Final Exam

Question 1

Isonomia

Answer 1

Equal Access to the law

Question 2

Ekklesia

Answer 2

meeting place of Athens where laws and military decisions were made

Question 3

Boule

Answer 3

Council of 500. Meant to manage the ekklesia. In charge of overseeing elections, the navy, public buildings, and prosecuted treason cases.

Question 4

Strategoi

Answer 4

General

Question 5

Polemarkhos

Answer 5

The man in charge of arranging funerals for men who died in war.

Question 6

The Dikasteria

Answer 6

the jury courts of Athens

Question 7

Archon

Answer 7

chief magistrate (similar to a king but the Athenians didn’t like kings)

Question 8

The Agora

Answer 8

Public meeting place of Athens. Where political meetings and juries would gather.

Question 9

Dikastes

Answer 9

The jury in a court case

Question 10

The Areopagus

Answer 10

The court where murder cases would be heard.

Question 11

Archon Basileus

Answer 11

The man who oversaw all religious aspects of Athens. Also oversaw the court of the areopagus.

Question 12

400

Answer 12

The year the city began to pay its citizens who attended the ekklesia.

Question 13

451

Answer 13

Perikles citizenship law came into place. (Reaffirmed in 403 after defeat of thirty tyrants)

Question 14

487

Answer 14

The year the state started paying archons

Question 15

Lysias

Answer 15

A famous speechwriter of Ancient Athens

Question 16

Graphe

Answer 16

A crime against the state. (for example, intentional wounding (case))

Question 17

The Delphinion

Answer 17

A Homicide court of Athens. In this court, you defended yourself for killing someone with the defense of “lawful killing”

Question 18

Bouleusis

Answer 18

The charge of planned murder

Question 19

Antiphon

Answer 19

A famous speechwriter in Ancient Athens

Question 20

The Palladion

Answer 20

A homicide court of Athens. This court oversaw a variety of murder cases (unintentional killing, killing of a non-citizen, plotting a killing, etc)

Question 21

Euphiletus

Answer 21

The speaker in Lysias 1. The man who “lawfully killed” Eratosthenes.

Question 22

Dike

Answer 22

A crime against the individual

Question 23

Miasma

Answer 23

A stain or pollution

Question 24

Kurios

Answer 24

An Athenian male who would speak on the behalf of women and children in the courts.

Question 25

403-380

Answer 25

The years when Lysias produced his speeches

Question 26

430-411

Answer 26

The years when ANtiphon wrote his speeches

Question 27

Simon

Answer 27

The person whom the charge is against in Lysias 3

Question 28

Doxe

Answer 28

Reputation

Question 29

Trauma ek pronoias

Answer 29

The charge of intentional wounding

Question 30

Theodotus

Answer 30

The boy whom the speaker and Simon had been fighting over.

Question 31

Neaera

Answer 31

The woman on trial in Demosthenes 59

Question 32

Phano

Answer 32

the accused daughter of Neaera

Question 33

Stephanus

Answer 33

The man who prosecuted Apollodorus under the law of graphe paranomnon. Also lives with Neaera.

Question 34

Theomnestos

Answer 34

The man in Demosthenes 59 that is trying to harm his enemy through Naeara

Question 35

Apollodorus

Answer 35

The speaker in Demosthenes 59

Question 36

Hetaira

Answer 36

A prostitute that had talents other than sex. A woman who you could purchase time with to talk and spend meaningful time with.

Question 37

Ho Boulomenos

Answer 37

The man who prosecutes the graphe charge

Question 38

Gune

Answer 38

A wife or betrothed woman

Question 39

Corinth

Answer 39

A city-state in Attike that Neaera was from

Question 40

342-340

Answer 40

The timeframe in which Demosthenes 59 was written

Question 41

Dowry

Answer 41

A payment made to the groom of a woman by the bride's family. meant to offset the cost of having a woman in the family.

Question 42

Theogenes

Answer 42

Naearas second husband (was archon basileus at the time)

Question 43

Basilinna

Answer 43

The wife of the Archon Basileus

Question 44

Anthesterion

Answer 44

A festival for dionysus?

Question 45

Phratry

Answer 45

A "brotherhood" or group containing citizens. You would show them your wife or child to solidify their citizen status.

Question 46

Plato

Answer 46

Ancient Greek philosopher, follower and friend of Socrates

Question 47

Socrates

Answer 47

Ancient Greek Philosopher, often caused trouble for the Athenian elite by asking them questions they could not answer and making them look foolish.

Question 48

Anytus and Meletus

Answer 48

The two men who accused Socrates of asebeia

Question 49

Asebeia

Answer 49

the charge of not worshipping the gods properly

Question 50

Apollo

Answer 50

The patron god of philosophy. It was after apollos oracle said no one is wiser than Socrates that he went out to see if it was true.

Question 51

399

Answer 51

The year Socrates died

Question 52

The Prytaneum

Answer 52

One of the oldest buildings in Athens that contained the sacred flame of Athens. The prytaneum was used to entertain ambassadors and to feed for free those who had participated in the Olympian games of Zeus or an unusually successful Strategos.

Question 53

Daimonion

Answer 53

A personal "spirit" or "voice" that would follow Socrates around and tell him not to do something.

Question 54

Graphe Paranomnon

Answer 54

Making an illegal proposal to the Ekklesia.