Names Flashcards
Paris
Trojan Prince
Menelaus
Greek king during Trojan war
Draco
draconian rule
all people are equal
solon
all citizens could participate in the athenian assembly
4 groups based on wealth
Cleisthenes
10 groups based on where they lived
Council of 500
Darius I.
Persian king during the battle of Marathon
Pheiddipides
runner from Marathon to Athens
Leonidas
King of Sparta
Xerxes the I.
Persian king, son of Darius
Themistocles
Athenian general during the battle of Salamis
Pericles
statesman, respected general
3 main goals
he strengthened the athenian democrasy
The parthenon
most iconic building
served as a symbol of Athenian power and culture
dedication to the goddes Athena
Phidias
srafted a giant statue of Athena
Aeschylus
tragedy
Oresteia
Sophocles
tragedy
Antigona
Oidipus the king
Euripides
Tragedy
Medea
Aristophanes
Comedy
The birds
Lysistrata
Herodotus
accurate record keeper (even gossips)
Thucydides
made record keeping professional, checked facts
Socrates
phylosopher
encouraged students to examine their believes, asked them questions
Plato
Philosopher
student of Socrates
2 works
Aristotle
Phylosopher
Main phylosophy (3)
Philip II.
King of Macedonia
Military reforms (3)
League
Alexander the great
Macedonian king
unexpected actions
created the biggest empire
Darius III.
Persian king during the invasion of Persia
Antigonus
one of the 3 leaders of the empire
Ptolemy
one of the 3 leaders of the empire
Astronomy
incorrectly placed the Earth as the centre of the solar system
Seleucus
one of the 3 leaders of the empire
Aristarchus
Astronomy
the Erath and the other planets are orbiting around the Sun
Erathostenes
Astronomy
tried to calculate Earths true size
Euclid
Mathematist
geometry prepositions and proofs
Archimedes
pi
explained the law of lever
Zeno
Stoicist who had his phylosophy
Epicurus
Epicureanism who had their phylosophy
Colossus of Rhides
Bronze statue
one of the seven wonders of the ancient world
winged victory of samothrace
created to commerce a Greek naval victory
