ch. 6 set 1
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- sophocles
- writer of tragedies, defended may greek traditoinal values
- Philosophy
- study of basic questions of reality and human existance
- Euripides
- was more of a realist; questioned many old beliefs and ideas
- dramas
- plays containing action or dialogue and involvong conflict and emotion
- Pythagorus
- pythagoreum theorem
- Parthenon
- white marble temple that stood at the top of the Acropolis that was built in the honor of Athena
- Hippocrates
- founder of medical science; taught diseases come from natural causes, and not as a punishment from the gods
- Myron
- one of history's greatest sculpters who lived during the golden age and created the famous sculpture called the Discus Thrower
- How art expressed Gree ideals
- glorified humans; pride in city-states; belief in harmony,balance, order and moderation
- Socrates
- Athenian thinker who taught education was the key to personal growth, and students should be trained to think for themselves
- Herodotus
- first historian of western world
- Aristocracy
- government ruled by upper class
- Golden Age
- period in Greece in which there was cultural progress
- Plato
- Socrates' student;wrote dialogues and felt that perfection can not be reached in the physical world
- Thuclydides
- became famous for writing the History of the Peloponnesian war
- Aristotle
- one of Plato's students;defined and classified things
- Aristophanes
- finest writer of greek comediesand was known for his sharp wit
- tagedies
- the main character struggled against fate, or events
- Praxiteles
- sculpted figures that were more lifelike and natural in form and size