Chapter 8 Quizzes

The Peloponnesian War
. What was Pericles' strategy for Athens when the Peloponnesian War first broke out?

. The Athenian capture of 292 Spartans on the island of ______ might have brought an end to the Peloponnesian War if Athens had made peace with Sparta instead of continuing to fight.

. The year after the Athenian massacre and enslavement of the inhabitants of Melos, Euripides presented what play, which was highly critical of the nature of war?

. The events on Corcyra after the democratic faction there gained the political upper hand are an example of what political condition, which was becoming more frequent and bloodier than ever before in the Greek world?

. Comic dramas were produced at Athens twice a year, both times at the festivals of which god?

. After the Spartan victory in the Battle of Mantinea in 418 BC, tensions among prominent Athenians ran high, and, in a surprising result, ______ was ostracized.

. Around halfway through the Peloponnesian War, the Athenians seem to have abandoned ostracism, and many began making use of what strategy to ensure the survival of democratic government?

. In the years following the Athenian disaster at Sicily, the Persians' policy toward the Greeks was guarded largely by two satraps, Pharnabazus and ______.

. What incident on the eve of the Sicilian expedition sent Athens into a state of panic and fear, and led to the recall of Alcibiades?

. Which two prominent generals (and political leaders) were killed in the Battle of Amphipolis?

. The union of which two powerful men, one Persian and one Spartan, in 407 BC spelled trouble for the Athenians?

. Among the generals put to death in the wake of the Battle of Arginusae was the son of which famous Athenian political leader?

. Thucydides, by means of a practice historiographers call ______, successfully created the parameters of and established the dates for the Peloponnesian War as 431-404 BC.

. How did Pericles die?

. The Athenians who arrived with their massive military force in Sicily were stunned to learn that the city of ______, whose appeal for Athenian aid had sparked the expedition, was actually poor.

. In arguing that he deserved a command in the Sicilian expedition, Alcibiades listed his first qualification as his victories in chariot-racing at the Olympic games.

. There are multiple versions of Pericles' famous funeral oration, but Thucydides' has come to be regarded as the most reliable, accurate version.

. The Peace of Nicias in 421 BC was essentially a victory for Sparta.

. In 411 BC, the Athenian assembly effectively voted itself out of existence, and handed the administration of Athens over to the Council of Four Hundred.

. Aristophanes took all his plots from Greek mythology, but "modernized" them to create allegories for contemporary Athenian political situations.

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