1. Golden Age of Athens

2. Olympics games held in honor of Zeus at Olympia began in 776 BC held every 4 years for over 1000 years

6. drama literary form that is performed by actors invented in Athens world’s first actor: Thespis two main categories: –tragedy –comedy

7. Greek literature Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey –Illustrates Ideals of courage, intelligence and strength –

8. Greek Art Focused on accurately portraying human form Depicted shifting weight and movement

9. Myron’s Discobolos Classical

10. Hellenistic

11. Greek architecture Greek architecture revolved around the Colum

13. Doric

14. Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) 27-year war between Athens and Sparta

17. 27-year war between Athens and Sparta Athens was weakened by a plague Sparta eventually won Athens was no longer the dominant city-state Golden Age of Athens ends

18. history the Greeks were the first to write history world’s first historians: –Herodotus (484–c. 425 BC) considered the father of history wrote the history of the Persian Wars –Thucydides (c. 460–c. 400 BC) wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War