chapter 6 Set 1: Randa
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- Praxiteles
- expressed the Greek admiration for the beauty of the human body; sculpted figures that were more lifelike and natural in form and size
- Aristocracy
- a government ruled by an upper class
- Pythagoras
- a philosopher who believed that everything could be explained in terms of mathematics
- Golden Age
- a new era of cultural progress
- Herodotus
- the first historian of the Western world
- Dramas
- plays containing action or dialogue and involving conflict and emotion
- Myron
- sculpted The Discus Thrower; one of history's greatest sculptors who lived during Greek's golden age
- How art expressed Greek ideals
- it... 1) glorified human beings 2) symbolized pride in city-sates 3) expressed belief in harmony, balance, order, and moderation 4) combined beauty and usefulness
- Philosophy
- the study of basic questions of reality and human existence
- Aristotle
- one of Plato's students who founded his own school in Athens in 335 b.c.
- Socrates
- an important thinker from Athens during the golden age who taught that education was the key to personal growth
- Phidias
- created the Statue of Zeus at the temple of Olympia; one of history's greatest sculptors who lived during Greek's golden age
- Thucydides
- became famous for his "History of the Peloponnesian War"
- Sophocles
- a Greek writer of tragedies who defended many Greek values
- Aristophanes
- the finest writer of Greek comedies
- Parthenon
- a white marble temple built in honor of Athena
- Euripides
- a great Greek playwright during the golden age who was a realist
- Hippocrates
- considered to be the founder of medical science
- Tragedies
- when the main character struggled against fate, or events
- Plato
- a wealthy young aristocrat and the greatest of Socrates' students