Lessons 21-25 Review Flashcards
“I have lived long enough.”
Epaminondas
governors of defeated Athens, installed by Sparta
Thirty Tyrants
Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching
Socratic method
Greek general; author of the history, Anabasis
Xenophon
Theban hero at the battle of Leucrtra
Pelopidas
poisonous plant used for executions in ancient Greece
hemlock
Persian general; brother of Artaxerxes
Cyrus
guards
sentries
“Thus died the man who was in death the noblest we have ever known, in life, the wisest and the best.”
Plato
Theban general and victor at Mantinea
Epaminondas
“What! Would you have me die guilty?”
Socrates
philosopher; pupil of Socrates; carried on Socrates’ work and wrote Socrates’ teachings
Plato
“I see the man.”
Cyrus
“When the lion’s skin is too short, you must patch it with that of a fox.”
Lysander
the citadel of Thebes
Cadmea
naval commander during the Peloponnesian War
Alcibiades
Identify the starred location on the map.
Aegos Potamos
“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
Spartan admiral at the end of the Peloponnesian War; captured Athens
Lysander
“And where can the good and the noble be found?”
Socrates
Identify the starred location on the map.
Leuctra
important athletic contest held every four years; began in Elis in 776 B.C.
Olympic Games
Athenian teacher and philosopher
Socrates
Persian King
Artaxerxes
difficulty; hardship
plight
relative
kinsman
primary commander of the ill-fated Sicilian expedition
Nicias
the love and pursuit of wisdom
philosophy
Athenian who overthrew the Tyrants
Thrasybulus
wife of Socrates
Xanthippe
Identify the starred location on the map.
Mantinea
“You can bury my body; you cannot put me into a grave.”
Socrates
men obsessed with latest fashions; dandies
fops
Plato’s open-air school at Athens
Academy
showing artful deception or trickery
cunning
fortune; choice
lot
“Leuctra and Mantinea are daughters who will keep my name alive.”
Epaminondas
“Victory!”
The Greeks at the battle of Cunaxa
a permanent military post
garrison
“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
four-year period between Olympic games
olympiad
