Lesson 22: Timeline and Drill Questions Flashcards
431-404 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
430 B.C.
plague at Athens
Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.
Lysander
He pulled down the Long Walls to the sound of music.
Lysander
Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens.
Thirty Tyrants
Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop.
Alcibiades
How the Greeks dated time.
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games were held here.
Elis
443-429 B.C.
Pericles dominates Athenian politics
Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.
Peloponnesian War
He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Pericles
He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History.
Herodotus
Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides
The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.
Pericles
He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens.
Pericles
Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.
Attica
The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis
Parthenon
The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena.
Phidias
468 B.C.
Cimon defeats Persians
He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.
Cimon
The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.
Cimon
The port city of Athens.
Piraeus
Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.
Long Walls
The two legs of Greece.
Athens and Sparta
Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.
Aeschylus and Sophocles
Greek comic playwright.
Aristophanes
