Chapter 3 The Archaic Age of Greece Flashcards
Around what time period did the Archaic Period begin
c. 790/700 B.C
Where did the Greeks spread out too?
Over the Mediterranean
A positive to the Archaic would be?
More colonies and Expanded trade
What were Male citizens called?
Politai
Who were the Megara?
Megarians
Agora
Gathering place where they talked about civic issues
Who plotted the stars and drew the first geographical map?
Anaximander
Which philosophers studied math and astronomy?
Presocratics
Name a famous lyric poet we went over in this chapter
Archilochus
Where did lyric poets recite at?
Drinking Parties
Which type of philosophers were more interested in structure and development?
Archaic
What is the chief governmental position in Athens?
Archon
What century is the beginning of the Independent city states across Mediterranean(Black Sea)?
7th Century
What was an ancient word used to define the black sea?
Eurine Sea
What’s the ancient island off the coast of the Eurine Sea called?
Propontis
Which god is mentioned in the works and days used to keep unjust from happening?
Zeus
What’s a story which showed the difference between the marriages in Hesiod?
Pandora
What type of tone is shown in the works and days?
Moralistic
What time period marked roughly the first serious challenge to oligarchy?
670-500 B.C
True or False tyrants rose due to their personal achievements?
True
What’s the average span of most tyrannies?
1-2 Generations
Which Greece city invented “red-figure” technique?
Athens
Which philosopher had disciples, and taught the theory of the universe?
Pythagoras
What word was known as city state to the Greece?
Polis
What’s the direct translation of the word Philosophy?
Love of Wisdom
What festivals grew and fostered a Greek identity?
Panhellenic Festivals
What was Pankration?
Vicious combination of boxing & wrestling
Where was the Oracle of Apollo located?
Delphi
Who was the priestess who imported Apollos messages in a trances type of state?
Pythia
What year marked the first quadrennial games in Zeus’ honor?
776 B.C
Who interpreted the Pythia?
Prophetal
Who wrote the book which taught us about farming, back then?
Hesiod
Where was Hesiod from?
Ascra in Boeotia
Who led the colonists?
Oikistes
How were the colonies connected?
Kinship and Religion
Who founded the Byzantium’s?
Megarians
What Greek organization had people but didn’t have a polis?
Ethnos
What were Polemarchos?
Military Commander’s in some poleis
What word was used for the people not apart of upper class?
Hoi polloi
What were Kouros
Statues of naked young men
What were Kore
Statues of clothed young maidens
Who was the only women poet of Archaiac?
Sappho
What was it called when soldiers arranged in tight formations?
Phalanx
What was it called when soldiers arranged in tight formations?
Phalanx
Heavy armored foot soldiers
Hoplites
What did the colonies call the founding polis?
Metropolis
What did the colonies call the founding polis?
Metropolis
What civilization adopted the Greek Alphabet?
Etruscans
Forming a union over several places
Synoecism
Which three major city-states were involved with the war of Peloponnesos?
Sparta, Corinth, Argos
What did the shields the hoplites used called?
Hoplon
Who were the decent middle class?
Hoi mesoi
