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Clas 201 - Test 3
Waterloo Clas 201 Test 3/Final!
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11/25/2012

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Hellespont
Definition

Body of water xerses had to cross and constructed a bridge of boats

1st bridge= destroyed

xerses hit the water (insult)

Built another bridge to cross it

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Pylos
Definition
City besides Messenia, and they wanted to arise up the messenians.
Athens trapped 420 troops in this area

soon after Cleon appointed commander as well
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Sphacteria
Definition
managed to capture 292 spartans here on this island and it was soon after Pylos

SPARTANS were willing to call a truce after this but Cleon refused
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Brasidas
Definition
a Spartan commander
conducting operations in the area of Amphipolis
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Amphipolis
Definition
Brasidas was in this city and Cleon's like oh hell no and took forces
Both these guys died
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Peace of Nicias
Definition
After cleon and Brasidas died they made peace
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Alcibiades
Definition
wanted rep, so wanted war
Questioned the peace of Nicias
He sets his eyes to Melos
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Melos
Definition
Alcibiades sets his eyes to Melos which was a neutral wealthy state
Melos is defeated by the Athens and women are sold off
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Egesta
Definition
was the city in italy that went to athens for help
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Syracuse
Definition
Egesta was facing Syracuse in italy, which was a powerful city
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Herms
Definition
before Alcibiades could sail to italy, Hermes statues were fucked up and he was blamed
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Nicias
Definition
Was opposing Alcibiades idea of invading italy and got dragged in
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Gylippus
Definition
Spartan general that helped Syracuse defeat athens in italy
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Euripides’ Trojan Women
Definition
About Trojan women being sold after the Trojan war about real life Melos

Reflects melos and their women sold off
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Lamarchus
Definition
led the force with Alcibides and Nicias
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Decelea
Definition
Alcibiades also advised the Spartans to keep a permanent invasionary force in Athens, in the fortress of Decelea.
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Hellenic Congress
Definition
back in persian war II greak states entered in a congress to help eachother
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Triremes
Definition
boats
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oarsmen
Definition
rowers
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Thetes
Definition
Poor people/class of athens
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Thermopylae
Definition
battle where spartans kicked ass in a narrow path where only 3 men could pass at a time
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Artemisium
Definition
At the time of Thermopylea, persian ships were destroyed here due to a storm
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Salamis
Definition
This is the place at the Athens decided to retreat to after their city was attacked
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Plataea
Definition
After Salamis, Xerxis Retreated half of his army and the remaining army was defeated in this place, lead by spartan general Pausanias
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Pausanias
Definition
Was a Spartan general Who led the army against the Persians in Plataea
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Mycale
Definition
A land battle took place here at the same time as Plataea and Persian ships were burnt
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Aeschylus’ Persians
Definition
Only surviving greek drama about real historic events
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Dionysus
Definition
son of zeus and mortal semele
hera paid semele a visit asked to show true form, bitch got burnt up and zeus put the child in his thigh
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Semele
Definition
Mother of Dionysus
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Attributes of Dionysus
Definition
vital fluids (wine, blood, sap and semen)
maina (maddness)
theatre and masks
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Maenads
Definition
Followers of Dionysus
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Thyrsus
Definition
Rod that the maenads carried around
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Dithyramb
Definition
Choral sung in honour of Dionysus
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Extemporization
Definition
Is when the chorus interacts with the play (first done by thespis)
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Thespis
Definition
was the started of tragedy, and came up with the extermporization
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Hypokrites
Definition
actor
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tragedy(meaning?)
Definition
Goat song
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satyrs
Definition
half man half goat (chorus members might have dressed like that)
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choregos
Definition
Wealthy citizen sponsor
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orchestra
Definition
dancing place - center part of the theatre
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Skene
Definition
Building for storage/dramatic scene's
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ekkuklema
Definition
platform on wheels used to carry stuff in/out from skene (dramatic effect)
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mechanē
Definition
Crane attached to the roof of skene
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parodoi/exodoi
Definition
enter/exit ramps
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chorus (what they did and how many?)
Definition
12-15 sing and dance
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prologos
Definition
first speach (like program notes)
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parados
Definition
entrance song
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episode
Definition
play goes down here... import stuff happens (before stasimon)
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stasimon
Definition
choral sing and dance after each episode
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epilogos
Definition
Short speach at the end of the play
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exodos
Definition
final song.. everything ends for the play
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Aeschylus
Definition
play writer who wrote the Orestia
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Oresteia
Definition
Play about agamemnon and killed by his wife..
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Clytemnestra
Definition
wife of Agamemnon
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Aegisthus
Definition
dude who was sleeping with Clytemnestra
(had his brothers served to him by agamamnon's father)
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Agamemnon
Definition
name of the first play in the oresteia and is the king
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Choephoroi
Definition
The 2nd play upto the killing of clytemnestra and agisthus
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Electra
Definition
daughter of clytemnestra and agamemnon who wants revenge on her mom
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Orestes
Definition
Is the brother of Electra who kills the mom
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Eumenides
Definition
the name of the third play.. aka the kindly ones
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Erinyes
Definition
Ouonous's daughters and avenge any violence in the family
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Apollo
Definition
tells orestes to kill his mom and kinda helps defend him from erinyes
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Athena
Definition
orestes flees to athens where athena and a jury hear the case
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Sophocles
Definition
play writer/preist/general lived till 96
wrote the oedipus rex and Antigone, Ajax,
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Antigone
Definition
Play by sophocles
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Ajax
Definition
Play by sophocles
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Laius
Definition
real dad of oedepus
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Polybus
Definition
step dad of oedepus
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Merope
Definition
stepmom of oedepus
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Teiresias
Definition
blind profit, that tells oedepus that he is the offending party
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Creon
Definition
brother of jocasta
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Jocasta
Definition
wife of oedepus
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Euripides
Definition
wrote Medea, Hippolytus, Bacchae
lived at the time athens was about to beat the spartans
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Hippolytus
Definition
play by euripides
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Media
Definition
Play by eurpipides
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Bacchae
Definition
About dionysus in Thebes and how king penthesus doesn't recognize him as a god
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Pentheus
Definition
king in Euripide's bacche who refused to recognize dionysus
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Agave
Definition
Mother of pentheus who tore him apart.. in the Bacchae
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Pre-Socratics
Definition
philosphhers before socratise that try to define the universe
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Kosmos
Definition
World order
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Thales
Definition
Earlies philosppher from Miletus
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Miletus
Definition
was the place where the philospher thales was from.. its in asia minor
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Milesian school
Definition
other then thales, all the other philosphers from Miletus
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arché
Definition
the foundational element of the universe -Thales was tring to find arché
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Thales's arche?
Definition
water
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Anaximenes
Definition
another philosopher
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Anaximenes's arche?
Definition
Air
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Anaximander
Definition
another philosopher said arche was limitless so it was something called apeiron
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Apeiron
Definition
Anaximander said this was the basic element which was enless and inside everything
Term
who came up with evolution and infinite worlds in greece?
Definition
Anaximander said life started from fish
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Xenophanes of Colophon
Definition
said god is perfect and there is only one god and is unchanging
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Elea
Definition
Xenophanes moved here(in italy) and established a school here
Term
If horses and cattle had hands….”
Definition
Xenophanes said if they could make god statues it would look like horses and cattle
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Parmenides
Definition
went to the school started by Xenophanes and said there is no change
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Zeno
Definition
was a student of Parmenides and came up with mathematical paradoxes (market/half of everything)
said parmenides was right.. there is no motion
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Leucippus
Definition
He was an atomist
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Democritus
Definition
pupil of Leucippus who formalized the atmoic theory
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Heraclitus
Definition
Everything is in a state of flux and always moving... bow
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logos
Definition
reason
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Sophists
Definition
Group of teachers that went around teaching philosophy for money
Term
Gorgias
Definition
Great sophist
Term
Protagoras
Definition
great sophist and said man is a measure of things
Term
rhetoric
Definition
art of effective talking
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nomos
Definition
concept of law in greek philosphy
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Socrates
Definition
philosopher who was poor at first..never wrote anything
was like the first real lawyer
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dialectics
Definition
method of argument
Term
definitions of socrates
Definition
virtue, love, justice, piety
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Plato
Definition
pupil of socrates and wrote all his shit he was often is dialogues with others
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Academy
Definition
opened by Plato in athens where aristotle came and studied
Term
Apology
Definition
plato wrote it when he was about to be excecuted for corrupting the youth
Term
The Republic
Definition
contains the theory of forms from Plato and the definition of justice
Term
definition of justice
Definition
in the Republic.. they try to define justice
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Theory of Forms
Definition
by plato about the reality of things, uses allogory of caves to explain
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Allegory of the Cave
Definition
people see a shadow but one is released and find out there more to the world.. what the thought was a tree was infact something else...
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Aristotle
Definition
Macedonian, studied at the academy at Athens under Plato and taught Alexander
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Lyceum
Definition
school founded by Aristotle
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Third Man Argument
Definition
Developed by Aristotle about how everything has another form.. like police of police
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Hylomorphism
Definition
Matter is the basic building blocks of objects
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golden mean
Definition
the desirable middle
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Mardonius
Definition
Persian general after Samile victory by greeks
Term
Thucydides
Definition
Athenian general who was in charge of the campaign for Amphipolis where they lost to the spartans and was exiled where he wrote about the peloponnesian war
HE IS THE FATHER OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
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Corcyra
Definition
colony of Corinth and had an oligarchic rule and attacked Corinth for helping the Epidamnus
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Epidamnus
Definition
polis of both Corinth and Corcyra and wanted to be democratic and corcyra opposed but Corinth helped
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Corinth
Definition
(alley of Sparta)
Helped Epidamnus become democratic by sending settlers and then Corcyra attacked them and these guys lost in a sea battle and Epidamnus surrendered

Athens drove these guys off by making a treaty with Corcyra
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Delian league
Definition
Originally voluntary joining , headquators in Delos.. To offer protection for all the states that join up
Athens was in charge because the spartan general Pausanias, after Plataea went off to asia minor to do more damage on his own damage
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Delos
Definition
Place where originally the tresuary and meeting of the Delian league were held
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Themistocles
Definition
he was the one who came up with the whole trimirmes and put up strong walls around Athens who was down to fight sparta and cimon helped to ostracize him
Term
Cimon
Definition
Was a athenian general who supported the Spartans
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Eurymedon
Definition
Cimon had a big victory here against the Persians
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Hellenotamiae
Definition
Group of public treasures
Term
Carystus
Definition
1. First difficulty arose here, refused to join the league since it was already with persians.. so it was forced to join.. it was its location that it wanted to stay with the persians

Athens wanted it because it connects athens to hellespont
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Naxos
Definition
2nd. decided they no longer need membership.. got fuked up by the athenians
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Thasos
Definition
3rd. found a gold mine and athens wanted it.. so they got fuked up too
Term
Potidaea
Definition
after corinth and athens told it to destroy its walls even tho potidaea was a member and athens and causes some tension between sparta
Term
Megara
Definition
after Potidea... Megara was a member and a spartan ally and was causing problems for athens so they stoped all trade with them and destroyed them
Term
Megaran Decrees
Definition
This is the stopage of the megara trade and econimic warfare
Term
Archidamus
Definition
spartan king and had the Archidamian war named after him
Term
Final Cause of the Archidamian war?
Definition
thebes(sparta ally) attacked platea(athens alley) 30 years of peace broken!
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Pericles
Definition
in charge of athens and told them not to come out of the walls and plague killed him
Term
Cleon
Definition
after pericles he came in and was rough and athens sent off more troops because of him
Term
Diodotus
Definition
Cleon wanted to kill all the people of Mytilene and sell the women but diodotus said we should spare them.. since its best
Term
Mytilene
Definition
City of Mytilene that spartans tried to help get out of the league cause they couldn't get into the walls.. different method to beating the athens by spartans
Term
Lysander
Definition
Spartan commander,
Alcibiades sleeps with his wife
Term
Arginusae
Definition
battle happened here
Term
Aegospotamoi
Definition
athens lost here
Term
terms of surrender
Definition
walls removed
Tiny Fleat
No fleat
No empire
30 tyrants rule the city
Term
how many tyrants conrtoll athens after their loss?
Definition
30 tyrants
Term
Critias
Definition
chief of the 30 tryants of athens
Term
Thrasybulus
Definition
Lead the people to overthrow the tyrants
Term
Crito
Definition
was tring to help get socrates out of prison and also wrote down a dialogy (the crito about the trial)
Term
Critias
Definition
student of Socrates
Term
Alcibiades
Definition
Student of socrates
Term
hemlock
Definition
shit used to kill socates
Term
What city states went into war with sparta?
Definition
Athens, Corinth, Thebes and Argos
Term
Epaminondas
Definition
theben general that helped over throw sparta
lead various city states to rebel against sparta and freed messenia!
Term
Pelopidas
Definition
ally of epaminodas that helped overthrow sparta
Term
Battle of Leuctra
Definition
700 spartans marched here and lost the theben's and boeotians
after this they freed the helots
Term
Battle of Mantinea
Definition
Sparta and thebes fought again here and Epaminodas dies here but says to make peace with sparta after
Term
Macedonia
Definition
had a king... men had to kill a boar and a enemy to become a man..
controlled Thrace and Illyria
Term
Thrace
Definition
Part of Macedonia.. under their controll
Term
Illyria
Definition
Part of Macedonia.. under their controll
Term
Philip II
Definition
Was the king of Macedonia
Spent time in Thebes and observed Epaminodas
made an army and took over most of greece since they were tired from their previous wars
was assinated
Term
Chaeronea
Definition
Athenians and Thebans met Philip in battle and were defeated
Term
League of Corinth
Definition
Sparta and various other states joined this league to stop fighting in great after the PW aftermath and to help fight and take over persia
Term
Alexander
Definition
states started to rebel at first but he held shit down and started up beef with Persia
Term
Granicus
Definition
first battle in persia at Granicus where greeks won by alexandar
Term
Issus
Definition
another greek vitory by alexandar
Term
Gaugamela
Definition
third alexandar persian battle
Term
Darius III
Definition
king at the time of alexandar's attack
Term
last words of alexandar's death
Definition
“to the strongest‟,
Term
Ptolemy
Definition
one of 2 Generals that took over after Alexandar and took over egypt
Term
Seleucus
Definition
one of 2 Generals that took over after Alexandar and took over Babylonian
Term
Hellenism
Definition
spread of greek culture
Term
Antigone
Definition
daughter of oedepus and jocasta that wanted to bury her brother Polynices
Term
Creon
Definition
Brother of jocasta that doesn't wanna bury Polynices
Term
Polynices
Definition
brother of Antigone
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