Greek Worlds 1A, History

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What did early lyric poetry think tyranny showed?

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Wealth and power

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What was Solon’s view on tyranny?

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Tyranny = monarchy = bad

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What did early lyric poetry think tyranny showed?

Wealth and power

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What was Solon’s view on tyranny?

Tyranny = monarchy = bad

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What was Pindar’s view on tyranny?

Tyranny = monarchy = unproblematic

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What was Herodotus’ view on democracy?

Democracy trumps tyranny

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What kind of leaders were tyrants?

Populist

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Who did Cypselus overthrow to become tyrant of Corinth?

The Bacchiads

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Who wrote the two versions of Cypselus’ rise to power?

Herodotus and Nicolaus of Damascus

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What did Cypselus reorganise in Corinth?

The tribal structure

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Who took over as tyrant after Cypselus?

His son Periander

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What does Periander introduce in Corinth?

A boule (council) and laws to limit expenditure and displays among the rich

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What laws had Solon passed in Athens before the Peisistratus?

Laws to prevent tyranny

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When does Aristotle say that there were three factions in Athens?

565 BCE

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What were the three factions in Athens?

The men of the Coast, The men of the Plain, The men of the Hill

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What does Herodotus claim is Peisistratus’ first attempt to gain power?

He wounded himself in order to claim a personal guard to conquer the acropolis

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What was Peisistratus’ second attempt?

He married Megacles’ daughter and is escorted back to Athens, but after he doesn’t sleep with her he is forced to leave Athens again

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What was Peisistratus’ third attempt?

He goes to war against Athens and wins without much battle, he then expels the family of Megacles

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Where else had Peisistratus conquered?

Naxos, Eretria, Pangion and Rhaikelos

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What does Aristotle claim that Peisistratus tried to make the people?

A-political

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What does Peisistratus ensure?

That he always has a family member in office

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What does Peisistratus introduce in Athens?

Coinage

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What is one of the theories about Peisistratus?

That he was the one to write down Homer as we know it

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Who in the Peisistratis family was murdered?

Hipparchus

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How many years after Hipparchus’ murder did tyranny last?

4

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When was the Dawn of Democracy (the end of tyranny)?

508 BCE

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When were Drakon’s laws introduced to Attica?

620 BCE

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When did Solon’s reforms occur?

594/593 BCE

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How long after Solon was Aristotle writing?

About 250 years

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How long after Solon was Plutarch writing?

About 700 years

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What is Solon known for abolishing?

Debts

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What does Solon create based on the production of specific amounts of produce?

Tele

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How many people are in the council that Solon creates?

400

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How many people from each tribe are in Solon’s council?

100

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What property class in Solon’s Athens was only allowed to attend assemblies and popular law courts?

Thetes

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How long does Herodotus claim that Athens promised to observe Solon’s laws for?

10 years

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How long does Aristotle claim that Athens promised to observe Solon’s laws for?

100 years

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By what years had discontent in Athens reconfigured around 3 regional factions?

570s

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Who led the men of the coast?

Megacles

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Who led the men of the plain?

Lycurgus

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Who led the men of the Hill?

Peisistratus

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What does Herodotus claim that the Oracle of Delphi declared Lycurgus?

A god

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Who was Lycurgus guardian of?

Leobetes, his nephew and the Spartan king

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What kind of changes does Herodotus claim that Lycurgus made?

Historical and military

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Who does not mention Lycurgus when talking about the history of Sparta?

Thucydides

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What happened to children who were not deemed worthy of being raised in Lycurgus’ Sparta?

They were cast aside

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What did Lycurgus redistribute to ensure that everyone had an equal share?

Land

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What kind of money did Lycurgus insist on being used?

Iron

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What else did Lycurgus introduce in Sparta to ensure equality?

Common messes

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At what age were children in Sparta no longer raised by their parents, instead becoming children of the state?

7

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What does Simonides compare women to in Poem 7?

Animals

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Which animal does Simonides positively compare women to?

A bee

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What biblical character does Simonides presentation of Pandora have similar themes to?

Eve

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Who thinks that old men should not take young wives as they would be likely to have an affair?

Theognis of Megara

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Who talks about Spartan women?

Xenaphon

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Why does Xenophon think that women should be physically strong and fit?

To produce healthy children

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Why does Pausanias present Cynics as ambitious and talented in his Description of Greece?

She breeds a winning horse for the Olympics

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Where was Gortyn?

Crete

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When was the Gortyn Law Code introduced?

450 BCE

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What impacted the ‘importance’ of women in Gortyn?

If they were free or a slave

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What did free women have the right to in Gortyn?

Property

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What was one of the only things that higher status women were allowed to do?

Textile production

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Alongside textile production, what things could lower status women be?

Nurses or vendors

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What are some of empires that fell during the rise of the Persian Empire?

Lydian, Median and Egyptian

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The Fall of Babylon

539 BCE

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When does Darius I restore the kingship?

521 BCE

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How many provinces does Darius I divide Persia into?

20 according to Herodotus, 29 according to contemporary Persian sources

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What road does the Imperial Postal System travel along?

The Royal Road

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The Fall of Lydia

546 or 547 BCE

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The Invasion of Naxos

499 BCE

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Does the invasion of Naxos succeed?

No

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The Battle of Marathon

490 BCE

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Who aids the Athenians in the Battle of Marathon?

The Plataeans

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When did Xerxes invasion take place?

480 BCE

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Who wins the Battle of Salamis?

The Greeks

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When does the Greek alliance decide to mount a defence of Greece?

Around June 480 BCE

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The Battle of Artemisium

480 BCE

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Over how many days did the Battle of Artemisium take place?

3

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What happened on the 1st day of the Battle of Artemisium?

The Persians lost 30 ships

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What happened on the 2nd day of the Battle of Artemisium?

There were no engagements

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What happened on the 3rd day of the Battle of Artemisium?

Intense fighting saw equal losses on both sides

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The Battle of Thermopylae

480 BCE

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Who leads the Greek force at Thermopylae?

Spartan king Leonides

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How many men were in the total Greek force at Thermopylae

7,000

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How many days did the Greeks manage to block the Persian’s progress for at Thermopylae?

2

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Why did the Greek forces choose to force a battle near the Island of Salamis?

To re-take Attica

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The Battle of Plataea

479 BCE

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Who led the polis contingents of the Greek force?

The Spartan regent

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What kind of battle was Salamis mainly?

Infantry

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Persian War

499-449 BCE

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When did Cleisthenes come into power?

508/7 BCE

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What did Cleisthenes split the regional factions into?

Demes

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What were demes then divided into?

Trittyes

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How many people were in Cleisthenes boule?

500

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How long was a term of office in Cleisthenes’ council?

1 year

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What term was used for Cleisthenes form of government?

Isthnomia

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What were the trittyes split into?

Tribes

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How many tribes were there?

10

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How many demes were there?

139

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How many trittyes were there?

30

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What do the council decide?

The agenda for the assembly