AP World History Greek Names Part 2 Flashcards
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123933419 | 3 great tragedian, famous works includes the Trojan Women | Euripedes | 0 | |
123933420 | Most famous Greek comedy writer who wrote satires | Aristophanes | 1 | |
123933421 | Sculptor made his living by making statues of champion athletes | Myron | 2 | |
123933422 | Sculptor famous for his statues of Athena and Zeus | Phidias | 3 | |
123933423 | Sculptor created the female nude and sculpted the incomparable Hermes with the child Dionysus | Praxitiles | 4 | |
123933424 | Most famous Greek philosopher of Athens, a citizen-soldier in the Peloponnesian War, stone-mason and sculptor | Socrates | 5 | |
123933425 | Athenian philosopher who wrote the Republic, established the Academia | Plato | 6 | |
123933426 | Athenian philosopher who taught in a garden, followed a very strict life and the greatest pleasure was intellectual enlightenment of epiphany, moments of revelation | Epicurus | 7 | |
123933427 | Athenian leader during the Peloponnesian War, built the new stone Parthenon | Periclus | 8 | |
123933428 | Last pharoah/monarch of ancient Egypt, married to Caesar and Antony, suicide by letting cobra bite her | Cleopatra II | 9 | |
123933429 | Invented the 1st recorded steam engine and first vending machine | Hero of Alexandria | 10 | |
123933430 | Father of anatomy, differentiated the cerebrum from cerebellum, discovered Difference between vessels and arteries, nerves | Erasistratus | 11 | |
123933431 | Anatomist, developed the first lie detector test based on pulse rate, described valves of the heart and function of heart as a pump | Hieron/Hero of Chalcedon | 12 | |
123933432 | Athenian politician/admiral who beat Persians at Salamis and Strait of Artemesium, a friend and ally of Leonidas and Demophilus | Themistocles | 13 | |
123933433 | Overall general of Athenian army at Marathon, dedicated his helmet to Zeus | Militiades | 14 | |
123933434 | 2nd Athenian social/political/economic reformer, stopped debt slavery | Solon the Wise | 15 | |
123933435 | Established the first written Athenian law code, banned personal of family vengeance in facor of state prosecution of homicide | Draco | 16 | |
123933436 | The Spartan king/commander at Thermopylae, descendant of Herakles, leader of the 300 | Leonidas | 17 | |
123933437 | Achaecean/Mycenaen commander who attacked Troy during the Trojan War | Agamemnon | 18 | |
123933438 | Husband of Helen of Sparta/Troy, asked brother Agamemnon to help him raise an army of "Greeks" to get her back from Paris | Menelaus | 19 | |
123933439 | A very popular tyrant of Athens, governed fairly within the constitution, shared benefits, fostered beautifying Athens, art, sculpture, drama, set up traveling court system | Pisistratus | 20 | |
123933440 | Expanded the assembly introduced protected ostracism, reorganized Athenian tribes calling them "deme" | Cleithenes | 21 | |
123933441 | Leader of the 700 Thespians at Thermopylae, killed by Persians before Leonidas | Demophilus | 22 | |
123933442 | Runner who carried word from Marathon to Athens, last word spoken "nike" | Pheidippides | 23 |