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14 Cards in this Set
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Homer
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A great Greek poet
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Solon
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A reform-minded Athenian aristocrat
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Cleisthenes
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An Athenian reformer who created a council of five hundred
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Pericles
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A leading political figure during the "Golden Age" of Athens
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Socrates
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A Greek philosopher, sculpture, and teacher
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Plato
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Considered to be the greatest philosopher in the Western civilization
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Aristotle
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A student/pupil of Plato who wrote on subjects such as ethics, politics, logic, etc.
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Alexander the Great
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King of Macedonia who took over a large empire and helped spread Greek culture
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Mycenae
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An early Greek city-state or center of civilation
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Troy
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City that was sacked in Homer's epic "The Iliad"
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Sparta
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A powerful, militaristic Greek city-state
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Athens
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A powerful Greek city-state
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Macedonia
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A region to the North of the Greek city-states
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Alexandria
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A center for the spread of the Hellenistic culture
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