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Ch. 4 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Panhellenic | All of Greece |
| stephanitic | Games where winners received crowns |
| chrematitic | Games with monetary or material value prizes |
| periodos | Circuit game poli, i.e. Olympia, Delphi, Corinth, Nema |
| festival on Delos | a festival to Apollo on the island of Delos -- singing, dancing, and contests -- women participated |
| polis | self-governing city-state |
| prohedria | seats of honor |
| sitesis | free meals at public cafeteria |
| Xenophane's critique | society valued athletics more than wisdom |
| barbarians | anyone non-Greek |
| Magna Grecia | Southern Italy and Sicilly |
| Croton | a city-state of Magna Grecia |
| Sybaris | a polis that instituted its own games |
| Cliesthenes of Sicyon and Agariste | Tyrant who won events then offered his daughter's hand as a prize in his own sponsored games |
| gymnasium | "nude place" |
| hoplite | citizen solder who bought his own armor as a show of social status |
| hoplite phalanx | a tightly packed battle formation |
| Orsippos of Megara | first man to run naked at Olympia--his loincloth slipped off |
| gymnike paideia | nude physical education |
| pederastry | Greek men's attraction to beauty and youth in the form of young boys |
| two main models | funeral and festival games |
| mesoi | 'middling man' - the name for the hoplite class |
| stlengis | scraper |
| aryballos | oil bottle |
| gloios | off scrapings, mixture of sweat and oil from the athlete's body |
| stele | funeral marker, often in a long rectangular shape |
| symposium | a drinking together place (for male citizens) |
| agora | central meeting place of the city |
| isonomia | equality before the law |