Greece Flashcards

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Hesiod

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Writes poem works and days

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Pericles

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Athenian general, built the Parthenon

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Hoplites

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Army men, phalanx, 8 across 8 deep

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Sappho

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Lesbian, island of lesbos, school for all girls

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Herodotus

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Writes history of the Persian wars (father of history)

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Aristotle

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Writes the works Politics and Ethics

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Alexander the Great

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King, conquers Asia Minor Palestine Sitka Egypt all the way up to India

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Helots

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Slaves

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Aristophanes

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Writes comedy Lysistrata about women who go on sex strike

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Epicurus

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Epicureanism: goal of life is to get intellectual pleasure and happiness

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Sophocles

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Writes tragedies Antigone and King Oedipus

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Homer

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Wrote the Odyssey and Iliad based on Trojan Wars, completely made up

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Zeus

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Dada god

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Athena

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Goddess of wisdom and war

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Draco

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Archon king, codifies Athenian laws

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Xerxes

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Persian king who leads the Persian wars to avenge his father Darius

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Agamemnon

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Led initial Trojan wars to get Helen back from Prince Paris

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Protagoras

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No objective in life, independent truth

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Socrates

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Dialogue method, believes there is an objective truth and ignorance will block you from it

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Perioeci

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Thucydides

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Informed about the peloponnesian war

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Cleisthenes

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Originator of democracy, promises voices of poor in government

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Politics

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Work by Aristotle detailing the development and function of the polis

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Polis

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Greek city state

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Oracles
Religious temples or people who affiliated with Greek deities
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Ostracism
Ban from society or group
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Gerousia
Makes the laws for Sparta, elected by assembly, made up of 30 men 60 years and older
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Aegean sea
Sea next to Greece
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Peloponnesus
Peninsula where early messenians settled
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Agora
Place where Greeks gathered, markets etc
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Olympics
Games done to praise deities
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Parthenon
Temple built for Athena by Pericles
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Island of Crete
First Minoan civilization
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Most important occupation in Greece?
Farming