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- thucydides
- father of modern history, wrote about the athenian war and focused just on facts
- peloponnesian war
- atheninan has complete control of the delian league so the spartans and athenians fought
- plague
- killed two thirds of athenians including pericles
- alcibades
- socrates pupil, wanted to execute generals and invade city
- nicias
- general of athenians, sent to sicily,
- lunar eclipse
- nicias saw this and thought it was a sign of hope, lost 50000 men.
- sicilian expedition
- city state in syracuse, athens wanted to invade
- critias
- undemocrat leader of 30 tyrants
- phillip II
- king of macedonia, wants to conquer grecian states and unify them - was assasinated
- alexander the great
- son of phillip, wanted to unify the world
- euripides
- author of media, 1st psycologist
- dues ex machina
- machinery of the gods, concluded as an act of the gods
- medea
- a witch with powers
- jason
- son of aeson sent on impossible mission to find golden fleece
- argonauts
- the men aboard the ship argo
- golden fleece
- the owner of this had immeasurable power
- aeson
- should be king, but his brother is
- pelias
- king of Iolchus, medea made him into stew
- creon
- king of corinth, frightened of medea
- corinth
- glauce is princess, jason flees to here
- glauce
- daughter of creon, jason wants to marry her
- aegeus
- from athens, goes to oracle because he cant have children
- iolchus
- aeson should be ruling but pelias is
- colchis
- aeetes is king, medeas father. medea is from here as is the golden fleece.
- helios
- sun god
- tutor
- shows division between men and women
- nurse
- tries to persuade medea not to murder kids
- what items does jason go to iolchus to acquire
- golden fleece
- how does medea give jason enough time to escape
- she kills her own brother
- why does creon say that he is exiling medea
- cause she is a witch, is powerful, and unfaithful to her family
- how much time did she ask for
- one day
- why does aegeus go to the oracle
- because he cant have kids
- what does medea as of aegeus
- a place to stay in athens
- agrees but on what condition
- that she has to get there on her own
- who delivers the dress
- the kids
- what reason does jason give medea as to why he wants glauce
- she is attractive, popular, better the family name by marrying a princess
- who does medea send to retrieve jason from the palace
- so that she may apologize
- when glauce puts on dress what happens
- it burns through her