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Minoans

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  • civilization on Crete
  • building large-scale projects by end of 3rd millennium BCE
  • 2nd millennium BCE: built great palaces that may have inspired the legend of the labyrinth
  • economy of collection and redistribution, with detailed records kept
  • first rulers of the sea; a thalassocracy
  • spreading out may have been due to need for tin and copper (necessary ingredients for making bronze)
  • lots of bull images in art
  • assumed to be a peaceful people based on their frescoes of sea life and religious festivals
  • may have worshipped a snake goddess
  • religious symbols include horns and double axes
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Sesklo and Dimini

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  • archaeological site in Thessaly
  • Neolithic period
  • one of the earliest known sites of human habitation in Greece
  • can see development of architecture from wattle and daub houses to megaron (rectangular building with two rooms; function unknown)
  • clay figurines of women; purpose unknown
  • destroyed around 4400 BCE
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Knossos

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  • earliest and largest Minoan palace complex

- may be inspiration for labyrinth story

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Linear A

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  • early writing system of the Minoans
  • probably used for record keeping
  • we still can’t read it
  • found all over the place, implying literacy was fairly widespread
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Thera

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  • Santorini
  • Minoan settlement at Akrotiri
  • destroyed in volcanic eruption ca. 1628
  • major port city
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Linear B

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  • written language
  • precursor of Greek
  • syllabic
  • mostly used for record-keeping
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Tholos Tomb

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  • beehive-shaped burial structure

- Mycenaean

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Heinrich Schliemann

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  • German archaeologist
  • showed that Troy was a real place
  • used clues in the Iliad to find its location
  • dynamited through Homer’s Troy to get to an earlier one
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Arthur Evans

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  • excavated the palace at Knossos
  • hypothesized that Minoans were a peaceful, matriarchal society due to cheerful, “feminine” motifs in art and lack of defensive walls
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Tomb of Agamemnon

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Grave Circles A and B

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  • 2 clusters of shaft graves at Mycenae
  • abt. 1600-1500
  • Circle B has more graves, but Circle A has richer graves
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Mycenaeans

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  • ca. 1600-1400

- first speakers of Greek

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Megaraon

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wanax

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Basileus

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Mycenae

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Cyclopean Walls

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Grave Circle A

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Lion Gate

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Dorian Invasion

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Homer

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formulae

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  • phrases repeated in epic poetry
  • use them to stall if you forget the next line
  • built to scan in such a way that you can use them to fill out a gap in a line
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Hesiod

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Milman Parry

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Dark Ages

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1150-900

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boule

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demos

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agon

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-the struggle for excellence

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agathos/kakos

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arete

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time

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ekklesia

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polis

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chora

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astu

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agora

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acropolis

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archons

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hoplite

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deme

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phratry

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Archaic Age

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800-480

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oikos

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oikist

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Magna Graecia

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Phoenicians

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Pithecussae

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Al Mina

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emporion

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Orientalizing Period

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8th-7th c. BCE

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stasis

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Areopagus

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Kylon (632)

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Alkmaeonids

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Drakon (621/0)

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Solon (594/3)

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Hektemoroi

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Seisachtheia

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Pentakosiomedimnoi

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Hippeis

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Zeugitae

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Thetes

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Peisistratos

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Lycurgus

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Megacles

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Hippias and Hipparchos

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Harmodius and Aristogeiton

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Cleisthenes (508/7)

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Ostracism/Ostraka

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(Kyria) Ekklesia

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stele/stelae

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rhetors

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prytany

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prytaneion

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strategos

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archon (basileus, eponymous)

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choregos

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polemarch

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metic

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dokimasia

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thesmothetai

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Marathon

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Thermopylae

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Salamis

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Plataea

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Cyrus the Great

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Darius I

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Xerxes

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satrap(y)

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proskynesis

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Aristagoras

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Ionian Revolt

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499

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Sardis

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Miltiades

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Marathonomachoi

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medizing

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Themistocles

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Laureion

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Hellenic League

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eleutheria

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politeia

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gene

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Pericles’ citizenship law

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451

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scrutiny

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liturgy

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trierarchy

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xenia

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proxenos

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prostates

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metoikion

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xenelasia

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Great Rhetra

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eunomia

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Laconia

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Tyrtaeus

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Messenia

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helots

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perioikoi

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Messenian Wars

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736-620

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kleros/kleroi

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Homoioi/Spartiates

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neodamodeis

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syssitia

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agoge

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Plataea

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479

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Thucydides

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trireme

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Delian League

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478/7

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Kimon

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Ephialtes (the Athenian)

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Pericles

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Peace of Callias

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Eurymedon

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phoros

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Hellenotamiai

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Ephialtes

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Athenian Tribute Lists

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Coinage (Standards) Decree

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Pentakontaetia

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479-431

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First Peloponnesian War

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460-446

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Periclean Building Program

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Parthenon

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Propylaia

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Erechtheion

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Hephaisteion

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entasis

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metope

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frieze

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triglyph

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pediment

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Peloponnesian War

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431-404 BCE

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Potidaea

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Corcyra

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Epidamnus

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Megarian Decree

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Archidamean War

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Kleon

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Brasidas

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Pylos and Sphacteria

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Peace of Nicias

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421

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Sicilian Expedition

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415-413

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Alcibiades

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Nicias

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Lamachus

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Segesta

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herms/hermakopids

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Gylippus

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Tissaphernes

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Aigespotami

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404

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The Four Hundred

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