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