Chapter 6
Terms
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- Phillp II of Macedon
- kind of the Greeks, organized great army
- Praxiteles
- sculptor who created more life-like figures with emphasis in beauty and the human body
- golden age
- era of Greek culture
- Herodotus
- first historian of the Western world, wonderful story-teller
- Zeno
- established the Stoic philosophy, divine reason directs the world
- Pythagoras
- philosopher of mathmatics
- Epicurus
- founder of Epicurean philosophy, seek pleasure and avoid pain
- orators
- public speakers
- Hippocrates
- excelled in the medicine development, disease from natural causes
- Pathenon
- top of the Acropolis-white marble temple built in honor of Athena
- Eratosthenes
- calculated the distance around the earth
- Euripides
- Greek writer of tragedies
- Sophocles
- Greek wirter of tragedies(Oedipus), greatest of the Greek writers
- Euclid
- contributed to the development of geometry, Elements
- Archimedes
- calculated the value of pie
- Demosthenes
- one of Athens finest orators
- dramas
- plays containing actions or dialogue and involving conflict and emotion
- philosophy
- study of basic questions of reality and human existence
- Acropolis
- high hill that was the center of the original city-state
- Hellenistic culture
- Greek-like way of life
- phalanx
- rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder
- Socrates
- education was important, students think for themselves, teaching through questioning
- tragedies
- main character struggled against fate of events
- Aristotle
- Platos students, founded school n Athens, knowledge studied logically, classified plants and animals
- Plato
- Socrates student who founded the Academy, wrote the Republic
- Aristarchus
- believed earth and the other planets moved around the sun
- aristocracy
- government ruled by upper class
- Myron and Phidias
- two of history's greatest scupltors. Myron- the discuss thrower Phidias-statue of Athena
- Alexander the Great
- Phillps son who was in the army, studied Aristotle, and spread Greek culture
- Aristophanes
- finest Greek comedy writer