Chapter 4 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Socrates:
- Philosopher
- Question and answer
- Wanted people to be the best they can be
Plato:
- Taught by Socrates
- Wrote a lot
- Men and women equal
- Invisible things in nature had order and purpose
Aristotle:
- Plato
- recognized order and purpose
- concluded that there must be a superhuman called God
Epic Poems:
A long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero
Homer:
A writer who wrote The Iliad and the Odyssey
The Odyssey:
Recounts the journeys of Greek heroes, Odysseus, after the fall of Troy makes a return to his life
The Iliad:
Tale of Achilles
Stoicism:
Don’t want to get too emotional one way or the other
Agora:
An open area where people could assemble as a market
Polis:
A town, city or village that served as a center of the polis where people could meet for political, social and religious activites
Parthenon:
Temple in Athens to worship the god Athena
Cleisthenes:
Founded foundation of Athenian democracy
Thucydides:
Wrote a book called The History of the Peloponnsian War
Pericles:
A dominant figure in Athenian politics who could speak well
Herodotus:
Father of history, wrote first history books
Sophocles:
A great Athenian playwright whose most famous play was Oedipus Rex
Epicurus:
Being happy is the main goal in life
Archimedes:
Scientist/mathematician who came up with ideas about gravity
Thermopylae:
Persian invasion of Greece
Peloponnesian War:
War between Sparta and Athens
Sparta won
Ostracism:
Exclusion from a society or grou
Alexander:
King of Macedonia who conquered Persian empire
Hellenistic:
Time period where Greek ideas and culture carried to non-Greek areas
Three Philosophers:
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle