Follow the directions to use the Odyssey website. You may take notes here in this form.

Click on Geography TAB. Read the text information and use the scroll arrow to view all
of the text.

1. What does the blue in the flag of Greece represent?

2. What is the relative size of Greece? What is the length of the coastline? About how
many islands are part of Greece?

3. How did the landscape of Greece significantly affect the political structure of early
Greece?

Now Click on the orange tab that says “Click here to view a map where you can discover
more.” When it opens, click on the different locations to find the answers to the following
questions.

4. What are the seas that surround Greece?

5. What is the name of the peninsula of the lower mainland?

6. What legendary hero was from Ithaca?

7. What are two historic places located on Assos?

8. What is the historic significance of Troy?

Now Click on “Animals Real and Imagined.” Scroll the arrow down until you see the link “
A Museum Menagerie.” Click here. Click the different animals to find the answers to the
following questions. NOTE: You have to click “close me” when you are finished with a
pop up window.

9. Who wore a lion’s skin as a symbol of his own strength?

10. Why is it interesting that the Greeks used a lion to symbolize strength?

11. What is the word that means “goat song” in Greek? Why is this title used?

12. What animal did the Greeks use for making cheese?

13. What was the most dangerous animal that lived on the Greek Islands?

14. The bull was sacred to what gods?

15. Which animal was used as an offering to the gods?

Now Click on the “Animals Real and Imagined TAB again. This will reset the page. Scroll
the text box down with the arrow until you see “ A Beast of Mythical Proportions.” Click
here. Click on the animals to find answers to the following questions.

16. What is a Siren? How were they dangerous? Do you know any stories with Sirens in
them?

17. What is a Griffin? What modern literature uses Griffins in the stories?

18. Who and what was Pan?

Now Click on “Gods, Goddesses and Heroes.” Read the text box and use the arrow to
see all of the text.

19. What was the purpose of myths in the Ancient World? Why do you suppose we do
not use them in this way anymore?
20. Who was the Satyr that challenged Apollo? What was his punishment for losing?

21. Why did Athena hate the flute she made?

22. What is a kithara?

23. What is hubris?

24. What happened to Aktaion?

25. What does the story about Zeus and Europa reveal about the Greek’s view of their
gods?

26. How did Odysseus and his men trick the blind Polyphemus into letting them out of
the cave?

27. What was the problem with Aphrodite? What does this story tell us about how the
Greeks viewed beauty and women?

28. What important function did the Muses perform for humans?

29. What was the job of the three-headed dog Cerberus?

30. What does the story of Persephone explain?

31. What distinction does Hercules have that no other human had?

Now Click on the TAB that says “Living in Style.” Read the textbox and scroll down to
click on “Boys Night Out: The Symposium.”

32. What happened at a Symposium? How is our Symposium today different?

33. Describe two items under the “High Style in Ancient Greece link.”

Now Click on the TAB that says “Death and Burial.” Read through the various links and
pop-up boxes.

34. Describe the way the Greeks viewed death?

35. What does the story of Odysseus meeting Achilles reveal about how the Greeks
viewed death?

Now Click on the TAB that says “Architecture.” Read the text box, using the scroll button
to reveal all of the words.

36. What are the words that Joachim Winckelmann uses to describe Greek
architecture?

Look in the link “Meet the Classical Orders.”

37. What are the three classic orders? How are they different? Give an example of a
building that uses each?

Now Click on the TAB that says “Victory and Conquest.” Read the text box. Scroll down
to view all of the words. Click on the various images to answer the following questions.

38. What is the origin of the word “athlete?”

39. What was a strigil used for? Can you think of any English word that has roots in this
word?
40. What did an olive wreath symbolize?

41. What was a diskos made of?

42. What did the Greeks revere as “the most beautiful of all forms”?

43. Why was it easier for wealthier men to train as a hoplite?

Now Click on the TAB that says “Greek Democracy.” Explore the information to answer
the following questions.

44. What is a polis?

45. What was the bird that symbolized Athens?

46. Where was the Temple of Artemis? What was her symbol that was used on the
coins from this city-state?

47. What was the symbol on the coin for Corinth? Who did it represent?

Now Click on the TAB that says “American Cities/Greek Names.” Explore the information
to answer the questions below.

48. How many US cities have the name “Athens”?

49. Besides Athens, what are the other Greek names in American cities?

Now Click on the Final TAB that says “Epics and Actors.” Read the text box and explore
the link to answer the following questions.
50. What is the origin of the word “theater”?

51. What are the two types of poetry?

52. How were the poems recited? By whom?

53. Where did drama come from?

54. What were the three types of drama?

55. Who were the three tragic poets?