Greek Civ study guide.gdoc

Xerxes/Darius -​ Persian King 500 B.C -​ Persian King 480 B.C. -​ 100,000 Troops -​ 10,000 Elite forces -​ 1000 ships (Immortals) Symposium -​ the last part of a banquet 399 BC -​ The trial of Socrates Battle of Marathon -​ Battle against Athens and Persia -​ Athens won...

Xerxes/Darius -​ Persian King 500 B.C -​ Persian King 480 B.C. -​ 100,000 Troops -​ 10,000 Elite forces -​ 1000 ships (Immortals) Symposium -​ the last part of a banquet 399 BC -​ The trial of Socrates Battle of Marathon -​ Battle against Athens and Persia -​ Athens won -​ A lot of Persians died and very few Athenians -​ A man ran 26 miles to announce that Athens had won Tragedy -​ “Goat song, to honor dionysus Academy/Lyceum Delian League -a military group led by Athens that combined Greece to defeat the Persians Old Comedy -​ Explicit and crude form of theater to honor dionysus Stoics -​ members of the Hellenistic philosophy school in Greece and Rome Pericles -​ Created Democracy Peloponnesian War -​ Battle between Athens and Sparta Epicureans -​ People who followed the teachings of Epicurus a famous philosopher Thucydides -​ Historian known for documenting the peloponnesian war Alcibiades -​ a controversial leader in the Peloponnesian war -​ student of socrates -​ constantly switched sides in the war Hippocrates -​ Father of Medicine Golden Age Athens -​ Between 480-404 B.C. -​ economic growth and cultural flourishing Sicilian expedition -​ Contrapposto Doric/lonic order -​ Doric is masculine architecture, very sturdy, wide columns -​ Ionic is slender feminine columns Delphi -​ A religious place of unity in Greece Parabasis -​ A point in a play where the main actors leave the stage and the chorus address’s the audience The City Dionysia -​ A religious festival in Athens celebrating Dionysus with wine and drama Areopagus -​ Where Athens Supreme Court met Chaeronea -​ The first battle ALexander the great assisted with. Thebes and Athens were defeated Panathenaia -​ A festival in Athens to honor Athena Pre-Socratics -​ Western thinkers before Socrates Sarissa -​ A really ,long spear the Macedonians used to stab the Greeks Demosthenes -​ Greatest Greek orator -​ father of Alexander the Great Pindar's Victory Odes -​ A collection of poems celebrating the victory of athletes Sophists -​ A paid teacher of Philosophy and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece Gymnasium -​ a place to exercise naked Socratic Method -​ Asking questions until point is proven 323 BC -​ Death of Alexander the Great in Babylon Hellenistic Period -​ A period that started with the death of Alexander the Great and ended with the defeat of Marc Antony and Cleopatra in the battle of Antium PART 2 Artifact Identification statue of Pericles (creator of dmeocracy) Charioteer at Delphi (dedicated to Apollo)  Temple of Apollo at Delphi The Tyrannicides (Harmodius and Aristigeon the killers of a Tyrant) Pot of Achilles and Ajax Discobolus (the discus thrower from the games) The dying Gaul (a Celtic man/ a barbarian dying)