CH 12 GREEKS
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- Mt. Olympus
- location of the 12 major gods and godesses of the greek golden age.
- socrates
- 70-year old Athenian philosopher who liked the thinking process
- Golden Age
- Also known as 'the classical ahe of greece' . this is the time period where greeks honored their gods with their thinking, atheletic games and arts.
- herodotus
- known as 'father of history' wrote about Persian wars
- Tarquin the proud
- Estrucan King-overthrown is 509 BC by Romans
- Gauius Marius
- Military Hero in 107 BC who was the first lower class leader.
- Socratic method
- form of questioning
- oracles
- greeks through whom the gods spoke
- pentathalon
- olympic game-FIVE (pent menas five)
- Euripides
- writer of a trgedy showing that people suffered from sins and mistakes they made/did and that suffering made someone a better person
- olympic games
- most important festival, atheletic
- Philosiphia
- the love of wisdom, according to greeks
- Aristotle
- one of Plato's students; classified plants and animals
- Publicans
- Ancient Rome tax collecter.
- Aeschylus
- greek poet that added characters to stories which became our first plays
- Tiberius Gracchus
- First reformer who tried to make Rome better, thought farmers cursed land
- Syllogism
- form of reasoning developed by Aristotle
- the Republic
- first book on political science which was written by Plato
- Plato
- student of Socrates who believed that only the wise and good should rule
- Dionysus
- greek god of joyus life
- Aristophanes
- one of the greatest greek writers of comedy