NHCE Flashcards
What blind man wrote the Iliad and Odyssey
Homer
Meter of the Iliad and Odyssey
Dactylic Hexameter
Who wrote the Theogeny, Works and Days
Hesiod
Book on the birth of the gods, early gods, Titans, and Olympians
Theogeny
Poem written to Hesiod’s brother, Perses, talking about Farming, Prometheus, and Pandora
Works and Days
Brother of Hesiod
Perses
What enslaved person who lived on Samos wrote fables
Aesop
Where was Aesop from
Egypt or Thrace
Who wrote lyrical songs on politics, love, and hymns in his fight with the tyrant Pittacus
Alcaeus
Where was Alcaeus from
Mytilene on Lesbos
What tyrant caused Alcaeus to leave Lesbos
Pittacus
Where did Alcaeus self-exile to
Egypt
What Spartan lyric poet wrote the Partheneia, sung at religious festivals?
Alcman
What lyric poet from Teos wrote about love and the pleasures of life
Anacreon
Where did Anacreon move to initially
Polycrates at Samos
Where did Anacreon flee after leaving Polycrates at Samos
Athens
What philosopher from Miletus was the first Greek to write a prose book
Anaximander
What did Anaximander become the first to build
First map of the Earth
What philosopher from Miletus beleives that the primary substance was air
Anaximenes
What poet from Paros left his shield in battle to flee and survive
Archilochus
What term did Archilochus use first to describe the meter of his poems
Iambic
What largely legendary lyric poet, born of Lebos, was thrown overboard by Pirates but saved
Arion
What did Arion invent
Dithyramb (Choral lyric poetry)
What animal saved Arion from drowning due to his singing
Dolphin
Where did Arion live
Periander at Corinth
Who was the teacher of Arion
Alcman
What lyric poet from Ceos wrote ones for victors at games and was considered to be the forerunner of Tragery
Bacchylides
Who was the uncle of Bacchylides
Simonides
Who said that the universe consisted of air, fire, water, and earth
Empedocles
What poems did Empedocles write
On Nature and Purifications
What philosopher from Ephesus, the weeping philosopher, said that the primary element was fire
Heracleitus
What author wrote A History of the Persian Wars
Herodotus
Who was attacked by robbers while cranes passed overhead, and shouted ‘Those Cranes will Avenge Me”
Ibycus
Who founded the Eleatic school of philosophy
Parmenides
What were the poems of Parmenides
Way of Truth and Way of Seeming
What lyric poet from Thebes wrote odes to the victors of the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games
Pindar
Whose house was the only one saved by Alexander the Great in Thebes
Pindar
To which tyrant did Pindar write a poem
Hieron I of Syracuse
Who was considered to be the greatest Greek lyric poet
Pindar
Who instructed Pindar
Corinna
Who believed in an immortal soul and reincarnation
Pythagoras
What lyric poetess from Lesbos wrote on love
Sappho
What was Sappho called
Tenth Muse
Where was Sappho exiled
Sicily
Who transcribed Sappho’s poetry in poem 51
Catullus
What poet from Samos and Amorgos wrote in Ionic Greek
Semonides
What lyric and elegiac poet from Ceos wrote epigrams and epitaphs for the Athenian and Spartan dead at Marathon and Thermopylae
Simonides
What lyric poet from Matauros was strick blind for slandering Helen
Stesichorus
What was the real name of Stesichorus
Teisias
Where did Stesichorus live
Himera
Seven Sages
Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus of Rhodes, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, Thales
What Attican invented the play and mask at the Dionysia festival
Thespis
Who was the earliest tragedian who wrote 80-90 plays, out of which 7 survive
Aeschylus
How did Aeschylus die
Eagle dropped a tortoise on his bald head
What are the surviving plays of Aeschylus
Persians, Oresteia, Suppliants, Promethius Bound
What are the poems of the Oresteia trilogy
Agamemnon, Choephoroe (Libation Bearers), Eumenides
What innovation did Aeschylus add
Second actor to the play
Who wrote over 100 plays of which 7 tragedies and one play survive
Sophocles
What are the surviving plays of Sophocles
Ajax, Trachinian Women, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Electra, Philoctetes
What innovations did Sophocles add
Third actor, scenery, and 15 member chorus
What poet used Deus Ex Machina and has 19 surviving plays
Euripides
Where did Euripides write his plays
Cave in Salamis
What are the plays of Euripides
Alcestis, Bacchae, Electra, Hecuba, Hippolytus, Ion, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, Orestes, Rhesus, Suppliant Women, Trojan Women
How did Euripides die
Torn by dogs of Archelaus, king of Macedon
Who was the greatest writer of the Old Comedy
Aristophanes
Play of Aristophanes that ridiculed Sophocles
The Clouds
Play of Aristophanes that ridiculed the court system
The Wasps
Work of Aristophanes where a hero rides to heaven on a dung beetle
The Peace
What are the surviving plays of Aristophanes
Wasps, Peace, Birds, Clouds, Lysistrata, Frogs, Ecclesiazusae, Plutus
What is the most famous play of Aristophanes where women abandon their men until the war ends
Lysistrata
In what comedy does Dionysus decide that Aeschylus is the greatest tragedian
Frogs
Work of Aristophanes where the women take over the government
Ecclesiazusae
Where do two Athenians travel to in “The birds”
Nephelokokkygia
What comedy succeeded the death of Alexander
New Comedy
Who was the greatest writer of New Comedy
Menander
How did Menander die
Drowned at Piraeus
What is the only extant play of Menander
Dyscolus (Bad-tempered man)
Who wrote a History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
What event ends Thucydides’ history
411 B.C. with the recall of Alcibiades
Who wrote nothing but made the socratic method
Socrates
What pseudo-gods did Socrates believe in
Daimones
Who were the parents of Socrates
Sophroniscus the Sculptor and Phaenarete the Midwife
How did Socrates die
Commit suicide for corrupting youth of Athens
What did Socrates use to die
Hemlock
What student of Socrates founded the Academy and wrote many works
Plato
What are the works of Plato
Apology, Crito, Gorgias, Phaedo, Republic, Symposium, Timaeus, Laws
Work of Plato on Socrates’ trial
Apology
Work of Plato on a dialogue with Socrates in prison
Crito
Work of Plato on death and immortality
Phaedo
What is Plato’s most famous work that describes a perfect government
Republic
Work of Plato on the nature of love
Symposium
Work of Plato on Atlantis
Timaeus
What is Plato’s last and longest work on politics
Laws
What student of Socrates was a leader of the Ten Thousand
Xenophon
What are the works of Xenophon
Anabasis, Apology, Memorabilia, Symposium,
Work of Xenophon that tells the story of the 10,000
Anabasis
Work of Xenophon that discusses Socrates’ trial
Apology
Work of Xenophon on Socrates
Memorabilia
Work of Xenophon on love
Symposium
Who was the tutor of Alexander
Aristotle
What did Plato call Aristote
Reader
Where was Aristotle born
Stageira in Chalcidice
What was the main school of Aristotle
Lyceum
What school was Aristotle the first head of
Peripatetic
Work of Aristotle on celestial bodies
De Caelo
Work of Aristotle that discusses democracy
Politics
Work of Aristotle that traces Athenian democracy
Constitution of Athens
Work of Aristotle on oratory
Rhetoric
Work of Aristotle on literature
Poetics
What did Aristotle say is the supreme tragedy
Oedipus Rex
Who founded the Stoics after teaching in the Eleatic school
Zeno
How does Stoicism get its name
Stoa (porch)
What was the divine law of Stoicism
Logos
Who was the founder of the Cynics
Antisthenes
What most famous Cynic lived in a tub
Diogenes
Who was the founder of Epicureanism who moved to Athens from Samos
Epicurus
What was the belief of the Cynics
Virtue makes Happiness
What was the belief of the Stoics
People should pursue harmony
What was the belief of the Epicureans
Happiness comes from the absence of pain
What school of Philosophy was founded by Pyrrhon of Elis and adopted by the Academy
Scepticism
What was the belief of the Sceptics
True knowledge is unattainable
What school of thought was prevalent in Alexandria
Neo-Platonism
Who was the most famous Neo-Platonist
Hypatia
Who was the original devloper of Atomic Theory
Leucippus
Who, born at Abdera, developed Atomic Theory
Democritus
Who wrote Elements on geometry
Euclid
Where did Oratory come from by the Sophists
Sicily
Who was the most famous Sophist
Gorgias
What did Gorgias say
Man is the measure of all things
What Attic Orator wrote on his return to Athens and the Eleusinian mysteries
Andocides
What Attic Orator from Syracuse fled the Thirty Tyrants
Lysias
Who was the brother of Lysias who was killed by the Thirty Tyrants
Polemarchus
Who was the Attic Orator overcame a weak voice to urge the Greeks to unite and on peace
Isocrates
What was the most famous work of Isocrates
Panegyricus
What greatest Attic and Greek orator overcame a speech impediment to oppose Macedon
Demosthenes
Who was the mentor of Demosthenes
Isaeus
What work of Demosthenes was to give himself a crown for his service
On the Crown
What Attic Orator and rival of Demosthenes opposed Demosthenes on basically everything
Aeschines
What are the works of Aeschines
Against Timarchus and Against Ctesiphon
What author wrote “On the Gods” and “Chronicle”
Apollodorus
What man, in charge of the library of Alexandria, wrote “Argonautirca”
Apollonius of Rhodes
Who did Apollonius of Rhodes succeed as the head of the library of Alexandria
Eratosthenes
What Greek inventor defended Syracuse from the Romans
Archimedes
What did Archimedes say about the Earth
If he had a place to stand, he could move the Earth
What did Archimedes famously exclaim
Eureka
Who wrote the Milesian Tales, similar to the Satyricon
Aristides of Miletus
What head of the Alexandrian Library write “Lock of Berenice”
Callimachus
What did Callimachus say
Big book, big evil
Who translated Callimachus’ Lock of Berenice
Catullus in Poem 66
What nephew/pupil of Aristotle was Alexander’s historian
Callisthenes
What head of the library of Alexandria calculated the circumference of the Earth
Eratosthenes
What work of Eratosthenes tried to fix the dates of Greek history
Chronographiae
Who is the father of Medicine
Hippocrates
Where was Hippocrates born
Cos
Crete
Minoans
Double Ax/Labyrinth
Minoans
Paintings and Bulls
Minoans
Knossos, Phaestos, Kata Zakro, Mallia
Minoans
Cyclopean masonry
Mycenae
Relieving triangle
Mycenae
The Lion’s Gate
Mycenae
Wanax
Mycenaean King
Lawagetas
Mycenaean General
Koretor
Mycenean Governor
Prokoretor
Mycenean Vice Governor
Damokoroas
Mycenaean Record Keeper
Burial
Mycenean Circle A
Tholos Tombs (Beehives)
Mycenean
Tomb of Agamemnon
Mycenean
Gazed upon the face of Agamemnon
Schliemann
After Dark Age
Phoenicians
Greek Alphabet in 8th century B.C.
Phoenicians
When Greek History begins with Olympics
776 B.C.
Oecist
Leader of colonists
How a city was founded
Took fire from hearth of old city to new one
Pithecusae/Cumae/Cyme
First Greek Colony
Most important colony with largest city
Sicily/Syracuse
Who founded Syracuse
Corinth
When was Syracuse founded
734 B.C.
When was Taras/Tarentum colonized
707 B.C.
Who colonized Taras/Tarentum
Spartans
Made the Spartan constitution
Lycurgus
When was the Spartan constitution made
885 B.C.
Alternative name of Sparta
Lacedaemon
What city did the Spartans conquer in the 8th century
Messenia
What Messenian hero sacrificed his daughter
Aristodemus
How many kings did Sparta have
2
How many ephors did Sparta have
5
What was the council of 30 noblemen over the age of 60 in Sparta
Gerousia
Spartan assembly of all citizens
Apella
Age to vote in Sparta
30
Age where Spartan boys were taken and put into groups
7
What group had a surprising degree of rights in Sparta
Women
What city did the Spartans conquer for the bones of Orestes
Tegea
Group that Sparta formed
Peloponnesian League
What family ruled Corinth
Bacchiads
Who overthrew the Bacchiads in Corinth
Cypselus (Chest)
Who succeeded Cypselus in 620 B.C. and led Corinth to its greatest height
Periander
Region of Athens
Attica
What political process gave Athenian citizenship to all of Attica
Synoecism
Who attempted to establish Athenian tyranny
Cylon
When did Cylon try to seize power
632 B.C.
Who killed Cylon
Megacles
Family of Megacles
Alcmaeonids
Made Athenian law
Draco
Archon of Athens who reformed then went into exile
Solon
When was Solon archon
594-593
Classes by wealth instead of birth
Timocracy
What type of government did Solon establish
Timocracy
First and most imporant act of Solon to cancel debt enslavement
Seisachtheia
Athenian political party to oppose Solon
Plains
Athenian political party to support Solon
Coast
First tyrant of Athens
Pisistratus
When did Pisistratus gain power
561 B.C.
Political power of Risistratus
Hill
Class of laborers that Pisistratus formed
Hektemoroi
Cities that Pisistratus conquered
Salamis and Megara
Island that Pisistratus purified
Delos
