Greek Culture Flashcards
(31 cards)
Name three gods who are always in power in their area of power?
Zeus head or father
Apollo sun poetry
Aphrodite love
What are two ways people try to gain the gods favor?
Festivals
prayer
What was their religious theology
They had none
What god ruled the underworld?
Hades
Where did people go to solicit advice from the gods?
Where was The most famous one?
What characterized the advice given
Oracles
Delphi
Deliberately misleading
When were the first Olympics?
776 BC
What was considered their most famous temple?
Parathenon
What was the purpose for their sculptures?
Ideals
life like
Who is Polyclitus?
Proportion everything had to be life like
What form of drama did they first invent?
Tragedy
The only one complete trilogy still exists- oresteia. Who was its author?
AESCHYLUS
What was Aeschylus better known for other than his plays?
Warrior
What was the story line in the famous play Oedipus Rex?
Son would kill father and would marry his mother
What did Sophocles add to drama that reduce the importance of the chorus?
Third character
What are two innovations introduced by the dramatic to Euripides?
Antiwar
women in a better light
Who is the famous writer of comedies?
Euripides
What did they usually satirize in the comedies?
Politicians
What war did the historian Herodotus write about?
Persian wars
What is the criticism of his history?
Biased
How Thucydides change the subject matter of history in his record of the Peloponnesian war
Emphasize man not gods
What does philosophy mean
Love of wisdom
Who was the first great philosopher
Pythagoras
What were the sophists and why did people criticize them
Traveling teachers and they did it only for the money
Who did not write down any of his ideas
Who started the Academy
Who tutored Alexander the great
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
