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; 1st 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; 2nd 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.