Greece test review Word Scramble
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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 |
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