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Greece test review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sappho | A woman poet who wrote about love and nature, wrote poems for each of her students |
| Homer | A blind story teller that was led by a little boy and told the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| Helen of Troy | Aphrodite made her fall in love with Paris and run away with him to Troy |
| Odysseus | Was the king of Ithaca and had the Odyssey and Iliad told about him |
| Athena | Godess of Wisdom and warfare, Patron god to Athens |
| Pericles | Leader of Athens around 450 B.C. and said all citizens could serve on a jury with pay |
| Pheidippides | Ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to say they defeated the Persians |
| Paris | The trojan who took Helen of Troy and ran away with her |
| Penelope | Wife of Odysseus, held off suitors by undoing what she had knitted |
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine, wrote the Hippocratic Oath |
| Archimedes | Scientist and mathematician who said he could use a lever to lift the earth |
| Xerxes | Persian ruler who wanted to conquer Greece who was defeated at the bay of Salamus |
| Plato | A student of Socrates who wrote down his ideas and tried to get a perfect plan for life |
| Aristotle | A student of Plato that trained Alexander the Great |
| Socrates | Questioned Athens and was executed for "urging Athens" |
| Cleitus | a general of Alexander that was king of Bactria tried to change Alexander so he killed him |
| Artimesia | Warned Xerxes not to fight at Salamus, Queen of Halicarnassus |
| Phidias | Made the Parthenon and the statue of Athena in the Parthenon |
| Menelaus | King of Sparta, attacked Troy after Helen ran away with Paris |
| Philip of Macedonia | conquered Greece was the father of Alexander the Great and sent him to train with Aristotle |
| Aesop | A black slave from Asia, told fables |
| Alexander the Great | Was 20 when he became king, is called Alexander the Great because he conquered so much land in so little time |
| Darius | Persian king that wanted to kill every greek in the world |