Archaic Age Flashcards
Archaic Age
776-500
Hesiod
700
Works and Days- advice- sort of biography
Theogony - about the gods
Homer
750-550
Ilyiad
Odyssey
Epic Poetry
Hesiod Homer Homeric Hymns Panhellenic dialect performed rather than read
Aoidoi
traveling poet
Kouroi
750-650
Kourous
young man
left foot forward
nude
arms by side
Kore
young girl shorter than kouros right hand extended clothed brightly painted
Lyric Poetry
accompanied by Aulous
Iambric
iambric trimeter dialect depended on poet normal speech Archillicus semonides
Melic
Performance local dialect educated young people Sappho Alcman
Elegiac
inspiring
accompanied battle marches
Tyrtaeus
Callinus
Hoplites
most heavily armed shock troops
wealthy citizens
self funded
Phalanx
Formation hoplites marched in
encouraged cooperation
Symposium
Drinking and eating
wealthy men
Andron
Mens place
Krater
mixing vessel of wine and water before consumption
reflected sacrificial process
Kylis
individual drinking vessel
decorated
Kottabus
game
lees was swirled then flicked into central vessel
hand eye coordination
Quality based on…
ability to speak successfully
dexterity while drunk
exercise self control
Hetaira
Prostitute
Seals
indicated authority
pressed into wax or clay
Intaglio
carved into a gemstone
relief was left when pressed into soft material
Black Figure
600-500 painted figures men- black women- white (no sun) used as trophies for panathenaic games
Red Figure
500-323
backround and details painted
allowed overlap
more realistic
Tyranny
700-500
Oligarchy
power to the few
Aristocracy
power to the best
Polycrates
535-522 Samos built harbor temple for Hera Tunnel for water
Peisistratus
died 527
athens
pan athenaic games
gave out olive oil and siler/gold to winners
PanAtheniac Amphora
two handles black figure aphrodite on one side depiction of event on one side filled with olive oil
Miletus
resisted Persian and Lydian attacks
traded through meditteranean and Agean
ionian
Mythos
explanation via gods
Logos
explanation via reason
Thales
625-545
made of water
Anaxamander
610
not everything is wet
the limitless/the indefinite
Anaxamenes
547/548
too vague
made of Air- condensation and rarefaction
Ionian revolt
499-494
help from Athens and Eretria
Satrap
rules over cities under persian rule
collects tax
appoints Tyrant
Aristagoras
starts revolt by stepping down from Mileus tyrant
Sardas
Capital of persian ruled Lydia
catches fire in Ionian revolt
first persian attack
492
fails
run into barbarians
storms near mt Athos
second persian Attack
490
take over eritria
battle on Marathon plains between athens and Persia
Athens wins due to organization and superior equiptment
Xerxes
prepares persia for final attack
silver streak
483
funded build up of the navy
Trireme
warship
3 rows of oarsmen
bronze clad ram
resistance
sparta
athens
corinth
end result
Athens and Sparta defeat Persians
Thermopylae
Spartans hold path for 4 days
299 death plus kind leonidas
