Week 18 Flashcards
What were Achilles’ soldiers called?
Myrmidons
Who was Achilles’ best friend?
Patroclus
Who was betrayed by Agamemnon and refused to fight in the Trojan War?
Achilles
Who was Priam’s eldest son who killed Patroclus?
Hector
How many years did the Trojan War last?
10 years
What did the Greeks build that gained them access to the city of Troy?
wooden horse
Who excavated the city of Troy in 1871 and proved that the city existed and was destroyed by fire?
Henry Schliemann
The sons of what legendary figure won back their land on the Peloponnesus and ruled over the cities of Argos, Mycenae and Sparta?
Hercules
When the Dorians drove the rest of the Ionians our of the Peloponnesus, what region did they flee to, settling Ionia and founding the towns of Ephesus and Miletus?
Asia Minor
What poet and bard wrote the two greatest epic poems: the Illiad and the Odyssey?
Homer
What did the Heraclidae call their enslaved prisoners of war after they won back Sparta?
Helots
Who is famous for bringing new customs to Sparta and creating Sparta’s strict laws?
Lycurgus
What did the Spartans do with their crippled of deformed newborns?
abandoned them
At what age did Spartan children leave their parents and enter state training?
seven
As part of a Spartan education, students were required to memorize whose poetry?
Homer’s
