Greece Flashcards
(31 cards)
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Hellenie
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Pure Greek culture
Athens
Idealistic
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Northern Greece
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Macedonia
2
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Hellenistic
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Mix of Greek and eastern culture
Alexander, Egypt
Realistic
3
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Aeschylus
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The gods provide human justice.
4
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Homer
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The Odyssey
5
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Three generals
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Antigons
Seleucus
Ptdolemy
5
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Name three columns
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Dorie - simple
Ionic - swirl
Corinthian - leafs
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Socrates
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“Know thyself”
6
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Herodotus
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The father of history
7
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Phidias
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Greatest sculpture. (The Parthenon)
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Pythagoras
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a2+b2=c2
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Diogenes
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Cynicism
10
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Aristarchus
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Heliocentric theory
11
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Sophocles
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Will and Fate
12
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Hesiod
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Farm work. Hard labor.
13
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Plato
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Impossible to know reality. The “Republic”.
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Thucydides
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First true historian
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Myron
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Discus thrower
16
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Hippocrates
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The father of medicine
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Zeno
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Stoicism
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Euclid
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Geometry
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Euripides
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War, greed, prejudice.
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Sappho
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Love poems
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Aristotle
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Know reality through senses
22
Praxiteles
Life like sculptures
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Democrates
Atoms
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Archimedes
Levers and pulleys
25
Epicurus
Happiness.
| Live a balanced moral life
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Aristophanes
Satire
27
Eratosthenes
Earth was round
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Pinder
Most famous poet
