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March 4 Exam Flashcards

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Sophocles

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  • 495-406 bc
  • Popular after death
  • Most successful tragedian during his own lifetime
  • Plays have strong central characters
  • Most famous work was his Theban plays that were plays about thieves
  • Had 24 victories
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Aeschylus

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  • Ca 525-456 bc
  • First of the great tragedians
  • Most famous work was his Oresteia trilogy
  • Only guy from the 3 tragedians that completed his work
  • Had 13 victories
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Euripides

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  • 484-406 bc
  • Popular after death
  • Plays featured scandalous themes such as incest
  • Had lots of plays about women
  • Least popular out of the 3 tragedians
  • Had 5 victories
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Dionysus

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Son of Zeus

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Metics

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Resident aliens who are traders, have access to Athenian markets, and can’t vote

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Hetairai

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High class prostitutes who are smart women

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Pericles

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  • Ca 495-429 bc
  • Athenian politician, leader of radical democrats
  • Proposed ‘pay for juries’ at Athens
  • Built Parthenon and other Acropolis buildings
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Pausanias

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  • Spartan general who lead Greek fleet to Cyprus in 478 BC
  • Captures Byzantium
  • Eventually got recalled to Sparta
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Strategos

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General; military commander

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Aristophanes

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  • Ca 447-385 BC
  • Best-preserved old comedian, also greatest
  • First production was the Banqueters in 427 bc
  • Has 11 survived plays
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Menander

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  • ca 342-291 bc
  • Most famous new comedian; greatest popularity after death
  • Virtually only new comedian whose work survives on papyri
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Socrates

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  • One of the founders for Western philosophy
  • Classical Greek philosopher
  • Boy crazy
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Philemon

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New comedian from 368-267 bc

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Diphilus

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New comedian from 360-290 bc

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Aspasia

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A prostitute who was involved with Athenian statesman Pericles

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Thucydides

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  • Ca 460-395 BC
  • Elected an Athenian strategies and then exiled in 424 BC
  • Thought the Peloponnesian war was the best
  • Was an analytical historian
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Demagogues

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  • “Leaders of the People”
  • New leaders who became powerful after Pericles
  • Not traditional political leaders
  • Pro-war
  • Pushed for war
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Alcibiades

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  • Athenian statesman/scumbag

- Arranges Sicilian expedition in 415 BC

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The 400 Tyrants

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  • 400 guys seize power at Athens in 411 BC

- Fails and Demokratia shortly got restored

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The 30 Tyrants

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  • Rise up and announced a purge of those they don’t like in 404 BC
  • Fails and Demokratia comes back
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Philip II

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  • 382-336 BC
  • Ruled 359-336 BC
  • 24 years old when in power
  • Doubled the size of Macedon
  • Gets murdered at his wedding
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Demosthenes

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  • 384-322 BC

- Greatest Greek orator of all time

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Alexander the Great

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  • 356-323 bc
  • Goes through entire Persian empire and conquers the whole thing
  • Dies young
  • Goes after Darius after he kills his wounded and sick soldiers; starts the Battle of Issus and wins
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Ptolemy

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  • Ca 367-ca 283 BC
  • General of Alexander who wrote a history of his campaign
  • Became king of Egypt
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Hephaestion

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  • Friend of Alexander who might also be a lover

- Dies after Alexander in 323 BC at Babylon - same time as when Alexander died

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Darius III

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  • Persian commander who was defeated by Alexander

- Kills wounded and sick soldiers of Macedonians

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Bessus

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  • 330-328 BC
  • Was pursued by Alexander
  • Killed Persian king Darius
  • Killed by Alexander for revenge of killing the previous Persian king
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Plato

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Philosopher in classical Greece

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Scythian Archers

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Served as police force

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Corcyra

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Has a dispute with Corinth

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Syracuse

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  • Founded by Corinth

- Was attacked by an Athenian expedition

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Macedon

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Ruled by Philip II and doubled its size

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Amphipolis

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Ruled by Philip II

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Chaeronia

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Site of historical battles

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Granicus river

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Location where the Battle of Granicus was taken place at in 334 BC

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Issus

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Location where the Battle of Issus was taken place at in 333 BC

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Tyre

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  • Captured in 333-332 BC
  • Alexander had to build a mole (breakwater - artificial bridge) in order to reach Tyre to attack and defeat the city
  • Burnt down by Alexander
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Alexandria

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  • Founded in 331 BC
  • City named after Alexander the Great
  • First of many Alexandrias
  • Great commercial city
  • Greek/Macedonian colony
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Gaugamela

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  • 331 BC
  • Location of Battle of Gaugamela where Alexander defeated Darius III
  • Most important victory
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Persepolis

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  • 330 BC
  • City of the Persians
  • Main Persian capital
  • Has lots of money
  • 120,000 talents of some kind of metal
  • Possibly burnt down by Alexander
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Hydaspes river

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  • Location of last major battle

- Alexander vs King Porus

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Babylon

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  • 330 BC

- City captured by Alexander during the Battle of Gaugamela

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Ptolemaic kingdom

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  • Located in Egypt

- Ruled by Alexander’s general Ptolemy I Soter

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Seleucid kingdom

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-Ruled by Seleucus and his successors in 312-63 BC; Antioch

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Antigonid kingdom

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-Ruled by Antigonus and his successors in 306-168 BC

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Theatron

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Greek word for Theater

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City Dionysia

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Athenian religious/dramatic festival

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Oresteia

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Trilogy that was a famous work of Aeschylus

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Satyr play

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Greek form of tragic comedy

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Orchestra

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Where characters dance and interact in Greek theater

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Skene

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Tent for changing

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Mechane

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Giant crane to bring in a divine character

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Ekklyklema

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Used to expose murder or hidden things in Greek theater

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Deus ex machina

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God of machine

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Protagonist

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First of the 3 major characters in Greek theater

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Deuteragonist

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Second of the 3 major characters in Greek theater

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Tritagonist

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Third of the 3 major characters in Greek theater

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Greek chorus

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  • One of the strangest elements of a Greek tragedy
  • Non-professionals who were trained by a poet
  • 12 members per chorus
  • Wore costumes and masks
  • Chanted entrance song
  • Engaged in dialogue with other actors
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Thalassocracy

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  • Involved during the Minoan period

- Excellence on the seas; power of the seas, controls the seas

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Delian League

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  • Athens and allies
  • Purpose of this league was to protect Athens from the Persians
  • Makes Athens a clear rival to Sparta
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Radical democracy

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Athenian reforms of 462 BC

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Old comedy

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  • ca 480 bc - mid 4th century
  • Most explicit
  • Plot: comic hero is central, usually lower-class man interested in gratifying his desires
  • Devises a fantastic scheme based on his dissatisfaction with some aspect of society
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Middle comedy

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  • End of the 5th and much of the 4th century bc
  • Offshoot of old comedy
  • Has no chorus, no impersonation of public figures, generalized objects of ridicule
  • Themes of plays were mockery of myths
  • No plays survived in full
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New comedy

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  • End of 4th century bc - middle of the 3rd century bc
  • When drama now concerns average people and everyday life
  • Chance, money, and coincidence play large parts in the plays
  • Fate will save us in the end
  • Abstract gods appear in the plays, if any
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Komos

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  • Aischrologia
  • Phallos
  • Rites were usually in spring; a promotion of fertility
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Phallos

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Giant imitation penis carried in procession

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The Clouds

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  • Originally performed in 423 bc at the City Dionysian
  • Came in last place then revised between 420 and 417 bc
  • Makes fun of intellectuals and more specifically sophists
  • Famous for the depiction of Socrates
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Oedipus the King

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An Athenian tragedy

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Lenaea

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One of two big comic festivals

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Dyskolos

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The complete play by Menander, “The Bad-Tempered Man”

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Pederasty

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Love of Boys

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Gymnasium

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“The Naked Place”

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The Symposium

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Plato defines two types of love and procreation; physical and spiritiual

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Erastes

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  • Older and the active partner

- Substitute father for Eromenos

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Eromenos

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  • Younger and passive

- Never got aroused

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Kinaidos

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Man who allowed himself to be penetrated

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Pathikos

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The passive partner in a homosexual relationship

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Peace of Nikias

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An arranged 50-year truce that didn’t lasts a year

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Sicilian Expedition

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  • Arranged by Alcibiades

- Resulted in a disaster due to fleet destroyed which made Alcibiades flee to Sparta

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Age of Hegemonies

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-404-306 BC

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2nd Athenian league

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  • Founded on more democratic principles than the Delian league
  • Created for the purpose of fighting for domination in the Aegean Sea
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Philippics

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Speeches denouncing Philip

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Shrine of Amun-re

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  • 332 BC
  • Located in Siwa
  • Holy sight for people to go to for answers
  • Alexander and his men march to the shrine to confront the shrine
  • Theory 1: Alexander asked shrine whether or not his parents are gods

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