Government and Democracy
This body was at the center of Athenian democracy, passing laws, imposing taxes, and voting on war and peace
What is the Assembly?
Athenian law was divided into these two main categories.
What are Public laws and Private laws?
Out of nearly 300,000 residents in Athens and the surrounding countryside, approximately this many qualified as citizens.
What is 40,000?
Athenian boys learned rhetoric, which is the skill of doing this effectively in speaking or writing
What is using words?
A person who is legally recognized as a member or subject of a country or state.
What is a citizen?
To make decisions, Assembly members debated proposals and voted using this method.
What is raising/holding up their hands?
To prevent bribery and corruption, Athenian juries were much larger than today's, sometimes having as many as this number of citizens sitting on a single jury.
What is 501?
Foreign residents living in Athens who worked as merchants, artisans, or craftsmen were known by this term
What are metics?
Young men learned to play this stringed musical instrument in school
What is a lyre?
Illegal or dishonest behavior, often committed by people in positions of power.
What is corruption?
This smaller council consisted of 500 members chosen by lot to decide which issues were brought before the Assembly
What is the Boule?
Jurors voted by dropping tokens called "hubs" into a jar; a solid hub meant "not guilty," while a hollow hub meant this.
What is guilty?
Unfree laborers who had no political rights made up this fraction of the Athenian population.
What is one-quarter to one-third (1/4 to 1/3)?
Schoolboys memorized sections from The Iliad and The Odyssey, which are epic poems attributed to this ancient poet.
Who is Homer?
The study of ways of thinking and making well-reasoned arguments.
What is ostracize?
Board made up of ten generals who directed the army and were elected each year by a tribe/group.
What were the Strategoi?
Citizens could vote to banish someone from the city-state for ten years by writing their name on this piece of pottery.
What is an ostrakon?
Name three of the four requirements a person had to meet to qualify as an Athenian citizen
What are Male, at least 18 years old, non-enslaved (free), and born to two Athenian parents?
Outdoor parklike areas where men gathered to exercise, relax, and compete in athletic competitions.
What are gymnasiums?
A long poem that tells the story of a hero's adventures.
What is an epic poem?
Athenian democracy developed gradually through this sequence of four government types before democracy was firmly established.
What are Monarchy, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, and Tyranny (tyrants)?
If a citizen was ostracized and sent away from Athens for 10 years, this happened to his personal property.
What is he was allowed to keep it?
Even if an enslaved worker saved enough money to buy their freedom, they were still forbidden from purchasing this.
What is Athenian citizenship?
A banquet-like gathering where Athenian men drank wine, listened to music, and conversed on philosophical themes like love or happiness.
What is a symposium?
Although Athenian women played an important role in religious affairs, they had almost no political rights, could not own property, and were always legally controlled by this person.
Who is a male relative (such as a husband, father, brother, or adult son)?