§upa - Jeopardy Terms - 7 - Greek Hellenistic, and Roman Culture
A list of Jeopardy terms relating to Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman culture.
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- Plato
- Student of Socrates, founder of a renowned school
- Circus Maximus
- Roman oval arena; site of chariot races
- Accurate Instruments ( for observing and measuring )
- What Greek scientists lacked
- Hera, Juno
- Wife of the gods' ruler; Greek & Roman
- Phidias
- Artist who specialized in large, formal sculpture of decline
- Aristotle
- Student of Plato, brilliant philosopher, scientist, and logician
- Euripedes
- Most realistic of the three great writers of tragedy
- Archimedes
- Scientist who mastered the use of the lever and compound pulley
- Euclid
- Mathematician who developed fundamental rules of geometry
- Bas-Relief
- Roman sculpture form in which images project from a flat background
- Hippocrates
- Greek "Father of Scientific Medicine"
- Frescoes
- Colorful Minoan and Roman wall paintings
- Virgil
- Roman epic poet, author of the Aeneid
- Romance(Languages)
- Family of languages that developed from Latin
- Baths of Caracalla
- Baths built for thousands of bathers
- The Republic
- Plato's book about ideal state or government
- Epicureanism
- Philosophy that focused on virtuous conduct and the absence of pain
- Aeschylus
- Father of Greek tragedy
- Socrates
- Questioning philosopher condemned to death by poison
- Thales of Miletus
- Scientist who developed the first two steps of the scientific method
- Neoclassical
- Style of architecture based on Greek and Roman buildings; style of the U.S. Capitol
- Pompeii
- Roman city, destroyed by a volcano, that has yielded many preserved art treasures
- Rhetoric Schools
- Roman schools of advanced studies
- Acropolis
- Central hill of Athens; site of exceptional temples
- Tragedy
- Drama about people's suffering
- Sappho
- Female lyric poet from the island of Lesbos
- Polytheism
- Belief in a number of gods, a feature of Greek and Roman religion
- Pythagoras
- Mathematician and philosopher who developed an enduring theorem about right triangles
- Latin
- The language of ancient Romans
- Parthenon
- Athens' renowned temple dedicated to Athena
- Academy
- Plato's school
- Ptolemy
- Alexandrian authority on astronomy
- Stoicism
- Philosophy that focused on living a vice-free life
- Aeniad
- Roman epic poem about Aeneas, modeled after the Iliad
- Galen
- Doctor who compiled a widely used medical encyclopedia
- Olympic Games
- Greek sporting festival held every four years to honor Zeus
- Praxiteles
- Famed sculptor of graceful human forms
- Geocentric Theory
- Ptolemy's theory of the universe, accepted until the 1600s
- Horace
- Roman poet who wrote odes, satires, and epistles
- Amphitheater(s)
- Where Greek plays were performed
- Athena
- Greek goddess of wisdom and protector of Athens
- Homer
- Epic poet credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey
- Hippocratic Oath
- Doctors' pledge developed by a Greek physician
- Lyceum
- Aristotle's school
- Colosseum
- Rome's great amphitheater; site of gladiator fights
- Democritus
- Scientist who believed that all matter is made up of atoms
- Golden Mean
- Greek ideal of aesthetics and thought
- Ovid
- Author of love lyrics and legends in verse
- Arch, Vaulted Dome
- Roman architectural elements not used by the Greeks
- Marcus Aurelius
- Roman emperor, military leader, and author of the Stoic Meditations
- Aesop
- Semi-legendary slave and fable writer
- Classification
- Aristotle's method of grouping similar plants and animals
- Livy
- Roman who wrote a multivolume history of Rome
- Vases
- Artifacts on which the best-preserved Greek paintings were found
- Philosophy
- Greek study of the meaning of life and the nature of the world
- Drama
- Form of literature and entertainment invented by the Greeks
- Socratic Method
- Step-by-step questioning to arrive at a final conclusion, the truth
- Sophocles
- Writer of tragedies including Oedipus Rex
- Cicero
- Renowned Roman lawyer, politician, and orator
- Thucydides
- Famous historian of the Peloponnesian War
- Mosaics
- Minoan and Roman artworks created with small pieces of glass, stone, and/or tile
- Herodotus
- The "Father of History," the first great Western historian
- Sculpture
- Greatest Greek fine art
- Eratosthenes
- Geographer who accurately calculated the earth's size
- Tacitus
- Roman historian who wrote an account about early Germans
- Plutarch
- Greek author of Parallel Lives
- Julius Caesar
- Author of the Commentaries on the Gallic war, later emperor
- Aristophanes
- Earliest and greatest writer of Greek stage comedies
- Pantheon
- Domed building in Rome built in honor of gods
- Aristarchus
- Astronomer who concluded that the earth revolved around the sun
- Comedy
- Play that focuses on humor
- Zeus, Jupiter
- Ruler of the gods; Greek & Roman
- Myron
- First of Greece's greatest sculptors
- Latin
- Roman development in writing
- Discobolus
- Familiar Greek statue of an athlete by Myron