Greek Everything

Question 1

Cleisthenes

What did he invent?

Answer 1

Invented Democracy

Question 1

Themistocles

Answer 1

improved athens navy by buying a crap ton of Trireme

Question 2

Phidippides

what did he do?

Answer 2

Ran 140 Miles to ask Sparta for help in the battle of marathon

Question 3

Hamartia

Answer 3

Flaw/Error of some kind that the character allows to take over.

Question 4

Catharsis

Answer 4

-Feeling of relief and emotional purification.
-refresh/ able to see clearly

Question 5

Hubris

Answer 5

Eccsesive pride

Question 6

Aristocrat

Answer 6

upper class citizen

Question 7

Tyrant

Answer 7

someone who takes control forcefully but doesn’t always use power for bad.

Question 8

Pisistratus

what did he do for athens?

Answer 8

-Came to power before democracy was invented
- grew Athens with the selling of olive oil

Question 9

Hippias

Answer 9

-Pisistratus’ son
-Bad Tyrant
-got kicked out by the town

Question 10

Isagorus

Answer 10

-Conspired against Cleisthenes once he came to power
-Gained support of Spartans to take the throne

Question 11

The Athenian revolt

Answer 11

-Ordinary people of them revolt against Isagorus
-First revolution documented in history

Question 12

Democracy

Answer 12

Citizens rule together by voting on every decision.

Question 13

Tragic Hero

Answer 13

• Elevated in rank
  -Major mistake/flaw that causes downfall
  -Relatable

Question 14

Laius

Answer 14

-Past king of thebes
-Oedipus’ dad

Question 15

Jocasta

Answer 15

-Queen of thebes
-Oedipus’ wife
Oedipus’ Mom

Question 16

Darius

Answer 16

Ruler of the Persian empire

Question 17

Battle of marathon

Answer 17

-Athens vs. Persia
-Athens wins

Question 18

Xerxes

Answer 18

-Darius’ son
-Ruler of Persian Empire
-Wants revenge for dead dad(Darius)
-brought 1 mill people to defeagt Athens, stilll lost

Question 19

Plato’s Triad soul

Answer 19

-Sweet horse-Emotions
-Crazy horse- Bodily Appetites
-Chariot- Reason

Question 20

Trojan war

Answer 20

-Troy vs. Sparta

Question 21

King Menalaus

Answer 21

-Sparta’s king during Trojan war

Question 22

Queen helen

Answer 22

-King Menelaus’ trophy wife
-Super beautiful
-Runs away with Paris because of Aphrodite’s magic that causes Helen to fall in love with Paris.

Question 23

Achilles

Answer 23

-Best warrior in Sparta
-Magic baby shield from moms deal with the gods(Dipped into special pool)
-Kills Hector
-Dies from Paris shooting an arrow in the only place he wasn’t protected(His Heel)

Question 24

Paris

Answer 24

-The "Bad" brother -selfish -everything hector isn't -Kills Achilles for revenge for killing hector

Question 25

Hector

Answer 25

-The good, Nobel prince of troy -Fights Achilles, dies

Question 26

Trojan Horse

Answer 26

-Greeks "Gift" for peace -Holds a bunch of Greek soldiers inside -Ends in soldiers getting into city and killing everyone in the night.

Question 27

Trojan war story purpose

Answer 27

Origin story of Greece

Question 28

Who invented the Phalanx

Answer 28

King Phillip II

Question 29

Who defeated Greece | (Alexander the great time)

Answer 29

King phillip III

Question 30

Helot

Answer 30

Captives of sparta that work in sparta fields

Question 31

Armistice

Answer 31

-Fancy word for truce -usually a long one

Question 32

Alcibiades

Answer 32

-Leader of Athens navy -accused of defiling the statues of the gods -found gulity and sentanced to death -convinces jailer to free him runs to Sparta for revenge on Athens

Question 33

What brought down the first democracy

Answer 33

Greed and Arrogance

Question 34

Socrates

Answer 34

-Philosopher -accused of undermining religion with his beliefs -platos mentor -death by Hemlock

Question 35

Pelopanesian War

Answer 35

- Athens to cocky - Sparta marches to Athens and Sthens hides within their walll - plague breaks out in Athens, 1/2 pop. dead - Athens hops on ships and burns Sparta's crops and kills the Helots - Alcibiades framed and escapes to Sparta to take down Athens. - Sparta asks for Persais help and persia agrees - Ahens is detroyed - Socrates killed - People regret killing socrates so Plato makes a school in honor of him

Question 36

Alexander the Great

Answer 36

- Educated by Aristotle - warrior - Philosopher - king - Scholar - Loved by people - Conqured Persia, Egypt, India - Marries Darius III's daughter, Roxane

Question 37

Beucephalis

Answer 37

- Alex's horse that served him for many years - Only person to ride Beucephalis is Alexander - Dies in the war between Inda and Alex's multi-army

Question 38

King Phillip II

Answer 38

- Military genius - Married six princess - Terrible father - Revolutionised the Macedonian Army - Expanded empire a little - Set the stage for Alexander - defeated greece - created the phalanx

Question 39

Phillip II's death

Answer 39

- At his daughters wedding to cleopatra(not egyptian) and pausanias spears him through the chest. - Alexander dissapeers with his mommy, Olympias

Question 40

Olympias

Answer 40

- Princess of Epirus - Foreign to macedonia - third wife of Phillip II - jelous and protective of Alexander - Alexander's mom