Dates, Battles, & Places
The port city of Athens
What is Piraeus?
Rule by the few
What is oligarchy?
The elite Spartan military force of great renown
Who is the Spartan 300?
The "father of history" who wrote a history of the Persian wars
Who is Herodotus?
The great lawgiver of Athens who made it a government of all the people
The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand
What is the Peloponnesus?
"When the lion's skin is too short, you must patch it with that of a fox"
Who is Lysander?
The greatest statesman in the history of Greece, who found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble
Who is Pericles?
Who is Aristophanes?
Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta
Who are Epaminondas and Pelopidas?
The five famous battles of the Persian Wars
What are Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale?
Who is Socrates?
A group of Greek city-states on the Peloponnesus that allied with Macedonia to conquer Sparta
What is the Achaean League?
A stutterer who became the greatest orator in Athens
Who is Demosthenes?
Persian general during the Persian Wars
Who is Mardonius?
A rich port City on the Peloponnesus burned to the ground by the Romans
What is Corinth?
One who believes people are motivated solely by selfishness
What is a cynic?
Last of the Ptolemy line
Who is Cleopatra?
Greek poet who wrote "The Odes"
Who is Pindar?
He restored the laws of Lycurgus and the glory of Sparta
Who is Cleomenes III?
The southern part of Italy
What is Magna Graecia?
"I am looking for a man"
Who is Diogenes?
The son of Odysseus
Who is Telemachus?
Authors of Greek tragedies
Who are Aeschylus and Sophocles?
Ancient king of Athens who killed the Minotaur, fought in the Battle of Marathon, and whose bones were dug up by Cimon?
Who is Theseus?