Medea (and themes)
Women
Philosophers
Slavery
Empires
100
This was the setting of Medea.
What is Corinth?
100
They were required to cover themselves.
Who are upper class, "dignified" women.
100
This student of Plato was an empiricist who pioneered formal logic.
Who is Aristotle?
100
This form of slavery was practiced by the ancient Greeks.
What is chattel slavery?
100
Alexander took it over after Philip II was assassinated.
What is Alexander's Empire?
200
This person left Medea for another woman.
Who is Jason?
200
Women were only allowed to leave their houses during these events.
What are religious events?
200
This philosopher created a garden in which intellectual, philosophical, and creative conversations took place.
What is Epicurus?
200
This form of marking one's property was often practiced on captured fugitive slaves.
What is branding?
200
The Spartans won a war leading to its fall.
What is the Athenian Empire?
300
If women were unable to have this, they were seen as much less valuable.
What are children?
300
Women were commonly found here.
What are their homes?
300
This philosopher was Socrates' pupil.
What is Plato?
300
This is the term for somebody who becomes a slave due to unpaid debt.
What is a debt peon?
300
Generals fought over this land, which later turned into major military states.
What is the Ptolemaic Empire?
400
Madea's final actions toward her children.
What is murder?
400
It was considered taboo for women to engage in this type of discourse.
What is intellectual conversation?
400
This ancient Greek philosopher was sentenced to death for corrupting young minds with his revolutionary epistemological ideas.
Who is Socrates?
400
Slavery would not have emerged without this important advancement.
What is the agricultural revolution?
400
Roads were made in Alexander's empire to facilitate this.
What is trade?
500
In Medea, this term was used to define people who weren't from Greece.
What is a Barbarian?
500
This was considered to be the main purpose of women in ancient Greek society.
What is giving birth?
500
This was Epicurus' definition of pleasure.
What is the absence of pain?
500
Slavery was viewed this way in ancient Greece.
What is morally permissible?
500
The most powerful administrator in the Ptolemaic empire
What is the financial minister?
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