• Aegisthus - lover of Clytemnestra
• Aeschylus - writer of tragedies
• Agamemnon - King of Mycenae, led Greeks to Troy
• bard - singer of epic poetry
• Clytemnestra - wife of Agamemnon
• cyclops - cannibalistic one-eyed giant
• Democracy - rule by the people
• Dionysos - god of wine and theatre
• doric - severe style of architecture
• epic - long poem about gods and heroes
• Helen - wife of Menelaus, ran off with Paris
• Hera - wife of Zeus and Queen of Heaven
• Homer - the greatest of all epic poets
• Iliad - Homer's poem about Troy
• ionic - elaborate style of architecture
• Jason - hero who fetched the Golden Fleece
• kouros - early Greek male statue
• Lion Gate - entrance to Agamemnon's Mycenae

Don't look too closely at this lady. She is Medusa!

• Medea - witch who helped Jason
• Medusa - a gorgon whose stare turned you to stone
• Menelaus - brother of Agamemnon
• metopes - blocks of relief sculpture on temple
• Mycenae - home of Agamemnon
• Odyssey - Homer's tale of Odysseus
• Olympia - sanctuary of Zeus, home of Olympic Games
• oracle - sanctuary where predictions about the future could be heard
• Paris - His taking of Helen led to Trojan War
• polis - the city state
• Quod erat demonstrandum- I think I proved my point!
• rhapsodos - professional bard or singer
• sanctuary - holy place, sacred to a god
• Socrates - Athenian philosopher, considered the wisest of men.
• Spitting Image - satirical puppet show
• temple - the earthly home of a god
• Trojan War - the war fought by the Greeks to get Helen back
• Zeus - King of the gods and the sky