Western Civ- Ancient Greece Quiz

Invasions, collapse of Mycenaean Cities, little writing

Story of the Trojan War, focuses on role of Achilles

Thetis and Peleus

Eris, the god of chaos, is not invited to Thetis and Peleus’ wedding, she shows up and creates a golden apple, debate ensues between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite and Paris is forced to make the decision. Aphrodite promises him the most beautiful woman, Helen

wife of King Menelaus

Brother of Menelaus, led war to get Helen back

Achilles will not fight because Apollo is on the Trojan’s side because Agamemnon stole a daughter of a priest of Apollo, Patroclus takes Achilles armor and is killed by Hector, Achilles kills Hector and meets with King Priam to give back body

Daughter of priest of Apollo that is stolen by King Agamemnon

Star warrior of the Trojans who is killed by Achilles

King of Troy and father of Hector

Abuse of power, hubris, respect/ role of the Gods, desire for violence, sacrifice, bribery

Idea of achieving full glory and excellence

Balkan Peninsula, divided by straits, mountainous

Mostly isolated communities formed called poleis, no single political power

Loyalty to polis and family, closed citizenship, unwilling to be controlled by others

Honored same hero’s and stories, same festivals and rituals, same gods, shared alphabet, superiority to non-Greeks

Council of elite and 3 Archeron chosen from the elite, elite had advantage because laws were not written down, people wanted to dilute the elite’s power

Writes laws down, makes harsh penalties

eliminates debt slavery, encourages emigration, decreases class conflict, gives all citizens legal protection, produces cash crops (olive oil, wine)

People would get land from elite, would pay mortgage in crops, if they could not pay they would be sold into slavery

King or queen exercises full control

Ruled by landowning elite

Small powerful elite from a new class of wealthy merchants, farmers and artisans

Ruled by one, forced, cruelty

Form of politician who uses manipulation to gain support

People are involved

Elect people who make decisions

Absence of rule

Demagogue who expands public works and takes away some power from elites

Pisastratus’ son, becomes repressive and is forced by people to flee to Persia, anarchy ensues

Saves Athens from anarchy, sets standards for democracy and introduces voting

Voting ward/district

Exiled from city because they threatened democracy

Government by the people

Male citiezens over 30

Agora

Had no public role, in charge of running household and producing strong children

Mixed government, two kings, 5 ephors, Council of Elders, Assembly

Military focused, all boys were forced to be soldiers, self-control and obedience were most important traits

Conquered people who turned into slaves in Sparta

Would do the work so that Spartans could train and fight

Raised to produce healthy children, could inherit property

Bronze Age

Cyclades

Crete

Required trade to acquire materials and a lot of heat, showed they were wealthy enough to spend time making bronze

90% copper 10% tin

Wool, linen, olive oil

Perfume, cooking, cosmetics, soap, preserve food

Egypt and Mesopotamia, acquire new ideas, technologies

Mainland Greece and Crete

Sicily, Italy, Egypt, Mesopotamia

The myth of King Minos

Minos wanted to become king, appealed to Posideon and he sent a white bull, Minos’ wife becomes pregnant with the bull’s child and has the Minotaur which gets enprisoned in the basement of the castle, the Athenians are forced to send people to feed the Minotaur and Theseus is sent, he goes into the maze and kills the beast, but on the way home forgets to turn the colors on the ships and his father kills himself and Theseus becomes king

He sacrifices a lesser bull instead of the white bull

Daedalus

Son of Minos goes to Olympics and is killed

7 girls and 7 boys were sent for food for the Minotaur

Son of King Aegeus who convinces his dad to let him kill the Minotaur, falls in love with Ariadne and on his journey home leaves her on an island, he becomes king of Athens

On his way back if he is alive the sails will be white if he is dead the sails will be black. Theseus forgets to change the sails and leaves them black, his father kills himself thinking Theseus is dead.

Warrior-based

Olive oil, wine, perfume

Greece growing, Ionian Coast

Persians expanded into Asia Minor and Greeks on Ionian Coast fell under their control

When the Greeks revolt against Persia, Athens support the Greeks but they lose

Persian who invades Greece but fails

Messenger who runs from Athens to Sparta to ask for Spartan aid

Greeks

Greek who develops a fleet

Core of Athenian navy

That the wooden wall shall not fail

Darius’ son, invades Greece again

Persian victory, Greeks force Persians through a narrow passage to neutralize Persian numerical advantage

Leader of Spartans who betrays the Spartans

Greek victory, Athenian fleet destroys Persian fleet, ends Persian invasion

Best, arete, striving for perfection

Static, very simple

Realism, proportions, symmetry

Stone, bronze, marble

Tried to convey perfect balance to reflect harmony of the universe

Doric, ionic, Corinthian

Top of Acropolis in Athens

Myths and legends, Dionysus

Dramas were originally based off this group

First actor

Wrote satire

Numerous plays that mocked people or customs

Nature of good and evil, demands of society, state, family, religion, individuality, nature of God, fate, free will

Disaster strikes main character, death, suffering

Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter, his wife cheats on him and kills him, his son has to avenge his father by killing him mother, gods intervene and a trial ensues

Wrote the Oedipus Trilogy

Pre-Socratic philosopher with a desire to explain change, wrote paradoxes

Called “Father of History”, wrote the Histories, autopsied foreign places and wrote of Persian Wars

wrote about Peloponnesian Wars, was not biased

attempt to understand world beyond religious explanation

How nature works

How humans interact with each other and the world

Attempted to explain the universe according to a series of unifying principals

Water as “basic” substance

Mathmatics