Week 7 Review Flashcards
Gymnasion
Place for working/exercising naked
- Gymnos meaning naked
Ephebes
Athletic and military training at gymnasion for 18-20 year old man
Lykeion/Lyceum
Athenian school founded by Aristotle dedicated to Apollo
Sophist
Intellectuals
Drama/Tragedy
New form of art evolves from dithyramb, reflects sacrifice of goat to Dionysos
Satyr play
Concluding third of the festival of dionysos (light-hearted or burlesque play)
Great Dionysia
Festival dedicated to Dionysos that playwrights would compete in; originally only with chorus and 1 actor
Theatre of Dionysos
Setting of the great dionysia
Odeion of Perikles
Theatre for rehearsals or during bad weather
Choregos
Chorus-leader
- There was a playwright-choregos team that would have to put on 3 tragedies and a satyr-play
Choregia
Leading a chorus, especially through monetary means
Liturgy
For athenian aristocrats to finance the festival
Aeschylus
Main playwright from this period
- Oresteia his most notable trilogy
Sophocles
Main playwright from this period
- had an epikleros as the protagonist of one of his plays
Euripides
Main playwright from this period
- Innovative: rapid dialogue
- Newer playwright from that period
Epikleros
Heiress
Corcyra expedition
Root of conflict for Peloponnesian war
Potidaea
2 year siege of Potidaea, member of Delian League
- source of peloponnesian war
Corinth
Complains of Athens to Peloponnesian league headed by Sparta
Megarian decree
Passed under Perikles, excluded Megarian merchants from all ports in Athens
Archidamos
Spartan King that agreed Athens violated terms of the peace by interfering with neutral greek cities
Medea
Play by euripides that acknowledged the living conditions of women during that time period
Spartas demands from Athens
- free the greeks
- expel the alcmaeonids
- annul the megarian decree
Athens counters
Sparta to purify itself from the death of Spartan general pausanias
Archidamian war
First phase of the peloponnesian war
- named after Spartan king Archidamos
Funeral oration
Dedicated to Perikles and motivated Athens during the first year of the war and the siege
Cleon
Rising politician that put Perikles on trial and temporarily throws him out of office
Diotodos
Recaptured by Athens and revolts once Athens votes to kill/enslave the population
Demagogia
“Leading the people” - possibly role of Cleon in capture of Mytilene
Realpolitik
Political realism “might makes right”
Lesbos
Mytilene
Captured by Athens
- mytilenaean debate: dialogue about the morality of an empire and about the objectives of power and politics
Sphacteria
Battle in the Peloponnesian War
- Athenians surround Spartans on the island
- Sparta panics and sues for peace, but Cleon persuades Athenians not to accept
Nicias
Wealthy general that argues Cleon should be appointed as a special general to bring back Spartan hostages
- pro-Spartan Athenian
Brasidas
Spartan general that conquers the Athenian colony in Amphipolis, but dies when Athens tries to recapture it (alongside Cleon)
Peace of Nicias
Cold War took place during Peace of Nicias
- Athens and Sparta agreed to defend each other for fifty years
Alcibiades
Brash young aristocratic general
- political struggle of Athens
Matinea
Sparta and its allies conquer Matinea during cold war
Melos
Neutral island destructed by Athens and turned into cleruchy during cold war
Hyperbolus
Last person to be ostracized in Athenian history
- prominent politician but Alcibiades was against him
Graphe paranomon
Attacks against politicians through lawsuit popularized by this law
Proxenos
“Host”
- Alcibiades paternal grandfather the proxenos of the Spartans in Athens
