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Chapter 5: Ancient Greece Flashcards

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Amphora

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Ancient Greek or Roman jar for storing oil, or wine, with and egg-shaped body and 2 curved handles

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Pediment

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Triangle gable found over major architectural elements such as classical greek portico, windows, or doors

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Sanctuary

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Sacred or holy temple used for worship

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Olpe

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Greek vessel without a spout

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Black-figure-technique

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Technique of ancient Greek ceramic decoration in black figures are painted on red clay ground

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Red-figure-techniqe

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Red clay colour figures on black background

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Stoa

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long roofed walkway usually having columns on one long side and a wall on the other

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Caryatid

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Sculpture of draped female figure acting as a column supporting an enblature (stick figure women thing)

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Pedistal

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Platform/base supporting sculpture or other monument

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Entablature

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Horizontal elements above the columns and capitals (consists of, from bottom to top, an architrave, a frieze, and a cornice)

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Architrave

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Bottom element in an entablature, beneath frieze and cornice

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Terra Cotta

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Medium made from clay fired over a low heat and sometimes left unglazed

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Kore and Kouros

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Archaic statues of young woman (kore) and man (kouros)

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Archaic Smile

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Curved lips of ancient Greek statues in the period c. 600-480 BCE

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Kantharos

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Ancient Greek goblet with 2 large handles and a wide mouth

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Slip

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Mixture of clay and water applied to a ceramic object as a final decorative coat

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Metope

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Carved/painted rectangular panel between the triglyph of a Doric frieze

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Calyx Krater

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Bell-shaped vessel with handles near the base that resembles a flower calyx

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Sypsium

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Elite gathering of wealthy and powerful men in ancient Greece that focused on wine, music, poetry, conversation, games, and love making

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Contrapposto

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Italian term meaning “set against” used to describe classical convention of representing human figures with opposing alternation of tension and relaxation on either side of a central axis, to imbue figures with a sense of the potential for movement

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Humanism, Rationalism, idealism

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Humanism - outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to humans rather than divine or supernatural powers

** Rationalism - Belief that actions and opinions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than religious
belief or emotional response ** Idealism - Belief that ones own ideas are real

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Kylix

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Shallow ancient Greek cup used for drinking, with a wide mouth and small handles near the rim

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Psykter

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Greek vessel with an extended base to allow it to float in a larger krater

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Tondo

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Painting or relief sculpture of circular shape

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Oinochoe

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Greek Jug used for wine

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Temple Terminology (pg. 108)

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Sanctuaries where an outdoor altar stood within an enclosed sacred area called a temenos?

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Greek Orders Diagram (pg. 109)

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Constitutes a system of interdependent parts whose proportions are based on mathematical ratios

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Trojan War

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Conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece

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Exekias

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Greek painter + potter (ajax and achilles playing a game on vase)

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Euphronios

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Greek vase painter and potter known for red-figure technique (Death of Sarpedon)

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Achilles and Ajax

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War warriors, ajax commits suicide after Achilles becomes murdered

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Corinth, Athens, Sparta

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** Corinth - City and former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece

**Athens - The heart of ancient Greece (Capital)

** Sparta - Prominent city-state- in ancient Greece

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Mount Olympus

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Highest mountain in Greece

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Mount Parnassos

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Mountain of limestone in Greece

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The Deities

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Gods and Goddesses

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The Geometric Period

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900-700 BCE, time of dramatic transformation leading to establishment of primary Greek Institutions

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The Orientalizing Period

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Cultural and art historical period.. Easter Mediterranean and Ancient Near east

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The Archaic Period

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600 - 480 BCE - Time of great achievement in Greece for literature

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Zeus

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Sky and Thunder God

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Hera

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Wife and one of 3 sisters of Zeus

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The Early Classical Period

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480-450 BCE, Establishment of Greek ideal of beauty than endured in the Western world to this day

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Polykleitos

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Greek Sculptor (Kritios Boy, Akropolis Athens, c. 475 BCE )

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4;9 Ratio

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Ratio of the Temple

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Enstatis

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Swelling of shaft or Greek Column

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Idealization

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Assumption of facts about things being molded that are strictly false but make models easier to understand or solve

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Symmetria/commensurability

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Symmetria - Statues of young athletes

Commensurability - Measurable by the same standard

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Parapet

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low protective wall, along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony

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Agora

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Open space in Greek town uses as a central gathering place or market

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Bouleuterion

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Building which housed council of citizens of a democratic city state

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Podium

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Raised platform that acts as the foundation for a building, or as a platform for a speaker

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Tholos

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Small ground building, sometimes built underground (Mycenaean Tomb)

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Orthogonal Grid

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Any line running back into the represented space of a picture perpendicular to the imagined picture plane

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Hydria

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Jar with 2 handles (horizontal ones at both sides and one vertical at the back) used for storing water

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White-ground- paintin g

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Background color of the object was painted with a slip that turns white in the firing process

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Tempera

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Permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments that are mixed with water-soluble binder medium

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Lekythoi

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Vessel used for storing Oil

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Strigil

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Instrument with a curved blade used to scrape swear and dirt from the skin

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Lost-wax-casting

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Method of casting metal such as bronze.. Wax mold covered with clay and plaster, then fired, melting wax and leaving a hollow form

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Mosaic

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Image formed by arranging small colored stone or glass pieces and affixing them to a hard, stable surface

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Tesserae

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Small piece of stone, glass, or other objects that is pieced together with many others to create a mosaic

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Foreshortening

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The illusion created on a flat surface by which figures and objects appears to recede or the rules of perspective

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Pausian Design

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Proscenium

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Stage of Theatre

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Torc

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Neck ring worm by Celtic Warriors

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Barbarian

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Label for foreigners outside their cultural orbit

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Expressionism

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Artistic styles in which aspects of works of art are exaggerated to evoke subjective emotions rather than to portray objective reality or elicit a rational response

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Akropolis

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Raised area holding a building or cluster of buildings, especially in a pre-columbian city lmao what

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The High Classical Period

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450 - 400 BCE, Known as greece’s “Golden Age,” pinnacle of artistic refinement, producing works that set a standard of unsurpassed excellence

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Peloponnesian War

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431-404 BCE, fought by Athens and the empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta

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Perikles

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(c. 495-429) 5th Century BCE leader who Dominated Athenian politics and culture from 462 BCE until he died in 429 BCE

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The Parthenon

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Temple on Athenian Acropolis, Greece

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Athena Nike/Promachos/Parthenos

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Athena Nike - Temple in south of the Propylaia in 425 BCE

Promachos - Men fighting in first rank of phalanx

Parthenos - Ephithet of Athena.. Meaning “virgin?” what

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Erechtheion

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Temple north side of Acropolis

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Pheidias

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Sculptor, director of the construction of the Parthenon

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Elgin Marbles

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Collection of greek marble, originally part of the Parthenon

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The Canon

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Propylaia

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Monumental getaway

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Panatheniac Way

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Numerous roads led in and out of agora Square.. Dipylon, up to Acropolis

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Hippodamos of Miletos

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Major urban planner of the 5th Century BCE, held views on the reasoned perfectibility of Urban design akin to those of Athenian Philosophers and artists

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Socrates

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Greek philosopher who was the teacher of Plato

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Polygnotos of Thasos

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Vase painter in athens known for paintings of the Agora, Market place

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The Late Classical Period

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400-323 BCE, increased emphasis on the expression of emotion in arte

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Plato and Aristotle

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Philosophers in studying matters of ethics, science, politics

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Aexander the Great

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led united Greece in a war of revenge and conquest against the Persians

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Lysippos

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Greek sculptor (Man scraping himself)

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Praxiteles

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Sculptor (Aphrodite of Knidos, Hermes and the infant Dionysos

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Gnosis

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Common Greek noun for knowledge, signifying a dualistic knowledge in the sense of mystical enlightenment or “insight”

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The Hellenistic Period

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323-31/30 BCE, time of death between the man Alexander and the rise of Roman domination .. Successors of ATG

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Antigonus, Ptolemy, Seleucus

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Antigonus - controlled Macedonia and mainland Greece

Ptolemy - Ruled egypt

Seleucus - … don’t friggin know not sorry

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Pergamon

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Ancient Greek City in Aeolis

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Pausia vs Glykera

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