Humanities Final

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historia

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inquiry/research

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historiography

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the study of the way historians write about history

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Herodotus

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(495-425BC)

father of history

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Thucydides

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(424BC)

General in the Athenian Army, was exiled

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Peloponnesian War

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(431-404BC)

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Archidamus

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Spartan king through the first 1/3 of the Peloponnesian War, devastated Athenian crops

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Pericles

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(461-429BC)

Influential in Athens, killed by the Plague

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Aspasia

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Cortisone who counseled Pericles

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The Great Plague of Athens

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Took place in 430BC

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The Mytelienian Debate

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(428/437BC)

Debated what to do with Mytelenians

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Cleon

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Took part in debate, wanted to kill all adult male citizens & send women/children into slavery from Mytilene

--Most influential Athenian politician

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Diodotus

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Took part in debate, wanted to reconsider Cleon's act

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The Peace of Nicias

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421BC

(50 years peace)

treaty signed between Athens and Sparta ending first half of the Peloponnesian war

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Praeteritio

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Rhetorical Device that introduces arguments in the act of saying you won't use those arguments

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The Sicilian Expedition

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(415-413BC) Athens wanted to expand their empire

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Nicias, Lamachus, & Alcibiades

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Commanders during the Sicilian Expedition

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Hipparete

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First wife of Alcibiades, upper class Athenian female who tried to divorce him

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Timaea

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King Aegeus's wife who had an affair with Alcibiades

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Timandra

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Cortizon girlfriend who lives with Alcibiades until he is killed

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Mutilation of the Herms

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(415/413BC) Alcibiades was accused of this while drunk

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The Four Hundred

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(411BC) established by Alcibades, ended up not doing what he wanted and tried to make peace with Sparta (oligarchic government)

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The Battle of Aegospotami

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(405BC) Destroyed the Athenian Navy and ended the Peloponnesian War

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Cyrus

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Son of Persia

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Lysander

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Spartan general in the battle of Aegospotami

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The Long Walls of Athens

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knocked down by Spartans, eventually rebuilt by Athenians

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The Thirty

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(404BC)

Oligarchic government by Spartans after the war

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Restoration of Democracy

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(410BC after the Four Hundred)

(403BC after the Thirty)

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Aristophanes

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(449, 386-380)

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The Great Idea

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Wives will not have sex with husbands to stop the war

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Lysistrata

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Persuades women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges

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Myrrhine

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Character in Lysistrata, teases her husband Kinesias

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Lampito

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Large built, representative of Spartan women

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Parodos

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entrance of actors or chorus

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The Old Oligarch

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We don't know who it is, but an Athenian who wrote about the Constitution to his friends

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Ekklesia

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Assembly of any adult male citizen

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Boule

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Council of 500 members, 50 from each deme

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Choregia

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Tax to fund production of play

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Trierach

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Commander of a trireme and needs to fund it

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Aristotle

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(384-322BC)

Wrote about the Athenian constitution

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Eponymous Archon

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Chief magistrate, draws lots to decide taxes

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Polemarch

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Senior military title, head of the armed forces

(the war archon)

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dikasterion

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Peace where justice takes place

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The Dinoysia

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Large festival in Athens in honor of the god Dionysys which performed dramatic tragedies and comedies

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Sophists

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teach rhetoric, take fees, make worse argument seem the better

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Pre-Socratic Philosophers

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focus on natural philosophy

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Mechane

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crane used to lift in theatre, cable with a harness

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enkyklema

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students are rolled out on this

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deus ex machina

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God from the machine

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Chaos, Clouds, and Tongue

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three gods according to Socrates

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Parabasis

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Only happens in comedy, solos out chorus leader and speaks directly to audience (body of playwrite)

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Traditional Education

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Music, dancing, athletics

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Wrong Argument

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"New-Fangled" Education = rhetoric, linguistics

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Right Argument

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Traditional educaiton

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Elenchus

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Socratic method of eliciting truth by question and answer, especially used to refute an argument

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apologia

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defense speech

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500 Jurors

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280 voted guilty, 220 voted innocent

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Clepsydra

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device used to measure time with water

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Chaerophon

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loyal friend and follower of Socrates

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Epitimesis

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Proposal of fines and punishments

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Socrates' 'sign'/phone

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voice that warms him not to do anything

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Socratic dialogue

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is dramatic

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Crito

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Friend of Socrates that tries to break him out of prison

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prosopopoeia

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mask/face making

rhetorical device in which a writer/character assumes and speaks in the character of someone else

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implied consent

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The gist of the laws argument saying in Athens you give your implied consent to abide by the laws by living there

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Phaeodo

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Depicts the death of Socrates

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Cebes

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believer of the soul, presented the tailor argument

linked with simmias

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Argument from Opposites`

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death is opposite from life and they go off on each other

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Argument from recollection

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we must have had knowledge of things prior to birth

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Argument from Affinity

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two seperate classes of things, soul becomes to imcomposite class

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Theory of Forms

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Justice, Beauty, Tallness

Souls exist in this higher form then are put into bodies

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Simmias

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Soul as Lyre argument, as an instrument and cannot survive disharmony

linked with cebes

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hemlock

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plant in Europe, neuromuscular depressant

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What are the three rhetorical devices used?

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Apostrophe, praeteritio, & prosopopoeia