Geography
A Greek City-State.
What is a Polis?
An annoying (and ugly) philosopher accused and convicted of corrupting the youth.
Who was Socrates?
Patron Deity of Athens.
Who is Athena?
Spread Greek culture as far as India, which is now known as the Hellenization of the Near East.
Who was Alexander the Great?
Was the largest empire on earth and failed to successfully invade Greece.
What was the Persian Empire?
Greece is centered around this body of water.
What is the Aegean Sea?
Period of art known for its complex style, naturalistic poses, and ability to capture emotion on subject's faces.
What was the Hellenistic period?
Mycenaean woman (said to be the daughter of Zeus) seduced by Paris and taken into the city of Troy.
Who was Helen of Troy?
Crossed the Hellespont with what was rumored to be over one-million troops.
Who was Xerxes?
300 Spartan's last stand against the invading Persian army.
What was the Battle of Thermopylae?
This powerful polis is located off the shore and has a powerful navy.
What is Athens?
Form of philosophy known for rejecting emotional outbursts in favor of rational and logical thinking.
What is stoicism?
Greek champion who fought against the Trojans.
Who was Achilles?
Alexander's childhood idol.
Who was Diogenes?
Athenian victory over the Persians after which Pheidippides ran all the way to Athens to tell the news of the victory.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
The peninsula on which Sparta is located.
What is the Peloponnese?
Character from one of Sophocles' plays who ended up killing his father and marrying his mother.
Who is Oedipus Rex?
King of Sparta prophesied by an Oracle to be killed if he went to war.
Who was Leonidas Rex?
Believed in the theory of forms and created a famous allegory about a cave.
Who was Plato?
A league of poleis led by Sparta (also the name for the Greek civil war).
What was the Peloponnesian League?
The Islandous and Mountainous landscape of Greece led to this development in Greek politics.
What are Isolated city-states with various forms of governments including Athenian Democracy?
Greek code of hospitality.
What is xenia?
A knot held to be capable of being untied only by the future ruler of Asia.
What was the Gordian Knot?
Democratically elected ruler of Athens during what is known as the 'Golden Age'.
Who was Pericles?
An extremely long spere used successfully by the Macedonians to conquer all of Greece.
What is a Sarissa?