Achievements of Ancient Greece

Match the following playwrights and poets

• Writer(s) who wrote short stories to teach life lessons

• Aesop

• First playwright to add a second actor to the stage

• Aeschylus

• First playwright to give the audience information before the characters

• Euripides

• Greek poet who wrote epics (long poems)

• Homes

• Playwright who highlighted the personality flaws of the gods

• Sophocles

Greek architects used _____ in many of their designs.

• emotion

• columns

• mythological beasts

• trees

Greek philosophers believed in the power of

• religion

• dance

• thought

• love

Who created a code of ethics for doctors?

• Hippocrates

• Pythagoras

• Archimedes

• Euclid

What was the Academy?

• A boarding school for children

• A training center for Olympic athletes

• An arena for discussing politics

• A school for philosophers and scientists

Who developed the scientific method and believed in practicing moderation?

• Aristotle

• Alexander the Great

• Plato

• Socrates

Match the following famous historians of Ancient Greece!

• recorded experiences in an autobiography

• Xenophon

• geographer who wrote about places and people

• Herodotus

• documented the Peloponnesian War and showed the perspectives of both Spartans and Athenians

• Thucydides

• wrote about the Persian Wars/empire

• Polybius

• documented the rise of the Roman empire

• Strabo

What did Greek sculptors often create statues of?

• Gods and goddesses

• Monsters from mythology

• Local animals

• Natural disasters

Who created the Academy?

• Hippocrates

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

The Pythagorean Theorem is about

• predicting solar eclipses

• ethics for doctors

• right triangles

• circumference of Earth