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Week 6 Review Flashcards

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Immortals

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Persian elite troops that were led around pass of the hot gates by a traitor

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Mardonius

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Persian general that ravaged Attica

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Thermopylae

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One key choke point the Hellenic league attempts to stop Xerxes invasion as they descended
- Incredible stand at this pass

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Salamis

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  • Greek fleet regroups post-Thermopylae
  • Persian fleet lured into the hot gates at Salamis
  • Themistokles and Aristides defeat persian fleet
  • Xerxes withdraws to Anatolia while they regroup during the winter in Boiotia and Thessaly
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Plataiai

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Final land battle during the second invasion of Greece
- Hellenic league led by Spartan general Pausanias
- Heavy losses from both sides

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Mycale

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The battle that destroyed the remainder of the persian fleet

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Artemisium

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Other choke-point that the Greeks used to halt Persia’s descent
- naval engagement with inconclusive results, although greek troops retreated

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Himera

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Battle in Sicily
- Tyrany Gelon of Gela and Syracuse vs. the Carthaginians and some greek allies
- Salamis and Himera happened simultaneously

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Leonidas

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Spartan King, festival dedicated to him called Leonideia

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Themistokles

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Defeat of persian fleet in Battle of Salamis

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Gelon

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Tyrant of Gela and Syracuse involved in Battle of Himera

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Pausanias

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Hellenic league led by Spartan general in Battle of Plataia

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Delian League

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Aim was to include all-greeks and was the heir to the hellenic league
- aimed to free the greeks and combat Persia
- contributions paid by allies in ships or in cash to a collective war fund
- Athens was the leader (hegemon)

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“Fifty-year period” or Pentekontaetia

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First book of Thucydides’ history
- a period of squabbles between the second invasion of Persia and the Peloponnesian war

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Hellenotamiai

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Treasurers of the greeks and collected the funds from the Delian league
- Aristides the original head

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Cleruchy

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Greek colony where settlers kept their original citizenship and did not form an independent community

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Reforms of Ephialtes

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Ephialtes a radical democrat
- diminishes the power of Areopagus
- installed a judicial system with the boule (council, ekklesia (assembly), and the Heliaia (court)

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Pericles’ citizenship law

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Male and female citizens required both parents to be Athenian in order to claim Athenian citizenship (not just the father)

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Thirty years’ peace

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Negotiated between Athens and Sparta
- both forces allowed to be the hegemon of their respective leagues
- standard duration for peace treaty

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20
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Liturgy

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Richest members of Greek city-states contributed to the state financially

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Trierarchy

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Financing a trireme

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Tribute lists

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Stelai (stone pillars) inscribed with details of financial tributes

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Thucydides

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Writer that believed in observation and inquiry
- Details the thirty years peace

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Cimon

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Son of general Militiades
- Was a very prominent figure in Athens after establishing a cleruchy in Scyros
- Wins a naval battle against the persians at the Eurymedon river
- prevents Persia from making further advances in the Aegean

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Hiero

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Fights against the Etruscans of Southern Italy in defense of Syracuse

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Delos

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Capital of the delian league
- birthplace of Apollo and main sanctuary of the god

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Amphipolis

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Involved in Athenian expansion during thirty years peace
- Colony implanted in Thrace

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Thurii

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Involved in Athenian expansion during thirty years peace
- Greek colony in Italy

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Skyros

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Location of the cleruchy established by Cimon

30
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Naxos

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One of the first revolts of the Delian league
- Were forced to pay in cash rather than in ships as a result

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Eyrymedon river

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The location of the persian naval battle that Cimon successfully won

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Argos

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Megara allied with Argos

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Samos

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At the end of thirty years peace there was a revolt

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Byzantion

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Besieged by Sparta during Peloponnesian war and transferred the power to Sparta
- near the end of thirty years peace, there was a revolt

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Syracuse

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Hiero’s death resulted in the domination of Syracuse and its independence

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Pindar

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Composed epinician odes
- lyrical poem celebrating athletic victory
- believes athlete becomes like a god in victory, but not quite
- important to retain humility

37
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Simonides of Keos

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Famous for his commemorative poetry

38
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Bacchylides of Keos

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Simonides’ student or nephew?
- Composed epinician odes and dithyramb

39
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Athenian treasury at Delphi

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temple-like building used to store dedications and to display the wealth and authority of the offering city

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Charioteer of Delphi

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Victor of the chariot racing of the Pythian games
- considered rigid form of late Archaic art

41
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Red-figure pottery

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Popular form of Athenian pottery that contained advancements in Athenian art

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Discobolus (disk-thrower)

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Depictions of a discobolus signify deeper developments in Greek art and a movement towards naturalism

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Lapiths

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Related to West Pediment of The Temple of Zeus at Olympia
- representation of a clash involving lapiths (heroic humans)

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Centaurs

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Related to West Pediment of The Temple of Zeus at Olympia
- Represents barbaroi in a clash

45
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Dithyramb

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Wild choral song dedicated to Dionysos

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Epinician ode

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Lyrical poem about human athletic victory coined by Pindar

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Elegy

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  • Elegy: longer poem, meant to arouse pity (pathos) and celebrate the dead
  • Related to Simonides of Keos
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Epigram

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Related to Simonides of Keos
- Succinct or pithy version of an elegy

49
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Megara

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Becomes allied with Athens instead of Peloponnesian league during the prelim/first Peloponnesian war

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