QUICK FIRE VOCABULARY Flashcards
agora
main market and civic centre
Anthesteria
mid-February festival to celebrate the year’s vintage of wine - also associated with young children
apadana
great audience hall in Persian royal palace
Apis Bull
sacred bill of Egyptian religion which Cambyses fatally wounded
archaic
‘old’ = relating to period in Greek history 750-479BC ending with the expulsion of the Persian threat from Greece.
archon
one of nine senior magistrates responsible for areas of Athenian policy for year
Arrephoroi
7-11 year old girls who served the cult of Athena Polias on the Acropolis
Assembly
formal meeting of citizens
aristocracy
group considered superior to all other groups who gained their privileges from birth
arta
Persian concept of truth
aulos
double reed pipe
Athenian Empire
name given to the Delian League after Athens had taken control of it and placed the treasury in Athens
ballista
missile weapon that launched large projectiles
choregos
financial backer of plays
City Dionysia
greatest Athenian drama festival - late March
classical period (Greece)
479-323 BC - expulsion of Persian threat to the death of Alexander