Greece Flashcards
psyche
the human spirit
psykter
wine cooler
Royal Stoa
Stoa Basileios; known as The Herms because of all the herms there; headquarters of the King Archon and the Areopagus Council; a statue of Themis stood in front; where Socrates was charged with impiety
Saronic Gulf
Inlet of the Aegean Sea; Athens and the Pireus are on the northern shore
Scythian
the Scythian police force were slaves: they detained people, put people in prison, executed people, kept order at the assembly
Telos
island off of Turkey in the SE Aegean
thiasous
bringing together unlawful companies of men and women
Third Sacred War
356-346; Thebes imposed a fine on Phocia for the offense of cultivating sacred land; the Phocians refused to pay and seized the temple of Apollo at Delphi and used the treasure from the temple to fund mercenaries; Philip used the fact that the Sacred War was wearing everyone down to build power for himself and seize Thessaly
zakoron Aphrodite
servant of Aphrodite
Euboeans
the long island east of Athens; sided with Macedonia