LLT 325 Guide to Quiz 3:

Chronology-- Be able to put major events and dramas in chronological sequence,

esp. the following:

422 Wasps (death of Cleon later in the year)

421 Peace of Nicias

415 Conquest of Melos, Sicilian debate, etc.

414 Birds

413 Sicilian Disaster; Probouloi at Athens

411 Lysistrata; 1^st Oligarchic revolution : the Four Hundred;

410 the Five Thousand

409 Philoctetes

408/7 Alcibiades returns, with high command, but soon deposed.

406 Athenian victory at Arginusae (but generals condemned to death)

405 Aegospotami: victory of Spartan admiral Lysander (Athenian fleet is crippled)

404 Athens surrenders; 2^nd Oligarchic revolution: the Thirty (constitutional committee becomes autocracy)

Be able to ID or match key terms (matching will also include characters from the dramas, below)

Alcibiades

Anytus

Samos

Antiphon

Decelea

Pisander, Antiphon, Phrynichus

Critias and Thermenes

Thrasybulus at Phyle

(Spartans) Lysander and Pausanias

Xenophon

Discussion:

Be able to summarize Characters and Plot in (at least) 3 of the dramas:

Aristophanes’ Acharnians : Dikaiopolis and the Megarian

Wasps: Procleon and Contracleon

Birds: Makemedo/Peisetairus and /Goodhope/Euelpides, Tereus, et al.

Lysistrata: title-character, Lampito, the Commissioner/Proboulos, and naked Reconciliation

Sophocles' Philoctetes.

Prepare a brief comparison (outline or paragraph) comparing key characters in 2 or 3 plays.