Lessons 21-24 Review Flashcards
naval commander during the Peloponnesian War
Alcibiades
important athletic contest held every four years; began in Elis in 776 B.C.
Olympic Games
primary commander of the ill-fated Sicilian expedition
Nicias
relative
kinsman
four-year period between Olympic games
olympiad
men obsessed with latest fashions; dandies
fops
Spartan admiral at the end of the Peloponnesian War; captured Athens
Lysander
governors of defeated Athens, installed by Sparta
Thirty Tyrants
Athenian who overthrew the Tyrants
Thrasybulus
“When the lion’s skin is too short, you must patch it with that of a fox.”
Lysander
showing artful deception or trickery
cunning
Identify the starred location on the map.
Aegos Potamos
Athenian teacher and philosopher
Socrates
Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching
Socratic method
wife of Socrates
Xanthippe
philosopher; pupil of Socrates; carried on Socrates’ work and wrote Socrates’ teachings
Plato
Plato’s open-air school at Athens
Academy
“What! Would you have me die guilty?”
Socrates
“You can bury my body; you cannot put me into a grave.”
Socrates
“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.”
Socrates
“Thus died the man who was in death the noblest we have ever known, in life, the wisest and the best.”
Plato
poisonous plant used for executions in ancient Greece
hemlock
the love and pursuit of wisdom
philosophy
fortune; choice
lot
Greek general; author of the history, Anabasis
Xenophon
Persian King
Artaxerxes
Persian general; brother of Artaxerxes
Cyrus
“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”
Anabasis
“Victory!”
The Greeks at the battle of Cunaxa
“I see the man.”
Cyrus
“And where can the good and the noble be found?”
Socrates
difficulty; hardship
plight
guards
sentries
