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| Poet Farmer, wrote "works and days" talks about the different generations of Greece. Chaos, Earth, Titans, Gods. |
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| Late 7th century female poet. Wrote songs about female love, on the island of Lesbos which turns into our word Lesbian. |
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| A 7th century Athenian Lawmaker/poet. He abolishes debt slavery and urges for the peoples justice. He also defends the elite. |
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| Greatest was the Oracle of Delphi. Greeks and non-greeks went to the Oracle to advise on marriage, careers, voyages, ect. A storehouse for political information. |
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| Heavily armored greek soldiers. Poorer men are exclude. Forms the military formation of the Phalanx. |
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| Semi slave- Commonly associated with the spartans. The spartans were outnumbered by the helots 7:1 |
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| Arete means putting excellence in all things. Agon is the root of agonize meaning a neverending struggle to percieve clearly. |
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| Great traders of the mediteranian, through trade the greeks adopted the Phoenicians alphabet. |
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Linear A- A cretan developed writing system to record economic systems. Discovered by Sir Arthur Evans. Linear B- An early form of Greek also found by Arthur Evans. Tablets are Inventories. |
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| Known for the Epinician ode, poems written upon athletic victory. He believed that merit was inherited and that one had to strive to be excellent. |
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| Tyrant of Athens. He attempted to gain power in Athens 3 times. Was kicked out a couple times. Gained power through a coup in which he gained a body guard and took Athens. |
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| a collective term for four seperate sports festivals held in Greece. The olympic games, Pythian Games, Nemean Games, and the Isthmian Games. |
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| Theorized that all matter floated on water and that the earth was flat. Attempted to find scientific solutions to the origins of the earth rather than religous explanations. |
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600's BC Writes the laws concerning homicide, instead of family and kin revenging the death an Arbiter is placed to judge instead. Codified laws. |
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| Lyric Poet and philospher. Thought that the earth was once covered by water. Also was someone who lived on poverty and made fun of himself. |
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| Wealthy German business man, later in life taught himself Greek and aimed to find the lost sites of Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns. Found priams Treasure. |
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Believed that tiny participles created matter were atoma. Believed in nature rather than the Gods. |
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| Harmodius and Aristogeitan |
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| 514 B.C. Planned to assasinated the tyrants and a panathenaic procession, due to an insult given to Harmodius sister. Aristogeitan is Hermodius' lover. |
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| A form of ritual friendship, whereby a stranger entered into a hereditary relationship of mutual friendship with a man from another demos, each obliged to offer hospitality and aid when they visited each other's community. A prominent feature of Homeric society. (Illiad, Trojan soldiers and Greek soldiers trade armour and deter from fighting one another) Continued throughout antiquity, eventually becoming more formal diplomatic relationship of Proxeny "state interests." Important calypso treates hermes as friend by feeding him and speaking before asking why he had come; Odysseus angered at Polyphemus because he had not been a good host but had eaten his men. |
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