Philosophers
What does the origin of the word philosophy mean?
Love of wisdom/knowledge
Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey but what was known about HOW he told his stories?
He said them orally because he was blind and that was the tradition
How many kings were Spartans known to have?
TWO kings
What would the Greeks do with the stones they used for cleaning purposes during washroom breaks? (clue: if they were mad at someone)
Write the names of enemies before wiping with the stones
What would doctors taste to find out your medical problem?
Earwax and urine
What did Plato begin to distrust and hate as a result of Socrates' death/ execution?
Democracy
Odysseus does what after his return home after 20 years away from Penelope (his wife)?
Slays more than 100 unruly suitors
What year did men become citizens of Sparta and were allowed to vote, own property and marry?
The age of 30
When did old men stop their relationship with their young male courtiers?
When the young men grew facial hair
Athena was the patron goddess of Athens, and who was the patron god of Sparta?
Ares, god of war
The lowest of Plato's social classes were who?
Farmers and Craftsmen
Achilles famously does what to Hector after their battle, and as a result becomes hated by the gods?
Drags his body back to the beach camps behind his chariot
What year did the Spartans and Athenians ignore their feud in order to fight the helot revolt?
462 BCE
What was something the Greeks bought from athletes after competitions?
The body sweat, oil and dirt
Greeks had/have appetizers like Middle Eastern mezah and Spanish tapas called?
Mezedes
Aristotle saw history as a ______________.
Mirror
The Trojan War and the city of Troy is believed to have existed in which modern country today?
Turkey
Slaves usually made up what percent of the population?
2/3 or around 60% of the population for Sparta/ 40% of the population for Athens
After a crocodile bit someone, what two things could they do which would result in death?
The crocodile would return to the home and ALSO PEE on the wound
What were human scapegoats called?
Pharmakoi
Aristotle saw art as being _____________________.
Conceptual and/or cognitive
Aristophanes' famous play about women who protest, by refraining from intercourse with their husbands, is called?
Lysistrata
The oldest Greeks, the Minoans, were around during what time in Crete?
3200 - 1100 BCE
Soranus, a famous Greek physician, once told women to do these three things when they didn't want to conceive/ get pregnant?
Squat, sneeze, and rinse
Who was Alexander the Great's male lover rumoured to be?
His best friend, Hephaestion