Pericles and Greek Theater

The revolution in Athens in 508 BCE brought about a new kind of government in Greece, the first in the world. It is called ...

• autocracy

• timocracy

• democracy

• oligarchy

The Athenian Assembly consisted of how many male citizens over the age of 18?

• 400

• 2000

• 25

• 43,000

The most important general in the Athenian democracy was _________. He encouraged the arts and philosophy, reformed government to make it more democratic, and rebuilt the acropolis.

• Anaximander

• Plato

• Pericles

• Sophocles

One way Pericles made Athens more democratic was to pay citizens to serve on councils and juries. This meant that ...

• every Athenian clamored to get chosen for the great pay

• the wealthy refused payment, calling it bribery

• Athenian government soon ran out of money

• poor and working class citizens could serve, as well as the wealthy

Many concepts come down to us from the ancient Greek ________, such as the Orchestra, Comedy and Tragedy

• Military

• farmers

• Gods and Goddesses

• Theater

Pericles became a celebrity in Athens when he...

• starred in a famous comedy

• wrote a trilogy of tragedies about the Peloponessian War

• gave up politics and abandoned the theater

• produced one of Aeschulus' plays, The Persians

Euripides play The Trojan Women is about...

• Three independent, cosmopolitan girls working in Athens

• what happens when all the women of Troy go on strike

• the types of girls in various Greek cities

• what happens to the women of Troy after its defeat