Lessons 16-20 Review Flashcards
431-404 BC; war between Athens and Sparta that destroyed the Athenian empire
Peloponnesian war
“We fight for all.”
the Greeks at Salamis
Identify the starred location on the map.
Corinth
king of Sparta; hero of Thermopylae
Leonidas
Athenian magistrate and general; rival of Themistocles; had a reputation for fairness
Aristides
to beat with a small whip as punishment
scourge
nephew of Leonidas; defeated Mardonius at Plataea
Pausanias
Identify the starred location on the map.
Salamis
leader of Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War
Pericles
last land battle fought between Greeks and Persians in 479 BC (fought on same day as the battle of Mycale)
battle of Plataea
Greek historian; wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Greek dramatist
Aeschylus and Sophocles
highly infectious, usually fatal epidemic disease
plague
“I have never seen him but I am tired of hearing him called ‘the Just.’”
Athenian to Aristides
to lay waste; to destroy; to make unfit for habitation
desolate
Identify the starred location on the map.
Pass of Thermopylae
walls connecting Athens with the port of Piraeus
Long Walls
“So much the better, we shall fight in the shade.”
Spartan soldier at Thermopylae
Greek sculptor; made Parthenon statuary
Phidias
“Because Cimon is already with me.”
oracle of Zeus
last sea battle between the Greeks and the Persians
battle of Mycale
“What you praise in my life has been due to fortune. I deserve no credit for it.”
Pericles
“Athens and Sparta are the two legs of Greece.”
Cimon
son of Miltiades
Cimon
naval battle where the Athenians defeated the Persians
battle of Salamis
Greek comic playwright
Aristophanes
narrow passage of water between two shores
strait
“That of which I am proudest is that no Athenian ever wore mourning because of anything done by me.”
Pericles
to disable or disfigure
maim
temple and treasury on the Acropolis of Athens
Parthenon
to expel and send away as punishment
banish
realms; territories ruled by someone
dominions
site of the heroic stand of Leonidas’ 4000, men against the army of Xerxes in 480 BC
Pass of Thermopylae
Identify the starred location on the map.
Delphi
Greek historian; “father of history”; wrote a history of the Persian War
Herodotus
king of Persia; succeeded Darius I, his father
Xerxes
to climb in stages or on a ladder
scale
main oracle of the Athenian domain
oracle of Delphi
Athenian statesman and soldier; advised the Athenians to build more ships
Themistocles
strip of land connecting two larger masses of land
Ishmus
temporary banishment by popular vote
ostracism
priestess of the oracle
Pythia
Persian general; left in command of the Persian forces in Thessaly after Xerxes’ retreat
Mardonius
