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vocabulary Flashcards

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Peloponnese

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Island of the pelops

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Polis

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Greek city state
Plural: poleis

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Aegan

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Aigis - meaning storm
Aegus - a mythical king of Athens who committed suicide by leaping into the sea near Athens

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Aristokratia

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Power by the best men
Rule by an elite

“Kratia” = governance, rule, power
“Aristoi” = the best people/men

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Aristoi

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The “nobility”
A group that claimed descent from the heroes of Greek mythology

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Boulē

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Council

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Genos

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A clan - collection of aristocratic families

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Dēmos

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The people, including the citizen poor

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Ekklēsia

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The assembly and calling out of all citizens

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Iones

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Ionian Greeks

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Aioleis

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Aeolian Greeks

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Doreioi

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Dorian Greeks

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Phalanx

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Battle rows
Battle ranks

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Hoplitēs

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Man with a hoplon

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Ōthismos

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The push

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Sōphorosunē

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Self restraint or self control

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Thētes

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Lowest social class, citizen poor
Laborers or peasants

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Turannos

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Tyrant, illegitimate ruler of polis

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Spartē

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Sparta
Sown land
Broom shrub

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Sunoikismos

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Amalgamation, combining the oikoi

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Oikos

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Home or living unit

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Peroikoi

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Dwellers around
Second class citizen, non spartan villagers that Spartans conquered
Singular: Peroikos

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Helotai

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Helots, slaves; agrarian slaves
Inhabitants of seaside village Helos in southern Laconia that Spartans invaded AND all of Messenia

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Klēroi

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Plots of land
Singular: klēros

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Oligarchia

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Hoplite franchise
“government by a few”

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Spartiatai

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Spartiates, Spartans

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Homoioi

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We who all are equal
- what Spartan men named themselves

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Agogē

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Spartan education and indoctrination system for boys

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Syssition

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Dining club
Dining mess
- Spartan man’s family of other Spartan men
- Supplied basic units of Spartan men’s social and economic lives

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Hypomeiones

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Inferiors; failed Spartiates
- screened out of agogē
- failed to keep up in syssition

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Lakedaimonioi

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Lacedaemonians; Spartan citizens

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Neodamodeis

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New members of the people, free helots

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Gerousia

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Spartan council of elders

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Krypteia

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Helot murdering commando assignment by for near adult teenaged boys

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Eunomia

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Good government from a right wing anti democracy standpoint

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Persai

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Mēdoi

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Kuros

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King Cyrus the Great of ancient Persia

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Attika

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Derived from aktē - meaning peninsula

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Archōns

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Executive official or magistrate

CLA2102 LECTURES (15 decks)

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