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These ancient Greek trivia questions are history, not myth, in four rounds: city-states and lawgivers, the wars of Persia, Athens, Sparta and Thebes, the centuries from Alexander to Rome, and thinkers, writers and machines.
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Ancient Greece trivia questions in four rounds
City-states and lawgivers runs from Draco's code of 621 BC to the yearly archons. Persia, Athens, Sparta and Thebes follows the fighting from Salamis to Chaeronea. From Alexander to Rome ends when Justinian closes the Academy. Thinkers, writers and machines has Herodotus, the trireme and the Antikythera mechanism.
Greek history trivia questions with dates
Dates are BC unless a question says AD, and the wrong choices are real places, people and leagues of the same centuries. Tap a choice to check it; the reason and the article it was read in appear with the answer.
Tips
- Persia, Athens, Sparta and Thebes is the hard round: battles, a treaty and leagues with similar names.
Questions and answers
What are some easy trivia questions about ancient Greece?
Who is known as the father of history? At which sea battle did an Athenian fleet beat the Persians? In which year did Alexander the Great die? The answers are Herodotus, Salamis and 323 BC.
Are these ancient Greek trivia questions and answers about the myths?
No. The pack is dated history: laws, wars, kings and inventions. The gods come up once, in a question on how many Olympians the pantheon held.
When was ancient Greece?
From the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th to 9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, about AD 600. The Classical period inside it runs from the Persian invasion of 480 BC to the death of Alexander in 323 BC.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Ancient Greece, which every question links. Population figures in that article are not asked, and a battle is asked only where the article gives its year and its winner.