Week 7 Review

Question 1

Gymnasion

Answer 1

Place for working/exercising naked
- Gymnos meaning naked

Question 2

Ephebes

Answer 2

Athletic and military training at gymnasion for 18-20 year old man

Question 3

Lykeion/Lyceum

Answer 3

Athenian school founded by Aristotle dedicated to Apollo

Question 4

Sophist

Answer 4

Intellectuals

Question 5

Drama/Tragedy

Answer 5

New form of art evolves from dithyramb, reflects sacrifice of goat to Dionysos

Question 6

Satyr play

Answer 6

Concluding third of the festival of dionysos (light-hearted or burlesque play)

Question 7

Great Dionysia

Answer 7

Festival dedicated to Dionysos that playwrights would compete in; originally only with chorus and 1 actor

Question 8

Theatre of Dionysos

Answer 8

Setting of the great dionysia

Question 9

Odeion of Perikles

Answer 9

Theatre for rehearsals or during bad weather

Question 10

Choregos

Answer 10

Chorus-leader
- There was a playwright-choregos team that would have to put on 3 tragedies and a satyr-play

Question 11

Choregia

Answer 11

Leading a chorus, especially through monetary means

Question 12

Liturgy

Answer 12

For athenian aristocrats to finance the festival

Question 13

Aeschylus

Answer 13

Main playwright from this period
- Oresteia his most notable trilogy

Question 14

Sophocles

Answer 14

Main playwright from this period
- had an epikleros as the protagonist of one of his plays

Question 15

Euripides

Answer 15

Main playwright from this period
- Innovative: rapid dialogue
- Newer playwright from that period

Question 16

Epikleros

Answer 16

Heiress

Question 17

Corcyra expedition

Answer 17

Root of conflict for Peloponnesian war

Question 18

Potidaea

Answer 18

2 year siege of Potidaea, member of Delian League
- source of peloponnesian war

Question 19

Corinth

Answer 19

Complains of Athens to Peloponnesian league headed by Sparta

Question 20

Megarian decree

Answer 20

Passed under Perikles, excluded Megarian merchants from all ports in Athens

Question 21

Archidamos

Answer 21

Spartan King that agreed Athens violated terms of the peace by interfering with neutral greek cities

Question 22

Medea

Answer 22

Play by euripides that acknowledged the living conditions of women during that time period

Question 23

Spartas demands from Athens

Answer 23

• free the greeks
• expel the alcmaeonids
• annul the megarian decree

Question 24

Athens counters

Answer 24

Sparta to purify itself from the death of Spartan general pausanias

Question 25

Archidamian war

Answer 25

First phase of the peloponnesian war - named after Spartan king Archidamos

Question 26

Funeral oration

Answer 26

Dedicated to Perikles and motivated Athens during the first year of the war and the siege

Question 27

Cleon

Answer 27

Rising politician that put Perikles on trial and temporarily throws him out of office

Question 28

Diotodos

Answer 28

Recaptured by Athens and revolts once Athens votes to kill/enslave the population

Question 29

Demagogia

Answer 29

"Leading the people" - possibly role of Cleon in capture of Mytilene

Question 30

Realpolitik

Answer 30

Political realism "might makes right"

Question 31

Lesbos

Question 32

Mytilene

Answer 32

Captured by Athens - mytilenaean debate: dialogue about the morality of an empire and about the objectives of power and politics

Question 33

Sphacteria

Answer 33

Battle in the Peloponnesian War - Athenians surround Spartans on the island - Sparta panics and sues for peace, but Cleon persuades Athenians not to accept

Question 34

Nicias

Answer 34

Wealthy general that argues Cleon should be appointed as a special general to bring back Spartan hostages - pro-Spartan Athenian

Question 35

Brasidas

Answer 35

Spartan general that conquers the Athenian colony in Amphipolis, but dies when Athens tries to recapture it (alongside Cleon)

Question 36

Peace of Nicias

Answer 36

Cold War took place during Peace of Nicias - Athens and Sparta agreed to defend each other for fifty years

Question 37

Alcibiades

Answer 37

Brash young aristocratic general - political struggle of Athens

Question 38

Matinea

Answer 38

Sparta and its allies conquer Matinea during cold war

Question 39

Melos

Answer 39

Neutral island destructed by Athens and turned into cleruchy during cold war

Question 40

Hyperbolus

Answer 40

Last person to be ostracized in Athenian history - prominent politician but Alcibiades was against him

Question 41

Graphe paranomon

Answer 41

Attacks against politicians through lawsuit popularized by this law

Question 42

Proxenos

Answer 42

"Host" - Alcibiades paternal grandfather the proxenos of the Spartans in Athens