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| What ended the Golden Age for Athens? |
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| What year was the Peloponnesian war? Between who? who won? |
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| 432 BC; Athens and Sparta; Sparta |
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| Was violence ever performed in front of an audience? |
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| The spread of Greek thought, style, and custom throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. |
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| Alexander the Great's birth place and where he was the leader. |
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| 1220 B.C.; Started because of trade routes |
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| Leader of the Golden Age. |
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| Executed by drinking a poison(hemlock) because he supposedly corrupted the youth in Athens. |
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| Sophisticated palace dwellers accustomed to comfort, luxury and beauty; 2nd millennium BS; flourished on Crete; prior to 1600 B.C.E.; King Minos came from here |
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| War between Persia and Greece; Persia invades Europe(490 to 479 BC); Athens and Sparta merged and resisted the invasion. Defeating Persians is mainly do to Athenians; THIS WAR STARTED THE GOLDEN AGE!; |
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| Known to be playwrights of tragedies. |
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| Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus |
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| Set of rules concerning time, location, and plot in a Greek play. |
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| Known for warfare; good army because landlocked |
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| Legendary author/poet; Primary focus on humanity; Homeric epics center on heroes who embody ancient Greek values and culture; author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. |
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| primary virtues of values of the Greeks; a lot of rules, simple, balanced. |
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| a small independent city; typically at war with each other; had a common Hellenic religion; Sparta and Athens; Main political entities |
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| Plato's most famous disciple; TAUGHT ALEXANDER THE GREAT; wrote poetics; sees the universe as a whole and placing humanity in that universe. |
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| Log narrative poem; from Dark Ages; Poetry from Homer |
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| Arrived in Greece in about 1600-1200 B.C.; RECORDED EVERYTHING; brought their own language;myths and epics are based on what took place there |
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| Son of Zeus;god of wine, ecstasy, drama(theater), and fertility. |
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| Had emerged as one of the most powerful city-states; Famous for the arts and intellect and had a great navy because its close to water. |
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| Socrates most famous disciple; visioned a realm of immutable perfect forms of which this world is flawed; wrote the Republic and Allegory of the cave. |
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| Died in 323 B.C.; Transformed the Eastern Mediterranean into a Greek Empire; Leader of Macedon; Famous for spreading Greek ideas throughout the world |
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| A person of noble birth that has heroic qualities but always has a flaw, for Greeks it was pride. |
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