NHCE_Misc. Terms

• Synoecism: the amalgamation of several city states
• Seisachtheia: Solon instituted this "shaking off of debts"
• Klepsydra: water clock
• trapetrum: mill used to crush olives
• Stadion: 600 feet
• Boustrophedon: a style of writing
• Koine Greek: Greek dialect spoken by the commoners
• Hybris: brash pride in epics
• Hippocrates: premier physician during the time of Pericles (doctors today state the Hippocratic oath)
• hetaera: foreign women, courtesans, enslaved women, and prostitutes
• metoikos/metic: a resident alien who does not have citizen rights