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
