Ancient History - Greece

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When did the Ionian Revolt start and end?

499-493

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When was the Battle of Lade?

494

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What happened in the Battle of Lade?

Phoenicians sail out versus Ionians, but most of the Ionians desert

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What happened at the Battle of Ephesus?

Persians catch Ionians at Ephesus and inflict extensive casualty. The Athenians abandon the Ionian cause

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What happened to Mardonius’ fleet when he first crossed the Hellespont?

They got caught in a storm and lost 300 ships

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When was the Battle of Marathon?

490

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Who were the Persian commanders at Marathon?

Datis and Artaphernes

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What three city states do the Persians take just before Marathon?

Naxos, Delos and Eretria

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Who were the Greek commanders for Marathon?

Miltiades and Callimachus

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How many Athenians and Plataeans were there at Marathon?

10000 and 1000

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How large was the Persian force at Marathon?

25000

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How many city states attended the conference at Isthmus for the formation of the Hellenic League?

30-70/100

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How many city states were named on the Serpent’s Column?

31

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When does Mardonius bridge across the Hellespont for the second time?

438

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When does Xerxes cross into Greece?

May 480

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When was the Battle of Thermopylae?

480

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What was the Battle of Artemesium simultaneous to?

Thermopylae

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What kind of the battle was Battle of Artemesium?

Naval

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When was the Battle of Plataea?

479

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How many Persians died at Plataea?

30k/100k

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How many Greeks died at Plataea?

2k/40k

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When was the Battle of Mycale?

479

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What happened at the Battle of Mycale?

Council of War sails on Samos while Persians are beached on Mycale. Persians lose to Spartans, Athenians and rebelling Ionians

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What was the significance of Mycale?

Ended defence of mainland Greece

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What is the Pentecontaetia?

Fifty years between Persian Wars and Peloponnesian Wars

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When and where did the Delian League first meet?

477 at Delos

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When did the Athenians take Byzantium?

478-477

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When was the Siege and Capture of Eion? (Delian League)

476-475

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When did the Delian League do the conquest of Scyrus?

474-473

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When was the Coercion of Carystus?

472

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When was the Revolt and Subjugation of Naxos?

470

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When was the Battle of Eurymedon?

468

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When was the Revolt of Thasos?

465

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Who was the Spartan commander and Mycale?

Leotychides

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When was the Battle at Tanagra?

457

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What was the first Athenian-Spartan battle of the Peloponnesian War?

The Battle of Tanagra

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What was the Peace of Callais?

Greek cities live under own laws with satraps banned from three day radius of the sea

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When was the Thirty Year Peace agreed?

446

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Ionic order?

Curls known as volutes

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Doric order?

Simple and circular

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When does the Peloponnesian War begin?

In 431 when Thebans attack Plataea

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When was the Athenian plague?

430

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When did the Revolt of Lesbos happen?

428

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When was the punishment of Mytilene?

427

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What was the Thoudippos Decree?

Increased tribute payments to 1460 talents

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When was the Thoudippos Decree issued?

425

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When was Pylos and Sphacteria?

425

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When was the Thracian Campaign?

424-422

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Who was the Spartan commander for the Thracian campaign?

Brasidas

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What were the terms of the 423 armistice?

Athens would endure no further defections and they called a truce

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When was the Peace of Nicias?

421

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When was the Sicilian Expedition?

415-413

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When did Athens attempt to siege sycracuse?

414

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When is the Syracusan Naval Victory?

413

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What was the Treaty of Miletus?

Between Persia and Sparta, handing Ionian states to the Persians

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When was the oligarchic revolution?

411

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What did the Old Oligarch write?

The Constitution of the Athenians

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How many councillors did each tribe select for the boule?

50

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What was the Prytany system?

35-6 days when councillors on call, prepared agenda for council meetings and one was elected for chairman each day

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How many magistrates does Aristotle say served in Attica each year?

700

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What was The Eleven?

Responsible for legal punishments and managing state prison

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Who could attend the assembly?

any citizen

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What is Aristophanes Wasps about?

Parodies law courts- elderly father addicted to court

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What was Aristophanes Knights about?

Cleon, slave, flattering a master named Demos

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What does Xenophon say about the Metics?

Emphasises economic contribution in Poroi

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What does Old Oligarch say about the Metics?

Made valuable contribution to the Athenian fleet

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What does Plato say about the Metics?

Pericles’ mistress of high intelligence

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What does the Old Oligarch say about slaves?

That they had it too easy

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What was the Thesmophoria?

Female festival for Demeter and Persephone where they camped for three days near the Pryx

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When was Socrates put on trial?

399

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What does Thucydides say about the building programme?

If Sparta was abandoned, their great power would not be attributed to the ruins like Athens would be

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What was the first building noticable as a visitor of the Acropolis

Temple of Athena Nike

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What three things are on the friezes in the Temple of Athena Nike?

Groups of gods, Battle of Plataea and Athens vs Corinth at Megara

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What was the propylaea?

Formed entrance to Acropolis

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What were all the metopes in the Parthenon decorated with?

Mythical scenes

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What four things did the metopes in the parthenon present?

Sack of Troy, Centauromachy, Gigantomachy, Amazonomachy

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What do the scholars say about the images on the metopes?

Linked with threats to Athens: women, barbarians and tyranny

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What does Pausanius say in Description of Greece was on the pediments at the parthenon?

The birth of Athena

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What do the friezes at the parthenon present?

Importance of procession to Athenian life. 192 horsemen = 192 killed at Marathon

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Where was the sacred olive wood carving of Athena kept?

The Erechtheion

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What did the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion depict?

Centauromachy, Gigantomachy and Labours of Theseus

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Who would see the Temple at Sounion?

Ships approaching Piraeus

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When was the City Dionysia?

Late March

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When was the Lenaea?

Late January

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When was Rural-Dionysia?

Mid-winter

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Who chose the choregos for the City Dionysia?

Eponymous archon

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What was the Panathenaia?

Festival celebrating Athena’s birthday

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What was the Panathenaia celebration centred around?

A procession to Acropolis

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Who introduced musical competition to the Panathenaia?

Pericles

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When was the Battle of Aegospotami?

405

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When was the Battle of Arginusae?

406

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What happened at the Battle of Arginusae?

Athenian naval victory, but they killed all the commanders

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What was the ecclesia?

The assembly

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What did the Council of the Areopagus do?

Judicial body responsible for cases such as homicide, wounding etc

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What was a strategoi?

A general

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Why did Corinth and Corcyra fall out over Epidamus?

Corinth sent aid to their democratic revolutionaries and Corcyra did not

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What was the battle of sybota?

Athenian ships helped when Corcyra ones were in trouble, giving Corinth its first cause for war against Athens

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When is the earthquake in Sparta?

464

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Who sends help for the Spartan helot revolt and how does Sparta react?

Athens sends aid at their appeal, but are sent home because they’re embarrassed. According to Plutarch

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What began the First Peloponnesian War?

Megara defecting from the Peloponnesian League