People
Father of History - wrote the history of the Persian Wars
Herodotus
Sculpted Discus Thrower
Myron
Person who writes plays
Dramatist
Delian League members
Athens, Ionia, allies of Athens
Skilled public speaker
Orator
Pericles was the leader of Athens from
461 - 429 BCE
Formed life-sized statues
Praxiteles
Highly infectious, usually fatal epidemic disease
Plague
Peloponnesian League members
Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, allies of Sparta
Political leader
Statesman
Muse of Tragedy
Melpomene
Sculpted the statues of Athena for the Parthenon
Phidias
To lay waste, to destroy, to make unfit for habitation.
Desolate
Master of Athenian Comedy; wrote The Frogs
Aristophanes
Group that works together to achieve common goals
League
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
Earliest recorded winner of the Great Dionysia
Thespis
A narrow land bridge that connected the Peloponnesus and Attica near the city of Corinth.
Isthmus of Corinth
Tragic dramatist of Greece that wrote the tragedy, Oedipus Rex (Oedipud The King).
Sophocles
Nation that promises to help another nation in wartime
Ally
Pericles reformed Athenian laws, including:
The right to trial by jury
The army and navy should be paid
Free theater tickets for the poor
Festival in honor of the Greek god Dionysus
Great Dionysia
Definition of the Golden Age of Athens
A period of great innovations in government, art, philosophy, drama, and poetry in Ancient Greece that lasted for seventy-five years, from 479 BCE - 404 BCE.
Oldest of the tragic dramatist of Greece; wrote Oresteia
Aeschylus
Peninsula in southern Greece where the ancient Greek city-state Athens was located
Attica