Exam 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece

The architecture of Periclean Athens emphasized ________.

________ felt that moral and political reform was the solution to internal stress, class struggle, and to repairing the factional division of the polis.

Alexander the Great avenged the earlier Persian invasion of Greece by ________.

What were the advantages and disadvantages of the Athenian system of justice? Compared to the current justice system in America, how do they match up? If you could select between the two‚ which one would you choose? Explain.

Plato believed that the way to harmony was to destroy the causes of strife.Which of the following would he consider to be a cause of strife?

The acquisition of the Greek state of ________ by Philip of Macedon gave him control of gold and silver mines and allowed him to undermine Athenian control of the northern Aegean.

In the fifth century b.c.e., ________, the commander of the Athenian army, agreed to a peace of thirty years with Sparta.

________ was considered to be the ablest king in Macedonian history.

By the spring of 324 b.c.e., Alexander's army was back at the Persian Gulf and celebrated in the Macedonian style, with ________.

One reason the Athens of 350 b.c.e.was not the thriving Athens of Pericles's time was ________.

Which of the following best describes the policies favored by Pericles following the First Peloponnesian War?

What is the name given to the protracted struggle between Athens and Sparta?

Evidence leads historians to believe that the prime responsibility of a respectable Athenian woman was to ________.

After Cimon's ostracism in the spring of 461 b.c.e., Athens made an alliance with the city-state of ________, Sparta's traditional enemy.

What new city in Egypt was the center of literary production in the third and second centuries b.c.e.?

A pact made in 478 b.c.e.by Athenians and other Greeks to continue the war with Persia was called the ________.

After the collapse of the Athenian Empire, Sparta began to alienate some of its allies, such as Thebes and Corinth, by its ________.

The Great Peloponnesian War was ignited by a civil war in the Corcyraean colony at ________.

What were the underlying causes of the Great Peloponnesian War? In what respect could this conflict have been avoided? Was conflict between Athens and Sparta essentially inevitable? Discuss the strategies employed by both states and the relative success of each.

The main function and responsibility of a respectable Athenian woman was to produce male heirs for the ________, or household, of her husband.