- Aegisthus - lover of Clytemnestra
- Aeschylus - writer of tragedies
- Agamemnon - King of Mycenae, led Greeks to Troy
- bard - singer of epic poetry
- Clytemnestra - wife of Agamemnon
- cyclops - cannibalistic one-eyed giant
- Democracy - rule by the people
- Dionysos - god of wine and theatre
- doric - severe style of architecture
- epic - long poem about gods and heroes
- Helen - wife of Menelaus, ran off with Paris
- Hera - wife of Zeus and Queen of Heaven
- Homer - the greatest of all epic poets
- Iliad - Homer's poem about Troy
- ionic - elaborate style of architecture
- Jason - hero who fetched the Golden Fleece
- kouros - early Greek male statue
- Lion Gate - entrance to Agamemnon's Mycenae
Don't look too closely at this lady. She is Medusa!
Medea - witch who helped Jason
Medusa - a gorgon whose stare
turned you to stone
Menelaus - brother of Agamemnon
metopes - blocks of relief sculpture
on temple
Mycenae - home of Agamemnon
Odyssey - Homer's tale of Odysseus
Olympia - sanctuary of Zeus,
home of Olympic Games
oracle - sanctuary where predictions
about the future could be heard
Paris - His taking of Helen led
to Trojan War
polis - the city state
Quod erat demonstrandum- I think
I proved my point!
sanctuary - holy place, sacred
to a god
Socrates - Athenian philosopher,
considered the wisest of men.
Spitting Image - satirical puppet
show
temple - the earthly home of
a god
Trojan War - the war fought by
the Greeks to get Helen back
Zeus - King of the gods and the sky