Lessons 21-24 Review

Question 1

naval commander during the Peloponnesian War

Answer 1

Alcibiades

Question 2

important athletic contest held every four years; began in Elis in 776 B.C.

Answer 2

Olympic Games

Question 3

primary commander of the ill-fated Sicilian expedition

Answer 3

Nicias

Question 4

relative

Answer 4

kinsman

Question 5

four-year period between Olympic games

Answer 5

olympiad

Question 6

men obsessed with latest fashions; dandies

Answer 6

fops

Question 7

Spartan admiral at the end of the Peloponnesian War; captured Athens

Answer 7

Lysander

Question 8

governors of defeated Athens, installed by Sparta

Answer 8

Thirty Tyrants

Question 9

Athenian who overthrew the Tyrants

Answer 9

Thrasybulus

Question 10

“When the lion’s skin is too short, you must patch it with that of a fox.”

Answer 10

Lysander

Question 11

showing artful deception or trickery

Answer 11

cunning

Question 12

Identify the starred location on the map.

Answer 12

Aegos Potamos

Question 14

Athenian teacher and philosopher

Answer 14

Socrates

Question 15

Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching

Answer 15

Socratic method

Question 16

wife of Socrates

Answer 16

Xanthippe

Question 17

philosopher; pupil of Socrates; carried on Socrates’ work and wrote Socrates’ teachings

Answer 17

Plato

Question 18

Plato’s open-air school at Athens

Answer 18

Academy

Question 19

“What! Would you have me die guilty?”

Answer 19

Socrates

Question 20

“You can bury my body; you cannot put me into a grave.”

Answer 20

Socrates

Question 21

“My judges, you go now to your homes, I to prison and to death. But which of the two is the better lot, God only knows.”

Answer 21

Socrates

Question 22

“Thus died the man who was in death the noblest we have ever known, in life, the wisest and the best.”

Answer 22

Plato

Question 23

poisonous plant used for executions in ancient Greece

Answer 23

hemlock

Question 24

the love and pursuit of wisdom

Answer 24

philosophy

Question 25

fortune; choice

Answer 25

lot

Question 26

Greek general; author of the history, Anabasis

Answer 26

Xenophon

Question 27

Persian King

Answer 27

Artaxerxes

Question 28

Persian general; brother of Artaxerxes

Answer 28

Cyrus

Question 29

“The March Upcountry” or “The March of the Ten Thousand”; Xenophon’s history of Cyrus’ march toward Babylon and the retreat of the Greek “ten thousand”

Answer 29

Anabasis

Question 30

“Victory!”

Answer 30

The Greeks at the battle of Cunaxa

Question 31

“I see the man.”

Answer 31

Cyrus

Question 32

“And where can the good and the noble be found?”

Answer 32

Socrates

Question 33

difficulty; hardship

Answer 33

plight

Question 34

guards

Answer 34

sentries