The Peloponnesian Conflict

Question 1

What were the first ten years of the Peloponnesian War called?

Answer 1

The Archidamian War

Question 2

435

Answer 2

War of Corinth and Corcyra over Apidaumos

Question 3

Megarian Decree

Answer 3

Pericles declared Megara was excluded from all ports of the Athenian Empire; economic doom for Megara

Question 4

Peloponnesian League

Answer 4

Purpose was to protect its members
Sparta was the head
Included Thebes, Phocis, Corinth, and Megara

Question 5

Who led the Athenian fleet at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 5

Phormio

Question 6

434

Answer 6

Alliance between Corcyra and Athens

Question 7

432

Answer 7

Potidaea asserts her independence from Athens

Question 8

431

Answer 8

Sparta declares war on Athens

Question 9

430

Answer 9

Plague in Athens

Question 10

What was the Plague?

Answer 10

Scarlet Fever

Question 11

How many soldiers died from the plague?

Answer 11

One-fourth

Question 12

When was the trial of Pericles?

Answer 12

430

Question 13

Pericles was charged with-

Answer 13

Misuse of public funds

Question 14

Pericles had been indirectly attacked through-

Answer 14

Phidias, Anaxagorus, and Aspasia

Question 15

429

Answer 15

Pericles dies from the plague

Question 16

Who was the last serious rival of Pericles?

Answer 16

Thucydides

Question 17

What city-state is known as “teacher of all Hellas, of all the world”?

Answer 17

Athens

Question 18

Who succeeded Pericles?

Answer 18

Cleon the Tanner

Question 19

Name all significant demagogues.

Answer 19

Cleon the Tanner
Cleophon
Hyperbolus

Question 20

428

Answer 20

Massacre at Mytilene barely

General Packes was sent to execute the whole island

Question 21

427

Answer 21

Sparta captures Plataea

Question 22

426

Answer 22

Sparta finds Heraclea

Question 23

425

Answer 23

Siege of Sphacteria

Sparta’s first surrender

Question 24

424

Answer 24

Battle of Delium

Battle of Amphipolis

Question 25

Who saved Alcibiades life at the Battle of Delium?

Answer 25

Socrates

Question 26

Liberator of Hellas

Answer 26

Brasidas

Question 27

422

Answer 27

Battle of Amphipolis | Brasidas and Cleon die

Question 28

423

Answer 28

One Year's Truce | Negotiated by Nicias

Question 29

421

Answer 29

Peace of Nicias | Also known as "50 Years Peace"

Question 30

Why did Sparta agree to the Peace of Nicias?

Answer 30

They feared a helot revolt

Question 31

Thucydides

Answer 31

Naval commander banished for negligence after the first conflict at Amphipolis. Wrote the Peloponnesian War.

Question 32

Aristophanes

Answer 32

Wrote "Clouds", Socrates was the principle character

Question 33

449

Answer 33

2nd Sacred War

Question 34

Who led the faction, composed of aristocrats, opposed to continuing the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 34

Nicias

Question 35

Who led the faction, composed of Merchants, in favor of continuing the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 35

Alcibiades & Hyperbolus

Question 36

How long did the Peace of Nicias last?

Answer 36

3 years

Question 37

420

Answer 37

Alcibiades chosen strategos

Question 38

Alcibiades was raised in the house of ________, his uncle.

Answer 38

Pericles

Question 39

418

Answer 39

Battle of Mantinea

Question 40

417

Answer 40

Hyperbolus becomes the last person to be ostracized.

Question 41

Massacre at Melos

Answer 41

416 | "MIGHT MAKES RIGHT"

Question 42

"Trojan Women"

Answer 42

Play inspired by the Massacre at Melos Exposed the Peloponnesian War's brutality Written by Euripides

Question 43

415

Answer 43

Expedition to Syracuse | Downfall of Alcibiades

Question 44

414

Answer 44

Siege of Syracuse

Question 45

413

Answer 45

Defeat at Syracuse

Question 46

Who led the Expedition to Syracuse?

Answer 46

Nicias, Alcibiades, and Lamachus

Question 47

How did Alcibiades cause his downfall?

Answer 47

Knock the extremities off the statues of Hermes & publicly mimicked the Eleusian Mysteries

Question 48

Who accused Alcibiades of mimicking the Eleusian Mysteries?

Answer 48

Andocides

Question 49

Who led the Siege of Syracuse?

Answer 49

Nicias, Eurymedon, and Demosthenes

Question 50

Who led the Syracusians during the Athenian's Siege?

Answer 50

Hermocrates and Gylippus

Question 51

What caused Nicias's hesitation during the Siege?

Answer 51

An eclipse of the moon

Question 52

What Athenian leaders died because of the Defeat at Syracuse?

Answer 52

Eurymedon, Nicias, and Demosthenes

Question 53

How could Athenians captured at Syracuse be set free?

Answer 53

Recite Euripides' "Trojan Women"

Question 54

410

Answer 54

``` Revolt of the Four Hundred*** Battle of Cynossema Restoration of Democracy*** Alcibiades Recalled*** Battle of Cyzicus ```

Question 55

Who led the Revolt of Four Hundred?

Answer 55

Antiphon

Question 56

What replaced the Council of Four Hundred

Answer 56

The Council of Five Thousand

Question 57

Who led Athens with Alcibiades, after he was recalled?

Answer 57

Theramenes and Thrasybulus

Question 58

407

Answer 58

Alcibiades is deposed again Battle of Notion Battle of Arginusae

Question 59

Battle of Aegospotami

Answer 59

405 Lysander led Sparta; Conon led Athens Athenian fleet was destroyed and Conon fled

Question 60

Decharchies

Answer 60

Ruling bodies of 10 established by Lysander

Question 61

Who insisted the assassination of Alcibiades?

Answer 61

Lysander

Question 62

404

Answer 62

Surrender of Athens

Question 63

Terms of Peace

Answer 63

Athens must tear down the long walls Oligarchs must be recalled in Athens Athens must destroy all but 12 ships of her navy Athens must aid Sparta in any further war

Question 64

Rule of Thirty | Aka Thirty Tyrants

Answer 64

Oligarchy set up in Athens by Lysander

Question 65

Who was not a member of the Thirty Tyrants?

Answer 65

Lysander

Question 66

Who led the Thirty Tyrants?

Answer 66

Critias and Theramenes

Question 67

Who ordered the death of Theramenes?

Answer 67

Critias

Question 68

403

Answer 68

Restoration of Democracy

Question 69

Who restored democracy to Athens?

Answer 69

Thrasybulus

Question 70

431-404

Answer 70

Peloponnesian War