Vocabulary Set #7 Flashcards
Imporatant Athens councilman
First idea; cancel all debates; doesn’t solve any problems
second idea: democracy; excluded women; everything in society can be up for debate (popular assembly)
Solon
Biggest; poorest city sates; slavery–> big problem (enslaved through debt)
mass exodus from Athens due to slavery
First to install democracy; slaves treated as members of the family (later)
Athens
“physical perfection”; everything based on the militayr from birth; all males citiznes trained to be warriors; brutal slavery–> captured from war; women expected to learn military techniques;28 advisor and 2 kings
Sparta
5 people in Spartan government; no legislation power; veto power to remove councilman
Affaires
Between Athens and Sparta; 27-year war–> pretty evenly matched; several generations
431 to 404 B.C.
Athenians- strength in the land
Sparta - Strength in sea
Pacifism movement in Athens to end war–> 7 year peace–> fighting again—> Sparta wins
Peloponneisna war
7 year peace brought on by Athens
422 to 415 B.C.
Peace of Nicias
Top of the mountain in Athens; temples, luxury buildings, heart of the city
Acropolis
location of the popular assembly
Parthenon
Architect for Athens post develop war
Ictinus
Grand, detailed style of architecture
Doric
style of architecture, basic style
Ionic
Andro;man; gyna;female; ideal form as a perfect blending of the female and male form
Androgyne
Adolescent male 14-16 seen as perfection; grown men would sleep with ephebes but not other men
Ephebe