Final Exam Flashcards
Isonomia
Equal Access to the law
Ekklesia
meeting place of Athens where laws and military decisions were made
Boule
Council of 500. Meant to manage the ekklesia. In charge of overseeing elections, the navy, public buildings, and prosecuted treason cases.
Strategoi
General
Polemarkhos
The man in charge of arranging funerals for men who died in war.
The Dikasteria
the jury courts of Athens
Archon
chief magistrate (similar to a king but the Athenians didn’t like kings)
The Agora
Public meeting place of Athens. Where political meetings and juries would gather.
Dikastes
The jury in a court case
The Areopagus
The court where murder cases would be heard.
Archon Basileus
The man who oversaw all religious aspects of Athens. Also oversaw the court of the areopagus.
400
The year the city began to pay its citizens who attended the ekklesia.
451
Perikles citizenship law came into place. (Reaffirmed in 403 after defeat of thirty tyrants)
487
The year the state started paying archons
Lysias
A famous speechwriter of Ancient Athens
Graphe
A crime against the state. (for example, intentional wounding (case))
The Delphinion
A Homicide court of Athens. In this court, you defended yourself for killing someone with the defense of “lawful killing”
Bouleusis
The charge of planned murder
Antiphon
A famous speechwriter in Ancient Athens
The Palladion
A homicide court of Athens. This court oversaw a variety of murder cases (unintentional killing, killing of a non-citizen, plotting a killing, etc)
Euphiletus
The speaker in Lysias 1. The man who “lawfully killed” Eratosthenes.
Dike
A crime against the individual
Miasma
A stain or pollution
Kurios
An Athenian male who would speak on the behalf of women and children in the courts.
403-380
The years when Lysias produced his speeches
430-411
The years when ANtiphon wrote his speeches
Simon
The person whom the charge is against in Lysias 3
Doxe
Reputation
Trauma ek pronoias
The charge of intentional wounding
Theodotus
The boy whom the speaker and Simon had been fighting over.
Neaera
The woman on trial in Demosthenes 59
Phano
the accused daughter of Neaera
Stephanus
The man who prosecuted Apollodorus under the law of graphe paranomnon. Also lives with Neaera.
Theomnestos
The man in Demosthenes 59 that is trying to harm his enemy through Naeara
Apollodorus
The speaker in Demosthenes 59
Hetaira
A prostitute that had talents other than sex. A woman who you could purchase time with to talk and spend meaningful time with.
Ho Boulomenos
The man who prosecutes the graphe charge
Gune
A wife or betrothed woman
Corinth
A city-state in Attike that Neaera was from
342-340
The timeframe in which Demosthenes 59 was written
Dowry
A payment made to the groom of a woman by the bride’s family. meant to offset the cost of having a woman in the family.
Theogenes
Naearas second husband (was archon basileus at the time)
Basilinna
The wife of the Archon Basileus
Anthesterion
A festival for dionysus?
Phratry
A “brotherhood” or group containing citizens. You would show them your wife or child to solidify their citizen status.
Plato
Ancient Greek philosopher, follower and friend of Socrates
Socrates
Ancient Greek Philosopher, often caused trouble for the Athenian elite by asking them questions they could not answer and making them look foolish.
Anytus and Meletus
The two men who accused Socrates of asebeia
Asebeia
the charge of not worshipping the gods properly
Apollo
The patron god of philosophy. It was after apollos oracle said no one is wiser than Socrates that he went out to see if it was true.
399
The year Socrates died
The Prytaneum
One of the oldest buildings in Athens that contained the sacred flame of Athens. The prytaneum was used to entertain ambassadors and to feed for free those who had participated in the Olympian games of Zeus or an unusually successful Strategos.
Daimonion
A personal “spirit” or “voice” that would follow Socrates around and tell him not to do something.
Graphe Paranomnon
Making an illegal proposal to the Ekklesia.
