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35 Cards in this Set
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Helot |
A spartan slave |
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Myron |
An athenian sculptor, worked in bronze, came before ployclitus
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Polyclitus |
first to create sculptures "in motion"
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Phalanx |
spartan formation
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Spartan training of young men |
were taken at the age of 7 until 17, they were beaten and starved and forced to kill each other. only the strongest survived and in order to graduate one had to kill a helot.
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Kouros |
First kind of sculptures made by the Egyptians
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Contrapposto |
Art style depicting movement
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Entasis |
Optical illusion to make columns look straight.
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Triremes |
Types of warships which would ram against other warships. |
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Aristocracy |
Government ruled by the wealthy upper class
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Monarchy |
Government ruled by a king
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Oligarchy |
Government ruled by a few
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Democracy |
Government ruled by the people
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Draco |
A king who made really severe laws that applied to everyone, helped to advance democracy. |
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Solon |
Athenian leader who ended debt slavery
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Cleisthenes |
Athenian who helped strengthen democracy
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Themistocles |
Naval commander, led Greece to victory at salamis against the Persians
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Delian League |
Basically the Greek NATO
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Thermopylae |
Place where Ephilates betrayed Spartans (300)
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Salamis |
Naval battle where the Greeks fought against the Persians |
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Pheidippides |
Legendary marathon runner who ran for Athens
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Caryatids |
A column made to look like a female
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Phidias |
Made the Frieze at the Parthenon
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Xerxes |
Persian leader who went to war with Greece
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Arete |
Sharp mountain edge
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Hubris |
Excessive pride, arrogance |
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Ephilates |
The traitor who caused the spartans to lose against the Persians |
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Pankration |
Olympic sport, a mix of boxing/MMA. Rules were no biting and eye gouging
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Herodotus |
Historian who wrote down the Persian war.
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Pericles |
Fought in the Persian wars, helped strengthen democracy.
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Hoplite |
Regular infantry soldier |
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Dionysus |
God of wine, plays were often created in his honor. |
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Greek geography: "How did the Geography of Greece impact their way of life?" |
Boats had to be used to go from island to island, this led to Greece being a sea-faring nation and their eventual contact with many other cultures. Their lands were dry, so they had to resort to trade for basic supplies. However because the land was dry they were able to farm and export olives/olive oil. |
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Types of greek columns |
Ionic (think eyes/scrolls) Corithian Doric |
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Characters of the Illiad |
Cassandra(prohet princess nobody belives) Hector (gave ajax his sword) Odysseus Achilles Homer (Blind storyteller who helped keep the Illiad/Odyssey stories alive) Paris (King of Troy, captured Helen) Helen (Wife of Mandalayis, got captured by Paris) Mandalayis (King of Sparta, married to Helen) Agamenda Penelope (Wife of Odysseus) Circi (Witch who seduced Odysseus) |
