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Greek Culture & History 2005
Culture and History of Greeks- GJCL Convention 2005
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Classics
10th Grade
03/20/2009

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Herodotus
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Father of History
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Wanax
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Local kings of Mycenae
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Cyclops
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Hold odysseus in a cave
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Philip II
Definition
Father of Alexander the Great
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Pericles
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Most important Athenian leader of Peloponnesian War
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Plague from Apollo
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Ultimate reason for disagreement between Agamemnon and Achilles in the Iliad
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Monarchy
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Government of 5th century Sparta
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Playwright
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Occupation of Thespis
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Agora
Definition
Athenian marketplace
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Nothing
Definition
Socrates wrote:
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Heraclitus
Definition
"Never step in the same river twice"
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Orator
Definition
Occupation of Demosthenes
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Democracy
Definition
Government of 5th century Athens
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Metaphysics, Politics, On the Soul
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Aristotle wrote:
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24
Definition
Number of books in the Odyssey
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Acropoolis
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Position of Parthenon
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Linear A
Definition
Language of Minoan Palace culture (used for official purposes)
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Delphi
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Position of Apollo's Oracle
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Ithaca
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Hometown of Odysseus
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Metis
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First wife to Zeus
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Muses
Definition
Goddesses of poetry
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General
Definition
Occupation of Thucydides before becoming a Historian
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Odes to Olympic Heroes
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Written by Pindar
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Dionysus
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God at center of the play Bacchae by Euripides
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Asia Minor
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Location of the city of Ionia
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Thebes
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Where Oedipus Rex by Sophocles takes place
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Salamis
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Naval battle with Persians
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Fluting
Definition
Scalloped edge around a Greek Column
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490 B.C.E.
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Year of the Battle of Marathon
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Free Dinners for Life
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Punishment Socrates chose when asked what punishment would be fitting for his crime
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Deme
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Smallest political unit to which an Athenian belonged
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Cylix
Definition
Wine drinking cup used by Greeks at a Symposium
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Theseus
Definition
Nearly completely Athenian hero
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Tyrants
Definition
Periander, Pisistratos, and Polycrates are all:
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Not Extant
Definition
Current state of Babylonians by Aristophanes
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Eleusian Mysteries
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Festivals honoring Demeter and Persephone
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Spartans
Definition
Heroes at the Battle of Thermopylae
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Cercrops
Definition
1st Athenian King
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Snake
Definition
Cecrops was half man and half:
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Spondai
Definition
Greek for "treaty"
refers to libations
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Metics
Definition
Resident aliens
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Nicias and Alcibiades
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Led Sicilian Expedition of 415 B.C.E.
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