People

Question 1

Themistocles

Answer 1

• Athenian politician and general.
• Extraordinary ability in anticipate the future and devote all his efforts to bringing others around to his views.
• Prominent on issues of naval policy and political power.
• Persuaded people to devote income to ship construction

Question 2

Pericles

Answer 2

Aristocrat. Son of Xanthippus.
He was a dedicated democrat despite his aristocratic background. He as single minded in his devotion to Athens. Although not a brilliantly original thinker, he was a first-class orator and a capable general. His judgement was sound, and under his guidance Athens flourished.
Alongside Cimon, radically altered the Athenian constitution.

Question 3

Minoians

Answer 3

From early Crete. Around 2500 BC first civilization made its way to Crete. 500 years later people started organizing their lives around complex structures that Evans called palaces.
Dubbed minoians after legendary king Minos.

Question 4

Mycenaeans

Answer 4

A barbarian invasion. The story of Troy is part of the Mycenaeans civilizations.
Made the groundwork for Greek civilization.

Question 5

Demes

Answer 5

A miniature polis.
The Athenian democracy had its secure foundations in the local deme, or precinct organization.
Attica had more than 139 of these local units, each with its own assembly and elected officers, its religious ceremonies and festivals. Demes owned property, levied taxes, and organized local cults. The deme assembly met regularly and took care of all neighborhood business.

Question 6

Physics/Nomos Debate

Answer 6

The writings of Herodotus made aware for some of the extraordinarily wide divergences of lifestyles everywhere.
The question arose:
Is mortality merely convention (nomos), or is there er sanction to be found in something else, say, in nature (physis)?

Question 7

Socrates

Answer 7

Of Athens. 469-399BC

• Known for his Socratic method of examination and exhortation .
• put to death at the age of 70 on the charge of introducing strange deities and corrupting the young.

Question 8

Sophist

Answer 8

Ancient Greek lecturer, philosopher, teacher

Question 9

Homer

Answer 9

Wrote the Iliad, one of the greatest classics in world literature.

Question 10

Hesiod

Answer 10

His world as seen in his partly autobiographical Works and Days, written about 700BC, is a far different world than described by homer.
Commoner who had suffered from the rapacity of nobility, whom he calls “lords” and “princes”