Deities of the wild land, Mistress of Animals

One of the most widely venerated Deities of the Ancient Greek

Very influential mistress of Pericles

A philosopher to the philosophers

Castes of heralds, aulos-players and cooks

and, though, as we should expect, there was more flexibility in Athens, the same tendency prevailed. Technical manuals were beginning to appear, but the bulk of vocational instruction was certainly transmitted orally, from father to son.

It was the second-most important festival after the Panathenaia in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus

The central events of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies and, from 487 BC, comedies

Son of Cleaenetus

Cleon was the leader of the radical, imperialist faction in Athens

In 427 BC to kill all adult Mytilenean males and to enslave their women and children after the defeat of Mytilene.

By far the most hot-tempered of citizens

but most trusted by the people

A region in the Southern Caucasus Colchis

Located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea

Centered on present-day western Georgia

The narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece

Roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta.

The Delian League, founded in 478 BC,

An association of Greek city-states, members numbering between 150 to 173, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.

The League's modern name derives from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple and where the treasury stood until, in a symbolic gesture, Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC,.

Delos is the sanctuary of the god Apollo on a mid-Aegean island

A religious center particularly sacred to the

Son of Eucrates

An opponent to the proposal of Cleon

Cleon leader of the radical, imperialist faction in Athens

In 427 BC to kill all adult Mytilenean males and to enslave their women and children after the defeat of Mytilene.

One of the decorative systems that were used for Greek temples

made use of rather sturdy columns

Their height was between four and six times their diameter

The columns rested directly on the top step of the temple

Having characteristics of both sexes

or

No characteristics of either sex

such as

Indeterminate sex

A speech, or writing in praise of a person(s) or thing(s)

especially one recently dead or retired

The shape, name and value of each letter

when a boy could recognize and write the letters

and

knew their values, he was ready for syllables

first

vowel or consonant and vowel

then

more complicated syllables

One of the decorative systems that were used for Greek temples

made use of slimmer columns

eight to ten times their diameter in height

which rested on a base and were topped by volute capitals

Above the capitals the architrave was divided into three horizontal steps

a subtle reflection of the three steps below, on which the temple rested

The frieze above was undivided, generally decorated either by a continuous band of relief carvings

or

with the lively regular rhythm of small tooth-like features called dentils

a sponsor

(literally, a chorus-leader)

A Statesman regarded as the founder of Athenian democracy

serving as chief archon

(highest magistrate)

of the city-state (525–524)

Lord

Master

Head of Household

In religious usage it designates God

(legendary men who were supposed to have lived in northern Greece)

with the centaurs

(monsters who were part man and part horse)

 A Silver mine

Athens richest mineral source

Is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea

It has an area of 630 square miles with 199 miles of coastline

The third largest Greek island

It is separated from Turkey by the narrow Mytilini Strait

Lesbos is a separate regional unit of the North Aegean region

The only municipality within it.

Population is approximately 86,000, a third of which lives in its capital

Liturgy

A citizen appointed trierarch for one year in at least nominal command of an Athenian warship

Liturgies

A Public Service (military or civilian)

An internal source of revenue

Resident Alien

Immigrants

People who have changed their homes

Misogynist

Hostile to women

Misogynistic

Having or showing a hatred and distrust of women

A city on the island of Lesbos

Founded in the 11th century BC by the family Penthilidae

Arrived from Thessaly, and ruled the city-state until a popular revolt (590–580 BC) led by Pittacus of Mytilene ended their rule

The Mytilenean revolt was an incident in the Peloponnesian War in which the city of Mytilene attempted to unify the island of Lesbos under its control and revolt from the Athenian Empire

In 428 BC, the Mytilenean government planned a rebellion in concert with Sparta, Boeotia, and certain other cities on the island, and began preparing to revolt by fortifying the city and laying in supplies for a prolonged war

These preparations were interrupted by the Athenian fleet, which had been notified of the plot, and the Mytileneans sent representatives to Athens to discuss a settlement, but simultaneously dispatched a secret embassy to Sparta to request support.

A house in which the statue of the divinity could be kept safe from the weather and the birds

It did not have to be very elaborate; a single room was quite enough, with a porch added in front for dignity

Rich people who acquired their wealth within their own generations

The man or woman who previously had belonged to a lower social class but the new money allowed upward social mobility and provided the means for conspicuous consumption, the buying of goods and services that signal membership in an upper class

To manage

To govern the state

The Household

The House

The Family

Is the form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people

These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, or military control

'Navel'

which was supposed to mark the centre of the world.

The area in front of an ancient Greek stage

reserved for the Greek chorus

A seemingly shamanic figure in Greek mythology

A legendary musician, poet, and prophet

in ancient Greek religion and myth

To be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years

The obsolescent institution of ostracism, devised originally to break political deadlocks, entitled the community to deprive one household a year of its kyrios without the necessity of proving that he had broken any law

the victim went into exile for ten years, but his property was not confiscated, and when he returned, his rights were undiminished

The community did confiscate the property of perpetrators of heinous crimes like treason, murder, sacrilege or other forms of gross impiety

wrestling school

in ancient Greek

An Athenian festival celebrated every June

in honour of the goddess Athena

The Lesser Panathenaia was an annual event

The Greater Panathenaia was held every four years

Of or relating to all Greek peoples

or

A movement to unify them

Of or relating to all Greek-letter fraternities and sororities

The pitched roof of a Greek temple

that leaves a triangular gable at the front and back

which could be filled with sculpture

it was a difficult task to design sculpture to fit such an awkward space

King of Pisa in the Peloponnesus

He was venerated at Olympia

His cult developed into the founding myth of the Olympic Games

The most important expression of unity, not only for the Peloponnesus, "island of Pelops", but for all Hellenes

Son of Xanthippus

The most prominent and influential Greek statesman

Orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age

Specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars

The colonnade running around the four sides of the temple

is called a peristyle (from peri - around, and stylos - column)

and

a temple with a peristyle is called peripteral

The number of columns along the sides could be anything from eleven to eighteen, but there were usually just six columns along the front and back.

In Persia, built a great palace at between 500 and 460 BC

processions were carved to line the stairways and passages traversed by the participants in the traditional annual tribute-bearing processions

Theseus wife

Daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë

Sculptor for the Parthenon in 5th Century Athens

appointed to make the gold and ivory statue

and

to be in overall charge of the project

A friend of Pericles

"love of humanity"

"what it is to be human"

caring for, nourishing, developing, and enhancing

 both the benefactors' and beneficiaries'

A constellation of the southern hemisphere

situated between Sculptor and Eridanus

The Phratria, is larger than the genos

was another hereditary group, more closely tied to a locality

the phratry (phratria, brotherhood)

The principal units segmenting the populations

and/or

territories of many, perhaps originally all, city-states

Was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes

Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece

His work is the best preserved

Word for "breath"

In a religious context for

"spirit"    or    "soul"

The meeting-place, for more than 6,000

A hill in central Athens, to host there popular assembles

One of the earliest and most important sites in the creation of democracy

The State

or

The Sphere of culture

Is the worship or belief in multiple deities

Usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses

along with their own religions and rituals

An official theatrical presentation

taking place a few days before the Great Dionysia began

A presiding committee, of the Council

At any given time there were fifty representatives of one of the ten tribes They served for a tenth of the year

(about thirty-six days)

Those who spoke regularly and built up a following

'the speakers' (rhetores)

The nearest thing in Athens to professional politicians

Their speeches in the Assembly largely determined national policy

They commonly held no public office

and

were not accountable in the same way as magistrates

An ancient Greek form of tragicomedy

Similar in spirit to the bawdy satire of burlesque

They featured choruses of satyrs

were based on Greek mythology

were rife with mock drunkenness, brazen sexuality

(including phallic props)

pranks, sight gags, and general merriment

Satyric drama was one of the three varieties of Athenian drama

the other two being tragedy and comedy

It can be traced back to Pratinas of Phlius, 500 BC

Magician

or

Sorcerer

The background building to which the platform stage was connected

Costumes and Periaktoiwere were stored

(painted panels serving as the background)

and were connected

An Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet

He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens

His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy

The lot system

most civilian magistrates were appointed

The board of ten generals

literally meaning "army leader"

Reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief

As in philosophy or religion

Especially when success is partial or the result is heterogeneous

A Sanctuary

or

Holy Grove

or

Holy Precinct

Where the audience of a Greek tragedy sat to view the performance.

Originally the collective noun for a group of spectators (theatai) and so became attached to the place where the theatai spectated

The mythical Founder-King of Athens

Son of Aegeus and Poseidon

both of whom Aethra had slept with in one night

Thespis of Icaria

The first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play, actor-playwrighter

According to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle

A Greek historian and Athenian general

Father of "scientific history"

Because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect

Father of the school of political realism, which views the relations between nations as based on might rather than right

The population divisions in ancient Attica

Established by the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC

The name means "thirtieth,"

There were in fact thirty trittyes in Attica

Each tribe, or phyle of Athens was composed of three trittyes

One from the coast (Asty)

One from the city (Paralia)

One from the inland area (Mesogeios)

Trittyes were composed of one or more Demes

Demes were the basic unit of division in Attica

 A woman who demonstrates exemplary and heroic qualities

A woman regarded as noisy, scolding, or domineering

Is the irrational or unreasoned fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange

It comes from the Greek word (xenos), meaning "stranger," "foreigner," and (phobos), meaning "fear"

Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity

Xenophobia can also be exhibited in the form of an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" in which a culture is ascribed "an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality"

Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action urges all governments to take immediate measures and to develop strong policies to prevent and combat all forms and manifestations of racism, xenophobia or related intolerance, where necessary by enactment of appropriate legislation including penal measure

Son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens

Also known as Xenophon of Athens

A Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher

and

a contemporary and admirer of Socrates

Foreigner

or

Stranger

"Father of Gods and men"

Rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rules the family according to the ancient Greek religion

 He is the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology

Athenian tragic Poet

Appears in Plato's Symposium