ANCIENT GREEKS FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE Flashcards
When was the first Olympic games
776 BC
When was the Battle of Marathon
490 BC
When was The Battle at the Pass of Thermopylae
4 80 BC
When was the Beginning of the Age of Pericles
448 BC
When was the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War
431 BC
When was the End of the Peloponnesian War
404 BC
When did Alexander the Great become king of Macedonia
334 BC
When did Alexander Die
323 BC
“I showed, not by mere words but by my actions that I did not care a straw for death….”
Socrates
“There is no sweeter solace in life for human ills than craftsmanship; for the mind…”
Amphis
” If you have exercised yourself in a manner worthy of the Olympic festival, if you have been guilty of no slothful or ignobale act….”
Olympic Motto
“He that is not flogged cannot be taught”
Athenian Proverb
“For no Athenian through my means ever wore mourning”
Pericles
“I consider the whole of thy teaser and the whole of thy land to be mine”
Alexander the Great
Confederacy of Delos
Group of cities joined to free all Greeks
The Great sea surrounding Greece
Mediterranean sea
Author of the Iliad and Odyssey
Homer
Marketplace in Ancient Athens
Agora
Dwelling place of the gods
Mt. Olympus
Battle between the Athenians and Persian army
Battle of Salamis ASK
Or battle of Plataea
Oldest of Greek historians
Herodotus
Greatest of third century Greek Scientists
Archimedes
The great lawgiver of Sparta
Lycurgus
The most famous gymnasium in ancient Athens
The Academy
Son of Deucalion and Pyrrah
Hellen
Law in Athens banishing a citizen for 10 years
Ostracism
Part of Persian army always containing 10,00 men
The Immortals
Wife of Zeus
Hera
Famous museum of Alexandria
Temple of the Muses
Poem about the Trojan War
Illiad
Poem describing the travels of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
The Odyssey
Athenian general who also served Sparta and Persia
Alcibiades
Greek Leaders who seized power to rule alone
tyrants
Inscription containing the deeds of Thutmose 3
Celopatras Needle
Creator of the Great statue of Zeus
Phedias
Another name for the land of ancient greece
Hellas
Largest island in the Aegean Sea
Crete
Wise man and archon of Ancient greeks
Solon
Created the race of men and populated Greece
Deucalion
Most famous of all Greek colonies
ionia
Father of gods and men
Zeus
Road from Athens to to Eleusis
Sacred way
Slaves of the Spartans
Helots
Athletic contests at Coring in honor of Poseidon
Isthmian games
Athletic contests at Delphi in honor of Apollo
Pythian Games
Athletic contest at olympia in honor of zeus
Olympic games
Part of the mediterranean sea between greece and Asia Minor
Aegean Sea
Battle where the Athenians first defeated the Persians
Battle of Marathon
Group of spartans who ruled Athens
The thirty
Battle where 300 Spartans fought the Persian Army
Pass of Thermopylae
Final naval battle won by Athenians Against the Persians
Battle of Salamis
Period in Greek history from Alexander until the Roman Empire
Hellenistic Age
Peace treaty organized by Artaxerxes between Sparta and Athens
King’s peace
The war between Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian war
Journey of Athenian troops back to Greece from Persia
March of the 10,000
First Peace treaty between Sparta and Athens
Peace of Nicias
Period in Greek history after the Homeric age
Historic Greece
When did Philip become king of macedonia
359 BC
What was the order of Philosophers timewise in ancient greeks
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Archimedes
It was the lot of Hellas to have its season far more fairly tempered than other lands
Herodotus
“He is a law-court lover; no man like him. Judging is what he dotes on, and he weeps unless he sits on the front bench of all.”
Aristophanes
“Athens is Saved!’
Pheidippides
“The gods, O king, have given the Greeks all other gifts in moderate degree…”
Solon
The city is well fortified which hath a wall of men instead of brick.
Lycurgus
Who led the charge on the Spartan Side against the Persians at the pass of thermopylae
King Leonidas
The walls are made of men instead bricks
Lycurgus
Tunic worn by athenian men
Himiation
Guardian of Athens
Athena
