Quiz 2 Vocab Words Flashcards
(37 cards)
Polis
City-State, independent
Athens
Most impactful city of Ancient Greece
Sparta
Weird cousin of Ancient Greece; society formed around military readiness
Persian Wars
Athens VS. Persian Empire
Peloponnesian War
Sparta v. Athens
Theatre
started in classical Greece, wya of expression and political commentary through comedies and dramas
Socrates
“Father of western philosophy”
Plato
studied under Socrates during classical Greek philosophy
Sophists
Teacher in Ancient Greece, Socrates
Democracy
Started in classical Greece
Tyrant
Ancient Greece’s biggest fear in government
Helot
Slaves of Spartans
Cleisthenes
Father of Athenian democracy
Lycurgus
Spartan lawmaker
Solon
Part of the beginning of democracy in Athens
Hoplite
Battle boys of ancient Greeks armed with spears and shields
Phalanx
Greek battle formation
Hellenism
Everything goes Greek! Cultural diffusion between non Greek and Greek world
Stoicism
Pantheistic, logic, self control
Epicureanism
Pleasure=highest good , opponent to stoicism
Cosmopolitanism
Every single person deserves to/can be a citizen; “a citizen of the world”
Euclid
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Euclid
One of the few mathematicians who “got it right”; used his same theories/textbook for thousands of years ; “father of geometry”
Eratosthenes
Calculated the circumference of the earth ; Hellenistic astronomer