Assorted Facts + Definitions Flashcards
(6 cards)
1
Q
What is a mothake?
A
A child of a spartan citizen father and helot mother or an ex citizen disenfranchised due to loss of family wealth - oliganthropia
2
Q
What are the rumours about lysander’s bloodline?
A
Although he was a mothake, it was suggested he came from royal blood
3
Q
What happened to pantites?
A
He hanged himself upon learning he missed Thermopylae
4
Q
How did Thucydides come to write his book?
A
He lost the battle of amphipolis in 424 and was exiled
5
Q
How did the end of Sophocles play out?
A
He was sentenced to death for “corrupting the minds of the youth” and was forced to drink poison hemlock
6
Q
Who was King Agis cuckolded by?
A
Alcibiades - he repeatedly slept with the king’s wife
