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| From Attica - the countryside around Athens |
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| 3000 - 1200 BC. The era that is characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze, used to manufacture weapons. Earliest period for writing since the invention of writing. Cultures such as Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian - artistic and architectural implements |
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| The land between the Euphrates and Tigris - modern day Iraq - which has the most famous archaeological sites. Land of Sumerian & Babylonian. The civilization declined after the Mongol's invaded and destroyed their irrigation system. |
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| 1025-925 BC., The era that where mostly everything was lost. SOCIAL REGRESSION. All information, writing, science, math and art and population diminished. Characterized by the change from bronze to iron in metallurgy. Greek peninsula was completely cut off. |
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| a city-state of ancient Greece. |
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| A set of conditions with which the Greeks struggled with. If there were no Gods or kings to rule, many Greeks concluded that human reason was enough. |
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| Power of the people. Origin of the democracy |
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| 800-480 BC., Rise of the polis and founding of both culture and colonies. Philosophy, theatre and poetry all became a part of this rising culture |
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| "born from soil". Always lived in soil |
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| Greek poet active between 750 and 650 BC. Major source of mythology, farming techniques, economy, astronomy and ancient time-keeping. Major works were Theogony, Works & Days. |
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| Poem by Hesiod about labor and the universal lot of Man. May have been written during the agrarian crisis in mainland Greece. |
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| Greek historian between 460 and 395 BC. Wrote both Greek history and Athenian history. |
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| 460-370 BC., Greek physician and father of western medicine. |
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| What the Greeks land was best at agriculturally, grapes, grains and olives. Core of Greek diet |
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| Ancient Greek equivalent of a household, house or family. |
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| 630-570 BC., Greek lyric poet, born on Lesbos. One of nine Greek lyric poets in Alexandrians list |
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| hatred or dislike of women |
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| 430-354 BC., Greek historian, soldier, mercenary and student of Socrates. Wrote about his own times - 4-6th centuries. Also considered the conintuation of Thucydides. |
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| Erotic relationship between an older male and a boy in Greek society. A social custom . |
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| The festival celebrated the 5 or 7th day after the birth of a child. Celebrates that a child has lived past the first few days. It introduced the baby to the family and also to give the baby a name. |
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| Virgin Greek goddess of the hearth, architecture and right of domesticity. Daughter of Cronus and Rhea. |
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| Crescent shaped region containing the most fertile and moist land in Western Asia (Nile Valley). |
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| Area of springs and a former lake near the Peloponessus. Known from one of Heracle's deed where he had to defeat the Lernaean Hydra - many headed chthonic monster. |
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| An archaeological site in Early Bronze Age that was in Lerna. Had several architectural details that were advanced for that time - baked tile roof |
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| Largest Bronze Age site on Crete. Considered Europe's oldest city. Discovery of Linear B tablets were found at Knossos. Ceremonial and political center of Minoan society. |
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| A great king, whom the society may have been named after (Minoan Civilization). Myth: Minos failed to sacrifice a bull to Poseidon and the god made Mino's wife fall in love with the bull. She hides inside the a wooden cow, which the cow mounted and the union made the Minotaur - half man, half cow. |
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| One of the first known Greek cultures, that arose in Crete. Flourished from 27th to 15th century. First experiment of writing took place here. |
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| 1600-1100 BC., Mycenae in Argolis, Peloponnese. Other major sites of Mycenae are Tiryns, Pylos, Athens, Thebes and Knossos. A war society, built on security. |
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| A monument made by the Mycenaeans. Heinreich Schilemann believed this was the site of the Trojan War. Had gold and jewels stuffed inside the grave shafts |
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| kings - persuaded their subjects that they were higher to the gods. |
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| Coastal village in Euboea, Greece. Some major archaeological evidence was uncovered at Lefkandi. During the Dark Ages, there was virtually no developments. At Lefkandi, an enormous building was found. Called Heroon - Heroes Grave - because underneath the building there were two people found, a man and a woman. One of the bodies was cremated, the other was wrapped in linen. |
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| Second largest Greek island and population after Greece. |
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| Various types of monarchs. |
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| The Land that lies just west of Sparta that Sparta invaded. They conquered their land and divided it amongst themselves. |
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| embraces the totality of things feared by a social group at any one time. Always polytheistic but not always anthropomorphic. |
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| A religion that has founders, and men with special relations to the gods such as Yahweh who was revealed to Moses. |
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| People who worshipped the spirits deities of the underworld. |
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| Zeus, Hera, Athena, Apollo, Hephaestus, Artemis, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Demeter, Dionysus, Ares, Hestia, Hermes. |
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| a form of power where the few rule |
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| the men's room at the symposium, often rented out from the sanctuaries. |
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| A poet, 6th century from Megara. Describes how to be a good toastmaster at a symposium. |
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| "all-in wrestling" where the only things you could not do is bite or gouging of the eyes. |
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| A poet from 6th century who reports about the games in Delphi |
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| annual unpopularity contest, where the Greeks would vote to exile who they thought could be a tyrant. |
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| the names of the statues during the Archaic Cultural Revolution |
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black figure: The figures were painted in slip, then put into the fire so that the background preserved the color of the reddish clay, while the painted slip oxidized black
Red-figure: paint the background with slip and leave the figures in the color of the pot. |
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