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Person Identifications Flashcards

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Thucydides

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Father of scientific history
Placed emphasis on eye witness accounts

History of peolonnesian war (between Sparta and Athens)

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Homer

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Wrote Iliad and odyssey

May have recorded late mycanaean world

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Herodotus

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History of Persian wars

Comments on lands he visited in Mediterranean

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Nausicaa

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Assists Odysseus
Of marriageable age
Careful about reputation
Kings daughter

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Pandora

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Punishment to men
Held box of evil, let the box open
Fashioned from earth
Adorn by Athena

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Penelope

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Odysseus wife
Held on for 20+ years waiting for husband
Fought off suitors
Image of perfect wife

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Hesiod

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Poet around time of Homer

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Clytemnestra

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Wife of Agamemnon
Killed Agamemnon to keep lover
Image of not great wife

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Lycurgus

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Lawgiver credited to establishing spartan military and social reforms

Agoge: education system

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Plutarch

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Priest of apollo at Delphi

Wrote parallel lives

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Xenophon

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Student of Socrates

Greek philosopher

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Plato

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Greek philosopher

Influenced by Socrates

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Aristotle

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Greek philosopher

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Euripides

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Play writer in Athens

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Medea

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Wife of Jason who killed her children to spite him due to him leaving her for a princess

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Antigone

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Daughter of Oedipus and his mother (oedipus complex)

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Panathenaia

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Athenian festival for goddess Athena

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Thesmophoria

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Greek religious festival held for Demeter and Persephone

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Dionysus

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Greek god of wine and fertility whose mother asked Zeus to see him in his full glory and was “birthed” by zeus’s thigh after

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Maenad

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Female followers of Dionysus

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Moicheia

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Greek word for adultery

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Neaera

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Prostitute who was brought to trial for marrying an Athenian citizen illegally

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