SSAW Word Scramble
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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 |
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