The Greeks told traditional stories about gods and heroes to explain thunderstorms, the seasons, and the beginning of the world. What is a body of such stories called?

Greek myths described a family of gods and goddesses living on Mount Olympus. Which god did those stories name as the ruler of the sky and of the other Olympian gods?

The Greeks honored one goddess as the source of wisdom and skilled craft work, and one great city-state took her as its protector. Name that goddess.

Greek epic poetry told long stories of heroes and the Trojan War. Before these poems were written down, how were they carried from one generation to the next?

On the acropolis above Athens, a marble temple was built in the 400s BCE to honor the city's patron goddess. What is that temple called?

Greek architects used three main column styles, each recognized by the carving at the top of the column. Name the style whose top is carved with curling acanthus leaves.

Greek sculptors carved marble and cast bronze figures of athletes and gods. What did those sculptors try to show in the human bodies they made?

Greek city-states held festivals at which actors performed plays before large audiences. Name the two main kinds of play the Greeks developed.

Greek plays were staged outdoors in theaters whose stone seats were built into the slope of a hillside.

The English word philosophy comes from a Greek word. What does that Greek word mean?

Socrates became known for teaching by questioning his students closely instead of lecturing them. What was the purpose of that steady questioning?

The Greek mathematician Euclid wrote a work on geometry that was studied for centuries. What is Euclid credited with doing to geometry?

Pythagoras is credited with a rule about right triangles that is still taught. Squaring the two shorter sides of a right triangle and adding the results gives what?

Aristotle argued that Earth is shaped like a sphere rather than a flat disk. Which observation did he offer as evidence?

Hippocrates taught that illness comes from natural causes that can be observed, not from the anger of the gods. What did that teaching encourage doctors to do?

After the conquests of Alexander the Great, Greek language and customs mixed with Egyptian, Persian, and Indian ways of life across his former empire. What is that blended culture called?

In the Hellenistic city of Alexandria in Egypt, its rulers founded a famous institution that drew scholars from across the Greek world. What was it?

The Greeks built their alphabet from the writing of a trading people of the eastern Mediterranean, adding letters for vowel sounds. Whose writing did the Greeks adapt?

Each Greek city-state honored its own patron god and shared no myths or gods with any other city-state.

One Greek myth explained the seasons by saying a goddess grieves while her daughter stays in the underworld. A student asks what causes seasons. What can this myth support?