Chapter 8, lesson 1-2

Front

They believed in the same ___ - traditional stories about gods and heroes - Mythology expressed the Greek people's beliefs

Back

Myths

Front

12 most important God and goddesses lived on ___ ___. Greece's ___ mountains

Back

Mount Olympus

highest

Front

___ - was king of gods

___ - was goddess of wisdom and crafts

___ - was the dog of the sun and poetry

___ - was goddess of love

Back

Zeus

Athena

Apollo

Aphrodite

Front

___ was god of war and ___ god of seas and earthquakes

Back

Ares

Poseidon

Front

They believed their spirits went to a gloomy world beneath the earth ruled by a god named ___.

Back

Hades

Front

A ritual is an action that is part of ___ ___

Back

religious ceremony

Front

___ - a prediction about the future

Back

Prophecy

Front

___ - This is a ___ ___ where a ___ or ___ spoke for a god

Back

Oracle

sacred shrine

priest

priestess

Front

___ - first Greek stories about heroic deeds

Back

Epics

Front

Two great epics, composed by ___

the Illiad - about Trojan war and how Greeks used the Trojan horse to win the war

the Odyssey - story of a man's journey home from the Trojan War

Back

Homer