CLST 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heinrich Schliemann, Aegean Civilizations, Peloponnesian War

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 100
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

Document Summary

Peloponnesian wars (sparta vs. athens) 5th cen. Greater: every 4 years ever since 6th cen bc (566 bce) Olympic games started 776 bce (8th century bc) Nemean, pythian, isthmic games all from 6th cen bce. Menander"s dyskolos end of 4th cen bce. Herodotos non-greek wrote accounts of persian wars, father of greek history (5th cen. Thucydides an athenian involved in public, political things wrote about persian wars and peloponnesian wars (sparta vs. athens) Xenophon athenian military man wrote about peloponnesian wars and political upheaval afterwards. Strife/eris not invited to wedding of peleus and thetis. Helen, wife of menelaus the king of sparta. Chryseis, daughter of the priest of apollo whom agamemnon takes during war. Patroklos, friend of achilles that dies in trojan war wearing achilles" armor. Hektor, son of priam, prince of troy. Priam, king of troy, asks achilles for hektor"s body ransom. Homer author of iliad and odyssey written in 750 b. c. and 725 b. c.