Soc Stu 5:1

a short tale that teaches a lesson

a traditional story about gods and goddesses

a long poem about heroic deeds

a priest or priestess who could tell the future

the highest mountain in Greece, home to the gods and goddesses

Through mythology, the Greek people expressed their

• religious beliefs.

• love of poetry.

• love of sports.

• political beliefs.

This Greek poet wrote many poems about heroic deeds, including the Illiad.

• Aesop

• Odysseus

• Croesus

• Homer

The Greeks performed both types of drama ____ as part of religious festivals.

• comedy and tragedy

• myth and fable

• epic and tragedy

• comedy and myth

The three best-known writers of Greek tragedies were Aeschylus, Euripides, and ____.

• Aristophanes

• Homer

• Sophocles

• Aaesop

The three types of columns the Greeks used in their buildings were Doric, Ionic, and _____.

• Athenian

• Corinthian

• Parthenon

• Gregoric