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32 Cards in this Set
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Epic Poem |
A long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero. EX: The Odyssey |
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Arete |
The values that Homer taught, such as courage and honor. EX: Used to teach Athenian children to strive for these values |
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Polis |
Town or city-state and its surrounding countryside. EX: Athens |
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Acropolis |
Served as a place oc refuge during an attack and sometimes came to be a religious center. EX: Located on top of a hill |
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Agora |
Served as a place where people could assemble and as a marketplace. EX: Located below the acropolis |
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Hoplite |
Heavily armed infantry soldiers. EX: Carried a round shield, short sword, and a thrusting spear |
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Phalanx |
Military formation that created a wall of shields to protect the hoplites. EX: Used in 700 B.C. |
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Tyrant |
Rulers who seize power by force from the aristocrats. EX: Tyrants lost their power in the end of the 6th century B.C. |
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Democracy |
Government by the people or rule of the many. EX: Still used today as our government |
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Oligarchy |
Government by the rule of the few. EX: Sparta has an oligarchy |
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Helot |
Captured person who was forced to work for the conqueror. EX: Messenians were captured and made into helots by Sparta |
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Ephor |
Five men were elected each year and were responsible for the education of youth and the conduct of all citizens. EX: Used in an oligarchy |
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Age of Pericles |
The period between 461 B.C. and 429 B.C. when Pericles dominayed Athenian politics and Athens reached the height of its power. EX: He expanded Athenian involvement in democracy |
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Direct Democracy |
A system of government in which the people participate directly in government decision making through mass meetings. EX: Pericles created a direct democracy in Athens |
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Ostracism |
In ancient Athens, the process for temporarily banning ambitious politicians from the city by popular vote. EX: A part of a direct democracy |
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Ritual |
Ceremonies or rites. EX: Greeks had rituals to please the Gods |
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Oracle |
Sacred shrine where a God or Goddess revealed the future through a priest or priestess. EX: The most famous is the oracle of Apollo in Delphi |
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Tragedy |
A form of drama that portrays a conflict between the protangonist and a superior force and having the protagonist brought to ruin or extreme sorrow, especially as a result of a fatal flaw. EX: Sophocles wrote the tragedy Oepidus Rex |
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Philosophy |
An organized system of thought, from the Greek word for "love of wisdom". EX: Socrates was a Greek philosopher |
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Socratic Method |
The method of teaching used by the Greek philosopher Socrates. EX: It employs a question-and-answer format to lead pupils to see things for themselves by using their own reason |
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Hellenistic Era |
The age of Alexander the Great; period when the Greek language and ideas were carried to the non-Greek world. EX: Hellenistic means "to imitate Greeks" |
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Epicureanism |
School of thought developed by the philosopher Epicurus in Hellenistic Athens. EX: It held happiness as the chief goal in life |
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Stoicism |
A school of thought developed by the teacher Zeno in Hellenistic Athens. EX: It says that happiness can only be achieved when people gain inner peace by living in harmony with the will of God and that people should bear whatever life offers |
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Playwrites |
1) Sophocles 2) Euripides 3) Aeschylus |
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Philosophers |
1) Pythagoras 2) Socrates 3) Plato 4) Aristotle |
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Wars |
1) The Persian War 2) The Peleponnesian War |
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Geography |
1) Mountainous 2) Mediterranean Sea 3) Ionian Sea 4) Aegan Sea 5) Adriatic Sea 6) Black Sea |
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Historians |
1) Herodotus 2) Thucydides |
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Persian Rulers |
1) Darius 2) Xerxes |
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City-states |
1) Athens 2) Sparta 3) Marathon 4) Thebes 5) Corinth 6) Thermoplyae 7) Salamis |
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Democracy |
1) Pericles 2) Direct Democracy 3) Athens |
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Gods and Goddesses |
1) Zeus 2) Hera 3) Apollo 4) Aphrodite 5) Artemis 6) Athena 7) Hermes 8) Ares |
