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Feb 9 Exam Flashcards

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Homer

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  • Wrote the Iliad and Odyssey
  • Work covers specifics (work about the distant past)
  • Work was made to be spoken orally
  • Poems linked to getting out of the dark ages
  • Wrote EPIC POETRY
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Achilles

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  • Greek hero of the Trojan war
  • Central character and greatest warrior of Homer’s ‘Iliad’
  • Fought with Agamenon
  • Fought with Hector
  • Gods are responsible for starting the fight with Achilles and Agamemnon
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Heinrich Schliemann

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  • 1822-1890
  • German
  • Wanted to find the city of Troy
  • Achaeologist
  • Possibly found evidence of Troy
  • Excavated Mycenae
  • Founded the “MASK OF AGAMEMNON”
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Agamemnon

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  • Fought with Achilles
  • Big guy that was in charge of politics
  • Had a mask that was founded by Heinrich
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Xerxes

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  • Persian king
  • Son of Darius
  • Planned the third invasion of the Persian War
  • Decides to go through Thermopylae aka the Hot Gates
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Odysseus

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  • Greek king of Ithaca
  • Has good persuasion to get what he wants
  • Plays a key role in Homer’s ‘ILIAD’ and hero in Homer’s “ODYSSEY
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Draco

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  • Wrote the laws of Athens
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Hesiod

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  • Wrote “THE WORKS AND DAYS”, “THEOGONY”, “Shield of Herakles”
  • Works covers a variety of topics (realistic works)
  • Poems were shorter than Homer’s
  • Works were made to be written due to the short length
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Solon

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  • Instituted the reforms of Athens

- Balanced constitution - satisfied rich, made poor less miserable

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Snake Goddess

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  • Medusa
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Aristotle

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  • Greek philosopher
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Darius

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  • Became emperor and installed democracy in Ionia
  • Lead the first and second invasion of the Persian War
  • Father of Xerxes
  • Sets out an expedition to attack Greece after Ionia decides to revolt against him
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Miltiades

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  • Athenian commander who lead the victory for Athens in the second invasion of the Persian War
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Pythagoras

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  • ca 580-500 bc
  • Believed in superiority of spirit to matter and that number was key and patterns were everywhere
  • Pythagorean theorem
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Milman Parry

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  • 1902-1935

- Helped understand Homer

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Lycurgus

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  • Writes laws for Sparta
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Cleisthenes

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  • Was involved with reforms
  • DEMOKRATIA = democracy
  • Was part of the BOULE - council of 500 men
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Sappho

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  • Greek LYRIC POETRY poet who wrote poems about erotic love between women
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Croesus

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  • Wanted to rule the Greeks in Ionia
  • Loses and Ionia becomes part of the Persian empire
  • Was defeated by Cyrus ca 547 bc
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Dipylon Painter

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  • Vase painter in Athens
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Themistokles

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  • Oracle of Apollo at Delphi; Acropolis
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Kypselids

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  • Rules Corinth until ca 587 bc
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Messenians

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  • Was conquered by Sparta before 700 bc
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Presocractics

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  • Lived before Socrates

- Speculated on origin and nature of the universe

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Herodotus

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  • Herodotus ‘THE HISTORIES” - title was given to work by later readers
  • Discusses what interested him - unbiased
  • Saw greek cultures as inherently superior to Persian culture
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Michael Ventris

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  • Architect

- Has documents relating to Mycenaean greek

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Sea Peoples

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  • Aka people of the sea

- Wave of seafaring raiders within the Minoan culture during the Bronze Age

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Minos

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  • King of Crete
  • Half man, half bull
  • Was a product of an affair - sex with a bull
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Sophists

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  • Teachers in both ancient Greece and in the Roman empire
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Peisistratus

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  • Ruler of ancient Athens

- Son of Hippocrates

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Hippias

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  • Tyrant of Athens
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Xenophon

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  • Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, and student of Socrates
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Helots

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  • A serf or slave in ancient Sparta
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Tyrtaeus

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  • Greek lyric poet who composed verses in Sparta during the time of the second Messenian war
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Archilochus

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  • Greek lyric poet during the Archaic poet

- Poet and soldier

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Basileus

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  • King or Emperor
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Lefkandi

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  • Has evidence of monumental buildings
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Crete

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  • Minoan culture

- Was involved in an earthquake

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Thermopylae

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  • “Hot Gates”

- Consisted in Xerxes plan during the third invasion of the Persian war

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Knossos

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  • Most important, located on the center of the island of Crete
  • Has monumental architecture
  • Architecturally and technically advanced
  • Consists of the Horns of Consecration
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Mesopotamia

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  • Uses pottery for the dead called Krater
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Phoenecia

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  • Outside connections, trading hub for the mediterranean
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Tiryn

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  • City with walls around due to attacks - has defensive mindsets
  • Walls around city are called CYCLOPEAN WALLS - Greeks thought walls were so huge because they thought cyclopes must have built the walls
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Mycenae

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  • Name of the city that gave the Mycenaean culture its name

- Excavated by Heinrich Schliemann

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Karphi

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  • Fortified building sights
  • Central location of Crete - very remote
  • Has lots of evidence of religion
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Athens

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  • Greek main land
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Sparta

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  • Conquered Messenians before 700 bc
  • Lycurgus writes his laws
  • Spartan society = strict and under a constitution
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Troy/Hissarlik

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  • Citadel was the high temple of Troy
  • Heinrich Schliemann wanted to find the city of Troy
  • Evidence of Troy was possibly founded by Schliemann
  • Schliemann decided dig up in Turkey - Hissarlik
  • Schliemann was sure he found Troy when he dug in the Turkey location
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Olympia

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  • Where the olympic games were held
  • Important athletic and religious stuff happened here
  • Includes the temple of Zeus
  • Few dedications found in Olympia include a bronze horse and tripods
  • Panhellenic
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Corinth

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  • Leading commercial city ca 657 bc
  • POLIS run by Bacchiads
  • KYPSELOS becomes Tyrat
  • KYPSELIDS rules Corinth until ca 587 bc
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Persia

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  • Wars were involved
  • Persian Empire
  • Ruled by a king - Xerxes
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Marathon

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  • 490 bc
  • Battle that occurred as the second invasion of Darius
  • Miltiades was the commander in which the Athenians won
  • Pheidippides - one of he warriors who fought in the battle of Marathon and ran back to Athens to notify everybody that they won
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Plataea

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  • Battle where Spartans lead it
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Salamis

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  • Battle where a naval fleet was built - WOODEN WALLS - Greeks win
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(Proto-) Geometric poetry

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  • Athenian pottery

- “Free-field pottery”

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Lion Gate

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  • Main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae
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Grave Circle A

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  • Royal cemetery in Mycenae, south of the Lion Gate
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Samian Heraion

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  • Located on Samos
  • It is the temple of Hera - Hera is the goddess of marriage
  • Has reconstructed columns and interior
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Cup of Nestor

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  • Golden mixing cup/goblet that is mentioned in Homer’s ILIAD
  • Founded in Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann
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Linear A

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  • Writing system of the Minoans
  • Pictographic - real life images used as text
  • Enduring mystery
  • Suspected primarily used for a business or economic language
  • PHAISTOS DISK - written in a spiral of pictographic text
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Linear B

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  • Writing system of the Mycenaeans
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Dorian Invasion

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  • Dorians come in and attack settlements of Mycenae
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Lyceum

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  • Public meeting place for discussions of ancient Greece
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Constitution of the Athenians

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  • Written by Aristotle

- Describes the political system of ancient Athens

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Ekklesia (assembly)

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  • An assembly of people that are called out form their homes to discuss in a public place
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Politeia of the Spartans

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  • Refers to the government and laws of the Dorian city-state of Sparta
  • Structured Spartan society and its government
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Polis

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  • A city state in ancient Greece, especially in its ideal form for philosophical purposes
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Hoplite Revolution

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  • Responsible for the general widening of political rights
  • Greek warfare in the greek dark age
  • Hoplites were infantrymen in clad body armor
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Dactyllic Hexameter

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  • Form of meter in poetry or a rhythmic scheme

- Traditionally associated with classical epic poetry in both Greek and Latin

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