CB22x: The Ancient Greek Hero Flashcards
from the eighth century down to roughly the middle of the fifth
archaic
roughly, the second half of the fifth century
classical
fourth century and beyond
post-classical
Before the Common Era
BCE
Common Era
CE
Death of Socrates
399 BCE
a convenient point for dividing classical and post-classical era
Death of Socrates, 399 BCE
_______ was a cultural constellation of competing city-states that had a single language in common
Ancient Greece
the most prominent of the ancient Greek city-states (5)
Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Argos, and Thebes, all of them located in the part of the Mediterranean region that we know today as “modern Greece.”
Greek city of __________, later to be called Constantinople (now Istanbul)
Byzantium
arguably greatest of all Greek cities in the ancient world, _________, founded by Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE.
Alexandria
Greek cities east of mainland Greece, facing the coast of Asia Minor
Miletus and Smyrna (now Izmir)
facing the coast of Asia Minor were Greek island states (name 2)
Samos and Chios
to the North was a federation of Greek cities located both on the island of _______ and on the facing mainland of Asia Minor
Lesbos
Still further to the North, guarding the entrance to the Black Sea, was the Greek city of ______
Byzantium
Far to the South, in African Libya, was the Greek city of _______
Cyrene
To the West were other great Greek cities like _______ in the island of Sicily as well as _______ and _______ (now Napoli or Naples) in what is now the modern state of Italy
Syracuse, Tarentum, Neapolis
Still further to the West, in what is now the modern state of France, was the Greek (formerly Phoenician) city of ______ (now Marseille)
Massalia
Greek word for “city-state”
polis
Aristotle made a basic observation about the ancient Greek polis in a treatise known today as the Politics
A human [anthrōpos] is by nature an organism of the polis [politikon zōion]
What Aristotle is really saying here is that humans achieve their ultimate potential within a society that is the polis.
