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1
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Greek Alphabet adopted from where

A

Miletos

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2
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Early example of Greek text, joking reference to Nestor of the Iliad

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Cup of Nestor, from Pithekoussai,

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3
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Cultural centre of greek world - had museum and library

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Alexandria

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4
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Produced lyric poetry from the island of lesbos

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Sappho and Alkaios

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5
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Most famous female poet of ancient greece

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Sappho

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6
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expansion on the Iliad and odyssey by other authors

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Epics

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7
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Ekhidna

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Mother of monsters

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8
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Philosophia

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“love of knowledge”

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9
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Primary principle of matter is water

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thales of miletos

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10
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Primary principle: “boundless (apeiron)”

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Anaximander of Miletos

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11
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Earth floating in space unsupported, celestial bodies describe full circles around the Earth

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Anaximander of Miletos

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12
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Primary principle: Air
all elements are air at different density

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Anaximenes of Miletos

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13
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We can’t know anything about the gods with certainty, they are different and superior to humans.
Had an issue with Homer and Hesiod attributing immoral behaviour of man to the gods.

A

Xenophanes of Kolophon

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14
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No single element is the principle. Instead, there are interchange of opposites that
balance each other.

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Herakleitos of Ephesos

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15
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Principle that regulates the cosmos is a rational Logos (‘word’) that can be understood with rational thinking and inquiry

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Herakleitos of Ephesos

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16
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“You cannot step into the same river twice”

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Herakleitos of Ephesos

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17
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Logic is only tool to know the world, observation is unreliable

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Parmenides of Eleia

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18
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there is one single and unchanging reality that can be understood with reason

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Parmenides of Eleia

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19
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Known for his paradoxes on the impossibility of motion (Achilles and tortoise, arrow paradox, etc)

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Zeno

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20
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Everything produced by the mixing and separation of four elements and moved by the opposing forces of Strife and Love, which makes them separate and unite

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Empedokles of Akragas

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21
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Atomist theory: matter made of invisible particles
for them to move, there needs to be void (space)

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Demokritos of Abdera

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22
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Atomoi sg. Atomos

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Indivisible

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23
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Led a community who had to follow strict rules around moral and dietary restrictions (math)

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Pythagoras of Samos

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24
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Primary principle of early philosophy

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use of logical reasoning to explain natural world without supernatural cause

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25
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All early philosophers are not from mainland Greece (true/false)

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True

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26
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Wrote textbook on art of speaking

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Teisias and Korax from Syracuse

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27
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Sophists used this in debates

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Persuasion (PEITHO)

28
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Who wrote the “praise of helen” - irresistible force of persuasion

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Gorgios of Leontinoi

29
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Sophokles

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introduces third actor in tragedy

30
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Iktonos

A

Building of Parthenon

31
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town planning and civil engineer, divided city into blocks and wrote on the best form of constitution

A

Hippodamos of Miletos

32
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The symmetry of the human body (Statue of body called canon)

A

Polykleitos

33
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these people look at a relationship between a word and its meaning + problem of negative statements

A

Sophists

34
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One of the most famous sophists, “man is the measure of all things”

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Protagoras of Abdera

35
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Nomos

A

custom, law, nature

36
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Phusis

A

nature

37
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goodness

A

arete

38
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Sokrates take in sophist debate

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tried to find precise definitions of moral virtues regardless of the circumstances

39
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Historia

A

Research, inquiry

40
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Logographoi

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prose writers, compilers of genealogical, ethnographic and geographical material

41
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“Father of history”

A

Herodotos

42
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interested in human geography, and the
customs of foreign people
○ Relativistic approach to cultural difference

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Herodotos

43
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Wrote on the Peloponnesian War and summarised Greek history from the origin of civilizations

A

Thucydides

44
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3 part method of Thucydides

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  1. question evidence
  2. interview as many witnesses as possible
  3. don’t rely on personal opinion
45
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Who believed that their work is an important tool to understand the past and present

A

Thucydides

46
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what are the new standards of history

A

focusing on verifiable facts, god’s aren’t a factor

47
Q

Who supervised the great dionysia

A

eponymous arkhon

48
Q

chose 3 tragic and 5 comedies allocating to who

A

khoregos (sponsor)

49
Q

Tragic poets submitted what?

A

3 tragedies and 1 satyr play

50
Q

crane system used to lower in statues of the gods

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Deus ex Machina “god from the machine”

51
Q

Tragedy comes from what

A

“song of goats”

52
Q

only surviving trilogy

A

“the persians” tragedy on persian war

53
Q

In the oresteia, who breaks the law to bury her brother who is seen as a traitor

A

Antigone

54
Q

Took revenge by murdering the children she had with Jason

A

Medeia

55
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Only surviving satyr play

A

Cyclops by Euripedes

56
Q

Exodos

A

Exit

57
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Greek comedies included what

A

Obscene language, reference to contemporary politics, addressing the audience

58
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Tekhne

A

word for art, but generally anything that requires skill, experience, and application

59
Q

Development of athenian pottery (4)

A

Protogeometric
Geometric
Black figure
Red figure

60
Q

Sculptures

A

kouros/kore
Egyptian influence

61
Q

general supervisor of the Parthenon project

A

Pheidias

62
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Most famous for old comedy

A

Aristophanes

63
Q

Sappho was from which Aegean island

A

Lesbos

64
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a cup found on the island of Pithekoussai (Ischia) makes reference to the cup of which greek hero?

A

Nestor

65
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Oldest athenian pottery style

A

Proto-geometric

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