hellenic history

Where was sparta’s first colony located?

Tarentum/Taras

greek word for city

polis

when were the first ancient olympics held?

776 BCE

what spartan king wrote their constitution “the great rehtra” c.750 BC?

lycurgus

who overthrew the bacchiad family who had tried to kill him as a child?

cypselus

what argive king later became tyrant in his city?

pheidon

what wise sage instituted many reforms, including no debt slavery in athens?

solon

what spartan king invaded athens?

cleomenes

what was a strategos?

a general

what were inferior inhabitants of sparta called?

helots

what “father of democracy” reformed the athenian constitution?

cleisthenes

what persian king tried to capture greece in the 480s bc?

xerxes

what allowed athens to develop their powerful navy?

silver at Mt. Laurion

at what battle in 480 bc were the famous 300 spartans killed by persia?

thermopylae

what famous general defeated persia at salamis in 480 bc?

themistocles

who ruled athens during its golden age around 430 bc and commissioned the parthenon?

pericles

what two men killed the ipparchus in 514 bce and were known as the tyrannicides?

harmodius and aristogeiton

what father of hipparchus and hippias was the only man to be athenian tyrant twice?

peisistratus

who was the father of alexander the great?

philip II

who was the mother of alexander the great?

olympias

what was a satrap?

persian governor

who was the main persian enemy of alexander the great?

Darius III

where did these two meet in battle?

issus

in what year was socrates forced to drink hemlock and die?

399 BCE

in what year did alexander the great die?

323 bce

who was known as the weeping philosopher?

heraclitus

what philosopher correctly predicted the eclipse of 585 bce?

thales

who led the ionian revolt?

aristagoras

who was known as the most honorable mean in athens and even voted to ostracize himself?

aristides

where did thebes defeat sparta and kill their king in 371 bce?

leuctra