Studied by 9 people
Helots
743 - 668 BCE
spartans would enslave people to the west (mycenaeans)
Krypteia
taking down people who talk about rising up or starting a war
Akklesia
many people would vote in an election
Metics
people that would work around the city of Athens - immigrants
Doulos
slaves
Oiketes
slaves that worked in the household
similar to family status
Paidagogous
slaves that were responsible for educating that children
Symposium
male-only meetings
women slaves were entertainers
would talk about math, philosophy, astronomy, etc.
Pornai
prostitute
Oikos
the male family head
Kyrios
women
Erastes and Eromenos
older man and younger man within a sexual relationship
Pedarasty
when a older man and a younger boy engage in sexual activity that the older man takes pleasure from
Kynodesme
leash or binding that they would tie around their penises
they also used this in the olympic games for comfort and to keep them tucked away
Infibulation
the bounding of the penis
Xenophon
writer that talks about the division of gender roles in the home
Sophrosyne
moderation of womens sexual behaviour - they should limit it
Andreia
manliness
Sappho
ode to Aphrodite
talked explicitly about lesbian sexual activity
630 - 570 BCE
from the island of lesbos
Apimachia
polis would make treaties with nearby polis
Symmachia
making treaties with other polis as a plan to raid other places together
Proxenos
ambassador to mediate treaties between polis’
Solon
the man that came up with the idea to divide athens into social classes
Aspis
the hoplite sheild
weight is distributed along the entire arm
Greaves
the lower leg armour of hoplites
Doru
main weapon
stabbing weapon
balanced
held overhand
Xiphos and Kopis
swords that hoplites would carry
Hoplite Phalanx
densely packed group of hoplites with shields in left hand and weapons in right
Sarissa and Duru
like a hoplite phalanx but with longer spears
used to take over eqypt
Pindar
writer who wrote about the victors of the olympics (epinician poetry)
Nike
goddess of victory
Dactylic Hexameter
the type of writing the homer wrote in
Aoidos and Phapsode
composer and performer
Peitho
personification of persuasion
Casus Belli
the reason for a war starting
Epithets
names that describe a character in a story
ex. achilles is swift-footed
Demodocus
the character that tells the story of the odyssey
inserted themselves into the story several times
Catharsis
purification of emotions
Tragedy
comes from the worship of Dionysus (god of releasing emotions)
means goat-song
Satyrs
sexual beings
goat-demons
Aeschylus
the father of tragedy
invented the trilogy (Oresteia, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides)
Europides
author who writes about emotional realism with female protagonists (medea)
Dawn
the parent of memnon
Quintus Smyrnaeus
wrote that the fall of troy happened with the fight between achilles and memnon
also talks about achilles dueling Penthesilia
Penthesilea
weaponized version of feminism
Achilles duels her, kills her, then falls in love with her
Prothesis
the laying out of someone at a funeral (ceremony)
Exekias
first artist to put his name on his work
made a vase that shows achilles and Ajax playing a game in the battle of troy
Andokides
an artist that uses the red figure technique
made the attic red-figure amphora
Moscophoros
the creepy looking archaic smile seen on early sculptures
Contrapossto
a relaxed pose
shoulders point one way, the hips point the other way
Praxiteles
the first artist to sexualize women in art
made Aphrodites in knidos
Kallipygos
beautiful butt
Athenaeus Deipnosophists
women who lifted their dresses to show their butts
Phidias
artist
possibly made the Riae Bronzes
made the Statue of Athena and the Statue of Zeus
Praxiteles
artist from Milos
Venus de Milo was attributed to him, but was not actually his
had many other famous works
Apotropaic
the power that women have to turn things away
power to turn away large events, evil spirits, etc.
Laocoon
style of art that is very emotional and sexual
common in the hellenistic period
Barberini Faun
gothic art style that has heavy erotic styles incorporated
art was used as a physical weapon 537 BCE
Megaron
early mycenaean temple with a large rectangular chamber that has large columns along the outside
Order
rules for architecture styles
Doric
type of architecture style
shorter, flat top to columns, and the columns are directly on the stylobate
includes triglyphs and metopes
Ionic
type of architectural style
has curly looking thing at the top of the columns, taller than doric
Corinthian
type of architectural style
the tops of the columns have detailed plant carvings
Erectheion
a temple in athens that shows ionic order
Entablature
the horizontal section on top of the columns that holds up the roof
Triglyphs
the vertical lines around the perimeter of doric order temples
had metopes in between
Metopes
the flat areas between triglyphs where images were often carved
Stylobate
the base of doric temples
Philippeion
the person who completed the temple of Hera in Olympia
added the back part in ionic order
Gigantomachy
the idea of making art pieces for powerful people large
ex. a person in power is double the height of a citizen
Hekatompedon
the temple next to the old temple of Athena
built after they won against the persian army
Hekatompedos
the parthenon was originally called this
Ictinus and Callicrates
the architects who designed the parthenon
Athena Parthenos
the large statue that was inside the temple of Athena
made by Phidias
Entasis
the columns of the parthenon are all slightly tapered inward
Church of the Theotokos
the parthenon was used for this purpose in the 6th century AD
Mythic Cosmogony
relying on Hesiod an Homer’s stories (the idea of divine kingship)
Thales of Miletus
the founder of the Milesian school of philosophers in Ionia (between greek and persian land)
known as the first philosopher
had a similar theory as Pythagoras
predicted a solar eclipse
created a method of measuring the height of the pyramids
the temple of Apollo in Delphi is attributed to him
Lycurgus
philosopher that traveled around the world (including india - where he met the gymnosophists)
the person that wanted all spartans to be equal (law-giver of sparta)
Temple of Apollo
a temple in Delphi
Pre-socratic Era
used to describe philosophers before Socrates (before 469-399 BCE)
Anaxagoras
was in the persian army and moved to Athens after the war
a philosopher that helped bring over some eastern ideas to greece
friends with Pericles and Euripides and influenced their works
Socrates
philosopher
taught plato and xenophon
known for creating dialectics for teaching
Plato
a student of Socrates
wrote the Phaeso
known for the creation of the acadamy
Socratic Paradox
i know that i know nothing
Platos Phaedo
talks about the death of socrates - he sacrificed himself and willingly drank the poison
his last words were “Crito, we owe a rooster to Aesclepius”
Scuola di Atene
the painting of the school of Athens
has Plato and Aristotle in the centre having a debate
Lyceum
Aristotle founded this
Alexander the Great
Taught by Aristotle
the leader of Macedonia in 334 BCE
Neolithic Period
7000 - 3000 BCE
Bronze Age
3000 - 1000 BCE
Dark Age
1000 - 800 BCE
Archaic Period
776 - 480 BCE
Classical Period
480 - 338 BCE
Hellenistic Period
338 - 27 BCE
Roman Greece Era
27 BCE - 397 CE
Olympics Start Date
began in the archaic period
first was in 776 BCE
Eleinan Coroebus
the man that won the first olympics
Diod
the idea that the greeks would keep track of years based on the victors of the olympics for that year
Stade
a unit of measure
192.27 m
600 feet of Heracles
