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“Master, remember the Athenians.”

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Darius had never heard of Athens before, so after they burned Sardis(497), he had a servant constantly say this so that he would never forget what they’ve done.

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“Love of Wisdom”

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Pythagoras. Describes understanding as philosophy. 703.

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“Go, Stranger, and tell the Leoedaemonians that we be here be here in obedience to their law.”

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Placed over the tomb of the Spartans who died at the Battle of Thermopylae.

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“So much the better, we will fight in the shade.”

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Spoken by Dienekes during the Battle of Thermopylae because the Persian army was so large that their arrows would block the sun.

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

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Socrates

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“Man is the measure of all things.”

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Protagorus

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“MIGHT MAKES RIGHT!”

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Athenian justification for the Massacre at Melos(416).

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“thalatta”

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Upon reaching Asia Minor, Xenophon and the Greeks shouted this. Means “sea”.

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“Make peace with the enemy.”

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Epaminondas said this on his deathbed to Thebes

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“Behold the man who would pass from Europe to Asia and trips in passing from couch to couch.”

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Alexander to Philip

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“If I were not Alexander, I would want to be Diogenes.”

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Alexander greatly admired Diogenes.

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“to the strongest”

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Alexander on his deathbed.

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“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”

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Pericles

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Pericles’ mistress

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Aspasia

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Socrates’ wife

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Xanthippe

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Darius’ wife

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Atossa

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Periplos

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Book written about geography

Written by Pausanius

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Phratria

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Brotherhood

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Who ruled Athens during her Golden Age?

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Pericles