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Agrarian Relating to crops and farmland; ancient Greece’s economy was based on agriculture.
Peiraieus Main port of Athens where many metics lived.
Prostates A citizen who sponsored and represented a metic in Athens.
Xenos Foreigner or guest-friend.
Attike The region controlled by Athens
Laureion Site of Athenian silver mines owned by the city.
Concession A lease or contract to extract resources like silver.
Metic A resident foreigner in Athens with certain rights and obligations but no citizenship.
Hoplite Fully armed infantry soldier of ancient Greece.
Inhumation Burial of the dead by placing the body in the ground.
Phaleron An early port of Athens.
Themistokles Athenian leader who expanded the navy.
Manufacturing Small workshops run by master craftsmen and a few assistants.
Sophocles — One of classical Athens’s great tragic playwrights.
Antigone Daughter of Oedipus; buried her brother in defiance of the state.
Eros God and concept of desire, often sexual.
Creon Ruler of Thebes in Antigone, who prioritizes state law over divine law.
Tiresias Blind prophet who represents divine wisdom.
Haemon Creon’s son, loyal but morally opposed to his father’s actions.
Polyneices Brother of Antigone who attacked Thebes.
Chorus Group in Greek drama that comments on the action.
Stasimon Choral ode in a Greek tragedy.
Eurydice Wife of Creon; kills herself in grief.
Megareus Creon’s other son, sacrificed for Thebes.
Kommos Lament sung by both actor and chorus.
Dionysus God of wine, ecstasy, and theatre; worshipped with maenads and thyrsos.
Corinth Ally of Sparta; opposed the Delian League.
Alkibiades Athenian politician and general who switched allegiances during the Peloponnesian War.
Spartiates Full Spartan citizens trained for warfare.
Melos Neutral island destroyed by Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Sicily Region where Athens suffered a major military defeat.
Egesta City that invited Athens to intervene in Sicily.
Nikias Athenian general who opposed the Sicilian expedition.
Dekeleia Site occupied by Spartans to cut off Athenian resources.
Aigospotamoi Site of Athens’ final defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
Amnesty “Not remembering”; forgiveness of past political crimes.
Philip II King of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great.
Demeter Goddess of grain; associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries.
30 Tyrants Oligarchic rulers installed in Athens after its defeat.
Phthono Resentment or envy.
Panathenaia Festival honoring Athena with music and athletics.
Hermes God of trickery, travelers, and communication.
Hero cult Worship of mortal heroes after death.
The Eleusinian Mysteries Secret rites of Demeter promising blessed afterlife.
Anthesteria Festival for Dionysus celebrating wine and fertility.
Zeus King of the gods.
Apatouria Festival for kin groups.
Reciprocity Mutual exchange between humans and gods.
Time Honour or respect owed to the gods.
Hades God of the underworld.
Apollo God of prophecy, music, healing, and plague.
Chaos Primordial emptiness before creation.
Hybris Human arrogance that offends the gods.
Athene(Athena) Goddess of wisdom and warfare.
420 BCE Treaty between Argos and Sparta ends; Athens convinces Argos not to renew it.
418 BCE Battle showing Sparta’s dominance over the Peloponnesian League.
416 BCE Athenians attack the neutral island of Melos.
415 BCE Scandal: destruction of the Herms (statues of Hermes) before the Sicilian Expedition.
413 BCE Athens’ fleet destroyed in Sicily.
411 BCE Coup in Athens; democracy replaced by an oligarchy of 4000.
406 BCE Athenian victory followed by execution of generals.
405 BCE Naval defeat at Aigospotamoi; Sparta triumphs.
404 BCE Athens surrenders; Sparta installs the 30 Tyrants.
403 BCE Restoration of Athenian democracy; new citizenship law: both parents must be Athenian.
371 BCE Year of the Battle of Leuctra where Thebes defeated Sparta.
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