Ch. 6 Set 1
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- Plato
- student of Socrates, founded the Academy (a school of philosophy), created the theory of form, and wrote the Republic
- Phidias
- created statues of Athena, decorated the Acropolis and Parthenon, and sculpted the statue of Zeus at the Temple of Olympia
- aristocracy
- government ruled by an upper class
- Aristophanes
- a playwriter with a sharp wit who wrote Clouds in which he made fun of Socrates for his theorys about education and he diliked war
- Socrates
- taught that education was the key to personal growth and believed in teaching through questioning
- Praxiteles
- expressed Greek admiration for the beauty of the human body
- Euripides
- a realist who questioned the old beliefs and ideas and wrote The Trojan Women about the pain and misery of war
- Aristotle
- Plato's student, believed everything can be studied logically, organized facts into systems, and wrote Ethics and Poetics
- Herodotus
- first historian, called the Father of History
- Pythagoras
- created the Pythagorian theory that the length of the longest side of a right triangle can be found if the two shorter sides are known
- how art expressed Greek ideals
- glorified human beings, symbolized pride in city-states, expressed belief in harmony, balance, order, and moderation, and combined beauty and usefulness
- Parthenon
- a white marble temple built in honor of Athena
- tragedies
- forms of Greek drama in which the main character struggles against fate or events
- Thucydides
- recorded the history of the Peloponnesian War and believed that studying the past helps us to understand human nature
- Sophocles
- defended Greek values and wrote Oedipus Rex
- philosophy
- study of basic questions of reality and human existence
- dramas
- plays containing action or dialouge and usually involving conflict and emotion
- golden age
- era of cultural progress in Greece in the 400s BC
- Myron
- sculpted The Discus Thrower
- Hippocrates
- founder of medical science, believed that disease comes from natural causes not as a punishment from the gods, and that cures for illnesses are found in rest, fresh air, and a proper diet