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

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Kylon

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Name the three historians of the 5th century

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Xenophon,Thucydides, Herodotus

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Why did some Greek names survive?

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Attachement to laws

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What is the term for independent city?

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Polis

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Name the three ports of Piraeus.

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Kantharos, Zea, Manykhia

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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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What type of tablet did Mycenaeans use?

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Linear Tablet B

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What happened in the Dark Ages?

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No written records

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What did jugs of wine do?

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Brought competition
People together
social communication

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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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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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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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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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What did Hesiod write?

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Works and Days and Theogony

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What was the main source of income for Greeks?

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Farming /olives

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Sons of Gaia and Ouranos?

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Titans

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Kronos children were called?

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Olympians

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Three Aspects of Greek religion

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no moral code

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

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Magic/Curses
Dreams
Divination
Oracle

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Seer

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Mantis

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Jar Opening

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Pithoigia

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What was the sacred disease?

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Epilepsy

-believed gods were trying to communicate with you

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dike

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justice according to rules

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Kosmos

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ordered world

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Name three ways to worship gods.
Sacrifice, Libations, Purification, Prayers, Supplication
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Zeus Ktesios
Family possession
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How would you go about addressing the gods?
1. address gods you were talking to 2. Praise them 3. information to make request agreeable 4. make actual request
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Who had rights? Who didn't?
Citizens | -strangers and foreginers do not
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Great Festival
Panathenaia celebrating birth of goddess Athena
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Athena's Birth
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
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What was also know as the Flower Festival? Give a brief overview
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
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Eleusinian Mysteries
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
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Greater Mysteries
performed in Eleusis - only greek speakers - polluted by bloodguilt not allowed
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Apatouria
main festival of phratries - status festival in Athens - lasted three days
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competition
agon
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how was success measured?
through public acknowledgement
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How did honour work?
you must reciprocate the gifts given to you -you expected gifts -if you expected nothing you yourself were worth nothing -
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Is Iliad a story of honour or shame?
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
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what was used to clean yourself off after the games?
strigil
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Pan-Hellinc Games
Olympia Nemea Delphi Isthmus at Corinth
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Basic overview of Olympic Games
``` honour Zeus age groups held in smaller state so it was fair no war allowed make name for city Hippodrome(where races held) ```
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Who was the str athlete from Kroton?
Phayllos
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who destroyed the whole Greek army after winning a chariot race?
Alkibades
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Ostracism
10 years exile but your family/land would not be touched | -often happened to famous people
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Who was Themistocles?
battle of Marathon winner who was ostracized
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What happened if you tried to return from being ostracized?
death
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philoi
friends
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ekhthroi
enemies
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who killed their children?
Media from Aia
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What did Jason from Iolchus do?
took golden fleece
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hubris
intentional dishonouring behaviour
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Symposium
where activities and discussions were held among men, everyone had to participate
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Who could expect to serve in the war/army?
Greek men between 18-39
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who did the Athenians believe they were descendants of?
Son of Apollo Ion and Athenian queen Kreousa
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oikos
household
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Property Inherence Problems
- no male heirs they could adopt one - rules if no will left - legala action could be taken by relatives - women could not inherit property
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Epileros
heiress
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Marriage
young women to older men | men could take msitresses
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divorce
initiated by either side easier for men Andokides-poor behavior
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Erastes
old lover
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Eromenos
young beloved
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Young girls and boys didn't have a sexual identity?
True
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Education
everyone was educated so they could participate in society
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grammata
letters of alphabet
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khoros
dance
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Gorgeous from Leontinoi
Sicily and famous for being able to argue anything
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Clouds
Play written to mock philosophers | son goes to and learns to disrespect fathers
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Plato opened a school called?
Academy

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