1. Do Now  Name 3 influences from ancient Greece that are seen today.

2. Chapter 4 Section 4 The Culture of Classical Greece

3. Question  How many gods were thought to live on Olympus and who was the head god? How many can you name?

4. Answers  Twelve chief gods and goddesses were thought to live on Olympus. Zeus was the chief god and father of the gods.

5. Question  When was the Parthenon built?

6. Answers  The Parthenon was built between 447 b.c. and 432 b.c.

7. Question  What was Sophocles, another great Athenian playwright’s, most famous play and what was it about?

8. Answers  The play Oedipus Rex was about Oedipus’s father trying to stop the oracles warning, that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother, but he fails.

9. Question  What was the first real written history in Western civilization about the conflict between the Greeks and the Persians and who wrote it?

10. Answers  Herodotus wrote History of the Persian Wars.

11. Question  Name three philosophers from ancient Greece and who were they in relation to each other?

12. Answers  Socrates, Plato was Socrates’s pupil, and Aristotle was Plato’s pupil.

13. Using What You Know  What was the culture like in Ancient Greece?