Chapter 6 Set 1
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- Euripides
- was more realistic in playwriting tragedies
- Phythagoras
- a philosopher who believed that everything could be explained in terms of mathematics
- Phidias
- one of history's greatest sculptors; created the statues of Athena that decorated the Acropolis and the Parthenon
- dramas
- plays containing action or dialogue and usually involving conflict and emotion
- golden age
- era of culture progress in Greece in the 400s B.C.
- Parthenon
- white marble temple built in ancient Athens in honor of Athena
- Herodotus
- the first historian of the Western world
- Myron
- one of history's greatest sculptors; sculpted the famous figure The Discus Thrower
- Socrates
- taught that education was the key to personal growth
- Aristocracy
- government ruled by an upper class
- Praxiteles
- sculpted figures that were more lifelike and natural form and size
- Plato
- founded the Academy, a special school in Athens for teaching philosophy
- Aristophanes
- the finest writer of Greek comedies; known for his sharp wit
- phiolosophy
- study of basic questions of reality and human existence
- tragedies
- forms of Greek drama in which the main charater struggles against fate or events
- Aristotle
- founded his own school in Athens in 335 B.C.; believed that every field of knowledge had to be studied logically
- Hippocrates
- is considered to be the founder of medical science
- How art was expressed
- 1.) glorified human beings 2.) symbolized Greeks' pride in their city-state 3.) expressed Greek beliefs in harmony, balance order, and moderation 4.) expressed the Greek belief in combining beauty and usefulness
- Sophocles
- writer of tragedies
- Thucydides
- wrote History of the Peloponnesian War