Grecia y Roma clasicas Flashcards
Pericles
A statesman of ancient Greece, who tried to unite the country under the leadership of his own city, Athens. He also promoted democracy.
Aristotle
Greek philosopher and scientist who wrote about virtually every area of knowledge, including most of the sciences.
Direct Democracy
forms of direct participation of citizens in democratic decision making.
Philip II of Macedon
the king of the kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC.
Diocletian
A Roman emperor from 284 to 305.
Augustus Caesar
Returning to Rome in triumph, Octavian added the title Augustus (meaning “sacred” or “exalted”) to his adopted surname, Caesar, and remained imperator for life.
Socrates
a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
Punic Wars
a series of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire.
The Roman Republic
The era of classical Roman civilization, led by the Roman people, beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom
Peloponnesian Wars
a war fought for supremacy in Greece from 431 to 404 bc, in which Athens and her allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta.
Zoroastrianism
one of the world’s oldest continuously practiced religions.
Olympic Games
the greatest of the games or festivals of ancient Greece, held every four years in the plain of Olympia in Elis, in honor of Zeus.
Constantine
Or also known as Constantine the Great was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337.
Iliad and odyssey
The Iliad tells the story of the Greek struggle to rescue Helen, a Greek queen, from her Trojan captors.
Sappho
630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos.
Carthage
An ancient Phoenician city-state and civilization
Plato
an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece
Stoics
a member of the ancient philosophical school of Stoicism.
Julius Caesar
a renowned general, politician and scholar in ancient Rome who conquered the vast region of Gaul and helped initiate the end of the Roman Republic when he became dictator of the Roman Empire.
Doric
was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture
Hannibal
was the son of Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca
Cyrus the great
also called Cyrus II, (born 590–580 BCE, Media, or Persis [now in Iran]—died c. 529, Asia), conqueror who founded the Achaemenian empire, centred on Persia.
The Hellenistic Period
covers the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire
Constantine
Or also known as Constantine the Great was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337.
