Ch. 6 set 1
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- dramas
- plays containing action or dialogue involving conflict and emotion
- Socrates
- taught that education was the key to personal growth.
- how art expressed Greek ideas
- glorified human beings, symbolizes Greeks' pride in their city states, expressed Greek beliefs in harmony, balance, order, and moderation, and expressed the Greek belief in combining beauty & usefulness
- tragedies
- the main character stuggles against fate or events
- Euripides
- a great playwright who questioned many old beliefs and ideas
- Phidias
- Another great sculptor who created the statues of Athena thats located in the Acropolis and the Parthenon
- Praxiteles
- a sculptor who lived after Phidias who sculpted figures that were more lifelike and natural in form and size.
- Aristophanes
- the finest writer of Greek comedies who was known for his sharp wit
- Plato
- Socrates studentwho founded the Academy and wrote dialogues or imaginary discussions or commentaries
- Aristocracy
- government ruled by the upper class
- Thucydides
- wrote history of Peloponnesian war
- Parthenon
- a white marble temple built in ancient Athens in honor of Athena
- Golden Age
- began in 400's B.C.- era of cultural progress
- Pythagoras
- a philosopher who believed that everything could be expressed in terms of mathematics
- Sophocles
- writer of tragedies, defended many traditional Greek values
- Myron
- history's greatest sculptor
- Herodotus
- first historian of the western world
- philosophy
- the study of basic questions of reality and of human existence.
- Aristole
- lived life by golden: living moderately with no extremes; syllogism to follow have conclusions follow statements already made
- Hippocrates
- founder of medical science