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Humanities Test 3
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Undergraduate 1
05/09/2013

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Spartan king who led Greek forces at Thermopylae
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Leonidas
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Wrote Oedipus at Colonus
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Sophocles
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Persian Emperor during battle of Marathon
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Darius
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Oedipus killed him on the road from Delphi to Thebes
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Laius
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Ionian city captured by Persains after Ionian Revolt
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Miletus
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Originally produced in sets of three for the Dionysia
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tragedies
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His idea to use silver windfall to fund Athenian fleet
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Themistocles
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Wrote The Clouds, The Frogs, and The Birds
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Aristophanes
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The place where Oedipus' life came to an end
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Colonus
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Persian Emperor at Thermopylae
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Xerxes
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A kind of theatre thought to have evolved from banter
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comedy
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A dithyramb was a song in his honor
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Dionysus
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Capital of Lydia burned during ionian Rebellion
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Sardis
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His name means "swollen foot"
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Oedipus
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He marched against Cyrus and lost his own Empire
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Croesus
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A kind of comic relief after watching much tradgedy
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satyr play
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city of which Oedipus becomes king
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Thebes
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Kidnaps Oedipus' daughters from Colonus
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Creon
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"Great" emperor of Persia who takes throne in 559
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Cyrus
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The blind prophet of Thebes
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Tiresias
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Hangs herself when she learns she has slept with her son
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Jocasta
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Ran from Athens to Sparta to Marathon to Athens
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Pheidippides
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Archaic name of Athenian magistrate
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archon
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Tragedy writer who served in the persian wars
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Aeschylus
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Only elected office in Athens after about 487
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strategos
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According to Athenian tradition, the first actor
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Thespis
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Harmodius and Aristogeiton
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tyrannicides
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Final naval battle of Persian wars
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Salamis
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Parody is evident in some of the tragedies he wrote
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Euripides
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Here Persian ships were held back from Thermopylae
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Artemision
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