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Ancient Greece 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tragedies | Plays usually written about Greece's mythical past |
| Athena | Goddess of War |
| Agora | Marketplace where Greeks could shop , socialize, and gather news. |
| Mt. Olympus | The highest mountain in Greece where the ancient Greeks believed many of their gods and goddesses lived. |
| Parthenon | a former temple , on on the Athenian acropolis, dedicated to the goddess Athena |
| Homer | Wrote The Iliad, a novel about the Trojan Wars. |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of love |
| Trojan Wars | Conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans, city of Troy. |
| helot | A Spartan slave |
| Alexander the Great | King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia |
| Herodotus | "Father of History" who wrote about the Persian Wars |
| Hippocrates | "Father of Medicine": Greek doctor who taught how to treat disease by understanding what caused illness |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher who taught Alexander the Great, son of King Phillip II |
| Aesop | Greek slave who wrote fables, stories that teach a lesson |