Humn exam 2 definitions
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| Definition of Tyranny | favored commercial classes who try & hold power
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| Definition of Acropolis | fortified high ground
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| Definition of oligarchy | ruled by few
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| Identify Herodotus | "Father of History" & 1st historian
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| Identify Sappho | a female poet who expressed her love for another woman on the island of Lesbo
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| Definition of Areopagus | prestigious governing council of ancient Athens
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| Definition of ostracism | political technique of Greece people believed to be threats to city-state were chosen for exile by popular vote; written on pottery & exile last 10 yrs
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| Definition of Marathon | memory of Philippicles 26 mile run from Marathon to Athens
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| Identify Xeres | Darius' sucessor who invaded Marathon
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| Definition of Thermopylae | gateway for Persian army
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| Identify the Delian League | defensive league compromised of Aegean coast & islands
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| Identify Helots | serf in ancient Sparta aka slave
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| Identify Alcibiades | 450-414 self-serving Athenian political leader & general whose traitorous act ruined Athens
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| Definition of Socratic Method | method of arriving at the truth by question and disputation
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| Identify Thuadides | 460-400 BC Athenian historian
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| Definition of fascade | front of building also sides if emphasized architecturally
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| Definition of colonade | series of columns usually spanned or connected by lintels
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| Definition of portico | porch with a roof supported by columns & pilasters
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| Definition of flute | vertical channeling concave in shape used principally on columns & pilasters
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| Definition of cella | windowless rectangular shape
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| Definition of caryotid | sculptured maidens who replace customary columns
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| Definition of Ictinus | principal architect of Parthenon
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| Identify Myron | sculptor of the Golden Age who did original Discus thrower
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| Identify Phidias | sculptor who celebrated gold &^ ivory cult statue during the Archaic Age. Completed the huge statue of Athena in Parthenon cell & original of Athena Lemnia
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| Identify Polyclitus | a sculptor who tried to formulate a canon (body of rules) for proportions of human figure during the Golden Age & did the original Spear Bearer
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| Identify Praxiteles | sculptor in the Late Classical Age who perhaps did Hermes & the Dionysus
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| Identify classical period | describes a period of Greek history in which it's cultural achievements heightened
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| Definition of humanism | idea that human beings are primary measure of all things
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| Definition of idealism | ideas over reality like perfect forms excluding blemishes
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| Definition of rationalism | external principles prevail over emotional & transitory phases of life
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| Definition of protagonist | central character
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| Definition of mode | scales constructed by adjusting the pitch of tones within the octave
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| Definition of stasimon | "stationary chorus" Greek tragedy in song sung by them
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| Definition of tragic or dramatic irony | protagonist is unaware of vital information & the audiences knows this information
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| Definition of katharsis | "purgation" of emotions as one identifies with the tragedy
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