The Persian War
Art is long, life is short
Sic semper tyrannis
Verbal Gymnastics
Potpourri
100
Battle in 480 BC, in which the Greek forces attempted to hold the Persians off a narrow coastal pass.
Thermopylae
100
The dipylon amphora shown here (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_6yMVudG7ejX3EzR1N2c2VPWlk/edit?usp=sharing) is characteristic of this period of art.
Geometric
100
In one attempt to take over Athens, this future tyrant processed into the city with a woman dressed as Athena, thus claiming his rule was divinely ordained.
Pisistratus
100
Change πέμπω to the plural.
πέμπομεν
100
This garment was the base of every Greek outfit. Nico liked to wear his short, as was the style!
Chiton
200
Battle in 490 BC, in which Miltiades led the Athenians and Plataeans in a decisive victory against the Persians. However, we remember it for one man's incredible run home to deliver the news to the Athenians.
Marathon
200
The pot shown here (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_6yMVudG7ejUWJYNGVNMHliTUU/edit?usp=sharing) is typical of this period of art.
Orientalizing
200
This Pisistratid was assassinated after a complicated dispute involving the tyrant's creepy pursuit of a young Athenian man, Harmodius, and the public shaming of Harmodius's sister.
Hipparchus
200
Change πέμπομεν to the second person.
πέμπετε
200
This is the term for the assembly of all Athenian citizens, who voted together on the Pnyx.
Ekklesia
300
After this battle in 479 BC, a large column of serpents was set up at Delphi, and stood there until the end of the 17th century.
Plataea
300
The vases shown here (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_6yMVudG7ejRXFIVUlLVlVVSnM/edit?usp=sharing) are typical of this period of art.
Protogeometric
300
This son of Pisistratus avenged the assassination of his brother by becoming a cruel tyrant - until he was expelled from Athens in 510 BC.
Hippias
300
Change πέμπετε to mean "you send".
πέμπεις
300
Athens instituted this practice sometime around 506 BC, which allowed the citizens to throw out one of their own whom they feared might be getting to powerful.
Ostracism
400
Battle in 480 BC, in which Themistocles convinced the Greek forces to defend the Peloponnese from a narrow strait, and it worked!
Salamis
400
The amphora shown here (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_6yMVudG7ejYUEyWFg1QXFYT1U/edit?usp=sharing) includes an early depiction of what famous Greek escaping from what monster?
Odysseus and the Cyclops
400
This Lydian bodyguard was the first man to be called a "tyrant", because he took power by non-constitutional means - namely, killing the king and marrying the queen after seeing her naked.
Gyges
400
Change πέμπεις to "he sends".
πέμπει
400
Rather than jumping straight into battle, Greek armies would lock shields to create this kind of very defensible formation.
Phalanx
500
Themistocles led the Athenian fleet at this naval battle, which happened simultaneously with Thermopylae in 480 BC.
Artemisium
500
What is the term for the material that is painted on to create the black silhouettes of black-figure pottery?
Slip
500
When Hipparchus pursued Harmodius and shamed his sister, the tyrant was murdered by Harmodius himself and this other Athenian, Harmodius's older friend.
Aristogeiton
500
Translate this sentence into English: πέμπουσιν τας ἐπιστολάς εἰς την χώραν
They send the letters into the country.
500
The goal of every Greek hero is to achieve κλεος αφθιτον, or in English, this.
Undying fame
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