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Greek Civilization Midterm
Greek Midterm Review Terms
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History
Undergraduate 1
03/04/2010

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Arion
Definition

Greek Poet

Dolphin Guy

Term

Artabanus

Definition

Persian political leader

Chief official for Xerxes, bodyguard

Term

Artemisia (women)

Definition

Daughter of Lygdamis as king of Halicarnassus

Became ruler when he died

Term

Cambyses

Definition

Son of Cyrus the Great

Founder of the Persian Empire

Term

centaur

Definition
Mythical race of 1/2 Human and 1/2 Horse
Term

Clesithenes of Athens

Definition

Credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athen and setting it on a democratic footing in 508BC

 

the father of Athenian democracy

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Croesus

Definition

King of Lydia 560 to 546 BC

Defeated by the Persians

Term

cultural relativism

Definition

the view that all

nomoi are equal

Term

Cyrus

Definition

King of Anshan in Persia from c. 600 to 580 BC

 

Grandson Cyrus the Great was founder of Persian Empire

Term

Darius

Definition

king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire

 

Fater to Xerxes

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Deioces
Definition
leader of Persian people (type of race)
Term

Demaratus

Definition
king of Sparta from 515 until 491 BC
Term

Dorians

Definition
one of the four major tribes into which the Ancient Greeks divided themselves
Term

double determination

Definition

the gods determine what happens, but so do humans

 

Term

Eurybiades

Definition
Spartan commander in charge of the Greek navy during the Persian Wars.
Term
Ethnography
Definition

qualitative research method often used in the social sciences

 

gathering empirical data on human societies/cultures

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Gelon
Definition
son of Deinomenes, was a 5th century BC ruler of Gela and Syracuse and first of the Deinomenid rulers
Term

Gyges

Definition
3rd Lydian King
Term
Herodotus
Definition
an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( 484 BC – c. 425 BC).
Term
Hippias
Definition
was a Greek Sophist, and a contemporary of Socrates
Term
Hoplite
Definition

Greek citizen/soldier

(300 soldier)

Term

Ionians

Definition

speakers of the Ionic dialect,including the Athenians most islanders, and most Greeks of Asia Minor

Term
Leonidas
Definition

King of Sparta during the Persian wars

(300 Movie Leader)

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Lycurgus
Definition
creator of the Spartan Constitution
Term

Mardonius

Definition
was a leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the early 5th century BC
Term
medize
Definition
to submit to the Persian king as overlord
Term
nomos
Definition
law or custom
Term
Periander
Definition
was the second tyrant of Corinth, Greece in the 7th century BC
Term

phalanx

Definition

greek term meaning many things:

medicine

military

literature

Term

Pisistratidae

Definition
greek tyrant
Term
Peisistratos
Definition
was a tyrant of Athens from 546 to 527/8 BC
Term
Plutarch
Definition

born a Roman Citizen

was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist

Term

Pythia

Definition
ancient Greek oracle at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Term

Socleas

Definition
Corinthian, gave some famour speech
Term
Solon
Definition
was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and elegiac poet
Term
Themistocles
Definition
was an Athenian politician and general
Term
Trireme
Definition
class of warship used by the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans.
Term
tyrant
Definition
ancient leader
Term

Xerxes

Definition
king of Persian; leader during Persian Empire takeover
Term

Xenophon

Definition
son of Gryllus; writer during the 4th century BC, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and the life of ancient Greece
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