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Greek Everything Flashcards

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Cleisthenes

What did he invent?

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Invented Democracy

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Themistocles

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improved athens navy by buying a crap ton of Trireme

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Phidippides

what did he do?

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Ran 140 Miles to ask Sparta for help in the battle of marathon

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Hamartia

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Flaw/Error of some kind that the character allows to take over.

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Catharsis

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-Feeling of relief and emotional purification.
-refresh/ able to see clearly

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Hubris

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Eccsesive pride

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Aristocrat

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upper class citizen

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Tyrant

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someone who takes control forcefully but doesn’t always use power for bad.

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Pisistratus

what did he do for athens?

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-Came to power before democracy was invented
- grew Athens with the selling of olive oil

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Hippias

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-Pisistratus’ son
-Bad Tyrant
-got kicked out by the town

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Isagorus

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-Conspired against Cleisthenes once he came to power
-Gained support of Spartans to take the throne

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The Athenian revolt

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-Ordinary people of them revolt against Isagorus
-First revolution documented in history

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Democracy

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Citizens rule together by voting on every decision.

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Tragic Hero

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  • Elevated in rank
    -Major mistake/flaw that causes downfall
    -Relatable
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14
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Laius

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-Past king of thebes
-Oedipus’ dad

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Jocasta

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-Queen of thebes
-Oedipus’ wife
Oedipus’ Mom

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Darius

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Ruler of the Persian empire

17
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Battle of marathon

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-Athens vs. Persia
-Athens wins

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Xerxes

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-Darius’ son
-Ruler of Persian Empire
-Wants revenge for dead dad(Darius)
-brought 1 mill people to defeagt Athens, stilll lost

19
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Plato’s Triad soul

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-Sweet horse-Emotions
-Crazy horse- Bodily Appetites
-Chariot- Reason

20
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Trojan war

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-Troy vs. Sparta

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King Menalaus

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-Sparta’s king during Trojan war

22
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Queen helen

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-King Menelaus’ trophy wife
-Super beautiful
-Runs away with Paris because of Aphrodite’s magic that causes Helen to fall in love with Paris.

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Achilles

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-Best warrior in Sparta
-Magic baby shield from moms deal with the gods(Dipped into special pool)
-Kills Hector
-Dies from Paris shooting an arrow in the only place he wasn’t protected(His Heel)

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Paris

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-The “Bad” brother
-selfish
-everything hector isn’t
-Kills Achilles for revenge for killing hector

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Hector

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-The good, Nobel prince of troy
-Fights Achilles, dies

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Trojan Horse

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-Greeks “Gift” for peace
-Holds a bunch of Greek soldiers inside
-Ends in soldiers getting into city and killing everyone in the night.

27
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Trojan war story purpose

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Origin story of Greece

28
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Who invented the Phalanx

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King Phillip II

29
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Who defeated Greece

(Alexander the great time)

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King phillip III

30
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Helot

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Captives of sparta that work in sparta fields

31
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Armistice

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-Fancy word for truce
-usually a long one

32
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Alcibiades

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-Leader of Athens navy
-accused of defiling the statues of the gods
-found gulity and sentanced to death
-convinces jailer to free him
runs to Sparta for revenge on Athens

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What brought down the first democracy

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Greed and Arrogance

34
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Socrates

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-Philosopher
-accused of undermining religion with his beliefs
-platos mentor
-death by Hemlock

35
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Pelopanesian War

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  • Athens to cocky
  • Sparta marches to Athens and Sthens hides within their walll
  • plague breaks out in Athens, 1/2 pop. dead
  • Athens hops on ships and burns Sparta’s crops and kills the Helots
  • Alcibiades framed and escapes to Sparta to take down Athens.
  • Sparta asks for Persais help and persia agrees
  • Ahens is detroyed
  • Socrates killed
  • People regret killing socrates so Plato makes a school in honor of him
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Alexander the Great

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  • Educated by Aristotle
  • warrior
  • Philosopher
  • king
  • Scholar
  • Loved by people
  • Conqured Persia, Egypt, India
  • Marries Darius III’s daughter, Roxane
37
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Beucephalis

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  • Alex’s horse that served him for many years
  • Only person to ride Beucephalis is Alexander
  • Dies in the war between Inda and Alex’s multi-army
38
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King Phillip II

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  • Military genius
  • Married six princess
  • Terrible father
  • Revolutionised the Macedonian Army
  • Expanded empire a little
  • Set the stage for Alexander
  • defeated greece
  • created the phalanx
39
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Phillip II’s death

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  • At his daughters wedding to cleopatra(not egyptian) and pausanias spears him through the chest.
  • Alexander dissapeers with his mommy, Olympias
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Olympias

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  • Princess of Epirus
  • Foreign to macedonia
  • third wife of Phillip II
  • jelous and protective of Alexander
  • Alexander’s mom
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