ period learned to convey emotion and movement in their works, especially sculpture. | Hellenistic |