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Miltiades Athenian general who led them to victory at the battle of Marathon
Callimachus Callimachus () was polemarch in Athens in 490 BC, and was one of the commanders at the Battle of Marathon.
Mount Kotoroni The mountain at Marathon where the Athenian camp was located
stele A stele (, older , from Greek: stl; plural: stelae , stlai; also found: Latinised singular stela and Anglicised plural steles) is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerals or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living - inscribed, carved in relief (bas-relief, sunken-relief, high-relief, and so forth), or painted onto the slab.
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Themistocles First commoner in Athenian history to run the affairs of the state. He commissioned the Athenian navy
Bay of Salamis Crucial battle of the second Persian invasion under Xerxes. The Greeks won due to the Athenian Naval fleet
King Leonidas King of Sparta. Made at valiant stand at Thermopylae to halt the Persian Invasion
Demaratus king of Sparta from 515 until 491 BC, of the Eurypontid line, successor to his father Ariston. Defected to Persia
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Mardonius Xerxes son in law who remained with 300,000 persian troops in Plataea in Boeotia
Pausanias Spartan General who helped lead the greeks to victory at Plataea • Later chosen to lead an expedition to sweep the Persians out of the Aegean in 478 • Recovered Byzantium, re-opening the Black Sea Route • In 476 rumors circulated about behind the scenes deals with the Persians. He was relieved of his duties • In 481, proof surfaced. He would have ruled all of Hellas in the name of the Great King
Mycale sight of another battle that took place on the same day as Plataea. Persians beached their ships on land. Greeks burned them
Leotychides king of Sparta who led the allied fleet to at Mycale
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Xanthippus father of Pericles who laid Seige to Sestos
Sestos Sestos () was an ancient Greek town of the Thracian Chersonese, the modern Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey. the most powerful of the Persian bases in the area at the time of the Persian War
Artayctes the Persian satrap in command of Sestos
Themistocles took Pausanias’ place as military leader of Greece • He lost favor in Athens and was ostracized in 471 • Implicated with Pausanias in dealing with Persia
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Cimon o Son of Miltiades o Garnered respect at Salamis o Very generous o Spartans favorite Athenian o Responsible for Athenian growth of power o One of the Architects of the Delian League
Delian League o 150 poleis who joined forces o Athens quickly assumed leadership o States joined voluntarily and provided manpower, ships, or money to pursue common goals • Ridding the Aegean of pirates and Persians o Policy for the league was decided by a synod of representatives who met regularly at Delos o Athenians monopolized the league • Aristides and Cimon
Scyros • Delian League Established an Athenian military outpost there • Scyros was a center of piracy • Important for Athens for Two Reasons: o In the way of the main shipping lane from the Black Sea o Made it possible for Cimon to bring back the remains of Theseus for reburial
Carystus Carystus (near modern Karystos) was an ancient city-state on Euboea. • The city decided against joining the Delian League
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Naxos Tried to Withdraw from Delian League but Athens put military pressure on her
Eurymedon River • Persian fleet near stationed the entrance of the Eurymedon River • They were awaiting the arrival of 80 Phoenician ships • They retreaded into the mouth of the river to buy time, but Cimon followed and captured 200 ships • Then he attacked the men on the shore and captured an enormous amount of Booty • Then Cimon intercepted the Phoenician ships
Strymon River • Strategic crossing place chosen for new Athenian colony • Known as the Nine Ways • The region was rich in silver timber and grain
Ephilates Spartan leader of popular interests who begged Athens for help after a Spartan earthquake
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Pindar Theban poet who established the Greek reputation for adulation of atheletes.
Aeschylus exemplified the intellectual life. Founder of the Athenian Tradgedy
The Promethean Trilogy o Promethius Fire Bearer o Brometheus Bound o Prometheus Unbound Written by Aeschylus
The Oresteia The Oresteia () is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. o Agamemnon- begins with the return of the famous king. Finds wife cheating on him. • His wife and her lover kill him o The Mourners • How Orestes, Agamemnon’s son comes home to kill his mother and her lover • His sister Electra Helps o The Eumenides • Orestes is punished by the twelve furies
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Myron Myron of (Greek ) working circa 480-440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-fifth century BC. osculpted the Discus Thrower
• Polycleitus
Pericles The most famous political figure in Ancient Greece. Was responsible for the Parthenon and other structures on the Acropolis as well as the The Thirty Years' Peace
Strategoi Strategos, plural strategoi (; Doric Greek: , stratagos; literally meaning "army leader") is used in Greek to mean "general".
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Prytany tribal committee of fifty that conducted the business for one tenth of the year
epistates a chairman who was selected by lottery to serve for 24 hours during the 35 or 36 day term of each committee
Areopagus The Areopagus or Areios Pagos (Greek: ) is the 'Rock of Ares', north-west of the Acropolis, which in classical times functioned as the high Court of Appeal for criminal and civil cases in Athens.
Salamis Salamis was an ancient city-state on the east coast of Cyprus. Battle
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Peace of Callias The Peace of Callias () is a purported treaty established around 449 BC between the Delian League (led by Athens) and Persia, ending the Persian Wars.
Thirty Years' Peace The Thirty Years' Peace was a treaty, signed between the ancient Greek city-states Athens and Sparta, in the year 446/445 BCE. Athens recognized Sparta as the power of the Peloponnesus Sparta agreed not to interfere with the Athenian naval power
Thucydides son of Melesias Thucydides () was a prominent politician of ancient Athens and the leader for a number of years of the powerful conservative faction.
The Corcyrean Affair corinth and her rich colony Corcyra were ebroiled with each other. Pericles intervened on behalf of the Corcyreans because it kept the Corcyrean navy out of Corinth's hands. One of the causes of the Peloponnesian War in 431
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Plutarch wrote the only extant biography on Pericles
Cleisthenes has been called the founder of Athenian democracy
Anaxagoras Ionian philosopher who tutored Pericles as a boy. Spoke of Nous, or mind as being the source of all order
Propylaea A Propylaea, Propylea or Propylaia (in Greek - -) is monumental gateway a that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. It is located on the west side and exhibits Doric archetecture
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Erechtheum The Erechtheum ( Erechtheion) is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece. Dedicated to Athena and Poseidon. Exhibits ionic architecture. The south side of the temple displays the famous Porch of Maidens
Phidias Phidias or Pheidias (in Ancient Greek, ); circa 480 BC 430 BC), was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Also sculpted the Athena Promachos and the Athena Parthenos Also was responsible for the sculptures on the Parthenon
Athena Parthenos Athena Parthenos (; literally, "Athena the Virgin") was the title of a massive chryselephantine sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena made by Phidias and housed in the Parthenon in Athens. HEr helmet is adorned with a sphinx in the center with a griffin on either side. In one hand was a small statue of the goddess Nike. In the other hand she grasped a spear. the Base depicted the birth of Pandora and resting on the base near Athenas left leg is a serpent. A bronze shield is stood next to Athena which on the convex side displayed the battle with the Amazons. Including the portrait of Phidias and Pericles. The convex side depicts the battle of the Gods and the giants
Ictinus and Callicrates Architects commissioned by Pericles to design the Parthenon
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Parthenon The Parthenon (Ancient Greek: ) is a Doric temple of the Greek goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their protector. East Pediment- symbolized the birth of Athena West Pediment- depicted the conflict between Athena and Poseidon for the possession of Attica. Athena is shown striking the ground with her spear producing an olive tree. Her chariot was driven by Nike
Doric Columns The Doric order (or in Greek ) was one of the three orders or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture; has simple block capitals
Ionic Columns The Ionic order ( Greek ) forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, has elaborate volutes
Doric Frieze alternating sections of triglyphs and metopes. Shown of the Outside of the Parthenon
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Ionic Frieze a continuous band of sculpture exemplefied on the inside of the Parthenon which recreated the Panathenaic procession, which wound its way through the city and up the Sacred Way to the Parthenon bearing tribute to Athena
The Temple of Athena Nike one room structure paying tribute the Athena as the personification of victory. it has four ionic columns on both the western and eastern sides
agora The Agora (, Agor) was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek city-states.
pnyx The Pnyx (, pronounced "Pnks" in Ancient Greek, "Pnika" in Modern Greek) is a hill in central Athens, the capital of Greece.
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Bouleuterion A bouleuterion was a building which housed the council of citizens (boule) in Ancient Greece.
Tholos housed the Council's executive committee
Prytaneion holds the cities sacred fire dedicated to Hestia
Hephaesteum The Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane (), also known as the Hephaisteion () or Theseion (), is the best preserved ancient Greek temple. It is Doric
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Herodotus Herodotus (Greek: Hrdotos) was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 5th centuryBC ( - ). Most Famous work was The Persian Wars which covers roughly between 546-478 from the founding of the Persian in the mid-sixth century through the story of the Persian invasions of Greece.
Oneopides of Chios tried to convince the Athenians to accept a solar calendar instead of a lunar one
Epidaurus holds the best preserved theater in Greece
Hippocrates exhibited a purely objective approach to medicine. Used the gathering of data to make observation more systematic
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Corpus Work of Hippocrates that supplied case studies which would allow further practitioners to know what to expect given certain conditions
Leucippus of Miletus Leucippus or Leukippos (Greek: , first half of 5th century BC) was the first Greek to develop the theory of atomism - the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms - which was elaborated in far greater detail by his pupil and successor, Democritus.
Democritus Disciple of Leucippus who expanded on his theory of atomism
Epicurus Epicurus (, "ally, comrade"; Samos, 341 BCE - Athens, 270 BCE; 72 years) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Sought to rid men of their anxieties about death by arguing that because the soul was material, immortality was impossible
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Sophists Advanced the notion that there was no way at all to know an absolute truth in the sense that it was true for everybody
Sophocles Premier playwright of the second generation. He was the major tragic poet in Athens for over 60 years. Wrote the Oedipus Tyrannus
Peloponnesian War The Peloponnesian War, 431 to 404 B.C., was an ancient Greek war, fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta.
Peace of Nicias The Peace of Nicias was a peace treaty signed between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in the March of 421 BC, ending the first half of the Peloponnesian War.
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Archidamus King of Sparta during the Peloponnesian War. Wanted to wait out Athens instead of attacking. Uncharacteristically desired peace
Funeral Oration Speech delivered by Pericles to commemorate those who died during the first months of the Peloponnesian War
Cleon Greek general who succeeded Pericles. Adopted an aggressive military policy
Aristophanes Perhaps the most famous Greek comedic playwright
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Demosthenes Demosthenes (, died 413 BC), son of Alcisthenes, was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War.
Brasidas Spartan commanderwho led the attack on Amphipolis, the Athenian colony on the Strymon River
Alcibiades Greek general who won the favor of the Athenians only to desert them. Allied himself with Sparta and Persia during the Peloponnesian War
Mantinea Mantineia () was a city in ancient Arcadia in the central Peloponnese that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history.
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Melian Debate The Melian Dialogue, contained in Thucydides- History of the Peloponnesian War from 431 to 404 B.C.E., is an account of the confrontation between the people of Melos, a colony of Sparta, and the Athenians in 416-415 B.C.E.
Gylippus Gylippus ( was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC; he was the son of Cleandridas, who was the adviser of King Pleistoanax and had been expelled from Sparta for accepting Athenian bribes in 446 BC and fled to Thurii, a pan-Hellenic colony then being founded in the instep of Italy with Athenian help and participation.
Tissaphernes Darius II's satrap in the region that Persia still held in SW Asia Minor
Antiphon Antiphon the Sophist lived in Athens probably in the last two decades of the 5th century BC.
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Xenophon Athenian general whose history of the later parts of the Persian war is the only major source of information
status quo Status quo, a commonly used form of the original Latin "statu quo" - literally "the state in which" - is a Latin term meaning the current or existing state of affairs.
Piraeus Athenian general responsible for building the fortifications of Athens
Euripides Third of the great Athenian tragedians. Said men must try to understand themselves
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deus ex machina A deus ex machina ( or ,, ) (Latin for "god from the machine"; plural: dei ex machina) is a plot device whereby a seemingly inextricable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new character, ability, or object.
Medea Medea ( / Mdeia) is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC.
Trojan Women The Trojan Women (in , Trades) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides.
Bacchae Play written by Euripides in which he admits that his single mindedness denied the useful qualities of religion
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Lysander Lysander (died 395 BC, , Lsandros) was a Spartan general who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC.
Thirty Tyrants The Thirty Tyrants () were a pro-Spartan oligarchy installed in Athens after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC.
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 MiltiadesAthenian general who led them to victory at the battle of Marathon
 CallimachusCallimachus () was polemarch in Athens in 490 BC, and was one of the commanders at the Battle of Marathon.
 Mount Kotoroni The mountain at Marathon where the Athenian camp was located
 steleA stele (, older , from Greek: stl; plural: stelae , stlai; also found: Latinised singular stela and Anglicised plural steles) is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerals or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living - inscribed, carved in relief (bas-relief, sunken-relief, high-relief, and so forth), or painted onto the slab.
 ThemistoclesFirst commoner in Athenian history to run the affairs of the state. He commissioned the Athenian navy
 Bay of SalamisCrucial battle of the second Persian invasion under Xerxes. The Greeks won due to the Athenian Naval fleet
 King LeonidasKing of Sparta. Made at valiant stand at Thermopylae to halt the Persian Invasion
 Demaratusking of Sparta from 515 until 491 BC, of the Eurypontid line, successor to his father Ariston. Defected to Persia
 MardoniusXerxes son in law who remained with 300,000 persian troops in Plataea in Boeotia
 PausaniasSpartan General who helped lead the greeks to victory at Plataea
• Later chosen to lead an expedition to sweep the Persians out of the Aegean in 478
• Recovered Byzantium, re-opening the Black Sea Route
• In 476 rumors circulated about behind the scenes deals with the Persians. He was relieved of his duties
• In 481, proof surfaced. He would have ruled all of Hellas in the name of the Great King
 Mycalesight of another battle that took place on the same day as Plataea. Persians beached their ships on land. Greeks burned them
 Leotychidesking of Sparta who led the allied fleet to at Mycale
 Xanthippusfather of Pericles who laid Seige to Sestos
 SestosSestos () was an ancient Greek town of the Thracian Chersonese, the modern Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey.
the most powerful of the Persian bases in the area at the time of the Persian War
 Artayctesthe Persian satrap in command of Sestos
 Themistoclestook Pausanias’ place as military leader of Greece
• He lost favor in Athens and was ostracized in 471
• Implicated with Pausanias in dealing with Persia
 Cimono Son of Miltiades
o Garnered respect at Salamis
o Very generous
o Spartans favorite Athenian
o Responsible for Athenian growth of power
o One of the Architects of the Delian League
 Delian Leagueo 150 poleis who joined forces
o Athens quickly assumed leadership
o States joined voluntarily and provided manpower, ships, or money to pursue common goals
• Ridding the Aegean of pirates and Persians
o Policy for the league was decided by a synod of representatives who met regularly at Delos
o Athenians monopolized the league
• Aristides and Cimon
 Scyros• Delian League Established an Athenian military outpost there
• Scyros was a center of piracy
• Important for Athens for Two Reasons:
o In the way of the main shipping lane from the Black Sea
o Made it possible for Cimon to bring back the remains of Theseus for reburial
 CarystusCarystus (near modern Karystos) was an ancient city-state on Euboea.
• The city decided against joining the Delian League
 NaxosTried to Withdraw from Delian League but Athens put military pressure on her
 Eurymedon River• Persian fleet near stationed the entrance of the Eurymedon River
• They were awaiting the arrival of 80 Phoenician ships
• They retreaded into the mouth of the river to buy time, but Cimon followed and captured 200 ships
• Then he attacked the men on the shore and captured an enormous amount of Booty
• Then Cimon intercepted the Phoenician ships
 Strymon River • Strategic crossing place chosen for new Athenian colony
• Known as the Nine Ways
• The region was rich in silver timber and grain
 EphilatesSpartan leader of popular interests who begged Athens for help after a Spartan earthquake
 PindarTheban poet who established the Greek reputation for adulation of atheletes.
 Aeschylusexemplified the intellectual life. Founder of the Athenian Tradgedy
 The Promethean Trilogyo Promethius Fire Bearer
o Brometheus Bound
o Prometheus Unbound

Written by Aeschylus
 The OresteiaThe Oresteia () is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.
o Agamemnon- begins with the return of the famous king. Finds wife cheating on him.
• His wife and her lover kill him
o The Mourners
• How Orestes, Agamemnon’s son comes home to kill his mother and her lover
• His sister Electra Helps
o The Eumenides
• Orestes is punished by the twelve furies
 MyronMyron of (Greek ) working circa 480-440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-fifth century BC.
osculpted the Discus Thrower
 • Polycleitus 
 Pericles The most famous political figure in Ancient Greece. Was responsible for the Parthenon and other structures on the Acropolis as well as the The Thirty Years' Peace
 StrategoiStrategos, plural strategoi (; Doric Greek: , stratagos; literally meaning "army leader") is used in Greek to mean "general".
 Prytanytribal committee of fifty that conducted the business for one tenth of the year
 epistatesa chairman who was selected by lottery to serve for 24 hours during the 35 or 36 day term of each committee
 AreopagusThe Areopagus or Areios Pagos (Greek: ) is the 'Rock of Ares', north-west of the Acropolis, which in classical times functioned as the high Court of Appeal for criminal and civil cases in Athens.
 SalamisSalamis was an ancient city-state on the east coast of Cyprus. Battle
 Peace of CalliasThe Peace of Callias () is a purported treaty established around 449 BC between the Delian League (led by Athens) and Persia, ending the Persian Wars.
 Thirty Years' PeaceThe Thirty Years' Peace was a treaty, signed between the ancient Greek city-states Athens and Sparta, in the year 446/445 BCE.
Athens recognized Sparta as the power of the Peloponnesus
Sparta agreed not to interfere with the Athenian naval power
 Thucydides son of MelesiasThucydides () was a prominent politician of ancient Athens and the leader for a number of years of the powerful conservative faction.
 The Corcyrean Affaircorinth and her rich colony Corcyra were ebroiled with each other. Pericles intervened on behalf of the Corcyreans because it kept the Corcyrean navy out of Corinth's hands. One of the causes of the Peloponnesian War in 431
 Plutarchwrote the only extant biography on Pericles
 Cleistheneshas been called the founder of Athenian democracy
 AnaxagorasIonian philosopher who tutored Pericles as a boy. Spoke of Nous, or mind as being the source of all order
 PropylaeaA Propylaea, Propylea or Propylaia (in Greek - -) is monumental gateway a that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. It is located on the west side and exhibits Doric archetecture
 ErechtheumThe Erechtheum ( Erechtheion) is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece. Dedicated to Athena and Poseidon. Exhibits ionic architecture. The south side of the temple displays the famous Porch of Maidens
 PhidiasPhidias or Pheidias (in Ancient Greek, ); circa 480 BC 430 BC), was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Also sculpted the Athena Promachos and the Athena Parthenos

Also was responsible for the sculptures on the Parthenon
 Athena ParthenosAthena Parthenos (; literally, "Athena the Virgin") was the title of a massive chryselephantine sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena made by Phidias and housed in the Parthenon in Athens.

HEr helmet is adorned with a sphinx in the center with a griffin on either side. In one hand was a small statue of the goddess Nike. In the other hand she grasped a spear. the Base depicted the birth of Pandora and resting on the base near Athenas left leg is a serpent. A bronze shield is stood next to Athena which on the convex side displayed the battle with the Amazons. Including the portrait of Phidias and Pericles. The convex side depicts the battle of the Gods and the giants
 Ictinus and CallicratesArchitects commissioned by Pericles to design the Parthenon
 ParthenonThe Parthenon (Ancient Greek: ) is a Doric temple of the Greek goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their protector.

East Pediment- symbolized the birth of Athena
West Pediment- depicted the conflict between Athena and Poseidon for the possession of Attica. Athena is shown striking the ground with her spear producing an olive tree. Her chariot was driven by Nike
 Doric ColumnsThe Doric order (or in Greek ) was one of the three orders or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture; has simple block capitals
 Ionic ColumnsThe Ionic order ( Greek ) forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, has elaborate volutes
 Doric Friezealternating sections of triglyphs and metopes. Shown of the Outside of the Parthenon
 Ionic Friezea continuous band of sculpture exemplefied on the inside of the Parthenon which recreated the Panathenaic procession, which wound its way through the city and up the Sacred Way to the Parthenon bearing tribute to Athena
 The Temple of Athena Nikeone room structure paying tribute the Athena as the personification of victory. it has four ionic columns on both the western and eastern sides
 agoraThe Agora (, Agor) was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek city-states.
 pnyxThe Pnyx (, pronounced "Pnks" in Ancient Greek, "Pnika" in Modern Greek) is a hill in central Athens, the capital of Greece.
 BouleuterionA bouleuterion was a building which housed the council of citizens (boule) in Ancient Greece.
 Tholoshoused the Council's executive committee
 Prytaneionholds the cities sacred fire dedicated to Hestia
 HephaesteumThe Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane (), also known as the Hephaisteion () or Theseion (), is the best preserved ancient Greek temple. It is Doric
 HerodotusHerodotus (Greek: Hrdotos) was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 5th centuryBC ( - ). Most Famous work was The Persian Wars which covers roughly between 546-478 from the founding of the Persian in the mid-sixth century through the story of the Persian invasions of Greece.
 Oneopides of Chiostried to convince the Athenians to accept a solar calendar instead of a lunar one
 Epidaurusholds the best preserved theater in Greece
 Hippocratesexhibited a purely objective approach to medicine. Used the gathering of data to make observation more systematic
 CorpusWork of Hippocrates that supplied case studies which would allow further practitioners to know what to expect given certain conditions
 Leucippus of MiletusLeucippus or Leukippos (Greek: , first half of 5th century BC) was the first Greek to develop the theory of atomism - the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms - which was elaborated in far greater detail by his pupil and successor, Democritus.
 DemocritusDisciple of Leucippus who expanded on his theory of atomism
 EpicurusEpicurus (, "ally, comrade"; Samos, 341 BCE - Athens, 270 BCE; 72 years) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Sought to rid men of their anxieties about death by arguing that because the soul was material, immortality was impossible
 SophistsAdvanced the notion that there was no way at all to know an absolute truth in the sense that it was true for everybody
 SophoclesPremier playwright of the second generation. He was the major tragic poet in Athens for over 60 years. Wrote the Oedipus Tyrannus
 Peloponnesian WarThe Peloponnesian War, 431 to 404 B.C., was an ancient Greek war, fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta.
 Peace of NiciasThe Peace of Nicias was a peace treaty signed between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in the March of 421 BC, ending the first half of the Peloponnesian War.
 ArchidamusKing of Sparta during the Peloponnesian War. Wanted to wait out Athens instead of attacking. Uncharacteristically desired peace
 Funeral OrationSpeech delivered by Pericles to commemorate those who died during the first months of the Peloponnesian War
 CleonGreek general who succeeded Pericles. Adopted an aggressive military policy
 AristophanesPerhaps the most famous Greek comedic playwright
 DemosthenesDemosthenes (, died 413 BC), son of Alcisthenes, was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War.
 BrasidasSpartan commanderwho led the attack on Amphipolis, the Athenian colony on the Strymon River
 AlcibiadesGreek general who won the favor of the Athenians only to desert them. Allied himself with Sparta and Persia during the Peloponnesian War
 MantineaMantineia () was a city in ancient Arcadia in the central Peloponnese that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history.
 Melian DebateThe Melian Dialogue, contained in Thucydides- History of the Peloponnesian War from 431 to 404 B.C.E., is an account of the confrontation between the people of Melos, a colony of Sparta, and the Athenians in 416-415 B.C.E.
 GylippusGylippus ( was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC; he was the son of Cleandridas, who was the adviser of King Pleistoanax and had been expelled from Sparta for accepting Athenian bribes in 446 BC and fled to Thurii, a pan-Hellenic colony then being founded in the instep of Italy with Athenian help and participation.
 TissaphernesDarius II's satrap in the region that Persia still held in SW Asia Minor
 AntiphonAntiphon the Sophist lived in Athens probably in the last two decades of the 5th century BC.
 XenophonAthenian general whose history of the later parts of the Persian war is the only major source of information
 status quoStatus quo, a commonly used form of the original Latin "statu quo" - literally "the state in which" - is a Latin term meaning the current or existing state of affairs.
 PiraeusAthenian general responsible for building the fortifications of Athens
 EuripidesThird of the great Athenian tragedians. Said men must try to understand themselves
 deus ex machinaA deus ex machina ( or ,, ) (Latin for "god from the machine"; plural: dei ex machina) is a plot device whereby a seemingly inextricable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new character, ability, or object.
 MedeaMedea ( / Mdeia) is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC.
 Trojan WomenThe Trojan Women (in , Trades) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides.
 BacchaePlay written by Euripides in which he admits that his single mindedness denied the useful qualities of religion
 LysanderLysander (died 395 BC, , Lsandros) was a Spartan general who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC.
 Thirty TyrantsThe Thirty Tyrants () were a pro-Spartan oligarchy installed in Athens after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC.
 Committee of Ten 
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