Greece Flashcards
(34 cards)
Hesiod
Writes poem works and days
Pericles
Athenian general, built the Parthenon
Hoplites
Army men, phalanx, 8 across 8 deep
Sappho
Lesbian, island of lesbos, school for all girls
Herodotus
Writes history of the Persian wars (father of history)
Aristotle
Writes the works Politics and Ethics
Alexander the Great
King, conquers Asia Minor Palestine Sitka Egypt all the way up to India
Helots
Slaves
Aristophanes
Writes comedy Lysistrata about women who go on sex strike
Epicurus
Epicureanism: goal of life is to get intellectual pleasure and happiness
Sophocles
Writes tragedies Antigone and King Oedipus
Homer
Wrote the Odyssey and Iliad based on Trojan Wars, completely made up
Zeus
Dada god
Athena
Goddess of wisdom and war
Draco
Archon king, codifies Athenian laws
Xerxes
Persian king who leads the Persian wars to avenge his father Darius
Agamemnon
Led initial Trojan wars to get Helen back from Prince Paris
Protagoras
No objective in life, independent truth
Socrates
Dialogue method, believes there is an objective truth and ignorance will block you from it
Perioeci
Craftsmen
Thucydides
Informed about the peloponnesian war
Cleisthenes
Originator of democracy, promises voices of poor in government
Politics
Work by Aristotle detailing the development and function of the polis
Polis
Greek city state