Starter quiz
Look at the map of Ancient Greece. What were the separate areas Ancient Greece was divided into called?- 'city-states' ✓
- What are Greek myths?
- stories ✓
- buildings
- gods
- songs
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- Match the words to the descriptions.
- gymnasium⇔a place for men to exercise ✓
- agora⇔a marketplace ✓
- acropolis⇔an area built in the highest hill in the city ✓
- theatre⇔a place to be entertained ✓
- Who won the Peloponnesian War?
- Athens
- Sparta ✓
- Corinth
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- According to Greek mythology, what was the underworld?
- a place where people went when they died ✓
- a place where people went when they slept
- a place where people went to worship
- a place where people went for shopping
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- Who was king of the underworld?
- Zeus
- Hades ✓
- Ares
- Heracles
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Exit quiz
- Who wrote The Iliad?
- Homer ✓
- Wordsworth
- Owen
- Keats
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- Who captured Helen and took her to Troy?
- Menelaus
- Paris ✓
- Achilles
- Homer
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- After 10 years of fighting, the ______ won the Trojan War.
- 'Greeks' ✓
- Match the names to the descriptions.
- Paris⇔A mythical prince of Troy ✓
- Homer⇔An Ancient Greek poet ✓
- Achilles⇔A mythical solider and hero ✓
- Menelaus⇔A mythical King of Sparta ✓
- Put the events of the Trojan War in the correct order.
- 1⇔Paris kidnaps the King of Sparta's wife, Helen, and takes her back to Troy.
- 2⇔The Greeks start a war with Troy to win Helen back.
- 3⇔Ten years of fighting takes place.
- 4⇔Achilles is killed in battle.
- 5⇔The Greeks eventually win the war.
- 6⇔Helen returns to Sparta with Menelaus.
- The Iliad is an ______ poem written by Homer that tells the story of the Trojan War myth.
- 'epic' ✓
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Key learning points
- The Trojan War was a mythical conflict between the Ancient Greeks and Troy, a city most likely in modern day Turkey.
- The war began when a Trojan, Paris, kidnapped Helen from the Greek King Menelaus.
- The Greeks defeated the Trojans but their greatest warrior, Achilles, was killed.
- This myth was first written down as an epic poem called *The Iliad* by the Greek poet, Homer.
- *The Iliad* not only became a major part of Ancient Greek identity, but influenced literature and art through the ages.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that Troy was a real place and that the Trojan War was a real conflict.
The story of the Trojan War is from Greek mythology. Myths are stories that people have told by word of mouth for thousands of years, some people do claim that myths are true but they are in fact fictional stories - they did not happen in real life.
Keywords
Troy - Troy is a mythical city, believed to have been located in modern-day Turkey
Trojans - people from Troy were called Trojans
Achilles - Achilles is a mythical hero who fought in the Trojan War, he was celebrated as a great warrior that no one could defeat
Homer - Homer was a Greek poet, who is thought to have lived around the 700s BCE
*the iliad* - The Iliad is an ancient Greek poem, telling the story of the Trojan War, believed to be written by Homer