Final Fill In the Blanks (From Quizzes) Flashcards
What is the most important part of the sanctuary for worship?
Altar
What is the term for believing in many gods?
Polytheistic
What is the term for human-shaped gods?
Anthropomorphic
What is the term for giving something in order to get something in return?
Reciprocity
Who is in charge of divine inspiration?
Muses
Who is the god of music and medicine?
Apollo
Who is the goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts?
Athena
Who is the god of the sea?
Poseidon
Who is the goddess of the hearth?
Hestia
Who is the god of the underworld?
Hades
Who is the goddess of the underworld?
Persephone
Who is the king of the gods?
Zeus
Who is the goddess of sex?
Aphrodite
Who is the goddess of marriage?
Hera
Who is the god of merchants and thieves?
Hermes
Who is the goddess of hunting and unmarried girls?
Artemis
Who is the blacksmith god?
Hephaestus
Who is the goddess of agriculture?
Demeter
Who is the god of war?
Ares
Who is the god of wine & drama?
Dionysus
Who is the strong son of Zeus that became a god?
Herakles
The _________________ was an alliance between ________________ and its allies, mostly situated in the Aegean.
Delian League
Athens
The _______________________ was an alliance between _________________ and its allies, mostly situated in the Peloponnese.
Peloponnesian League
Sparta
Sparta encouraged _________________ government among its allies, the ruling by the privileged few as opposed to democracy.
Oligarchy
The Assembly or _________________ met 40 times/month, discussing such issues as war declarations and foreign affairs; all citizens who completed military training were eligible to speak.
Ekklesia
Who was allowed to speak first? (At Ekklesia)
Generals
The Assembly met on the _________________.
Pnyx Hill
The agenda for the Assembly and matters of public finance were set by the Council or _________________, which consisted of 500 tribesmen selected by lot.
Boule
The _________________ was in charge of war
Polemarch
the _________________ was in charge of religious affairs
Archon Basilieus
the year was named after the _________________, who was the leading politician of his year.
Eponymous Archon
_________________was the mastermind behind the Athenian fleet and Piraeus harbor; he favored radical democracy in which all citizens participated.
Themistokles
_________________ was the Delian League general who defeated the Persians at the Eurymedon River; he was a proponent of conservative democracy in which only aristocrats and hoplites could participate.
Kimon
_________________ moved the judicial powers from the Areopagus to the Boule and the Ekklesia (to be more democratic); he was murdered by his political opponents.
Ephialtes
_________________ limited Athenian citizenship to only those whose mother and father were citizens. Before the Peloponnesian War, he had a major building campaign in Athens.
Perikles
_________________ was the Athenian general who established a base at Pylos/Sphakteria and was executed in Sicily.
Demosthenes
_________________ was the bold Spartan general who seized Amphipolis and died fighting there.
Brasidas
_________________ was the war-hungry Athenian leader who urged for the destruction of Mytilene and died trying to regain Amphipolis.
Kleon
_________________ was the cautious Athenian general that thought the Sicilian Expedition was a mistake.
Nikias
_________________ was the bold general who was pro-Sicilian Expedition, an exile to Sparta, an adviser to Persia, and a restorer of democracy at Athens.
Alkibiades
____________ Was Alexander III’s teacher; worked on multiple fields of science, as well as ethics, history, linguistics, logic, rhetoric, poetics, political theory, psychology, and zoology.
Aristotle
Professional teachers claiming to teach skills that young men needed for thinking, speaking, and living successfully. Socrates and Plato believed them to be frauds.
Sophists
Famous cynic who lived in a jar, messed with Plato, and was snarky to Alexander III.
Diogenes
Focused on concepts through reasoning: situations change, but concepts (like ‘goodness’) stay the same.
Plato
He fought at Marathon and was the first to write plays in trilogies and to use special effects; famous for The Oresteia.
Aeschylus
Believed that the cosmos & nature were merely atoms; thought there was no immortal soul or divine plan, so seek moderate pleasure to enjoy the here & now.
Epicurians
Believed they couldn’t control what happens but how they react to it; believed a divinely rational principle controlled the cosmos.
Stoics
Believed that human reason is not capable of determining knowledge about the substance of things; we can only know how things appear to us.
Skeptics
This writer of Old Comedy satirized politicians and the Peloponnesian War, as well as sophists, jurors, other playwrights, and social issues.
Aristophanes
Famous for his method of conversation and cross-examination to gain a deeper understanding of the truth; focused on how one should live to improve the soul.
Socrates
Believed that virtue equaled wisdom, which comes from independence of possessions & pleasure, and absence of desires; virtue itself will make one happy.
Cynics
He used clearer language than Aeschylus and was a rival of Euripides; he is famous for his Antigone and Oedipus.
Sophocles
He was educated by sophists, mocked by Aristophanes, and was controversial for questioning traditional values and his use of bold female characters. He is famous for Medea and The Bacchae.
Euripides
This writer of New Comedy wrote 100 plays in sit-com/rom-com style, but only one survives; his work was copied by the Romans.
Menander
This was the school founded by Plato.
Academy
This was the school founded by Aristotle
Lyceum
