Athenian Politics and Empire Flashcards
Who were the Alcmaeonids?
Athenian dynasty including Megacles, Cleisthenes, Miltiades, Cimon, Pericles, and Alcibiades.
Who was Ephialtes the politician?
Pericles’s mentor, who broke the power of the Areopagus and limited it to murder trials, and was assassinated 461 BC
Who was Pericles?
– elected strategos from 460-429, led Athens at its height of power, commissioned the building of the Parthenon, brought the Delian League treasury to Athens to effectively form the Athenian Empire. The only prominent Athenian never to be ostracized. In Thucydides’s history he gives the annual Funeral Oration, in which he calls Athens the “school of Hellas (Greece)”. Also secures payment for jurymen, so that they can afford not to be working on the farm while serving. Dies during the plague that hits during the Peloponnesian War, in 429, along with 1/3rd of Athens’s population.
What is the Delian Leaague?
an alliance of Greek city-states (poleis) for mutual protection against Persia, begun in 477 BC. Each member paid with ships, supplies, etc. and the treasury was kept on Delos. Aristides the Just/Good judged how much each polis owed. Pericles moved the treasury to Athens in 453, beginning the Athenian Empire, as Athens was easily the most powerful polis involved. Sparta and others opted not to join; weaker poleis were forced into joining to support Athens and punished if they tried to revolt or deny payment. Eventually, paying the Delian League was the same as paying Athens.
Who where Callicrates & Ictinus?
the architects of the Parthenon; Callicrates of the Ionian order, Ictinus of the Doric order.
Who was Phidias?
sculptor of Athena Nike in the Parthenon and the statue of Zeus at Olympia, a Wonder of the Ancient World.
Who was Aspasia?
Pericles’s hetaera, or foreign lady.
