peninsula

epic

acropolis

city-state

aristocrat

tyrant

democracy

tribute

immortal

philosopher

tragedy

agora

plague

blockade

barbarian

assassinate

Hellenistic

polytheism

an area of land bordered by land on three sides

a long poem that tells a story

a high, rocky hill on or near which early people built cities

a city with its own traditions and its own government

a member of rich and powerful family

a ruler who takes power with the support of the middle and working classes; not necessarily cruel and violent

a form of government in which citizens govern themselves

a payment made by a less powerful state or nation to a more powerful one

someone or something that lives forever

someone who uses reason to understand the world. In Greece, the earliest philosophers used reason to explain natural events

a type of serious drama that ends in disaster for the main character

a public market and meeting place in an ancient Greek city

a widespread diseasethe cutting off of an area by enemy forces that closes it to travel and trade

person considered to be wild and uncivilized

murder for political reasons

term that describes Greek culture after the death of Alexander the Great, incl. the three main kingdoms formed by the breakup of Alexander’s empire

the belief in many gods