QUIZ 1 PREPARATION Flashcards
The Peloponnesian War
431 BC - 404 BC
Between Athens (and it’s Delian League vs. Sparta and it’s allies (Thebes, Corinth, etc )
Started by Thebans trying to capture Plataea in 431 BC. War breaks out.
The Battle of Thermopylae
480 BC
Use of landscape
Effectiveness of phalanx
Death of 300 Spartans and manynothers
Related to 300 movie
The Battle of Salamis
480 BC
The Classical Period
479-323 BCE
The Ostracism of Themistocles
471 BC
Battle Against the Persians
C. 467 BC
Death of Xerxes
465 BC
The Delian League
Renaming of the Hellenic league in 478 BC to Delian League after the Second Persian War. It was an alliance against Persians
Pericles
[ Person ] [ 495-429 BC ]
Most powerful politician of the 450s-430s BC that empowers the people.
Pericles died of the Athenian plague is 429 BC.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus
[ Person ][ 494 - 425 BC]
Authors of The Histories
[ He composed in the 440s-440s ]
The first historian to some.
Socrates
C. 470 BC-399 BC
Theatre of Dionysis in Athens
Centre for performance of Greek tragedies, comédies and other plays during festivals to Dionysis
Sophacles’ Antigone
First performed 441 BC in Athens.
A play taking place in Athens
About whether Antigone’s traitor to the city, should be buried.
King Creon vs. neice Antigone
Law of the polis vs. LAW of the God’s
Written LAW vs. Unwritten LAW
The Second Persian War
[ 480 BC - 479 BC ]
The Battle of Plataea
479 BC
The Serpent Column
A battle trophy put up after the victory at the battle of Plataea in 479 BC, which ended the Persian Wars. Originally placed at Delphi and not it is in Instanbul
Cyrus
Cyrus is the first King of Persia.
Rules from 559-530 BC
There is no Persian empire before cyrus.
Conqeurer
Darius
Usurpor to Persian Empire
Ruled from 522-486 BC
Claiming relation to Cyrus
Claims to be representative of Ahuramazda, God of Truth and Light in Zoroastrianism
The First Persian War started under his rule. He was angry at the Athenian.
The First Persian War
490 BC
Invasion of Attica by Darius’ general - a small invasion
Ionian Revolt
499-493 BC
Greek polish against Persia
Plutarch
The first author to record the “marathon” story.
Lived in the late 1st to early 2nd century AF
A Greek living in the Roman empire
He wrote about marathon so much layer than it happened so did it really happen?
Xenophon
4th Century BC Athenian writer and intellectual
Thucydides
An Athenian historian
Lived c. 460-395 BC
And Athenian general and war participant; exiled from Athens in 424 BC
He was critical of past historians; emphasis that he is providing a true account.
The Plague of Athens
[430-427 BC ]
Aspasia of Miletus
[ c. 470-400 BC ]
A metic, residential foreigner at Athens
Lover of Pericles for many years
