Chapter 6 Set 1
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- Euripides
- great playwright
- Pythagoras
- philosopher who beleived that everything could be explained in terms of mathematics
- Thucydides
- beleived that studying the past helps us understand human nature; became famous of his HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- Aristophanes
- finest writer of greek comedy
- Aristocracy
- a government ruled by an upper class
- Tragedies
- main character struggled against fate or events
- Dramas
- plays continuing action of dialogue and involving conflict and emotion
- Socrates
- one of the most important thinkers of the new era; Athenian
- Herodotus
- First historian of the Western world
- Praxiteles
- ancient Greek sculptor
- Myron
- one of histories greatest sculptors (built the disc thrower)
- Golden Age
- in 400 B.C when Greece entered a new era of cultural progress
- Sophocles
- Writer of tragedies; defended Greek values
- Parthenon
- a white marble temple built in honor of Athena
- How art expressed Greek ideals
- 1. glorified human beings 2. symbolized pride in city-sates 3. expressed belief in harmony, balance, order, and moderation 4. combined beauty and usefulness
- Hippocrates
- Considered to be the founder of medical science
- Phidias
- one of histories greatest sculptors (built statue of Zeus)
- Philosophy
- the study of basic questions of reality and human existence
- Plato
- wealthy, young aristrocat and the greatest of Socrates students
- Aristotle
- One of Plato's students in the Academy; young man