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Greek dark ages |
Period from 1100-776b.c.e. in which the Greeks lost the culture developed during the Mycenaean Bronze age civilization (no written literature during this time) |
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Acropolis |
(Greek for high point of the city) fortified high point that provided a refuge for people living in a Greek city |
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Subsistence economy |
Economy in which necessary products are produced locally and there is no surplus food supply |
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Monarchy |
(Greek for ruled by one person) constitutional form of government based on rule by a king |
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Constitution |
Written or unwritten legal basis for the government of a city |
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Aristocracy |
(Greek for rule by the best people) constitutional form of government based on rule by aristocrats who own the best land and are related by blood |
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Archons |
(Greek for leaders) chief officials in Greek aristocracies and oligarchies |
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Polis |
(Greek for city) Greek city-state and source of the English word politics, which means, life in a city |
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Agora |
(Greek for marketplace) central market and gathering place of a Greek city |
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Arete |
(Greek for excellence) Greek sense of personal excellence |
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Hellenes (hellas in Greek) |
(Greek for Greece) collective name for of the ancient Greeks for themselves |
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Barbarians |
(Greek for a person who speaks bar-bar-bar) Greek term for anyone who didn't Greek and therefore wasn't Greek |
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Olympian gods |
Important Greek gods and goddesses who were said to meet on mount Olympus in northern Greece |
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Oracle |
Message about future events believed to come from the gods; also used for the priest or priestess who delivered the message |
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Pan-Hellenic |
Relating to or including all the Greeks |
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Olympiad |
Four-year period that separated each holding of the Olympic games |
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Phidias |
Greek sculptor of the fifth century b.c.e. who designed the statue of Zeus at Olympia and the statue of Athena at Athens |
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Archaic age |
(Based on Greek archaios, "ancient") period of Greek history from 776 to 500b.c.e., during which Greek culture and civilization were revived |
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Column style |
Doric, Ionian, and Corinthian artistic styles used in designing columns for temples and other public buildings |
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Hesiod |
Greek poet, about 700b.c.e., who wrote the Theogony and works and days |
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Lyric poems |
Poems expressing personal feelings, called "lyric" because they were meant to be accompanied by the lyre |
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Sappho |
Female Greek lyric poet from the island of lesbos who wrote about 600b.c.e. |
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Pindar |
Greek lyric poet who wrote in the first half of the fifth century b.c.e. |
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Solon |
Politician and poet of Athens in the early 6th century b.c.e. who created the oligarchy at Athens in 592b.c.e. |
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Philosophy |
(Greek for love of wisdom) Greek system of scientific thought that looked for rational explanations of the workings of the universe and human society |
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Thales |
Greek philosopher of the early 6th century b.c.e. who thought that the universe had originated from water |
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Democritus |
Greek philosopher of the 5th century b.c.e. who thought that matter was composed of tiny atoms that couldn't be divided |
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Pythagoras |
Greek philosopher of the 6th century b.c.e. who devised a formula for calculating the length of the sides of a right triangle, known as the pythagorean theorem |
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Logos |
(Greek for speech, word, or reason) the rational force that Greek philosophers such as Heraclitus believed governed the universe |
