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What is the most important part of the sanctuary for worship?

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Altar

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What is the term for believing in many gods?

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Polytheistic

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What is the term for human-shaped gods?

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Anthropomorphic

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What is the term for giving something in order to get something in return?

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Reciprocity

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Who is in charge of divine inspiration?

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Muses

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Who is the god of music and medicine?

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Apollo

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Who is the goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts?

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Athena

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Who is the god of the sea?

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Poseidon

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Who is the goddess of the hearth?

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Hestia

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Who is the god of the underworld?

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Hades

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Who is the goddess of the underworld?

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Persephone

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Who is the king of the gods?

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Zeus

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Who is the goddess of sex?

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Aphrodite

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Who is the goddess of marriage?

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Hera

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Who is the god of merchants and thieves?

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Hermes

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Who is the goddess of hunting and unmarried girls?

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Artemis

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Who is the blacksmith god?

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Hephaestus

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Who is the goddess of agriculture?

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Demeter

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Who is the god of war?

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Ares

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Who is the god of wine & drama?

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Dionysus

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Who is the strong son of Zeus that became a god?

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Herakles

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The _________________ was an alliance between ________________ and its allies, mostly situated in the Aegean.

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Delian League

Athens

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The _______________________ was an alliance between _________________ and its allies, mostly situated in the Peloponnese.

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Peloponnesian League

Sparta

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Sparta encouraged _________________ government among its allies, the ruling by the privileged few as opposed to democracy.

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The Assembly or _________________ met 40 times/month, discussing such issues as war declarations and foreign affairs; all citizens who completed military training were eligible to speak.
Ekklesia
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Who was allowed to speak first? (At Ekklesia)
Generals
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The Assembly met on the _________________.
Pnyx Hill
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The agenda for the Assembly and matters of public finance were set by the Council or _________________, which consisted of 500 tribesmen selected by lot.
Boule
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The _________________ was in charge of war
Polemarch
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the _________________ was in charge of religious affairs
Archon Basilieus
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the year was named after the _________________, who was the leading politician of his year.
Eponymous Archon
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_________________was the mastermind behind the Athenian fleet and Piraeus harbor; he favored radical democracy in which all citizens participated.
Themistokles
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_________________ was the Delian League general who defeated the Persians at the Eurymedon River; he was a proponent of conservative democracy in which only aristocrats and hoplites could participate.
Kimon
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_________________ moved the judicial powers from the Areopagus to the Boule and the Ekklesia (to be more democratic); he was murdered by his political opponents.
Ephialtes
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_________________ limited Athenian citizenship to only those whose mother and father were citizens. Before the Peloponnesian War, he had a major building campaign in Athens.
Perikles
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_________________ was the Athenian general who established a base at Pylos/Sphakteria and was executed in Sicily.
Demosthenes
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_________________ was the bold Spartan general who seized Amphipolis and died fighting there.
Brasidas
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_________________ was the war-hungry Athenian leader who urged for the destruction of Mytilene and died trying to regain Amphipolis.
Kleon
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_________________ was the cautious Athenian general that thought the Sicilian Expedition was a mistake.
Nikias
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_________________ was the bold general who was pro-Sicilian Expedition, an exile to Sparta, an adviser to Persia, and a restorer of democracy at Athens.
Alkibiades
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____________ Was Alexander III’s teacher; worked on multiple fields of science, as well as ethics, history, linguistics, logic, rhetoric, poetics, political theory, psychology, and zoology.
Aristotle
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Professional teachers claiming to teach skills that young men needed for thinking, speaking, and living successfully. Socrates and Plato believed them to be frauds.
Sophists
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Famous cynic who lived in a jar, messed with Plato, and was snarky to Alexander III.
Diogenes
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Focused on concepts through reasoning: situations change, but concepts (like ‘goodness’) stay the same.
Plato
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He fought at Marathon and was the first to write plays in trilogies and to use special effects; famous for The Oresteia.
Aeschylus
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Believed that the cosmos & nature were merely atoms; thought there was no immortal soul or divine plan, so seek moderate pleasure to enjoy the here & now.
Epicurians
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Believed they couldn’t control what happens but how they react to it; believed a divinely rational principle controlled the cosmos.
Stoics
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Believed that human reason is not capable of determining knowledge about the substance of things; we can only know how things appear to us.
Skeptics
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This writer of Old Comedy satirized politicians and the Peloponnesian War, as well as sophists, jurors, other playwrights, and social issues.
Aristophanes
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Famous for his method of conversation and cross-examination to gain a deeper understanding of the truth; focused on how one should live to improve the soul.
Socrates
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Believed that virtue equaled wisdom, which comes from independence of possessions & pleasure, and absence of desires; virtue itself will make one happy.
Cynics
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He used clearer language than Aeschylus and was a rival of Euripides; he is famous for his Antigone and Oedipus.
Sophocles
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He was educated by sophists, mocked by Aristophanes, and was controversial for questioning traditional values and his use of bold female characters. He is famous for Medea and The Bacchae.
Euripides
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This writer of New Comedy wrote 100 plays in sit-com/rom-com style, but only one survives; his work was copied by the Romans.
Menander
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This was the school founded by Plato.
Academy
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This was the school founded by Aristotle
Lyceum

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