CLAS201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pythia, Greco-Persian Wars, Elpis

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS201
• Professor: Nicholas Maes

Document Summary

Persian wars (lydia, delphic oracle, ionian rebellion, persian war i) Humankind: myth of 5 ages (gold, silver, bronze, hero, iron) Prometheus (theft of fire), pandora as punishment, pithos, evils, hope (elpis) Polis synoecism, citizenship, separate coinage, calendar, rituals, constitution, laws etc. competition, democracy (e. g. athenian polis, attica, athens) Hoplite warfare hoplite, hoplon (shield), phalanx, helmet, greaves, spear, sword, property qualification, start of western notions of war, link to democracy. Synoecism, theseus, basileus, archon, polemarchus, thesmothetae (6), eupatrids, georgoi, demiourgoi, Hektemoroi, areopagus, ekklesia, miltos, currency (introduction, consequences), kylon (first attempt at tyranny), draco, solon (c. 575), seisachtheia (shaking off of woes), pentakosiomedimnoi, hippeis, Zeugitai, thetes, tamias, heliaea, boul (400 members), axones, plain, hill, coast, stasis (civil war), Peisistratus (546 527), laurion mines, panathenaic festival, dionysia, hippias, hipparchus, harmodius, Aristogeiton, eromenos, erastes, cleisthenes (508), trittys (30), tribes (10), boul (500), strategoi (generals - 10), ostracism, prytanis. Peloponnesus, laconia, messenia, perioikoi, 1st messenian war (c. 730), helots, kleros, krypteia, 2nd.