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Athens
Art and Culture
War
Vocabulary
100
Athens had what type of ruling?
Direct Democracy
100
Name one of the three men who wrote tragedies.
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
100
When did Sparta and Athens sign a truce
421 BC
100
Comedy
a humorous form of drama that often includes slapstick and satire
200
How long did Pericles rule?
32 years
200
Who was the Parthenon built to honor?
Athena
200
What was the war between Athens and Sparta called
Peloponnesian War
200
Aristotle
a philosopher who questioned the nature of the world and of human belief, thought and knowledge
300
How did Pericles improve Athenian democracy?
He increased the number of paid officials
300
What types of drama did the Greeks have?
Tragedy and Comedy
300
What killed ⅓ of the Athenian people including Pericles. Also, when?
A large plague in the second year of war
300
Classical Art
The art of ancient Greece and Rome, in which harmony, order, and proportion were emphasized
400
Pericles used fund from what league to improve the military and the beauty of Athens?
The Delian League
400
Who did most of the work on the Parthenon
Phidias
400
When did Athens send a large fleet to the island of Sicily
415 BC
400
Plato
a student of Socrates and later wrote down the conversations of Socrates and then wrote The Republic
500
This man led Athens through out most of its golden age and also had adage named after him. Also what years did he do this?
Pericles 461 BC to 429 BC
500
How many square feet is the Parthenon
23,000
500
When did Sparta declare war on Ahtens
431 BC
500
Peloponnesian War
a war, lasting from 431 to 404 B.C., in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies