Government
Who could vote in an Athens democracy
Male citizens
Who would win the war?
Peloponnese
He was a god flirting with the nymph Echo and others yesterday while ignoring his wife
Zeus
Why did the Olympics end?
The emperor was Catholic and didn't like that it celebrated the pagan gods
Slaves were also called what?
Helots
The three types of Greek plays were...
Comedies, tragedies, and satyrs
Why was Greece divided into city states?
Geography/terrain made it difficult for one governing body to rule
Delos
God of earthquakes and horses
Poseidon
Who alerted of the Greek victory at the Battle of Marathon?
Pheidipides
What is the name of the gift given to the bride's groom-to-be before marriage?
Dowry
What are the three type of Greek columns we discussed?
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
What order did Greek city-states go through the types of government?
Monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, democracy
Whose navy was stronger? The Delian League or the Peloponnesian League?
Delian League
Often associated with olive trees
Athena
Which Greek god began the Olympics according to myth?
Hercules
What happened at ekphora stage of burial?
Transportation of the body
What is Sappho's nickname?
The Poetess
What type of government would this person benefit most from:
A young boy who is fairly wealthy and an up-and-coming nobleman
Oligarchy: he will soon be an aristocrat and could help rule. Wealthy and may not want everyone else’s opinion to count for something.
How did the plague that occured during the war get into Athens?
Diseased crops from the port, Piraeus
Married to Hades and daughter of Demeter
Persephone
The truce between nations during the Olympics was called ekecheria, meaning what?
Holding of hands
How were Spartan women treated differently than Athenian women?
Had more independence, learned to fight, they ran the house
The famous play by Sophocles is called...
Oedipus Rex
Who was the first elected archon (land holding aristocrat who supervised government administration
Draco
Pericles’ funeral oration would later inspire what famous speech?
Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address"
Artemis was tricked into killing her friend by her brother. What was the friend's name
Orion
The Greek word athlon means what?
prize
Why was a coin placed in the mouth of the deceased?
To pay the ferrymen in the underworld
What is the name of the most famous theatre competition in Greece?
City Dionysus