Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece

• Vocabulary
• Section 1

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Crete

• Island off the South East coast of Greece

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Mycenae

• Ancient city on the peninsula of mainland Greece

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Peloponnesus

• Peninsula in the southern part of mainland Greece

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Agamemnon

• Mycenaean king in Greek mythology who used
  trickery to win the Trojan War

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Story of Agamemnon

• According to Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the
  king of Mycenae, a kingdom of legendary Greece.
  The leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, he
  is one of the central figures in
  the Iliad, Homer's epic poem about the war.
  Greek writers generally portray
  Agamemnon as courageous but also as
  arrogant and overly proud, flaws that
  sometimes cause him misfortune and
  eventually lead to his death. The
  story of Agamemnon is often seen as a
  warning about the dangers of hubris
  (pride)

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Peninsula

• Body of land with water on three sides

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Colony

• Settlement in a new territory that keeps close
  ties with its homeland

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Polis

• Early Greek city-state made up of a city and the
  surrounding countryside run like an independent
  country

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Agora

• In early Greek city-states, an open area that
  served as both a market and meeting place