Hellenic History Flashcards
Which of Solon’s classes, according to its name, could afford to yoke oxen together?
zeugitai
Those who inhabited Bronze Age Crete are known as the…
Minoans
The years c. 1100-800 are known as the…
Dark Ages
Near what island in the Saronic Gulf did Themistocles trap the larger, less maneuverable Persian fleet in 480?
Salamis
Which of these events sparked the conflict between Greece and Persia?
Ionian Revolt
Which of these was the site of a Minoan palace?
Phaistos
Thucydides was a historian best known for his. . .
history of the Peloponnesian War
Where in 479 did a Greek marine force defeat the Persians?
Mycale
Which nearby city was in charge of managing the Olympic Games?
Elis
The “Golden Age” of Athens refers to the period of time when which man exercised power?
Pericles
Where did Pausanias and an allied Greek force defeat the Persians in 479?
Plataea
Ptolemy was a general who served under…
Alexander
What capital of Lydia did Athens help burn down?
Sardis
Who assigned the member states of the Delian League their dues?
Aristides
What was the first colony?
Cumae
What term do archaeologists use to refer to mainland Bronze Age Greece?
Helladic
Who ambushed the Athenians at Aegospotami, effectively ending the Peloponnesian War?
Lysander
Which battle in 422 claimed a leader from both Sparta and Athens?
Amphipolis
Where did Alexander command the left wing against the Thebans?
Chaeronea
Mycenaean artwork heavily features which of these subjects?
warfare
In what year did the Athenians win at Arginusae but fail to save sailors and their bodies?
406
The “Hot Gates” where the Persians met a small resistance led by Leonidas are known as…
Thermopylae
In what year was the Delian League created?
478
Bucephalus was Alexander’s…
horse
To which city-state do all of the following relate: crypteia, perioiki, Taras, and Great Rhetra?
Sparta
After the death of Alexander, who claimed Syria?
Seleucus
Callicrates, Ictinus, and Phidias were all artists under the employ of which politician?
Pericles
Which of the following groups would likely have the oldest average member?
Gerousia
Where did the Spartans obtain their helots?
Messenia
Black Cleitus became famous by saving which more famous man in battle?
Alexander
The labyrinth of Knossos draws its name from the labrys, or…
doubleheaded axe
The Treasury of Atreus is a bit of a misnomer, as it actually served as a(n)…
tholos tomb
The Pnyx was the gathering place of the Athenian…
Ekklesia
In which of the following poleis did women generally enjoy the most freedom?
Sparta
The polemarch was the archon who…
ran military matters
At which of these sites did Heinrich Schliemann dig?
Tiryns
Which Greek lady from Halicarnassus sailed with Xerxes against Greece?
Artemisia
On what writing surface did ancient Greeks cast their votes?
shards of pottery
Where did Alexander first meet the Persians in battle?
Granicus River
After being admonished for drunkenly mocking the Eleusinian Mysteries before non-initiates, which wild
Athenian might have replied, “Turn down for what?!”
Alcibiades
. Of these, the only battle which could in any way be called a Spartan victory was the Battle of. .
300 Champions
The Battle of Himera was fought by Greeks in Sicily against…
Carthage
Who was the leader of the Thirty Tyrants?
Critias
Where did the Persian invasion of 492 wreck and fail?
Mt. Athos
Who fell victim to the tyrannicides in 514?
Hipparchus
Who, implicated in the Persian-loving scandal surrounding Pausanias, was ostracized c. 471?
Themistocles
Which city was the metropolis of Epidamnos?
Corcyra
Which of these did Xenophon hear being shouted at the end of the Greek mercenaries’ expedition out of
Persia?
thalassa, thalassa!
The Athenian Boule under the reforms of Solon consisted of how many men?
400
Who, despite originally opposing the Sicilian Expedition, ended up in sole charge of it?
Nicias
What is the term meaning, “submission to Persian power by sending earth and water?”
medismos
Which of these was left intact after Alexander strolled through?
Pindar’s house
Suppose Pheidippides, during his running in 490, wanted to visit more poleis than just Sparta. Which of
these would he (after learning to run over water) have found a bit crispy and desolate?
Eretria
Which of these best describes the leitourgia (liturgy)?
sponsoring of ships or plays by the rich
Where did Cyrus the Younger win a battle, but lose his life, in 401?
Cunaxa
Give the years of the battles Issus, Tyre, Gaugamela, Hydaspes
333, 332, 331, 326
The 432 siege of what Corinthian colony in the Chalcidice caused much ire towards Athens?
Potidaea
Which Athenian engineered the attack on Pylos and the capture of 121 Spartans at Sphacteria?
Demosthenes
Mt. Laurion was famous for being…
the location of a silver mine
Whose attempt to become tyrant at Athens ended with his supporters being stoned to death by Megacles,
leading to the stain on the Alcmaeonid family?
Cylon’s
Where was Alexander proclaimed the descendant of Zeus Ammon?
Sogdian Rock
Who was the daughter of Darius III and wife of Alexander?
Stateira
Who stopped a rebellion by his brother Cyrus the Younger and Cyrus’s Greek mercenaries?
Artaxerxes II
Who survived the ambush at Aegospotami and went on to help the Persians against Sparta?
Conon
Who led the victorious force at the Battle of Leuctra?
Epaminondas
During a conflict with Selinus in 426, which polis did Segesta call on for help?
Athens
Athenian jurors were known as…
dikastai
Where in 410 did the Athenians completely crush a Spartan fleet?
Cyzicus
At which river did Cimon defeat the Persians, convincing them not to try to expand westward?
Eurymedon
Name three Doric colonies
Rhodes, Sparta, Corinth
T or F
the hoplite phalanx warfare developed in a war between Sparta and Argos
F
Name three students of Socrates
Xenophon, Alcibiades, Critias
T or F
Callimachus had a peace named after him
F
Name three Theban men that are vaguely important probably
Pelopidas, Pagondas, Epaminondas
Where in 394 did the Persians completely crush Sparta’s hopes for a naval empire?
Cnidos
Where was Thrasybulus stationed when oligarchs overthrew the Athenian democracy in 411?
Samos
An Athenian decree in 432 closed all the empire’s ports to ships from…
Megara
During the Peloponnesian War, the concept of “might makes right” was displayed through Athens’s harsh
treatment of the neutral inhabitants of…
Melos
. The tyrant Hippias eventually found himself besieged on the Acropolis by what foreigner?
Cleomenes
Whose innovative use of peltasts defeated the traditional Spartan hoplites during the Corinthian War?
Iphicrates
