People Flashcards
1225 Athenian King
Theseus
Founded Athens in 1582
Cecrops
Last king of Athens
Codrus
First Archon of Athens
Acastas of the Medontid family
c. 632
Athenian Archon during Cylon’s plot
Megacles
c. 620
Athenian Lawgiver
Draco
c. 594
Athenian archon who cancelled all debts
Solon
556-527
Athenian Tyrant
Leader of the hill party
Brought a large women named Phye to Athens and called her Athena
Pisistratus
Sons of Pisistratus
Hippias
Hipparchus
Thessalus
Gay love triangle
Hipparchus
Aristogeniton
Harmodius
Athenian leader during Persian Wars
Responsible for building Athenian navy
Ostracized in 471
Themistocles
Son of Militiades
Athenian leader after Themistocles
Ostracized in 461
Cimon
Athenian during Athens’ golden age
Pericles
Athenian leader during the Archidamian War
Cleon the Tanner
Athenian leader during Peloponnesian war that always wanted peace
Nicias
Athenian leader in the Peloponnesian War
Elected strategos 420
Socrates saved his life at Delium
Alcibiades
Leaders of the Rule of Thirty
Critias and Theramenes
Leader of the March of Ten Thousand
Xenophon
Athenian Naval Commander at Aegospotami
Conon
Leader of the 2nd Athenian League
Callistratus
Athenian fought at Marathon
Wrote about Salamis
Wrote Persea
Aeschylus
Athenian Rival of Demosthenes
Leader with Philocrates of the pro-Macedonian party
Aeschines
Athenian prosecutors of Socrates
Amyntas and Meletus
Expelled from Athens because taught the sun was not a god
Anaxagorus
Athenian orator
Inspired the Revolt of Four Hundred
Antiphon