Ancient Greece Flashcards
This last of the “Five Good [Greek] Emperors” ruled from 161 AD - 180 AD and is in part known for writing “Meditations,” a series of personal writings that focused, among other things, his ideas on Stoic philosophy.
Marcus Aurelius
This figure is said to have responded to Ptolemy I’s request for an easier way of of learning mathematics by saying “There is no Royal Road to geometry.” (The Royal Road is a reference to the ancient highway created under Persian king Darius I in the 5th century BC.)
Euclid
The “Sword of” this Greek figure is the title of a moral anecdote that alludes to the ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power.
Damocles
Called the “Father of History”, he wrote a long account of the Greco-Persian Wars.
Herodotus
This Athens high ground was the site of the palaces of the Mycenaean-era kings.
Acropolis
He ran the original Marathon, bringing Athens news of the battle.
Pheidippides
What king of Epirus suffered massive casualties in defeating the Romans at the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC?
King Pyrrhus
This Greek physician is often referred to as the “Father of Medicine” and is credited with being the first to believe that diseases were the result of natural causes and not because of superstition and gods.
Hippocrates
This woman was the lover and partner of Pericles. Her house was an intellectual center of ancient Greece and attracted many prominent writers and thinkers. It’s been suggested that her teachings heavily influenced Socrates.
Aspasia
Prior to becoming the Athenian Empire, that collection of city-states was known as this organization, named after the island where its treasury was located.
Delian League (Delos)
After Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, this king of Mycenae led Greek troops to besiege Troy for 10 years.
Agamemnon
This bearded guy was born in Colonus around 496 B.C. and wrote more than 120 plays including “Ajax” & “Antigone.”
Sophocles
The Colossus of Rhodes was an ancient statue of what Greek god?
Helios
This Greek trilogy of tragedies was written by Aeschylus. Its three parts include the (1) murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, (2) the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes and (3) the trial of Orestes
Oresteia
A look at great historic clashes, Philip Sabin’s “Lost Battles” includes this 490 B.C. battle the Persians lost to the Greeks.
Battle of Marathon
Name the ancient Greek hedonist (341–270 BCE) whose ethics were based on the pursuit of individual pleasure and personal satisfaction and whose name is the source of a word for a person with discriminating taste in food and wine.
Epicurus
While Thule is the northernmost land mentioned in ancient Greek cartography, their myths also told of a golden land even further beyond the North Wind, a paradise amidst the polar ice that in some modern esoterica (like Clark Ashton Smith’s expansion of the Lovecraftian mythos or Mike Mignola’s Hellboy universe) is imagined as having been a super-advanced precursor civilization. What is that land called?
Hyperborea
