Ancient Greece

Polis

• Greek word for city-state.

Classical

• AN age were one that is marked by great achievement.

Acropolis

democracy

• A type of government in which people rule themselves.

Aristorcrats

• Rich Landowners

Oligarchy

• A government in which only a few people have power

Citizens

• People who had the right to participate in government

Tyrant

• A leader who had held power through the use of force

Pericles

• Athenian leader, he encouraged the spread of democracy and led Athens when the city was at its height

Mythology

• a body of stories about gods and hero's that try to explain how the world works

Homer

• Greek poet, he wrote the Iliad and the odyssey, 2 famous Greek epic poems. They describe the the deads of hero's during and after the Trojan War.

Sappho

• Greek poet, she was one of the most famous lyric poets of Greece

Aesop

• Ancient Greek storyteller, he was famous for his fables short stories that teach important lessons about life.

Fables

• Short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live