Notes: Ancient Greece & Iliad Intro Flashcards
Ancient Greece was from ___ - ___.
3000 BC
146 BC
The ___ lived on the island of ___ and influenced the Greek world from ___ - ___.
Minoans
Crete
3000 BC - 1100 BC
The ___ were a ruling group on the Greek mainland from ___ - ___.
Mycenaeans
1600 BC - 1100 BC
During ___, the ___ invaded Greece (no ___ evidence survived during this period). It was from ___ - ___.
the Dark Age
Dorians
written
1100 BC - 800 BC
The Greeks established major colonies on ___, ___, and other areas throughout the ___. This was in ___ BC.
Sicily
southern Italy
Mediterranean
800 BC
What people group did the Greek written alphabet come from?
How were that associated with the Greeks?
Phoenicians
trading
What were city-states?
What was another name for city states?
independent cities that functioned as countries
polis
What were the two main Greek city-states?
Sparta & Athens
Who is Homer?
What is he accredited with writing?
What time did he probably live around?
blind poet
The Iliad & The Odyssey
750 BC (when The Iliad & The Odyssey were written)
___ was an epic poem that was put down in written form, probably by ___, in ___.
The Iliad
Homer
the late 8th century BC
What type of religion were Greeks?
polytheistic
Greeks believed that first there was chaos and then ___ was brought into being followed by ___, ___, and ___.
night
love
light
day
Who was brought into existence first?
Gaea (earth goddess)
Gaea had the ___ who took control led by ___.
Titans
Cronus
Where did Zeus as well as the other gods and goddesses live?
on Mount Olympus
goddess of love and beauty
Aphrodite
the archer god; god of light and healing/sickness
Apollo
god of war
Ares
goddess of wisdom and war
Athena
ruler of the dead and the underworld; brother of Zeus
Hades
goddess of marriage; wife of Zeus
Hera
messenger god
Hermes
sea goddess; wife of King Peleus and mother of Achilles
Thetis
most powerful of the gods and goddesses; ruler of the air
Zeus
god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses; brother of Zeus and Hades
Poseidon
Based on history, legend, and mythology when was the Trojan War?
1250 BC
Who was the Trojan War between?
Greeks (Mycenaean) & Trojans (people of Troy)
How did the Trojan War start?
Paris stole Helen from King Menelaus as well as some of Sparta’s gold
Who were the three goddesses involved in the golden apple?
Hera, Aphrodite, & Athena
What was Paris’s prophecy?
he would be the destruction of Troy
