Exam #1:
Ancient Greece
List of Terms

Polis (pl. poleis)
Ionian Revolt
First Persian War
hoplite phalanx
Battle of Marathon
Second Persian War
Xerxes
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
trireme
Themistocles
Delian League

Politeia
Hellas
; Hellenes
Pan-Hellenic
Barbaroi
; barbarians
Politeia

Cleisthenes
Demos
Ekklesia
Boule

Council of 500
Prytany
Archons
Strategos (pl. strategoi)
Pericles
Liturgy
Choregos
Trierarch
Ostracism
Ostrakon (pl. ostraka)

Parthenon
Acropolis
Post and lintel
Iktinos and Callicrates
Cella
Peristyle
Pediment
Entablature
Architrave
Frieze
Metope
Triglyph
Athena Parthenos
Phidias
Panathenaic Festival

Archaic
Archaic smile
Kouros (pl. kouroi)
Kore (pl. korai)
Kritios Boy
Polykleitos, Doryphoros
Contrapposto

Thespis
City Dionysia
Dionysus
Theatron = “seeing place”
Orchestron = “dancing place”
Orchestra
Skene
Prologue
Parodos
Episodes
Stasimon (pl. stasima)
Exodos
Sophocles
Aristotle
Hamartia
reversal (peripeteia)

Thucydides
Peloponnesian War
Long Walls
Alcibiades
Sicilian Expedition
Battle of Aegispotami

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