Phillip at the Olympics
Who are women?
Alexander founded this famous Egyptian city and named it after himself.
What is Alexandria?
King Leonidas said this when Xerxes demanded the Greeks surrender their weapons at Thermopylae.
What is "Come and take them"?
Overcrowding behind the city walls during Pericles' plan led to this disaster, which killed one-third of the population.
What is the plague of Athens?
This Greek thinker yelled out "EUREKA!" upon discovering volume displacement. Also invented a heat ray and a screw for irrigation.
Who is Archimedes?
This god was honored at the Olympic Games.
Who is Zeus?
At the Battle of Issus, Alexander defeated this Persian king despite being outnumbered.
Who is Darius III?
Athens helped this group burn the Persian city of Sardis, which started the entire conflict with Persia.
What are the Ionian Greeks?
This alliance, led by Athens, was originally formed to defend against Persia but became the Athenian Empire.
What is the Delian League?
Democritus believed the world was made up of these.
What are atoms?
This was the ONLY Greek city-state Philip could not conquer.
What is Sparta?
This was the name of Alexander's famous horse, which means "ox-head."
Who is Bucephalus?
Pheidippides ran to Athens to deliver the news from Marathon screaming out this Greek word meaning "victory".
What is "Nike"?
Pericles used Delian League money to build this famous structure on the Acropolis.
What is the Parthenon?
This philosopher said "You never step in the same river twice" because everything is in constant change.
Who is Heraclitus?
This weapon was upgraded by Phillip of Macedon. This is how it was upgraded.
What is the spear? What is longer reach?
According to legend, whoever untied this would rule all of Asia. Alexander solved it with a sword.
What is the Gordian Knot?
This Athenian leader tricked the city into building 200 warships by lying about a Greek island planning to attack — and later lured the Persian navy into a narrow strait at Salamis.
Who is Themistocles?
This nephew of Pericles and student of Socrates pushed Athens to invade Sicily, leading to total disaster at Syracuse. He defected to Sparta later on and was assassinate in Persia. Loved to party.
Who is Alcibiades?
All three of Aristotle's kinds of friendship.
What are friendships of usefulness, pleasure, and virtue?
Philip's bodyguard assassinated him at his daughter's wedding. Name the assassin AND what Philip gave him to try to keep him happy.
Who is Pausanias, and what is a promotion?
Alexander was welcomed instead of feared because he did these two things in the lands he conquered.
What is followed local customs and sacrificed to local gods?
At the Battle of Marathon, this Athenian general led the charge against the Persians. He later would be imprisoned and die because of using the Athenian army for personal revenge.
Who is Miltiades?
Name the Spartan admiral who defeated Athens' last fleet AND the year Athens surrendered.
Who is Lysander and what 404 BC?
Plato's three parts of the soul.
What are Rational, Spirited, and Appetitive?