Ancient Greece

Ancient Greek babies had a hard time surviving and weren't usually named until the seventh or tenth day of life. If a baby was born deformed it might have been abandoned on a mountain.

Trojan War

468BC - Sophocles writes his first tragety641AD - Slaves overrun Greece2500BC - The great Minoan civilization650BC - Rise of Greek tyrants490BC - Greek/Persian Wars led by Xerxes776BC - Olympics start384BC - Aristotle is born

The Trojan War took place in Troy against the Greeks. The Greeks were lead by the greatest heroes of Greece, Achilles, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, and two wariors named Ajax. The Greeks convinced Troy that they surrendered and made a horse out of wood, and hid in it, then Troy brought it in as a trophy, and at night while all of Troy was sleeping the Greeks jumped out of the Horse and won the Trojan War

Homer

Homer is known for writing the Iliad and The Odyssey. Ancient Greeks believed that Homer was the first and greatest of the epic poets.

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By: Brayden Sorensen

Homer was a blind poet, and was believed to be one of the best ones alive. He wrote the most famous Greek stories, The Iliad, and the Odyssey