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Match the Term to its Description Flashcards

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Agora

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Multifacted place in which the whole demos would assemble

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Amphictyony

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Council of Phocis, seated in Delphi

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Apoikia

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Name for a greek colony

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Apologia

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Rebuttal or defense of the trial of Socrates

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Archons

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Elected officials in Athens who replace the kings, were originally voted in but later appointed by lot

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Autochthonous

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“Self-made from the land” or “Born from the ground”

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Basileia

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Term for a place or royal quarter

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Basileus

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Greek word for king

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Boiotarch

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1 of 11 leaders within the Boiotian League

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Boule

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General term for a council in Greece

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Choregia

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Funding of a play, either individual or public

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Choregos

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Chorus-leader of a player, different than the playwright

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Cleruchy

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An Athenian colony in which a garrison is established abroad

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Daimonion

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Guiding spirit, specifically of Socrates

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Decarchies

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Small oligarchies run by 10 pro-Spartan officials in “liberated” Greek city-states

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Demagogia

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“Leading of the people,” like Cleon

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Demos

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Shared regional and community identities of a people

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Diadochoi

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Name for the many successors of Alexander “the Great”

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Dikasterion

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Term for law courts in Athens

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Dithyramb

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Wild choral song for Dionysus popularized in the 6th-5th centuries BC

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Ekklesia

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General term for an assembly in Greece

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Elegy

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Greek trade centres established across the ancient Mediterranean

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Emporion

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Greek trade centres established across the ancient Mediterranean

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Ephebes

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18-20 year old men, usually destined for military service

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Ephors

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Leaders of the popular assembly in Sparta that held little power

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Epicurianism

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Philosophical school which discusses atomic theory and living in moderation

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Epigram

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Succint or pithy version of an elegy

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Epikleros

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Heiress who inherited her father’s estate, like Antigone

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Epinician ode

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Lyrical poems aimed at celebrated human athletic victory

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Eunomia

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Term for “good order” which the Spartans based their political and communal life around

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Galatians

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Indo-European people from Western/Central Europe who migrated in northern/central Anatolia

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Gastraphetes

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“Stomach-thrower,” crossbow that hindered hoplites

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Great Dionysia

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Annual festival held in the spring in Athens where plays would be performed

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Great Tumulus at Vergina

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Burial place of many members of the Argead dynasty

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Hellenotamiai

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Administrators of the fund of the Delian League

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Herms

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Sculptures that were mutilated in Athens leading to the expulsion of Alcibidiades

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Hetairoi

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Close companions of the King in Macedon

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Homonoia

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Focus on concord to combat civil strife

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Hoplite Phalanx

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Type of closed defensive formation named for the large shield carried by the soldiers

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Hybris

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Arrogance or disrespect of the gods

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Klepsydra

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Water-clock

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Kleros

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Land plot assigned to Greek colonists

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Kleroterion

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Jury allotment box

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Lacedaimonian

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Another name meaning Spartan

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Lapiths

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Heroic humans usually depicted fighting Centaurs

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Lenaia

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Winter wine festival in Athens where comedies were performed

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Linear B

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Ideographic and syllabic early form of Greek language attributed to Mycenaeans

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Liturgy

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Forced contributions of the elite to finance city projects like festivals or ships

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Mausoleum

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Monumental tomb for the fallen satrap of Caria

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Megaron

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Central hall within Mycenaean palace complexes

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Metropolis

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Mother-city of a colony

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Mothakes

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Children born to Spartan farmers and helot mothers

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Nemesis

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Divine retribution

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Neodamodes

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Limited rights afforded to freed helots in Sparta

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Nestor’s Cup

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Artefact found in Pithecusaee which is the earliest evidence we have for the reemergence of writing in Greece

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New Comedy

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Popular reinvention of an earlier dramatic model using archetypes and role reversals, made popular by Menander

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Nomthetai

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Special board for “law-establishers”

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Oral Poetry

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An early form of musical and narrative storytelling in Greece, best known thanks to the works of Homer

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Ostracism

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Expulsion of a citizen for 1-10 years decided upon in an annual referendum

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Peltasts

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Mobile troops of javelin and sling-throwers

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Pezhetairoi

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Sarisa wielders, “companions on foot”

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Philippeion

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Tholos or round temple dedicated at Olympia by Alexander to his family

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Philippic

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Speech by Demosthenes warning Athenians of Macedon’s power

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Phraties

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Clubs or “brotherhoods” for men which replaced the traditional “gene”

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Phraties

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Clubs or “brotherhoods” for men which replaced the traditional “gene”

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Polis

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Independent city-state represented by a physical and political community in Greece

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Tumulus with mass grave

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Polyandrion

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Proskynesis

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Persian custom of showing deference to the King with a kiss

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Pyrrhic Victory

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Won at too great a cost to ave been worthwhile for the victor

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Religious Syncretism

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“Mixing together” of elements from different religious traditions

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Rhetor

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Orator or speechmaker, often synonymous with poltician

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Rosetta Stone

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Trilingual decree of Egyptian priests in honour of Ptolemy V

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Sacred Band

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Army of 300 who were supposedly 150 couples

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Sarisa

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Extremely long pike used in Macedonian warfare

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Satraps

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Rulers of the provinces of the Persian empire appointed by the king

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Satyr-play

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Short, light-hearted play performed after a tragic trilogy

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Stasis

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Civil discontent and strife

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Stoicism

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Philosophical school in which the “wise man” lives according to divine laws

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Synedrion

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General name for a council of a League

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Synoikismos

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Communities in close proximity unite and constitute a new political entity

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Syntaxeis

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Contributions made to a collective fund of the Second Athenian League

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Syssition

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Communal meal/mess hall in Spartan society

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Thesmothetai

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Junior archons who became member of the Areopagus

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Tholos or “Bee-Hive” Tomb

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Monumental tomb constructed by the Mycenaeans

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Tropaion

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Monument known as a “trophy”

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Wanax

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Ruler or leader in Mycenaean culture

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Xenia

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Term for gift exchange, a core value within the Homeric hierarchy

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Zeno’s Archive

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Archive containing correspondence that sheds light on aspects of Ptolemaic administration

CLST 200 (10 decks)

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