Chap. 6 set 1
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- Euripides
- third great playwright of the golden age
- Praxiteles
- sculptor, figures made more lifelike and natural
- Myron
- history's greatest sculptor
- Aristocracy
- a government ruled by an upper class
- Thucydides
- famous for his, History of the Peloponnesian War
- Phidias
- history's greatese sculptor
- Sophocles
- writer of tragedies, defended many traditional Greek values
- Golden Age
- era of cultural progress in Greecein the 400 B.C.
- Aristotle
- one of Plato's students and founded his own school in Athens in 335 b.c.
- Hippocrates
- lived between 460 b.c.- 377 b.c., considered to be founder of medical science
- Herodotus
- first historian of the Western world
- Socrates
- thinker in the new era, taught education was a personal key to personal growth
- Tragedies
- main character struggled against fate, or events
- How art expressed Greek ideals
- expressed in architecture, painting, and sculpting
- Pythagoras
- philosopher who believed that everything could be explained in terms of mathematics
- Parthenon
- a white marble temple built in ancient Athens in honor of Athena
- Dramas
- plays containing action or dialogue and involving conflict and emotion
- Aristophanes
- finest writer of Greek comedies, known for his sharp wit
- Philosophy
- the study of basic questions of reality and human existence
- Plato
- wealthy young aristocrat and greatest of Socrates's students