Homer's Odyssey: Final Exam Review
Final Exam Review
FIRST POWER POINT
• Greek art
• Tyrants are usually the ones that commissioned art.
• Greek Drama
• Battle of Salamis - major battle when the tide turns and is a major blow to the
Persian army. Miltiades the father of Kimon won the battle, they were from the island of Ajax,
• Rebuilding Athens
• both Miltiades and Kimon were ostracized
• Kimon died at Cyrpress
Egyptian campaign
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• Kimon campaign preceded Alexander's campaign by over a century
• Battle of the Eurmedon river
• Death blow to rebuilding their ship (persians?)
• Helot Revolt in 464BCE
• Siege of Mount Ithome - the hellots resisted for 10 years
Third Messenian War (464-455)
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• Democratic Athens does not always support democratic regimes
• Pharsalus -Thessaly …show more content…
Aristotle on women and slaves
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• Female character in Sophocles Tereus fragment 583
• Athenian speaker to an Athenian judeg
• Metic (Metoikoi)
• The non citizens of Athens, made up one third of the population and were quite
Athenian in their support and decisions
• Example of Metics
• Slavery in Athens
• If you removed slave population from Ancient Greece it would destroy the fabric of society
• There was approximately one slave per person in Athens
• "The Athenian Dream"
• Slave could be Greek or non-greek, there was no discrimination
• Difference with Antebellum Slavery in the USA
• Slave could be paid for their job, unlike American slave trade
• Slavery and the Military Industrial Complex
• The Shield Factory of Lysias is the largest establishment knowns with about 120 slaves • Popular games and activities
• Symposium
• Literacy
• Most greeks could read at some point in history
• Socrates was against writing fearing it would affect the memory.
• Education in archaic and early 5th century Athens
• 3 fundamental pillars of education
Literature
•
Physical Education
•
Music
FIRST POWER POINT
• Greek art
• Tyrants are usually the ones that commissioned art.
• Greek Drama
• Battle of Salamis - major battle when the tide turns and is a major blow to the
Persian army. Miltiades the father of Kimon won the battle, they were from the island of Ajax,
• Rebuilding Athens
• both Miltiades and Kimon were ostracized
• Kimon died at Cyrpress
Egyptian campaign
•
• Kimon campaign preceded Alexander's campaign by over a century
• Battle of the Eurmedon river
• Death blow to rebuilding their ship (persians?)
• Helot Revolt in 464BCE
• Siege of Mount Ithome - the hellots resisted for 10 years
Third Messenian War (464-455)
•
• Democratic Athens does not always support democratic regimes
• Pharsalus -Thessaly …show more content…
Aristotle on women and slaves
•
• Female character in Sophocles Tereus fragment 583
• Athenian speaker to an Athenian judeg
• Metic (Metoikoi)
• The non citizens of Athens, made up one third of the population and were quite
Athenian in their support and decisions
• Example of Metics
• Slavery in Athens
• If you removed slave population from Ancient Greece it would destroy the fabric of society
• There was approximately one slave per person in Athens
• "The Athenian Dream"
• Slave could be Greek or non-greek, there was no discrimination
• Difference with Antebellum Slavery in the USA
• Slave could be paid for their job, unlike American slave trade
• Slavery and the Military Industrial Complex
• The Shield Factory of Lysias is the largest establishment knowns with about 120 slaves • Popular games and activities
• Symposium
• Literacy
• Most greeks could read at some point in history
• Socrates was against writing fearing it would affect the memory.
• Education in archaic and early 5th century Athens
• 3 fundamental pillars of education
Literature
•
Physical Education
•
Music