Test 2 Flashcards

1
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Who was the Olympic victor who tried to overthrow the Greek Government?

A

Kylon

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2
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Name the three historians of the 5th century

A

Xenophon,Thucydides, Herodotus

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3
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Why did some Greek names survive?

A

Attachement to laws

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4
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What is the term for independent city?

A

Polis

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5
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Name the three ports of Piraeus.

A

Kantharos, Zea, Manykhia

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6
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name the three civilizations. Hint two were not actually Greek

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Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean

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7
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What type of tablet did Mycenaeans use?

A

Linear Tablet B

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8
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What happened in the Dark Ages?

A

No written records

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9
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What did jugs of wine do?

A

Brought competition
People together
social communication

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10
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What happened in the War of Troy?

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Eris not invite to wedding of Thetis and Peleus
shows up anyways
-places apple on table “most beautiful”
-Paris(Alexander) brought in to decide for Zeus
-Athena,Hera,Aphrodite bribe
-Takes most beautiful woman (Helen wife of Menelaus)
-Menelaus and Agamemnon go to retrieve

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11
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Issues with Homer’s Poems

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Oral, but the way constructed seemed only to be possible by writing

  • they only told a few days not whole story
  • mixture of languages so all Greeks could understand
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12
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Plot of Iliad.

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Agamemnon takes Chrysalis as prize

  • father appeals ransom
  • Achillies withdraws from the war and Patroklos wears his armour in battle
  • Hektor accidentally kills him thinking it’s Achillies
  • Achillies returns to war and kills Hektor, doesn’t want to allow body to be buried etc
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13
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Odyssey

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struggle for Odysseus to return to Ithca and reclaim his title

  • 10 years
  • kills all suitors
  • period in which it was written has different tools than what existed
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14
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What did Hesiod write?

A

Works and Days and Theogony

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15
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What was the main source of income for Greeks?

A

Farming /olives

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16
Q

Sons of Gaia and Ouranos?

A

Titans

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17
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Kronos children were called?

A

Olympians

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18
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Three Aspects of Greek religion

A

no moral code

  • no centralized religious authority
  • actions mattered more than belief
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19
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Name the way in which you could communicate with he gods.

A

Magic/Curses
Dreams
Divination
Oracle

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20
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Seer

A

Mantis

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21
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Jar Opening

A

Pithoigia

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22
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What was the sacred disease?

A

Epilepsy

-believed gods were trying to communicate with you

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23
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dike

A

justice according to rules

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24
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Kosmos

A

ordered world

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25
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Name three ways to worship gods.

A

Sacrifice, Libations, Purification, Prayers, Supplication

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26
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Zeus Ktesios

A

Family possession

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27
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How would you go about addressing the gods?

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  1. address gods you were talking to
  2. Praise them
  3. information to make request agreeable
  4. make actual request
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28
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Who had rights? Who didn’t?

A

Citizens

-strangers and foreginers do not

29
Q

Great Festival

A

Panathenaia celebrating birth of goddess Athena

30
Q

Athena’s Birth

A

Zeus swallows Metis because he knows their daughter will be powerful. Gets painful headache and decides to split head open(gods are immortal) out jumps Athena goddess of Wisdom

31
Q

What was also know as the Flower Festival? Give a brief overview

A

Anthesteria

  • in honour of Dionysos
  • god of wild nature
  • three day festival
  • third day they cooked to ward off evil dmeons that were said to have come into city
  • drinking contest on second day
32
Q

Eleusinian Mysteries

A

open to all Athenians and non-greeks
-Hades abducted Persephone and Demeter became sad
-why we have 2/3 of month to harvest
initiates called mustai

33
Q

Greater Mysteries

A

performed in Eleusis

  • only greek speakers
  • polluted by bloodguilt not allowed
34
Q

Apatouria

A

main festival of phratries

  • status festival in Athens
  • lasted three days
35
Q

competition

A

agon

36
Q

how was success measured?

A

through public acknowledgement

37
Q

How did honour work?

A

you must reciprocate the gifts given to you
-you expected gifts
-if you expected nothing you yourself were worth nothing
-

38
Q

Is Iliad a story of honour or shame?

A

Honour and the issues with it
Ajax believes he deserves armour of Achillies but is not given. Goes crazy and begins killing chickens. Humiliates self so much that he kills himself

39
Q

what was used to clean yourself off after the games?

A

strigil

40
Q

Pan-Hellinc Games

A

Olympia
Nemea
Delphi
Isthmus at Corinth

41
Q

Basic overview of Olympic Games

A
honour Zeus
age groups
held in smaller state so it was fair
no war allowed
make name for city
Hippodrome(where races held)
42
Q

Who was the str athlete from Kroton?

A

Phayllos

43
Q

who destroyed the whole Greek army after winning a chariot race?

A

Alkibades

44
Q

Ostracism

A

10 years exile but your family/land would not be touched

-often happened to famous people

45
Q

Who was Themistocles?

A

battle of Marathon winner who was ostracized

46
Q

What happened if you tried to return from being ostracized?

A

death

47
Q

philoi

A

friends

48
Q

ekhthroi

A

enemies

49
Q

who killed their children?

A

Media from Aia

50
Q

What did Jason from Iolchus do?

A

took golden fleece

51
Q

hubris

A

intentional dishonouring behaviour

52
Q

Symposium

A

where activities and discussions were held among men, everyone had to participate

53
Q

Who could expect to serve in the war/army?

A

Greek men between 18-39

54
Q

who did the Athenians believe they were descendants of?

A

Son of Apollo Ion and Athenian queen Kreousa

55
Q

oikos

A

household

56
Q

Property Inherence Problems

A
  • no male heirs they could adopt one
  • rules if no will left
  • legala action could be taken by relatives
  • women could not inherit property
57
Q

Epileros

A

heiress

58
Q

Marriage

A

young women to older men

men could take msitresses

59
Q

divorce

A

initiated by either side
easier for men
Andokides-poor behavior

60
Q

Erastes

A

old lover

61
Q

Eromenos

A

young beloved

62
Q

Young girls and boys didn’t have a sexual identity?

A

True

63
Q

Education

A

everyone was educated so they could participate in society

64
Q

grammata

A

letters of alphabet

65
Q

khoros

A

dance

66
Q

Gorgeous from Leontinoi

A

Sicily and famous for being able to argue anything

67
Q

Clouds

A

Play written to mock philosophers

son goes to and learns to disrespect fathers

68
Q

Plato opened a school called?

A

Academy