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Week 7 Review Flashcards

1
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Gymnasion

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Place for working/exercising naked
- Gymnos meaning naked

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Ephebes

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

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Lykeion/Lyceum

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Athenian school founded by Aristotle dedicated to Apollo

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Sophist

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Intellectuals

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Drama/Tragedy

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

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Satyr play

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

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Great Dionysia

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

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Theatre of Dionysos

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Setting of the great dionysia

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Odeion of Perikles

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Theatre for rehearsals or during bad weather

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Choregos

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

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Choregia

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Leading a chorus, especially through monetary means

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Liturgy

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For athenian aristocrats to finance the festival

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Aeschylus

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Main playwright from this period
- Oresteia his most notable trilogy

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Sophocles

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

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Euripides

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

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Epikleros

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Heiress

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17
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Corcyra expedition

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Root of conflict for Peloponnesian war

18
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Potidaea

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

19
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Corinth

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Complains of Athens to Peloponnesian league headed by Sparta

20
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Megarian decree

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

21
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Archidamos

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

22
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Medea

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

23
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Spartas demands from Athens

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  • free the greeks
  • expel the alcmaeonids
  • annul the megarian decree
24
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Athens counters

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Sparta to purify itself from the death of Spartan general pausanias

25
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Archidamian war

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

26
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Funeral oration

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

27
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Cleon

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

28
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Diotodos

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

29
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Demagogia

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“Leading the people” - possibly role of Cleon in capture of Mytilene

30
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Realpolitik

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Political realism “might makes right”

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Lesbos

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32
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Mytilene

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

33
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Sphacteria

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

34
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Nicias

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

35
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Brasidas

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

36
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Peace of Nicias

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

37
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Alcibiades

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Brash young aristocratic general
- political struggle of Athens

38
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Matinea

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Sparta and its allies conquer Matinea during cold war

39
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Melos

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

40
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Hyperbolus

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

41
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Graphe paranomon

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Attacks against politicians through lawsuit popularized by this law

42
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Proxenos

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“Host”
- Alcibiades paternal grandfather the proxenos of the Spartans in Athens

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