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
Event that Pisistratus formed
Panatheniac Feast
When did Pisistratus die
528/527 B.C.
Sons and successors of Pisistratus
Hippias and Hipparchus
Assassins of Hipparchus
Harmodius and Aristogiton
How did Hipparchus slight Harmodius
Not allowed his sister to carry a basket at the Panatheniac procession
Spartan king that invaded Athens
Cleomenes
When did Cleomenes invade Athens
510 B.C.
When did Hipparchus get assassinated
514 B.C.
Where was Hippias exiled
Persia
When did Cleomenes die
490 B.C.
Who established Athenian democracy
Cleisthenes
What was the family of Cleisthenes
Alcmaeonids
How did Cleisthenes divide the democratic Athenians
3 regions, 30 trittyes, 10 tribes
Council of Cleisthenes in Athens
Boule
How many members were in the Boule
500 members
How many strategoi were there
10
When was democracy established in Athens
508 B.C.
Son of Cyrus
Cambyses
Who seized the throne of Cambyses
Darius
What was the job of Darius
Leader of the bodyguards
Most powerful Ionian city that revolted against Darius
Miletus
Leader of Miletus who appealed to Athens
Aristagoras
Capital of Lydia that the Ionian Greeks sacked
Sardis
Where did the Persians crush the Ionian revolt
Lade
When was the Battle of Lade
494 B.C.
When was the sack of Sardis
497
Which Persian conquered Thrace and Macedonia
Mardonius
When did the Persians invade Thrace and Macedonia
492 B.C.
General sent by Darius to punish Athens
Datis
Runner of Athens to Sparta and said “Nike”
Philippides
Where did the Athenians defeat Darius’ army
Marathon
What city helped Athens at Marathon
Plataea
Who commanded the Greeks at Marathon
Miltiades
What was the military formation o the Greeks
Phalanx
Who was the polemarch of Athens during Marathon
Callimachus
How many Athenians died at Marathon
192
Distance between Athens and Marathon
26 Miles
Who succeeded Darius
Xerxes
When did Darius die
485 B.C.
Institution where the Ecclesia could exile a person for 10 years
Ostracism (ostrakon, vessel)
First person to be ostracised in Athens
Hipparchus
Gained power in Athens after Marathon
Themistocles
What 3 great statesmen did Themistocles ostracise
Megacles, Xanthippus, Aristides
Where did the Athenians discover silver in 483 B.C.
Laurion
What did the Athenians build with the Laurion Silver
Navy (200 Triremes)
Process of favoring the Persians against the Greeks
Medizing
When was the invasion of Xerxes
481 B.C.
Where did the Greeks temporarily delay Xerxes in 480 B.C.
Artemisium
Delaying action by the Greeks at a land pass
Thermopylae
Spartan leader at Thermopylae
Leonidas
Betrayer of the Greeks at Thermopylae
Ephialtes
The best of Xerxes’ troops
Immortals
What did the Spartan reply to the Greek at Thermopylae
Prefer to fight in the shade
What did the Oracle tell the Athenians to defeat Xerxes
Put their trust in a wooden wall
What did the Oracle’s prophecy to the Athenians mean
Trust their navy
Where did the Athenians defeat the Persians under Xerxes
Salamis
Carian queen who told Xerxes not to battle at Salamis
Artemisia
Where the Greeks defeated the Persians under Pausanias and killed Mardonius
Plataea
Battle of Plataea
479 B.C.
Battle of Salamis
480 B.C.
Battle of Thermopylae
480 B.C.
Where did the Greeks under Leotychidas finally win the Persian Wars
Mycale
Battle of Mycale
479 B.C.
Organization of Athens after Persian Wars
Confederation of Delos/Delian League
Who served as the treasurer of the Dlians
Aristides “The Just”
Commander of the Delian League afainst the Persians
Cimon
Structure that connected Athens to its port
Long Walls
What was the port of Athens
Piraeus
When were the Long Walls completed
458 B.C.
When was the treasury of the Delian League moved to Athens
454 B.C.
When was Cimon ostracized
461 B.C.
When was Themistocles ostracized
472 B.C.
Who exiled Cimon
Ephialtes and Pericles
Father of Pericles
Xanthippus
When did Pericles pay for juries
462 B.C.
When was the murder of Ephialtes
461 B.C.
The seizure of what city caused the First Peloponnesian War
Naupactus
Battle where the Spartans beat the Athenians initially
Tanagra
Begged to be reinstalled before Tanagra and was afterward
Cimon
Where did the Athenians defeat the Boeotians
Oenophyta
Where did the Athenians lose Boeotia
Coronea
Battle of Tanagra
457 B.C.
Battle of Oenophyta
457 B.C.
Battle of Coronea
447 B.C.
What treaty was between the Athenians and Persians
Peace of Callias
When was the peace of Callias
449 B.C.
When did Athens and Sparta make the 30-year peace
446 B.C.
What colony of Corinth started the Second Peloponnesian War
Corcyra
What Athenian statesman wrote a history of the Peloponnesian Wars and opposed Pericles
Thucydides
What Spartan king invaded Attica in the Second Peloponnesian War
Archidamas
When did a plague kill 1/4 of Athens
430 B.C.
How did Pericles die
Plague
Who was the wife of Pricles
Aspania
City that the Spartans took from the Athenians in the Second Peloponnesian War
Plataea
When was the Seizure of Plataea by Spartans
427 B.C.
What city tried to revolt from the Athenian empire
Mytilene
When was the Revolt of Mytilene
428 B.C.
What Athenian captured 100 never surrendering Spartans at Sphacteria
Cleon
Who made a 1-year truce with Athens in the Second Peloponnesian War
Brasidas
When was the 1-year truce of Brasidas
423 B.C.
Where were Brasidas and Cleon killed
Amphipolis
Ended the first 10 years of the Second Peloponnesian War/Archidamian War
Peace of Nicias
Who rose to power in Athens following the Archidamian War
Alciabades
What city caused the resumption of the Second Peloponnesian War
Epidaurians
What 3 Athenians tried to capture Syracuse from Athens
Alcibiades, Nicias, Lamachus
What statues were destroyed at Syracuse
Hermae
Who confessed to the mutilation of the Hermae
Andocides
Who was accused of destroying the Hermae and condemned to death
Alcibiades
What traitor of the Athenians helped the Spartans reinforce Decelea and defeat Athens
Andocides
What ended the Sicilian campaign of Athens
Eclipse
What Spartan general defended Syracuse from Athens
Gylippus
What was the group that came to power in Athens after Alcibiades
Four Hundred
Who led the Four Hundred
Theramenes
What government replaced the Four Hundred
Five Thousand
Where did Alcibiades defeat the Spartans to restore Athenian Democracy
Cyzicus
When was the battle of Cyzicus
410 B.C.
When was the rise of the Four Hundred
411 B.C.
When was the rise of Alcibiades
420 B.C.
When was the Battle of Amphipolis
422 B.C.
When was the Peace of Nicias
421 B.C.
Where did Alcibiades lose to the Spartans and thus, lose his command
Notion
When was the Battle of Notion
407 B.C.
Who was the leader of the Spartans at Notion
Lysander
Where did the Spartans under Lysander finally defeat the Athens
Aegospotami
When was the Battle of Aegospotami
405 B.C.
When was the Surrender of Athens
404 B.C.
What was the punishment of the Athenians after the Peloponnesian Wars
Long Walls were destroyed
Government of Sparta in Athens
Thirty Tyrants
Who established the Thirty Tyrants
Draconides
Most radical of teh Thirty Tyrants
Critias
Leader of the revolt against the Thirty Tyrants
Thrasybulus
Who fought Cyrus for control of Persia
Artaxerxes
Who did Cyrus get to fight Artaxerxes
Ten Thousand Greek mercenarius
Where was Cyrus killed but victorius
Cunaxa
Who commanded Cyrus’ 10,000 Greek mercenaries
Clearchus
Who led the Greeks on the March of the Ten Thousand from Persia
Xenophon
What did the 10,000 Greeks shout upon reaching the Black Sea
Thalassa
Who succeeded Lysander to become the master of Sparta and Greece following the Peloponnesian Wars
Agesilaus
What were the Spartan governors of Greece
Harmosts
Athenian admiral who led the Persians to destroy Spartan military power
Conon
Where did Conon destroy Sparta’s navy
Cnidus
Where was Lysander killed
Haliartus
When was the Death of Lysander
395 B.C.
When was the Battle of Cnidus
394 B.C.
What ended the wars of the Greeks
King’s Peace
When was the King’s Peace
392 B.C.
When was the second Athenian Confederacy formed
378 B.C.
Who organized the finances of the Second Athenian League
Callistratus
Who commanded the Athenians to defeat the Spartans at Naxos
Chabrias
Ended fighting between Sparta and Athens but allowed the Thebans to continue
Peace of Callias
Where did the Thebans under Epaminondas defeat the Spartans under Cleombrotus to end Spartan hegemony
Leuctra
Who designed domination of Eastern Greece but was assassinated
Jason of Pherae
When was the Assassination of Jason of Pherae
370 B.C.
City founded by Thebes after gaining hegemony
Mgalopolis
Organization of Thebes
Arcadian League
Who ended Spartan hegemony forever at Mantinea
Epaminondas
Where did Spartan hegemony end
Mantinea
When was the Battle of Mantinea
362 B.C.
Who duelled Epaminondas and won at Mantinea
Gryllus
Who was the father of Gryllus
Xenophon
When did Philip II gain the rule of Macedon
364 B.C.
What city had held Philip II hostage
Thebes
Who was the son of Philip II
Alexander the Great
Who was the wife of Philip II
Olympias
What Athenian orator spoke against Macedonia
Demosthenes
What did Demosthenes overcome to become an orator
Speech impediment
Who opposed Demosthenes to support Macedonia
Isocrates
Who was in charge of the Theoric Fund during Philip II’s power
Eubulus
Who was the only man to defeat Philip II
Onomarchus
What speeches did Demosthenes write to oppose Philip II
Philippics
What ended war between Macedon and Athens
Peace of Philocrates
When was the Peace of Philocrates
346 B.C.
Where did Philip II and Alexander defeat Thebes and Athens
Chaeronea
When was Philip assassinated
336 B.C.
Where did Alexander defeat the Persians initially
Granicus River
Where did Alexander cut the Gordian knot
Gordion
When did Alexander cut the Gordian Knot
333 B.C.
Where did Alexander defeat Darius III
Issus
What city did Alexander take after a 7-month siege with a giant causeway
Tyre
When was the Siege of Tyre
332 B.C.
When was the Conquest of Egypt by Alexander
332 B.C.
When was the Founding of Alexandria
331 B.C.
Where did Alexander finally defeat Darius III
Gaugamela
When was the Battle of Gaugamela
331 B.C.
What Persian capitals did Alexander sack
Susa and Persepolis
Who assassinated Darius III
Bessus
What was the horse of Alexander
Bucephalus
Where did Alexander the Great die
Babylon
When did Alexander the Great die
June 13, 0323
How old was Alexander when he died
33
Path between Athens and Eleusis
Sacred Way
Wall between Athens and Piraeus
Long Walls
Sanctuary to Asclepius
Epidauros
Best preserved Greek theater
Epidauros
Temple to Artemis
Ephesus/Artemisium
Troy, Mycenae, Tiryns
Heinrich Schliemann
Knossus (Linear A)
Arthur Evans
Pylos (Linear B)
Carl Blegan
Decoded Linear B
Michael Ventris/John Chadwick
Pompeii
Giuseppe Fiorelli
Veternarians
Hippiatrikoi
Retail traders
Kapeloi
Entrepreneurs/Middlemen
Palinkapeloi
Long-distance Traders
Emporoi
Tanagra/Hellenistic Era pottery
Terracotta
First Pottery Style
Orientalizing
Second Pottery Style
Geometric
Third Pottery Style
Black Figure
Fourth Pottery Style
Red Figure
Fifth Pottery Style
White Ground
Archaic statue of maiden
Kore
Archaic statue of male figure
Kouros
Fertility statues with a head on stone
Herms
Pillars that were statues of women
Caryatids/Karyatids
Earliest pillar, west of Corinth
Doric
Followed the Doric pillars, East of Corinth, with a scroll
Ionic
Followed the Ionic Pillars, found in Corinth, acanthus leaves
Corinthian
Corinthian + Ionic Pillars
Composite
Made Parthenon statue of Athena and state of Zeus at Olympia
Phidias
Made the Diskobolos
Myron
Made the Knidian Apollo (First nude female life-sized statue), Hermes, and infant Dionysus
Praxiteles
Music Hall
Odeon
Chariot Racing
Hippodrome
Large central room in a house
Megaron
Household
Oikos
Which side Greek Temples face
East
Entrance of temple
Propylon
innermost room of a temple
Naos
back room of the temple
opisthodomos
Cult of Demeter and Dionysus
Eleusis
Mimic dance of Apollo
Hyporchema
Crane dance of Theseus
Geranos
Processional dance to an altar with a Paean hymn
Prosodic
Hymn to Apollo
Paean Hymn
Presented Athena Polias with a new peplos
Panathenaic Festival
Honored Apollo for Sparta
Carnean Festival
Lightly-armed infantry
Peltast
Heavily-armed infantry
Hoplite
16-foot spear
Sarissa
Precursor to Ballista
Oxybeles
July/August
Hekatombalon
August/September
Metageitnion
September/October
Boedromion
October/November
Pyanepsion
November/December
Maimakterion
December/January
Poseideon
January/February
Gamelion
February/March
Anthesterion
March/April
Elaphebolion
April/May
Mounichion
May/June
Thargelion
June/July
Skirophorion
Coin for the dead
Obol
Engraved stone slabs to mark graves
Stelai
A day’s wages
Drachma
6000 drachmas
Talent
Sun Hat
Kausia
Traveler’s hat
Petasos
Woman’s straw hat
Tholia
Greek tunic
Chiton
Greek toga
Peplos
Large woolen cloak
Chlamys
Fifty-oared boat
Penteconter
Laurian mines
Silver
Lake Copais
Eels
Pontus
Pine trees
Paros
Marble
Tyre
Purple dye
Offering to the dead
Celery
Dinner
Deipnon
Male-only drinking party
Symposium
Drainking game
Kottabos
Drinking cup
Kylix
large, open mixing bowl
Krater
Jar to store and transport wine
Amphora
Drinking horn for pouring libations
Rhyton
S-shaped jar for storing wine
Oinochoe
Jar for storing oils
Lekythos
Pitcher for pouring oil/wine
Olpe
Right to marry
Epigamia
Wedding song
Hymenaios
Wedding song
Epithalamion
Lyre with long strings
Barbitos
Professional Lyre
Kithara
Lute
Pandura
Small harp
Trigonon
Double flute
Duaulos
tiered seats
Koilon
divided lower and upper row of seats
Diazoma
half-circular area where chorus sang
Orchestra
background
Skene
stage
Proskenion
records of performances
Didaskaliai
first actor
Thespis
Weights that long jumpers used
Halteres
mill to crush olives
Trapetrum
600 feet
Stadion
style of writing
Boustrophedon
dialect by commoners
Koine Greek
pride in epics
Hybris
Foreign women, courtesans, slaves, and prostitutes
Hetaera
resident without rights
Metoikos/metic
Aα
Alpha
Ββ
Beta
Γγ
Gamma
Δδ
Delta
Ζζ
Zeta
Ηη
Eta
Θθ
Theta
Ιι
Iota
Κκ
Kappa
Λλ
Lambda
Μμ
Mu
Νν
Nu
Ξξ
Xi
Οο
Omicron
Ππ
Pi
Ρρ
Rho
Σσς
Sigma
Ττ
Tau
Υυ
Upsilon
Φφ
Phi
Χχ
Chi
Ψψ
Psi
Ωω
Omega
Ϝϝς
Digamma/Igamma/Wau
Ϙϙ
Koppa/Qoppa
