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Ancient Athletics Terms Exam 1 Flashcards

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Stadium

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A place where foot races were held

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Amphora

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A pottery vessel used as a storage jar for wine or oil

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Stephanitic games

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winners received only a garland for victory, another name for Panhellenic games

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Stephanos

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Greek word for crown

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Stadion

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A unit of length (600 ancient feet) or a footrace that was one stadion in length. Oldest event of the Olympic games

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Hopllitodromos

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A footrace where competitors competed in armor

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Herodotus

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Greek historian who lived in 5th century BCE

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Menes

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A pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt. Credited wit uniting lower and upper Egypt

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Mentohotep

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Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, credited with reuniting Egypt.

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Hyksos

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“hill people” from western Asia who invaded and took over Lower Egypt for 150 years

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Xenia

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guest friendship; hospitality

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Homer

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A Greek poet of the 8th century BCE. Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Agathos

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A good man; man of worth

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Arete

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Excellence in war, and/or sport, goodness, valor, nobility, virtue

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Apoina

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Reconciliation or recompense

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Metis

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Cleverness

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Chrematitic games

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“money” or valuable prize games

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Tyrant

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People who took control of states without constitutional ratification

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Polis

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city-states in ancient Greece, made up of a center and its surrounded territory.

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Athlon

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prize

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Gymnasium

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“place for nudity”; used for recreation, physical education, and athletic practice

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Time

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honor

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Diaulos

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double-stade race

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Dolichos

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4,800 m race

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Hysplex

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starting gate

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Tripod

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three-legged piece of furniture, given as a prize for competitors

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Pentathlon

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5 event contest : long jump, javelin, discus, stadion race, and wrestling

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Pyx

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boxing

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Pale

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wrestling

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Pankration

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“all-in” combination wrestling

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Pelops

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Greek mythological figure known not only for his role in stories of mount Olympus but also as a ruler in the Peloponnesian region

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Oinomaos

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King of Greek region of Pisa in Greek mythology

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Hippodamia

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daughter of King Oinomaos

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Zeus

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God of the sky in Greek mythology

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Sanctuary

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areas set apart for devotion to the gods

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Pausanians

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an ancient Greek geographer

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Temple

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a building in ancient Greece that was dedicated to a specific god within the pantheon

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Treasury

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a small building where offerings of money and precious objects were presented to the gods

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Doric order

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one of the orders of styles of classical architecture

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Centaur

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a creature with the head, arms, and torso of a man and the body and legs of a horse

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Apollo

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ancient greek god of sunlight, music, and poetry

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Vault

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a roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches

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Palestra

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a wrestling school in ancient Greece

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Python

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the serpent living at the center of the Earth, believed to be at Delphi

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Delphi

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an ancient sacred precinct located in central Greece on the slopes of Mount Parnassus

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Nemea

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an ancient site in northeastern part of the Peloponnese

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Isthmia

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an ancient Greek village in the Corinthia region of Greece

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Poseidon

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the ancient Greek god of the sea

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Heroon

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a shrine dedicated to an ancient Greek or Roman hero

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Opheltes

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the infant son of King Lycurus and his wife Eurydice of Nemea

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Theater

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a semi-circular open-air structure used for staging dramatic and musical performances

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Melikertes

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later called Palaemon, prince and the son of King Athamas

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Triton

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greek god of the sea

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Kypselus

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the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century

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Ionic order

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order of classical architecture

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Corinthian order

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order of classical architecture

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