History Notes---These Were The Greeks---P.71-104

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Libations

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sacrifices to the gods

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Olympians

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the 12 gods that lived on mt. olympus

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Festivals

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many festivals- breaks from work (greeks worked 7 days a week)

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"The Mysteries"

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a series of rituals after which individuals felt renewed and purified

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Eleusis

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a town where one of the mysteries took place, required a long trek through the sea, up mountains, and into the dark.

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Persephone

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daughter of zues and demeter, was taken into the underworld by hades to make her his wife, demeter misses her so much that she brings winter to the world.

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Omens

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anything could be an omen- birds, leaves, etc.

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Oracles

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interpreted omens

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Seers

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direct communication links to the gods

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Delphi

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where a sacred temple was built- oracles would have to be interpreted by the priests.

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The Pythia

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the priestess at delphi

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Peloponnesian War (Dates)

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431-404 B.C.E.

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Kimon

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Kimon (son of Militiades), leader of expiditions

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Ostracism

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banish (an unpopular or too powerful citizen) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote

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Peace with Persia

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Athens does this before the war with Sparta

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Pericles

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presiding genius in Athens during high summer of Greek culture

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The Parthenon

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temple of athena, built in acropolis of athens by pericles

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Herodutus

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published his history in athens

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Sophocles

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famous greek playwright

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Sophists

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followers of sophocles, paid teachers of philosophy and rhetoric

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Pheidias

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built sculputer of parthenon and olympia

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Anaxogoras

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scientist that claimed the sun was a lump of molten stone

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Socrates

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ancient athenian philosipher

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Thucydides

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wrote history of peloponnesian wars

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Melos

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greek island

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Plague

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hits athens twice, kills pericles

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the Sicilian expedition

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greeks send large part of navy to attack sicily, fail miserably

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Euripides

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another greek playwright

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the Long Walls

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walls built around athens and piraeus